Half-term THINK AND MAKE
Paint an object, character or scene, real or imagined, and tell a visual story in miniature.
EASTER NESTS
Be like a bird in spring, weave, wind and create a nest for your easter eggs.
FIND YOUR WAY WITH CLAY
Hannah Lawrence’s delicate hand-built pots are widely admired. This six-week course is suitable for all skill levels, introducing basic form-making techniques and more complex aspects such as handles, spouts and lids. The aim is to get participants inspired and confident to make real functional pottery for home and kitchen. Finished items can be glazed and fired (at a…
LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOPS AT CAST
Lucy Grant and Vicky Wiltshire are working with the Museum of Cornish Life to create a lantern procession
CAST AT BANGERS AND MASH-UP
CAST is contributing to the Bangers & Mash-Up festival, which will be held at United Downs Raceway, St Day, Redruth TR16 5HU on Friday 15, Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October. Gates open at 12 noon every day and close at 11pm. Friday 15 October bands start at 4pm. Saturday and Sunday 16 and 17 October bands start…
Landscape Painters Anonymous | Simon Bayliss
Landscape Painters Anonymous is a roving watercolour workshop, focused on the leisurely pursuit of observational landscape painting. All ages and experience levels are welcome, including anyone who hasn’t painted before. The painting sessions are informal, although some guidance will be offered. Participants will be provided with paints, brushes and paper, although you’re welcome to bring your…
CAST-Off Saturday 29 August 2020
This will be a bonanza CAST-Off Round-Off and the weather forecast is good.
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.
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
Poetry reading group with Rachael Allen and Patrick Langley
Led by visiting authors Rachael Allen and Patrick Langley the group will read and discuss two texts
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
FIND YOUR WAY WITH CLAY | PINCH POTTERY COURSE LED BY HANNAH LAWRENCE
A six-week practical course on how to make beautiful and functional pots for food and drink.
How to make a living as a poet
Organised by The Society of Authors the evening will feature advice from award-winning poets Penelope Shuttle and Pascale Petit.
Fairies, Elves and Tompten | Think and Make
Make a festive forest fellow, frosty fairy or tiny Tompten at this Christmas ‘Think and Make’ workshop.
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.
W.S. GRAHAM | READING GROUP
Poets Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer will run a relaxed reading group of some key works by the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918–86), who lived for most of his writing life in Cornwall. Lavinia Singer is a poetry editor at Faber & Faber. Her poetry explores image-making and materiality, and has appeared in various magazines, journals and…
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