Porthleven Food Festival will return for its eleventh year on the weekend of 26-28th April 2019. The Festival is a three-day feast of food, drink and music held in and around the historic harbour of Porthleven. As a well-established event on the festival calendar, the Festival brings around 40,000 people together in and around the stunning harbour […]
6 MAY – 15 JUN 2019 THE PICTURE ROOM AT NEWLYN ART GALLERY SOLITUDE. A new collection of work, made especially for this show talks about Willow’s relationship to wild places, to solitude and the silence found in particular environments. Walking in The Seven mountain range in Bergen, she gathered a range of marks inspired […]
St Ives Food and Drink Festival, supported by Carbis Bay Holidays, will take place on Porthminster Beach this May. Welcoming top chefs and local music acts, the Festival will remove its daytime entry fee for the first time in 2019 to allow more people to experience the annual foodie celebrations. The Festival regularly welcomes top […]
11 MAY — 15 JUN 2019 THE ENGINE ROOM AT THE EXCHANGE Display of camera-less photography documenting the suburban plant life around the galleries, gathered in a workshop. Participants walked from Newlyn Art Gallery to The Exchange in Penzance, collecting local plant species along the way. They then used lumen and cyanotype photography to produce […]
SAT 25 MAY – SAT 1 JUN, 12:00 – 15:00 THE EXCHANGE Make your own eco friendly, cold water surf wax, made from Cornish bees' wax, tree resin and coconut oil. It's super easy to make once you know how. Surf wax is an essential tool to help surfers maintain a grip on their surfboard. […]
NEW CONVERSATIONS ABOUT TIME AND PLACE 23 MAR — 15 JUN 2019 NEWLYN ART GALLERY “A rural ecologist, an urban drifter and a diasporic optimist examine the invisible layers underneath, the lost spaces on the edge and the forgotten places in between.” Lubaina Himid. The exhibition explores the work of three artists, Rebecca Chesney, Lubaina […]
THE CRAFT BEHIND SURFING 25 MAY — 08 JUN 2019 THE EXCHANGE Surf School seeks to show surf culture as a respected craft form, presenting a selection of designers, photographers and filmmakers who have made surfing their business, and craftspeople who capture the balance between design and nature. The exhibition will delve into the origins […]
WED 29 MAY & SAT 22 JUN, 13:00 – 16:00 THE EXCHANGE All welcome, U12s to be accompanied by an adult. Golowan Goes Green and we do, too! Inspired by the plant and wild life along our road sides and hedgerows, join us to create beautiful headdresses to wear in the parades and festivals throughout […]
WED 29 MAY, 10:30 – 12:30 NEWLYN ART GALLERY Emma Gunn is an expert forager based in Cornwall. She works at the Eden Project as Seasonal Displays Supervisor, where she creates show gardens, seasonal plant-based exhibits, and does floristry. She has been there for 20 years after studying garden design. She has a passion for […]
Celebrating its third year, Cornwall’s most rambunctious garden fête will return to the blossoming grounds of Scorrier House for three days of mystical mayhem and monumental madness. Combining headline artists, cabaret, burlesque, Mexican wrestling and Victorian-themed sporting events, The Great Estate is a dynamic fusion of music, art and food. Enriched with eccentric surprises and […]
FRI 31 MAY, 10:00 – 16:00 THE EXCHANGE Under the guidance of James Otter of Otter Surfboards you will design, craft and finish your own humble Hand Plane board. Otter Surfboards will be in residence during the two-week exhibition, crafting a new wooden board in the gallery and will take a break from their work […]
A feisty young woman embarks on a voyage into a ‘Boy’s Own’ world of undiscovered jungles, treasure maps, campfires and penknives on an action-packed adventure. Leading her team of quarrelsome explorers she stumbles into a bountiful paradise, whose inhabitants seem entirely peaceful, productive and fulfilled. Is this tranquil place the best of all possible worlds? Or is […]