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
Wind, Tide & Oar
Using a 1960s hand-wound camera, Huw Wahl shot Wind, Tide & Oar over a three-year period. In that time he followed a diverse array of traditional boats and the people who sail them as they journey through rivers, along coastlines and across open seas.
The Cornwall Workshop
The Cornwall Workshop is an intensive residential workshop for artists, curators and writers.