Open CAST 2017
Open CAST is an annual event when artists with studios in the CAST building open their workspaces to visitors.
Word Nights | Truth and Lies | Wyl Menmuir and Alex Wade
Novelists trade in deception: they create worlds populated by imaginary characters and often use techniques that confuse and confound.
An Evening of Animated Short Films | Introduced by Nicola Bealing
The second in this occasional series of screenings presents animated short films with a focus on dark humour.
Get Creative | Free Mask-Making Workshop
Artist Lucy Grant will lead a free drop-in mask-making workshop inspired by springtime folk ritual and costume.
Deborah Perkin | Bastards
CAST Café Geographic series welcomes director Deborah Perkin for a screening of her documentary Bastards, followed by a Q&A.
Seamas Carey Meets His 4 Year Old Self, With A Choir
Musician, composer and performer Seamas Carey will visit CAST for the last show of his Cornwall tour.
Word Nights | Women Who Made the Modern Age
Writer Kira Cochrane visits CAST shortly after International Women’s Day to discuss the influential subjects of her latest book Modern Women.
BEATRICE GIBSON | SCREENING AND Q&A
The films of celebrated British artist Beatrice Gibson draw on the work of experimental writers and musicians.
WORD NIGHTS | EXPLORATION AND THE WORD
Historian Huw Lewis-Jones, explorer Kari Herbert and award-winning author Philip Marsden discuss the relationship between exploration and the written word.
INTERNATIONAL MUSICIANS SEMINAR | OBOE QUINTET CONCERT
Musicians from the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove visit CAST for the first time to present an evening concert.
Clément Cogitore | Three Films
Award-winning French artist Clément Cogitore explores encounters with the sacred, supernatural and unexplained.
LUKE FOWLER AND WILL FELL | TO THE EDITOR OF AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER
Fowler and Fell’s film gathers interviews, images and documents to explore the history of Pavilion, the UK’s first feminist photography centre.
A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH | Introduced by Ben Sanderson
Set during the Second World War, A Matter of Life and Death is a dazzling romantic fantasy.
SURFACE | EXPERIMENTAL FILM MAKING
CAST Film Club screens four artists’ films that share an interest in experimental filmmaking techniques.
OPEN CAST 2015
Sixteen artists with studios at CAST open their workspaces in the historic Passmore Edwards building to visitors.
LAIDA LERTXUNDI | FIVE FILMS
Spanish artist Laida Lertxundi visits CAST for a screening of five of her short films, followed by a Q&A.
BLISS PRESENTS SAMHAIN
To celebrate the season’s turning, BLISS curates a dark and psychedelic evening of music, performance and film.
Molly Dineen | Lie of the Land
CAST Café Geographic series screens documentary Lie of the Land and welcomes director Molly Dineen for a Q&A after the film.
OPEN CAST 2016
All the artists who have studios in the CAST building open their workspaces to visitors once a year.
RUTH EWAN | ARTIST TALK AT FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY
Ruth Ewan’s work takes many forms, including events, installation, writing and printed matter.
IAN FORSYTH AND JANE POLLARD | 20,000 DAYS ON EARTH
20,000 Days on Earth is a bold vision of one of music’s most mysterious and charismatic figures, Nick Cave.
MANON DE BOER | SCREENING AND Q&A
The new season of CAST Film Club opens with a screening of work by the Dutch artist filmmaker Manon de Boer.
THE WHITE REVIEW | AN EVENING OF READINGS
CAST welcomes writers from The White Review to Helston, for a special evening of readings and discussions.
HELSTON MODEL TOWN
Explore old Helston at Helston Museum and invent its future at CAST. Be cardboard builders, architects, dreamers and visionaries.