2025 Archives - CAST

Carols with Helston Town Band

Helston Town Band returns to CAST Café for their annual evening of traditional Christmas carols by the fireside. The Café will have mulled cider, mince pies and other festive treats on offer. There is a free drop-in Christmas Print Workshop running from 10am to 4pm, all welcome. This is the last day of service for…

CHRISTMAS PRINT WORKSHOP

Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to print handmade cards, tags and wrapping paper in time for Christmas. Create your own designs or use simple shapes to build bold, Scandinavian folk-style patterns. This free drop-in workshop is open to all ages and perfect for families.

CAST and Clay Trap Christmas Makers Market

Join CAST, Clay Trap, The Seaweed Institute, CAST Café and a range of artisan makers for our first Christmas Market.

Remember Nature

Remember Nature 2025 celebrates the 10th anniversary of an art project initiated in 2015 by the celebrated artist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017).

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.

Creatures of the Kiln

Join Vicky Wiltshire from Clay Trap to make your own clay creature, talisman or charm. If you would like to keep your creation you will have the option to have it fired, at a cost of £5 per item. Participants of all ages are welcome.

Paper Lantern Making

Join Lucy Grant to find out about lantern traditions around the world, use wax and tissue paper to create translucent shapes and make your own special lantern. Participants of all ages are welcome.

Open CAST 2025

CAST studio artists will open their doors on the first weekend of November, providing an opportunity to meet the artists and visit work spaces that are usually behind closed doors. The Café will be open and there will be free drop-in activities on offer each day.

William Wegman And Man Ray

Dogs have been a central part of William Wegman’s life and art for over fifty years. His first collaborator was the camera-loving Weimaraner Man Ray, who was an active protagonist in many of Wegman’s early videos, shot in his New York studio in the 1970s.

Artist's Choice | 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…

TEMPLATES, TRACINGS AND TRANSFERS

Artist Alison Turnbull uses found sources such as architectural plans, scientific diagrams and star charts as the basis for creating abstract work. This workshop will follow the same material processes Turnbull uses in her own paintings and drawings, with a focus on templates, stencils, tracing paper, rulers and different geometric drafting tools.

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.

Lightbox Tuesday 12 August

Create sea monsters and curious underwater shadow puppets and make your own slides to project in our black box space, or trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology.

Lightbox Tuesday 5 August

Trace a friend’s portrait using camera obscura technology. Dress up and strike a pose for an old-fashioned black and white portrait. Make wiggly compositions from seaweed and use the power of the sun to develop your very own cyanotypes:

Lightbox Tuesday 19 August

Make an articulated contraption, taking inspiration from machines and ‘things that go’. Build your very own zoetrope – an animation device that will make your drawings come to life! Use camera obscura technology to make portraits in Jonathan Polkest’s ‘Draw Me/Tedna Ve’ booth.

CAST-Off Saturday 23 August

Learn how to make your own plantable paper with seeds embedded, create your own construction from wood, or polish serpentine stone into a shiny pendant. You can also have a go on our tiny printing press or make an enormous vegetable print!

CAST-Off Saturday 16 August

Listen carefully and sculpt the sounds you hear out of different coloured plasticine or see what water carrying structures you can make with tubes and pipes. There will also be an opportunity to try your hand at creating felt pods, mask making, and building with clay.