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
USER GROUP DISCO
We are in a ‘Hall of Sculptures’, the narrator claims as USER GROUP DISCO (2009) starts
Ernest & Celestine
A delightful comedy of an unlikely friendship between a mouse and a bear.
The Way We Live
Director, scriptwriter and feminist Jill Craigie was one of Britain’s earliest women documentary filmmakers.
LANTERN-MAKING WORKSHOPS AT CAST
Lucy Grant and Vicky Wiltshire are working with the Museum of Cornish Life to create a lantern procession
REBECCA MOSS FILM EVENING
Rebecca Moss will introduce a selection of short moving image works and discuss her practice and influences.
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
An inspired and intimate portrait of a place and its people
The Ladykillers
This Ealing Studios classic is a subversive and macabre slow-burn comedy
HELSTON TOWN BAND AT CAST CAFE
Helston Town Band will perform classic Christmas carols, with mulled wine and mince pies on offer from the Café.
THE STUART HALL PROJECT
Caroline Deeds, Lecturer Factual Television and Documentary at Falmouth University, will introduce a special evening screening of John Akomfrah’s feature length film
Festival Angels, Elves and Santas
Learn how to make an angel who can flap her wings, an elf or a santa that jumps for joy.