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Full Events Listing 2019
Sunday 3 March, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Wednesday 6 March - Saturday 20 April
Lent (St Laurence Parish Church) |
Ash Wednesday 6 March
1030 - Morning Prayer Led by the St Laurence Lay Ministry Team 1900 - Stroud Deanery Ash Wednesday Holy Communion Followed by (to 2100) Confirmation and Lent Course (wk 1) -"The Incarnation" (St Laurence Parish Church) Led by Rt Revd Robert Springett, Bishop of Tewkesbury Includes a light supper |
Thursday 7 March, 1430
How Stroud Snow Tops the Peaks of Global Film Production (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Paul Denney for Stroud & District U3A |
Saturday 9 March, 1900-2130
The Raga Babas Present "Flock of Colours: a Diffusion of Borders" (Trinity Room, Field Road, Stroud GL5 2HZ) Supported by Eva Millauer Girish's vegan food and drinks available Entry by donation; all proceeds to Stroud Sacred Music Festival |
Saturday 16 March, 0930-2200
Sacred Comedy Festival (St Laurence Parish Church) Morning Workshops for adults and children; Laurence Chorter's "Spiritual Experience: A Multi-Dimensional Chat Show"; "Retreat Yourself" with Sanderson Jones; and evening Stand-Up Night hosted by Tony Vino, and starring Mark Palmer, Stephen Cookson, and Joe Enright |
Thursday 21 March, 1930
Local Bus Services - Four Decades of Recollections (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Chris Blick for Stroud Local History Society |
Saturday 23 March, 1930
Stroud Film Festival 2019 @ St Laurence Strictly Cinema Presents: Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo' (St Laurence Parish Church) Tickets £12 including welcome food and drink |
Thursday 4 April, 1430
My Climb to the Big Top: The Excitements of Giffords Circus (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Neil Gifford for Stroud & District U3A |
Sunday 7 April, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Thursday 11 April, 1930
The Traditional Songs and Music of Gloucestershire (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Gwilym Davies for Stroud Local History Society |
Sunday 14 April - Sunday 21 April
Easter Holy Week 2019 (St Laurence Parish Church) |
Sunday 5 May, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Monday 6 May (to Saturday 3 August)
Girish Patel & Friends "The Journey of Peace" - The Departure (St Laurence Parish Church) A pilgrimage around the UK's great centres of faith and spirituality, with gatherings along the way to celebrate unity in diversity, with music, food and silence. Girish's journey will finish at Carmarthen on 3 August. Anyone of any age or gender, all faiths or none, are invited to join him at any of the gatherings. Full details of locations and timings will be available from 1 March 2019. |
Sunday 12 May, 1900-2030
Engine Room: Your Voice With special guest Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester (St Laurence Parish Church) Christian? Aged between 11 – 18? Come and tell us about what could help you in your faith journey? Do you talk about your faith with your friends? What could help your confidence in talking about those things that really matter? Contact Barrie Voyce (barrie@thedoor.org.uk) to find out more. |
Wednesday 15 May, 1930
Sam Lee - "Singing with Nightingales": LIVE (St Laurence Parish Church) Promoted and hosted by Bellow Join folk star Sam Lee and special guests as they collaborate with nightingales in this immersive one-off event |
Friday 24 May - Saturday 25 May
Jazz Stroud 2019 (St Laurence Parish Church) |
Saturday 1 June - Saturday 8 June
"Shift" (St Laurence Parish Church) An exploration of movement and making art with the body, that transforms the way we feel and behave |
Sunday 2 June, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Thursday 6 June, 1430
Barrow to Baghdad and Back: Adventures in Russian and Arab Oil Deals and with the US Military (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Philip Caine for Stroud & District U3A |
Thursday 4 July, 1430
Burglary, Bombs and Ballistics: 30 Years in the Metropolitan Police (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Roger Gough for Stroud & District U3A |
Friday 5 July - Saturday 6 July
