Carn to Cove is Cornwall’s performing arts scheme for rural communities filling community halls with poetry, music and drama, stories and dancing. Local people run the events and choose the live shows they want to see and hear in their halls Recently a survey revealed that 80% of Carn to Cove audiences walk to their local hall. Carn to Cove works in close collaboration with Cornwall Young Promoters Scheme (www.youngpromoters.org) which enables young people to select and promote shows in their communities.
Carn to Cove Village Hall venues:
Lelant
Lelant Village Hall TR26 3JR
01736 758451
Marazion
All Saints Church TR17 OEE
Nancledra
Towednack and Nancledra Community Hall
Nancledra, Penzance, TR20 8NR
01736 794711
Newlyn
The Centre Newlyn
Chywoone Hill, Newlyn TR18 5AR
01736 365890
Carbis Bay
St ives and Hayle Afternoon Community Choir (part of Cornwall Community Choirs)
Tuesday afternoons, 2.00pm to 3.30pm
St Anta's Church Hall, Porthrepta Road, Carbis Bay, St Ives TR26 2LB
Hayle
Local Vocalz
Monday evenings 8.00pm – 9.30pm
Passmore Edwards Institute, Hayle
Fast moving, young choir of approximately 50 people. Music reading desirable, but not essential if you are prepared to have a go at picking up simple music reading skills fairly quickly. The choir does regular concerts, festivals, recordings, tours and trips, etc and is aimed at people in the 18 to 50 age range who may be working or at college during the day. Lively people outside that age range will be considered if they are prepared play a full part in the life of the choir. You must be prepared to sing a wide range of music from the embracing classical repertoire, madrigals, jazz, pop and showtunes … http://www.localvocalz.co.uk
Helston
Helston Community Choir (part of Cornwall Community Choirs)
Mondays from 1.30pm to 3.00pm
Midsummer’s Day is the church feast of St John The Baptist, an important day in Penzance’s calendar as St John is the town’s Patron Saint – the ancient name ‘Pen Sans’ meaning ‘Holy Head’ refers to him, and images of the head of St John can be spotted on buildings throughout Penzance. It has always been an occasion for wild celebration but like many community celebrations Golowan was suppressed in late Victorian times and was all but forgotten for a hundred years. Then in 1991 a group of local artists and performers, together with Penzance’s Alverton Primary School, revived the festival on the Saturday nearest to St John’s Feast which they called Mazey Day. The streets were decorated and closed to traffic, the school paraded with costumes and giant images made of withies and paper, setting off on the stroke of midday. A seed was sown which expanded year after year to a full-scale arts and community festival. It has proved hugely successful, attracting thousands of visitors to Penzance, filling it to the brim. For local people, it is now part of the culture and it is hard to remember when it didn’t happen.
Lafrowda Festival is an annual event held in St Just in Penwith, in celebration of community arts. It runs for much of July and ends on Lafrowda Day, a Saturday during the second half of the month. At the heart of St Just is the Plen an Gwarry – or playing place – where feast days and festivals have been celebrated, mystery plays performed, and where John Wesley preached. On Lafrowda Day the Plen comes to life again for the Lafrowda Festival. As years the go by the Festival has got bigger and has also spawned winter events such as Lafrowda Film Nights.
Tre is the Cornish word for ‘Home/Homestead’. Using archive film as its inspiration and ‘home’ as its theme, the Tre Project collects old cine footage, creates digital content and produces a programme of new films to screen in community venues across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. They will be making films with communities from all over Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly; stories of old and new Kernow. The Tre Project film programme will include: a documentary feature; short films made with communities across Cornwall and the Scillies; short films made by West Cornwall students; and archive films. They will be coming to village events across the area with archive film material. The idea is to stimulate interest, debate and signpost. They want the Cornish community to get involved by following the story and sharing old films. And if you don’t have any footage but do have a unique story of Cornwall to share they can try to find existing footage that could go with it.
