Talk Archives - CAST

Poetry Reading

Award-winning writers Penelope Shuttle and Rachael Allen will be at CAST for an evening of poetry.

A Talk on the Work of Roman Signer

Jeremy Millar will talk about Swiss artist Roman Signer, whose work occupies a unique position in the history of modern sculpture.

Neptune Frost

Neptune Frost is an Afrofuturist sci-fi musical set between an otherworldly techno-scrapheap in Burundi and a futuristic Rwandan coltan mine.

This event is part of Our Living Archives, an ongoing project organised by Museum X and Kowetha, which sets out to understand the collections relating to Black history held by Cornish museums and archives, and to increase access to these collections for people of colour.

Maeve Brennan

This talk will follow a screening of Maeve Brennan’s film An Excavation (2022), which investigates a series of ancient artefacts recovered from Geneva Freeport in 2014. These artefacts were looted from the territory featured in Siticulosa, the film showing at CAST from 3 April to 30 May.

Ane Hjort Guttu

Ane Hjort Guttu will give a public talk about her work at Falmouth University. Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. She works across a range of media, with a particular focus on text and moving image.

JOANNA KAVENNA AND PHILIP MARSDEN IN CONVERSATION

This special evening will involve two authors talking about two recently published books (one a novel, one non-fiction) that involve travelogues through Europe, exploring ideas and historical traces.

Patrick Gale and Petroc Trelawny in conversation

Patrick Gale will be joined in conversation by Petroc Trelawny for a special evening event at CAST, organised with The Bookshop in Helston as part of the book tour for Gale’s newest novel Love Lane

The Arbor

Artist Clio Barnard’s moving film about the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar

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.

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.