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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.

Image of a geiger counter, (a small device similar in design to a portable radio), placed on the sand in front of large rocks.

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.

Archway erected in Helston to celebrate the start of construction of the railway to Helston, 22 March, 1882. The archway is in Church Street with the words "May Trade Increase" and "Progression". A group of people are standing underneath the archway and a man is standing in the doorway of Martyn's shop. The railway opened nearly 5 years later in May 1887

PETROC TRELAWNY

BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula and attended Helston School in the 1980s.

Image: Un Intruso (uninvited, into chaos), 2024 © Mike Nelson, Vegap, Barcelona 2024.

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

Dowr ha Men

A three-day celebration of granite, exploring the geological formation of the stone and its impact on landscape and built heritage

ANDY HOLDEN

We are delighted to welcome Andy Holden back to CAST to talk about his recent work.

SANTIAGO ROJO

We are delighted to welcome Santiago Rojo to CAST for a month-long residency

A Year in a Field

Sound is a crucial element in this absorbing documentary, made by filmmaker Christopher Morris

MARK WALLINGER

We are delighted to be hosting Mark Wallinger for a visit to Cornwall.

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& Science Trust
3 Penrose Road, Helston
Cornwall TR13 8TP
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