CAST-Off Archives - CAST

CAST-OFF SATURDAY 29 AUGUST

CHANGE OF VENUE – due to the forecast of heavy rain and high winds tomorrow, the final CAST-Off of the summer will take place indoors, in the CAST building.

Make prints using leaves collected from around the garden and look for detailed textures from which to make rubbings. Build folk-inspired wooden constructions, paint a portrait of yourself or of a family member, and create a two-tone plaque out of clay.

CAST-OFF SATURDAY 15 AUGUST

Paint a colourful still life arrangement of fruit, flowers and vegetables, and create crowns from flowers. Build animals from wood and make houses and habitats of all shapes and sizes from clay.

CAST-OFF SATURDAY 8 AUGUST

Use the power of the sun to create your own cyanotype print, build a wheeled contraption from wood, and move water using structures built from pipes and tubes. Paint a Loe trout using natural pigments and create a clay creature.

CAST-OFF SATURDAY 1 AUGUST

Find ways to move water uphill using waterwheels and pumps, paint colourful feathered birds, and make an intaglio image of an insect, using a tiny printing press. You can also build a wooden boat that floats and make tiny tableware out of clay.

CAST-Off Summer 2026

UPDATE – due to the forecast of heavy rain and high winds on Saturday 29 August, the final CAST-Off of the summer will take place indoors, in the CAST building.

CAST-Off Saturday 23 August

Learn how to make your own plantable paper with seeds embedded, create your own construction from wood, or polish serpentine stone into a shiny pendant. You can also have a go on our tiny printing press or make an enormous vegetable print!

CAST-Off Saturday 16 August

Listen carefully and sculpt the sounds you hear out of different coloured plasticine or see what water carrying structures you can make with tubes and pipes. There will also be an opportunity to try your hand at creating felt pods, mask making, and building with clay.

CAST-Off Saturday 9 August

Make a kite in the shape of a fish to fly in the wind and see what you can build from wood. Spend time painting and try your hand at printmaking using a portable press.

CAST-Off Saturday 2 August

Build your own extravagant flower crown out of cardboard and use flotsam and jetsam to add to a giant aquarium. Try your hand at stone carving and wood working and spend time exploring with clay and paint.

CAST-Off Saturday 26 July

Join our team of talented artists and learn how to make nature-print photo journals and create constructions from wood. You can also mix earth colours and botanical inks to paint with and paint curious sea creatures to add to our giant aquarium.

SUMMER HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES

This summer we are offering creative activities both in the CAST building and out of doors. The CAST-Off programme will return to the Walled Garden at National Trust Penrose and we have also planned three days of Lightbox activities in the black box and learning spaces at CAST.

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.