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.
CAST-Away at PORTHOUSTOCK
Music, procession and fire.
CAST-Away at POLTESCO
Pilchard packing, stone polishing and water play.
CAST-Away at GWEEK
Boats, floats and flags.
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.
CAST-Off Saturday 28 August
Cyanotypes, clay animals, fish kites and prizes.
CAST-Off Tuesday 24 August
Natural pigments, botanical drawing and magical seeds.
CAST-Off Saturday 21 August
Serpentine shaping, granite bashing and paper making.
CAST-Off Tuesday 17 August
Experiment with natural pigments, try out botanical drawing and make your own bugs!
CAST-Off Saturday 14 August
Make cyanotypes, pinch clay and tell stories with shadows.
CAST-Off Tuesday 10 August
Make prints from tree rings, pictures from leaves and magic seeds.
CAST-Off Saturday 7 August
AFTERNOON ONLY due to rain and wind. Make and race boats, mould clay, weave willow and create tiny houses.
CAST-Off Tuesday 3 August
Cast metal, shape stone, felt wool and learn to see with your ears!