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.
Children's Christmas Films
A selection of animated films for children will be shown in the black box screening space in parallel with the Christmas workshops on Saturday 14 December.
Carols with Helston Town Band
Helston Town Band will return to CAST Café for their annual performance of traditional Christmas carols by the fireside.
Christmas Print Workshop
Join Lucy Grant and the CAST learning team to print home-made cards, tags and wrap in time for Christmas.
SPIRIT MESSAGES
Spirit Messages is a touring programme of six artists’ films curated by the prominent Dublin-based initiative for artists’ moving image aemi.
PETROC TRELAWNY
BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula and attended Helston School in the 1980s.
Mike Nelson
The celebrated British artist Mike Nelson will be joined by artist Andy Parker for a conversation on topics including Nelson’s most recent work, Un Intruso (uninvited, into chaos), made this summer for Manifesta 15.
Portrait Pots
Ceramicists Finn Cameron and Vicky Wiltshire will be on hand to help you fashion your own small object and animate it with facial expression.
The Mason's Mark
A walk led by sculptor Dr David Paton exploring the tooling marks found on granite buildings and structures in Helston.
Reading in Place
Artist Bronwen Buckeridge will lead a walk along the coast with readings from a variety of literary and historical sources.
Decorate a Beaker
Sarah Fassnidge and Bridie Maddocks who run Clay Trap, the independent ceramic studio, will lead a workshop
Neolithic Pottery with Hannah Lawrence
A small focused group session led by expert pinch potter Hannah Lawrence, who will guide you through the process of pinching a simple vessel and creating distinctive decorative patterns
Tri-Chromatic Print
Use paper stencils and three colours of ink to build up your own layered and overlapping monoprint, creating a vibrant and surprising multitude of colours.
Colour Play
Explore the surprising properties and history of colour in a interactive installation
Block Print
Use our block print stamps and the three primary colours (magenta, cyan and yellow) to create unique tessellating designs, building up the layers to create a myriad of colours.
Seaweed Pressing
Join Kerry Holbrook and Ruth Klückers to learn the craft of seaweed pressing – a Victorian practice that captures the underwater beauty of seaweeds.
Decorate a Beaker
Sarah Fassnidge and Bridie Maddocks who run Clay Trap, the independent ceramic studio, will lead a workshop
From Parish to Port
Local residents and CAST regulars John and Sarah Warwick will lead an informal social walk tracing the route between Helston and Gweek, which once served as a port for the town.
Tiny Neolithic Vessels
Fashion and decorate your own tiny bowl or beaker with the types of simple tools used in the Neolithic period.
Why Horror Films Are Good For You
Eminent film critic Mark Kermode will give an illustrated talk exploring why horror matters and what he loves about it
Golden October
CAST’s ‘Golden October’ is an open weekend, an opportunity to look around and join in.
Open Studios
Join us for a special Open Studios event as part of CAST’s Golden October weekend, celebrating the renewal of our historic building.
CAST-Off Saturday 24 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with in our colour kitchen. Make tiny clay piskie party ware at Mud Club. Build your own wooden construction. Create prints using different types of seaweed!
CAST-Off Saturday 17 August
See the world through a colourful new lens using specially made kaleidoscopes. Learn how to polish Serpentine into a shiny pendant. Paint your own plants and creatures and add them to a giant garden landscape frieze, and mould creatures out of clay to inhabit the garden.