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.
CAST-Off Saturday 10 August
Transform yourself into a mythical creature by making your own folk-inspired mask. Build your own wooden construction. Gather natural materials and use them to make a cyanotype print, using the power of the sun.
CAST-Off Saturday 3 August
Use natural pigments to create your own colours to paint with, in our colour kitchen. Build your own wooden construction. Make houses, people, cars, trees, and animals to create a clay world!
CAST-Off Saturday 27 July
Join our talented artist team to learn how to engrave a tiny plate to print on our miniature printing press. Draw or press your own tessellating patterns into clay, using a set stamps made especially by the team at Clay Trap
CAST-Off Summer 2024
Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities will return this summer, with sessions taking place on Saturdays from 27 July to 24 August in the walled garden at National Trust Penrose.
Margaret Salmon
In connection with her films currently on show at CAST, Margaret Salmon will run Ecological Affection: a workshop on embodied observational methods.
LAUREANA TOLEDO in conversation
Named with bitter irony, artist Laureana Toledo’s project Order and Progress explores the environmental devastation of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the area of Mexico in which Laureana spent her very early childhood years.
FOLD-OUT STORY BOOKS
Lucy Grant will lead a free workshop for families with children to make fold-out concertina books, draw picture journeys and map imaginary worlds.
Huw Wahl and Rose Ravetz
For this special evening screening Huw Wahl will be joined in conversation by his sister Rose Ravetz, who introduced him to sailing on her Falmouth quay punt Defiance. This experience produced the first shoots of Huw’s project Wind, Tide & Oar, which grew into a sibling collaboration of multiple proportions.
Margaret Salmon
Margaret Salmon’s close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
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.
SELECTED 14
Selected 14 is a collection of diverse, surprising and provocative new films by early career artists.
MARGARET SALMON
Margaret Salmon creates intense and beautiful filmic portraits that focus on the minutiae of the everyday. Her close observations of human behaviour, plants and animals are both ethnographic and poetic in nature.
BOTANICAL SPECIMENS
For this Easter holiday family workshop CAST’s black box will be transformed into a fun and informative immersive environment for exploration and play.
Three Short Films
Films by artists Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood will be shown as looped screenings on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April. Each work focuses on a place in Cornwall or Devon and examines human relationships with nature and the effects of large scale industry.
Three Short Films
An evening presentation of recent moving image work by artists based in the South West – Samuel Bestwick, Georgia Gendall and Jo Lathwood.
Children's Films
A selection of children’s films will be shown in CAST’s black box screening space every day, Tuesday to Saturday, during the Easter holidays.