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.
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.
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.
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.
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.