Making Mobiles
Join artist Lucy Grant to make colourful geometric mobiles inspired by the art of Alexander Calder. Make a stable base then cut out colourful card shapes and hang them from wire to create a delicately balanced moving structure.
Intaglio Print Portraits
Make intaglio portraits of friends and family, using a print process employed by artists since the fifteenth century. The studio will be equipped with printing plates, etching tools, artist quality paper and a small press.
Block Printing
Imagine yourself as an architect and design your own house or building. Choose from a variety of cardboard shapes and objects to use as the building blocks to print your own simple and striking image.
Maritime Painting
Join artist Lucy Grant to imagine and paint your own dramatic sea adventure, taking inspiration from some of the great artists who have painted ships at sea.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 29 AUGUST
CHANGE OF VENUE – due to the forecast of heavy rain and high winds tomorrow, the final CAST-Off of the summer will take place indoors, in the CAST building.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 22 AUGUST
Make prints using leaves collected from around the garden and look for detailed textures from which to make rubbings. Build folk-inspired wooden constructions, paint a portrait of yourself or of a family member, and create a two-tone plaque out of clay.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 15 AUGUST
Paint a colourful still life arrangement of fruit, flowers and vegetables, and create crowns from flowers. Build animals from wood and make houses and habitats of all shapes and sizes from clay.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 8 AUGUST
Use the power of the sun to create your own cyanotype print, build a wheeled contraption from wood, and move water using structures built from pipes and tubes. Paint a Loe trout using natural pigments and create a clay creature.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 1 AUGUST
Find ways to move water uphill using waterwheels and pumps, paint colourful feathered birds, and make an intaglio image of an insect, using a tiny printing press. You can also build a wooden boat that floats and make tiny tableware out of clay.
Our Living Archives
This event is part of Our Living Archives, an ongoing project organised by Museum X and Kowetha, which sets out to understand the collections relating to Black history held by Cornish museums and archives, and to increase access to these collections for people of colour.
Wednesdays in the Art Studio
Artist Lucy Grant will lead free creative activities in CAST’s ground floor learning studio every Wednesday in August.
Songs for the Future
Sound and song play a central role in the work of award-winning British-Greek artist Mikhail Karikis, whose works employ the power of peoples’ voices and of collectively-produced sounds to focus on themes of social and environmental justice, human action and solidarity.
POLLINATOR PATHMAKER CONSTANTINE NETWORK
Organised by artist Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, University of Exeter and the University of Edinburgh, this is an evening of talks and discussion by the artist and researchers who are studying gardens in Constantine that have been planted as part of Dr Ginsberg’s Pollinator Pathmaker artwork.
Zine and Badge Making For 18- to 35-year-olds
Join The Pearl Exchange for a free creative workshop at CAST. This will be a relaxed making session open to anyone between the ages of 18 and 35
MARIANA RODRÍGUEZ FERNÁNDEZ
Continuing the studio exchange between CAST and CaSa (Centro de las Artes de San Agustín) in Oaxaca, we are delighted to be hosting Mariana Rodríguez Fernández for a month-long residency at CAST.
MAKE A BOAT THAT FLOATS
Use driftwood, feathers, twigs and leaves to make a boat that floats at CAST, then make the short walk down to the Cober River with your friends and family to make it sail.
Transmission 1: Ambisonic Listening Party
Artist Jamie House presents a unique ambisonic listening event at CAST as part of his ongoing collaboration with Natural England at Goonhilly Downs SSSI.
CAST-Off Summer 2026
UPDATE – due to the forecast of heavy rain and high winds on Saturday 29 August, the final CAST-Off of the summer will take place indoors, in the CAST building.
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.
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