Past Events

Live singing, dance and Poetry - Buy a ticket for £10 and bring a friend in need for free

Live singing, dance and Poetry - Buy a ticket for £10 and bring a friend in need for free

Let Acapellies Community Choir, led by Eleanor Holliday, take you on a musical journey  - a song-cycle for our times -  inspired by prize-winning poet Alice Oswald's poem 'Gratitude', written during lockdown. The Gratitude Project is a sung piece comprising a series of new and traditional polyphonic songs which move through the cycles of Lamentation, Healing and Gratitude. We have all experienced a great deal of fear, worry and loneliness over the past 12+ months and this musical recital is…

Let Acapellies Community Choir, led by Eleanor Holliday, take you on a musical journey of grief, healing, togetherness and hope - a song-cycle for our times, with live singing, dance and poetry. Inspired by prize-winning poet Alice Oswald's poem 'Gratitude', written during lockdown and intended for this project to provide a gentle way for people to come together again and give thanks. 

Let Acapellies Community Choir, led by Eleanor Holliday, take you on a musical journey – a song-cycle for our times,  inspired by prize-winning poet Alice Oswald’s poem ‘Gratitude’, written during lockdown. 

Produced and performed by our very own Cotswold Players, featuring music from local Capriol Chamber Orchestra and Stroud Choral Society, this is a unique opportunity for three of the largest and oldest performing arts organisations to work and perform together and promises to be a moving, thought provoking play fit for the 75th Anniversary celebrations.  

Stroud Arts Festival warmly invites you to a taster of our 75 Year Anniversary Events.
Enjoy beautiful music in a wonderful setting, meet professional musicians and let the kids unleash their creative skills, making new music and songs with this marvellous team.

To celebrate 75 years of supporting the Arts in Stroud, Stroud Arts Festival is staging a week-long exhibition by 18 local visual artists who have all had work commissioned, exhibited or sponsored in the past decade by the charity.