Stroud Sacred Music Festival 2019 (St Laurence Parish Church) |
Sunday 7 July, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Friday 26 July & Saturday 27 July
Peia in Concert (St Laurence Parish Church) with dance facilitation by Keef Wesolowski A Stroud Sacred Music Festival event |
Thursday 1 August, 1430
Wytchfinder: A History of Witches and Witch-Hunting (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by John Putley for Stroud & District U3A |
Saturday 3 August - Monday 12 August
Youth Pilgrimage to the Taize Community, France For 15-29 year olds Led by Steve and Juliette Saville If you are a young person interested in joining this pilgrimage, then please contact us for further details |
Sunday 4 August, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Sunday 1 September, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Thursday 5 September, 1430
The Most Dissolute Man in London: The 1st Duke of Devonshire and the Building of Chatsworth (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Gill White for Stroud & District U3A |
Thursday 19 September, 1930
Bradley and Mason - and the USA's Mason-Dixon Line (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Barry Harrison for Stroud Local History Society |
Saturday 5 October
The Sacred Funk Project - "Dancing Together in the Flow" (St Laurence Parish Church) Featuring Kate Luxmoore and Osun’s Story, with storyteller Pyn Stockman and Lekan Babalola A Stroud Sacred Music Festival event in conjunction with Soul-Voyagers Network and Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking |
Sunday 6 October, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Thursday 17 October, 1930
'Heavens' Archaeology (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Neil Baker for Stroud Local History Society |
Sunday 3 November, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Thursday 7 November, 1430
Every Picture Tells a Story: An Illustrated Look at Natural History (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Peter Preece for Stroud & District U3A |
Thursday 14 November, 1930
Stroud Local History Society AGM and Paul Smith: Another of Stroud's Splendid Victorian Photographers (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Howard Beard for Stroud Local History Society |
Sunday 1 December, 1400-1600
Sunday Afternoon Social (St Laurence Church Hall) Providing a safe and welcoming space for all sorts of different people to meet up and chat, have tea/coffee and snacks. Includes activities for children, and we particularly welcome anyone coming with games, actvities or anything else to help provide a friendly and rich afternoon. |
Sunday 8 December, 1430
A Stroud Time Talk (St Laurence Church Hall) A talk by Kim Baker and Steve Hill for Stroud Local History Society Booking essential |
St Laurence: The Festival Church
Good On Paper Party 2019
Saturday 5 January 2019
Stroud Wassail 2019
Saturday 12 January 2019
Stroud Film Festival 2019
Saturday 9 March - Sunday 24 March 2019
Stroud Sacred Comedy Festival 2019
Friday 15 March - Saturday 16 March 2019
Easter Holy Week 2019
Sunday 14 April - Sunday 21 April 2019
Stroud Jazz 2019
Friday 24 May - Saturday 25 May 2019
Stroud Sacred Music Festival 2019
Friday 5 July - Saturday 6 July 2019
Stroud Community Christmas Tree Festival 2019
Sunday 1 December - Sunday 8 December 2019
Advent 2019 @ St Laurence
Sunday 1 December - Tuesday 24 December 2019
Saturday 5 January 2019
Stroud Wassail 2019
Saturday 12 January 2019
Stroud Film Festival 2019
Saturday 9 March - Sunday 24 March 2019
Stroud Sacred Comedy Festival 2019
Friday 15 March - Saturday 16 March 2019
Easter Holy Week 2019
Sunday 14 April - Sunday 21 April 2019
Stroud Jazz 2019
Friday 24 May - Saturday 25 May 2019
Stroud Sacred Music Festival 2019
Friday 5 July - Saturday 6 July 2019
Stroud Community Christmas Tree Festival 2019
Sunday 1 December - Sunday 8 December 2019
Advent 2019 @ St Laurence
Sunday 1 December - Tuesday 24 December 2019
If you would like to hire St Laurence Church
for your event please contact
office@stroudcmt.plus.com
or telephone 01453 759099 (Monday-Friday 1000-1230)
or contact us here
for your event please contact
office@stroudcmt.plus.com
or telephone 01453 759099 (Monday-Friday 1000-1230)
or contact us here