Paper Cuts
We invite families to create vibrant paper-cut images and symmetrical designs in celebration of spring.
Saturday Art Club
CAST’s Saturday art sessions for eleven- to sixteen-year-olds are structured around engagement with a wide range of artists, many of whom have studios at or close links with CAST.
CAST CASA EXCHANGE EVENING
This evening celebrates the continuing residency exchange between Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (CaSa), an art centre in Oaxaca, Mexico, and CAST in Helston.
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.
Siticulosa
Set in the Apulia region of southern Italy, Siticulosa, 2025 (45min) is part of an ongoing body of work by artist Maeve Brennan, which focuses on the global trade in illicit antiquities. The film unfolds through a series of interviews with individuals including a biodynamic farmer, an art historian and a forensic archaeologist
Helston Spring Thing 2026
A wondrous weekend including free drop-in workshops at CAST on Saturday 21 March – Grow a Spring Thing and Make a Clay Dragon. Helston Spring Thing returns for another vibrant weekend of making and doing in venues across Helston
Make A Clay Dragon
Join members of the Clay Trap team to make your own dragon out of terracotta clay. 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.
GROW A SPRING THING
Join CAST’s learning team to make your own potted plant. Then bring it to life in a spring garden with help from animator Mae Voogd. Participants of all ages are welcome. This workshop is part of Helston Spring Thing 2026.
Introduction to The Arbor
Artist Clio Barnard’s moving film about the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar is an intriguing mix of interviews with Dunbar’s family and friends, scenes from her plays, and TV footage of Dunbar in the 1980s. Andrea Dunbar, a tenacious young playwright whose work was described as ‘Thatcher’s Britain with its knickers down’, grew up on…
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.
Get Set Go!
Add axles and wheels to recycled bottles, cartons and tubes to make a junk model vehicle that really goes!
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
Manifesto
Ane Hjort Guttu’s film Manifesto, 2020, (27 min) speculates on the aims and purposes of institutional art education.
The Cornwall Workshop
The Cornwall Workshop is an intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers.