CHRISTMAS PRINT WORKSHOP
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to print handmade cards, tags and wrapping paper in time for Christmas. Create your own designs or use simple shapes to build bold, Scandinavian folk-style patterns. This free drop-in workshop is open to all ages and perfect for families.
Creatures of the Kiln
Join Vicky Wiltshire from Clay Trap to make your own clay creature, talisman or charm. If you would like to keep your creation you will have the option to have it fired, at a cost of £5 per item. Participants of all ages are welcome.
Paper Lantern Making
Join Lucy Grant to find out about lantern traditions around the world, use wax and tissue paper to create translucent shapes and make your own special lantern. Participants of all ages are welcome.
Lightbox Tuesday 12 August
Create sea monsters and curious underwater shadow puppets and make your own slides to project in our black box space, or trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology.
Lightbox Tuesday 5 August
Trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology. Dress up and strike a pose for an old-fashioned black and white portrait. Make wiggly compositions from seaweed and use the power of the sun to develop your very own cyanotypes:
Lightbox Tuesday 19 August
Make an articulated contraption, taking inspiration from machines and ‘things that go’. Build your very own zoetrope – an animation device that will make your drawings come to life! Use camera obscura technology to make portraits in Jonathan Polkest’s ‘Draw Me/Tedna Ve’ booth.
CAST-Off Saturday 23 August
Learn how to make your own plantable paper with seeds embedded, create your own construction from wood, or polish serpentine stone into a shiny pendant. You can also have a go on our tiny printing press or make an enormous vegetable print!
CAST-Off Saturday 16 August
Listen carefully and sculpt the sounds you hear out of different coloured plasticine or see what water carrying structures you can make with tubes and pipes. There will also be an opportunity to try your hand at creating felt pods, mask making, and building with clay.
CAST-Off Saturday 9 August
Make a kite in the shape of a fish to fly in the wind and see what you can build from wood. Spend time painting and try your hand at printmaking using a portable press.
CAST-Off Saturday 2 August
Build your own extravagant flower crown out of cardboard and use flotsam and jetsam to add to a giant aquarium. Try your hand at stone carving and wood working and spend time exploring with clay and paint.
CAST-Off Saturday 26 July
Join our team of talented artists and learn how to make nature-print photo journals and create constructions from wood. You can also mix earth colours and botanical inks to paint with and paint curious sea creatures to add to our giant aquarium.
Lightbox
Three free days of family friendly activity will offer opportunities to to experiment with some of the scientific techniques that underpin the processes of photography and moving image.
SUMMER HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES
This summer we are offering creative activities both in the CAST building and out of doors. The CAST-Off programme will return to the Walled Garden at National Trust Penrose and we have also planned three days of Lightbox activities in the black box and learning spaces at CAST.
MAKE A BOAT THAT FLOATS
Use driftwood, feathers, twigs and leaves to make a boat that floats at CAST, then make the short walk down to the Cober River with your friends and family to make it sail.
Easter Nests
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to make a safe nest for your Easter eggs from wild materials. This free drop-in workshop is suitable for families and open to anyone of any age who would like to join in.
Make a Spring Thing
Create a ‘Spring Thing’ of your choice from clay, with ceramicists Finn Leaman and Rosa-Lily James.
Shadow Play Workshop
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team in our ground floor studio for a drop-in shadow play workshop.
Concertina Story Books
Join the CAST learning team to paint or draw a concertina story book.
Arrietty
Based on Mary Norton’s popular story, Arrietty follows a family of Borrowers – tiny people who use human neighbours’ everyday objects fort their own purposes
Children's Christmas Films
A selection of animated films for children will be shown in the black box screening space in parallel with the Christmas workshops on Saturday 14 December.
Christmas Print Workshop
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to print home-made cards, tags and wrap in time for Christmas.
Portrait Pots
Ceramicists Finn Cameron and Vicky Wiltshire will be on hand to help you fashion your own small object and animate it with facial expression.
Block Print
Use our block print stamps and the three primary colours (magenta, cyan and yellow) to create unique tessellating designs, building up the layers to create a myriad of colours.
Tiny Neolithic Vessels
Fashion and decorate your own tiny bowl or beaker with the types of simple tools used in the Neolithic period.