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CAST-Away at POLURRIAN

Windsocks, sand-shifters and swirling shoals.

CAST-OFF SATURDAY 20 AUGUST

Clay landscapes, stone carving and nature-based printmaking.

CAST-Off Saturday 13 August

Stone carving, felt pouch making and wild pigment painting.

CAST-Off Saturday 6 August

Brush making, serpentine polishing, flower crowns, wood construction and wild pigment painting.

CAST-Off Saturday 30 July

Cyanotype photography, wild pigment painting and giant clay platter making.

CAST-Off Summer 2022

Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities returns this summer,

CAST-Away Summer 2022

This summer, for the first time, CAST is taking its programme of creative adventures out to the Lizard peninsula.

Participants of mixed ages try out clay techniques in the Brickworks workshop in Penryn.

BRICKWORKS AT CAST STUDIO OPENING EVENT

Join us to celebrate the opening of Brickworks at CAST

FIRST COURSES AND OPEN ACCESS

Details of the first courses at our new ceramics studio: Six-week Beginner Ceramics with Jaye Taylor  Wednesday evenings, 6-8.30pm

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.

Child mixing natural pigments outside

CAST-OFF Tuesday 18 August 2020

Draw a picture journey, paint a landscape postcard or visit Ben’s Den.

People paddling in a stream

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

View out over a river estuary

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.

Den made in a woodland out of a large painting

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

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Cornubian Arts
& Science Trust
3 Penrose Road, Helston
Cornwall TR13 8TP
[email protected]

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