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.
Portrait Pots
Ceramicists Finn Cameron and Vicky Wiltshire will be on hand to help you fashion your own small object and animate it with facial expression.
The Mason's Mark
A walk led by sculptor Dr David Paton exploring the tooling marks found on granite buildings and structures in Helston.
Reading in Place
Artist Bronwen Buckeridge will lead a walk along the coast with readings from a variety of literary and historical sources.
Decorate a Beaker
Sarah Fassnidge and Bridie Maddocks who run Clay Trap, the independent ceramic studio, will lead a workshop
Neolithic Pottery with Hannah Lawrence
A small focused group session led by expert pinch potter Hannah Lawrence, who will guide you through the process of pinching a simple vessel and creating distinctive decorative patterns
Tri-Chromatic Print
Use paper stencils and three colours of ink to build up your own layered and overlapping monoprint, creating a vibrant and surprising multitude of colours.
Colour Play
Explore the surprising properties and history of colour in a interactive installation
Block Print
Use our block print stamps and the three primary colours (magenta, cyan and yellow) to create unique tessellating designs, building up the layers to create a myriad of colours.
Seaweed Pressing
Join Kerry Holbrook and Ruth Klückers to learn the craft of seaweed pressing – a Victorian practice that captures the underwater beauty of seaweeds.
Decorate a Beaker
Sarah Fassnidge and Bridie Maddocks who run Clay Trap, the independent ceramic studio, will lead a workshop
From Parish to Port
Local residents and CAST regulars John and Sarah Warwick will lead an informal social walk tracing the route between Helston and Gweek, which once served as a port for the town.
Tiny Neolithic Vessels
Fashion and decorate your own tiny bowl or beaker with the types of simple tools used in the Neolithic period.
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
Golden October
CAST’s ‘Golden October’ is an open weekend, an opportunity to look around and join in.
Open Studios
Join us for a special Open Studios event as part of CAST’s Golden October weekend, celebrating the renewal of our historic building.
CAST-Off Saturday 24 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with in our colour kitchen. Make tiny clay piskie party ware at Mud Club. Build your own wooden construction. Create prints using different types of seaweed!
CAST-Off Saturday 17 August
See the world through a colourful new lens using specially made kaleidoscopes. Learn how to polish Serpentine into a shiny pendant. Paint your own plants and creatures and add them to a giant garden landscape frieze, and mould creatures out of clay to inhabit the garden.
CAST-Off Saturday 10 August
Transform yourself into a mythical creature by making your own folk-inspired mask. Build your own wooden construction. Gather natural materials and use them to make a cyanotype print, using the power of the sun.
CAST-Off Saturday 3 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with, in our colour kitchen. Build your own wooden construction. Make houses, people, cars, trees, and animals to create a clay world!
CAST-Off Saturday 27 July
Join our talented artist team to learn how to engrave a tiny plate to print on our miniature printing press. Draw or press your own tessellating patterns into clay, using a set stamps made especially by the team at Clay Trap
Q&A with Marcus Coates and Charlotte Williams
In January/February 2024 CAST presented Marcus Coates’s Artangel commission, The Directors, a collaboration between the artist and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Marcus Coates visited Cornwall to give an artist’s talk at CAST and to engage in conversation with psychoanalyst llric Shetland. On the morning of that day, he visited…
Marcus Coates
The Directors is a collaboration between artist Marcus Coates and five individuals in recovery from different lived experiences of psychosis. Positioned behind the camera, each of them directs Coates in a filmed re-staging of a particular episode from their life.
The Boats
Blue Mermaid, 2019 (replica of original built 1930) Sea-Change Sailing Trust Blue Mermaid is a steel-hulled, 87’ Thames sailing barge built in 2019. She is a replica of an older vessel of the same name, built in 1930 and sunk by enemy action during the Second World War. Blue Mermaid was built specifically to operate…