CAST-Away at POLURRIAN
Windsocks, sand-shifters and swirling shoals.
CAST-OFF SATURDAY 20 AUGUST
Clay landscapes, stone carving and nature-based printmaking.
CAST-Off Saturday 13 August
Stone carving, felt pouch making and wild pigment painting.
CAST-Off Saturday 6 August
Brush making, serpentine polishing, flower crowns, wood construction and wild pigment painting.
CAST-Off Saturday 30 July
Cyanotype photography, wild pigment painting and giant clay platter making.
CAST-Off Summer 2022
Our CAST-Off programme of free artist-led creative activities returns this summer,
CAST-Away Summer 2022
This summer, for the first time, CAST is taking its programme of creative adventures out to the Lizard peninsula.
BLACK ORPHEUS
The multi-award-winning film Black Orpheus (1959) retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice amidst the music, costume and dance of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Language Lessons
Language – in its broadest sense – permeates the work of Laure Prouvost. Known for her immersive and mixed-media installations that combine film and installation in humorous and idiosyncratic ways, Prouvost addresses miscommunication and ideas becoming lost in translation. What I like about words is that they are so questionable. I struggled as a child…
BRICKWORKS AT CAST STUDIO OPENING EVENT
Join us to celebrate the opening of Brickworks at CAST
MARK LECKEY
There’s something about being lost in music which seems organic and wonderful,
FIRST COURSES AND OPEN ACCESS
Details of the first courses at our new ceramics studio: Six-week Beginner Ceramics with Jaye Taylor Wednesday evenings, 6-8.30pm
Half-term THINK AND MAKE
Paint an object, character or scene, real or imagined, and tell a visual story in miniature.
POETRY AFTERNOON WITH RACHAEL ALLEN
An informal poetry afternoon, with Rachael Allen reading from her debut poetry collection Kingdomland and from new work
A CELEBRATION OF CORNISH MAY DAY TRADITION
Archival films exploring different customs from around the region will be shown alongside a recent documentary
A CELEBRATION OF CORNISH MAY DAY TRADITION
Three archival films exploring different customs from around the region will be shown alongside a recent documentary
EASTER NESTS
Be like a bird in spring, weave, wind and create a nest for your easter eggs.
Naomi Frears and Matt Burrows In Conversation
An evening of conversation about the development of Men Falling
Men Falling
Shot from Naomi Frears’s studio window overlooking Porthmeor beach in St Ives, the first part of Men Falling observes surfers as they come to the end of their ride on a wave. In these final moments they seem to give themselves to the sea, each bringing their own particular style to the dismount. This is…
FIND YOUR WAY WITH CLAY
Hannah Lawrence’s delicate hand-built pots are widely admired. This six-week course is suitable for all skill levels, introducing basic form-making techniques and more complex aspects such as handles, spouts and lids. The aim is to get participants inspired and confident to make real functional pottery for home and kitchen. Finished items can be glazed and fired (at a…
Notebook on Cities and Clothes
In the early 1980s fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto shocked and revolutionized the fashion world with his oversized, androgynous, sculptural designs. Interviewing Yamamoto and watching him at work, director Wim Wenders considers the influence of Paris and Tokyo, the designer’s favourite places, his relationships with the models he works with and the students and apprentices drawing…
Au Hasard Balthazar
Sarah Dobai will introduce the acclaimed Robert Bresson film Au Hasard Balthazar (1966).
THE DONKEY FIELD
Sarah Dobai’s film features a text based on sections of a childhood memoir of events in Budapest in 1944.
ELIZABETH PRICE
A rare opportunity to attend an artist’s talk by Elizabeth Price, who will visit Falmouth School of Art