HAMISH FULTON presents Bringing Tibet Home
On the 6 November the celebrated ‘walking artist’ Hamish Fulton will lead a communal walk in Helston and introduce a screening of the documentary Bringing Tibet Home.
Artist's Choice | The Big Sea
The Big Sea is an exploration of the human and environmental costs of neoprene production in ‘Cancer Alley’, Louisiana. Neoprene is a material often used to make wetsuits and the film uses the lens of surfing to expose issues of greenwashing, social justice and environmental racism, and to explore the power individuals have to create change.
Helston and 'The Battle of the Styles’
In the middle of the nineteenth century the architectural world was in turmoil over the design of a new government building in London – the Foreign Office in Whitehall. Fierce battle lines were drawn and architects and politicians – including the Prime Minister – banded words like never before, in what became known as ‘The…
An Evening of Poetry
Prize-winning poets Penelope Shuttle and Katrina Naomi present an evening of poetry including readings from their upcoming publications.
Ingrid Pollard
Throughout her extensive career, artist Ingrid Pollard has broken new ground and forged new pathways for younger generations.
LISSETTE JIMÉNEZ DÍAZ
We are delighted to welcome Lissette Jiménez Díaz to CAST for a month-long residency
John Smith
Renowned artist filmmaker John Smith will visit CAST to speak about his work.
Cara Mamma
Screening Postponed. Cara Mamma (24 mins) draws on a series of candid personal letters exchanged between Daniela and her adult child Naissa over a three-year period, combining these with dream-like allegorical sequences and cinema verité.
Helston Spring Thing
A wondrous weekend of free activities organised by Helston Place Shaping Board, which includes workshops at CAST on Saturday 22 March – Shadow Play Workshop and Make a Spring Thing.
The Hooligan Project
Liubov Sliusareva’s 25-minute documentary The Hooligan Project follows Ukrainian theatre group Hooligan Art Community as they work with young artists in Cornwall following their displacement to the UK by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Philip Marsden
Philip Marsden’s new book, Under a Metal Sky, explores how the discovery of minerals has transformed our species.
SPIRIT MESSAGES
Spirit Messages is a touring programme of six artists’ films curated by the prominent Dublin-based initiative for artists’ moving image aemi.
PETROC TRELAWNY
BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula and attended Helston School in the 1980s.
Mike Nelson
The celebrated British artist Mike Nelson will be joined by artist Andy Parker for a conversation on topics including Nelson’s most recent work, Un Intruso (uninvited, into chaos), made this summer for Manifesta 15.
Why Horror Films Are Good For You
Eminent film critic Mark Kermode will give an illustrated talk exploring why horror matters and what he loves about it
LAUREANA TOLEDO in conversation
Named with bitter irony, artist Laureana Toledo’s project Order and Progress explores the environmental devastation of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the area of Mexico in which Laureana spent her very early childhood years.
Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon’s close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
Mike Nelson
Celebrated British artist Mike Nelson will give a talk about his work, introduced by and in conversation with Jonty Lees, Course Leader, BA(Hons) Fine Art.
Marcus Coates
Marcus Coates is best known for video work in which he is the main protagonist. His work often creates new ways of relating where a need or cultural barrier might exist.
MARCUS COATES AND ILRIC SHETLAND
The conversation between Coates and Ilric Shetland, Cornwall-based psychoanalyst and senior member of the Society for Social and Critical Psychoanalysis (SSCP), will explore some of the issues raised by The Directors
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORK OF CHARLOTTE PRODGER
Ben Borthwick will consider BRIDGIT in relation to other works by the artist, reflecting on her use of technology
Looking at Landscape
Focusing on Fay Godwin’s landscape photographs and Charlotte Prodger’s film BRIDGIT
The Shape of Granite
What shape is a granite? What kind of space does a granite occupy in the Earth’s crust?
Programme of Talks
An afternoon of talks exploring the formation, uses and impacts of stone from historical, geological, archaeological and artistic perspectives