CAST-Off Tuesday 25 August 2020
Make paints and inks using natural materials or make a flag at Ben’s Den.
CAST-Off Saturday 22 August 2020
Discover how to see with your ears or collect natural materials for boat building.
CAST-OFF Tuesday 18 August 2020
Draw a picture journey, paint a landscape postcard or visit Ben’s Den.
CAST-Off Saturday 8 August 2020
Race boats on the Cober River, learn how to make calzone on a camp fire and visit Cober Camp
CAST-Off Tuesday 4 August 2020
On the first day of the CAST-Off trail of activities Sarah Johnson will be brewing indigo dye in Ben’s Den, the encampment hosted by painter Ben Sanderson
CAST-Off Saturday 15 August 2020
Make a stone maze, create your own woodland fairy tale or paint on a rock.
CAST-Off Tuesday 11 August 2020
Make wildwood crowns, Hal-an-Tow sticks, tiny bricks and botanical drawings at different locations on the CAST-Off trail.
CAST-OFF SUMMER ACTIVITIES
Launching on Tuesday 4 August, CAST’s programme of creative activities for families will take place outdoors this summer.
MAKE A SPRING THING | THINK AND MAKE
CANCELLED – Artist Lucy Grant will lead this fun creative, drop-in family workshop, providing an abundance of colour and materials
PERSONALITY PORTRAITS | THINK AND MAKE
Artist Lucy Grant will lead this fun, drop-in family workshop, inviting you to look closely at friends and family
Fairies, Elves and Tompten | Think and Make
Make a festive forest fellow, frosty fairy or tiny Tompten at this Christmas ‘Think and Make’ workshop.
Advent Heads & Hands
Run by artist Lucy Grant, Heads & Hands will be presenting a creative countdown to Christmas, with six seasonal weekly makes including, advent stars and calendars, pine cone folk, printed cards (and secrets gifts for mum and dad). Heads & Hands is a seasonal, hands on art club aimed at creative children with curious minds and…
FAIRY TALES AND THE DEEP DARK FOREST | THINK AND MAKE
Stray from the path through the deep dark forest and get lost in dark tales and the wild imagination.
PERSONALITY PORTRAITS | THINK AND MAKE
Look closely at your friends and neighbours and draw portraits using props, mood, materials and lighting to express their personality. A fun family workshop led by artist Lucy Grant during the Open CAST weekend as part of Helston Makes It! For more information on the rest of the programme click here.
Summer Think and Make Saturday special | Big Data - Lost in space!
Design and code your own digital skyscapes of millions of stars and use real space data
Summer Think and Make Special | Seamas Carey’s magical musical summer parade!
The old building on Penrose Road doesn’t know that winter has ended, so Seamas Carey will conduct a grand parade
Summer Think and Make
Lucy Grant and Kate Turner will lead free activities for children and families on four Tuesdays during the school holidays.
HELSTON HERBARIUM | A DROP-IN WORKSHOP
Look closely at the extraordinary botanical specimens found all around us and create an intricate slide
PYTHON DATA SCIENCE WORKSHOP
Data is all around us. Exploring data, finding patterns in it, and visualising the stories hidden in data
Spring Folk Mask-Making
Chase out the winter darkness, and welcome in the warmth and light with Spring Folk Mask-Making at CAST this Easter.
POWER PLAY AND PAPER HATS
Create headwear in paper and explore status, cultural significance and self-expression through the transformative power of hats!
CUT AND FOLD | WORKSHOP
Whip up festoons of festive folding and constellations of cut paper!
HEADS & HANDS ART CLUB
Run by artist Lucy Grant, Heads & Hands is an art club for children aged four to eleven years old. It provides creative opportunities for inquisitive minds to work with all kinds of materials, using hands, eyes and imagination.
Light Up | Lantern-Making Workshop
Explore the seasonal significance of light and dark this half term.