FAIRY TALES AND THE DEEP DARK FOREST | THINK AND MAKE
Stray from the path through the deep dark forest and get lost in dark tales and the wild imagination.
Pilvi Takala | Talk and Screening
For this special event, the internationally renowned Finnish artist Pilvi Takala will travel to Cornwall to talk about her work. The special evening with will include the presentation of an early slide work, Bag Lady, and the screening of two short films, followed by an ‘in conversation’ and Q&A. The programme includes: Real Snow White,…
PILVI TAKALA | A PROGRAMME OF FOUR SHORT FILMS
Internationally renowned artist Pilvi Takala stretches the limits of documentary making and performance within her works.
Andy Holden | Talk at Falmouth School of Art
Falmouth School of Art will screen Holden’s A Natural History of Nest Building, 2017, (30 minutes 30 seconds) followed by an artist talk. The evening is programmed to coincide with The Cornwall Workshop 2019, led by Holden and held at Kestle Barton on the Lizard peninsula, Andy Holden’s work takes a multitude of forms – large installations or sculptures, long-form videos,…
Lis Rhodes | introduced by Maria Palacios Cruz of LUX
Since the 1970s, artist Lis Rhodes has been making radical and experimental work that challenges dominant political and social narratives and the power structures of language. Her films and writing address urgent political issues – from the refugee crisis to workers’ rights, police brutality, racial discrimination and homelessness – as well as film history and…
ANDY HOLDEN | A NATURAL HISTORY OF NEST BUILDING | THE OPPOSITE OF TIME
A special screening of two film works by artist Andy Holden, for Open CAST 2019.
PERSONALITY PORTRAITS | THINK AND MAKE
Look closely at your friends and neighbours and draw portraits using props, mood, materials and lighting to express their personality. A fun family workshop led by artist Lucy Grant during the Open CAST weekend as part of Helston Makes It! For more information on the rest of the programme click here.
OPEN CAST 2019
Open CAST is an annual event when artists with studios in the CAST building open their workspaces to visitors.
BRICKS AND CHINA CLAY | AN EVENING OF TALKS AND DISCUSSION
Artist Rosanna Martin and historian Ivor Bowditch will contribute to an evening exploring connections between brick-making and china clay production. China clay has a vast range of uses, from ceramics to paper and from pharmaceuticals to building materials. It was discovered by William Cookworthy on Tregonning Hill near Helston in 1746 and that discovery led to the…
MONUMENTAL LIZARD | HISTORIC LANDMARKS UNDER THREAT
The Lizard, Cornwall is home to a host of historic sites, many of which are in a state of decline. Although scheduled as monuments and protected by legislation, these sites are rarely well known and almost never properly understood. Concerned about the potential loss of some of the physical remains of over 4,000 years of…
W.S. GRAHAM | READING GROUP
Poets Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer will run a relaxed reading group of some key works by the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918–86), who lived for most of his writing life in Cornwall. Lavinia Singer is a poetry editor at Faber & Faber. Her poetry explores image-making and materiality, and has appeared in various magazines, journals and…
TRY TO BE BETTER I AN EVENING OF POETRY AND DISCUSSION
Poets Lavinia Singer and Sam Buchan-Watts will introduce the idiosyncratic creative practice of the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918-86) before inviting artists and writers to read from, and reflect on, their contributions to the publication Try To Be Better. The publication is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the life and works of W. S. Graham, who…
Summer Think and Make Saturday special | Big Data - Lost in space!
Design and code your own digital skyscapes of millions of stars and use real space data
Summer Think and Make Special | Seamas Carey’s magical musical summer parade!
The old building on Penrose Road doesn’t know that winter has ended, so Seamas Carey will conduct a grand parade
Francis Alÿs | The Silence of Ani
Francis Alÿs’s film The Silence of Ani (2015) was shot on location in an ancient Armenian city
Manon de Boer | Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca
Manon de Boer’s film is a study of four young people improvising with dance and movement in an empty space.
MELANIE SMITH | MARIA ELENA
Trained as a painter, Melanie Smith explores the expanded field of painting and its relation to the moving image.
Summer Think and Make
Lucy Grant and Kate Turner will lead free activities for children and families on four Tuesdays during the school holidays.
Surface Tensions and Liquid Properties
An evening of artists’ films and animations organised as part of Jubilee Pool Stories.
HELSTON HERBARIUM | A DROP-IN WORKSHOP
Look closely at the extraordinary botanical specimens found all around us and create an intricate slide
WORD NIGHTS | THE SEA AND THE WORD
The presence of the sea can be felt everywhere in Cornwall. And the same is true of its effect on writing
PYTHON DATA SCIENCE WORKSHOP
Data is all around us. Exploring data, finding patterns in it, and visualising the stories hidden in data
Maeve Brennan | curated by Polly Staple
Polly Staple, director of Chisenhale Gallery, London, has selected Maeve Brennan’s The Drift (2017) for CAST Film Club
LIZARDS & TYPHOONS | AN EVENING OF POETRY
Prize-winning poets Alyson Hallett, Penelope Shuttle and Katrina Naomi present an evening of poetry relating to place.