Vote for The Leach Pottery

Added: Monday, 1st March 2010

The Leach Pottery in St Ives has been long-listed for the £100,000 Art Fund Prize, the UK’s largest single arts prize ~ the Oscars for museums and galleries! Please see below for more information and follow this link to register your vote: http://www.artfundprize.org.uk/2010/vote/

March 2010 - Tate St Ives - Free Month for Cornish Residents

Added: Monday, 1st March 2010

If you are a Cornish resident, you can visit Tate St Ives and the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden for free this March 2010.

Simply bring along proof of Cornish residence when you visit (e.g. either a utility bill or driving licence).

For further information call 01736 796226 or visit www.tate.org.uk/stives.

Event Cornwall seeks performers for 2010 events

Added: Wednesday, 3rd February 2010

Event Cornwall seeks to expand its database of performers for various events during 2010 including MusicTruro, Christmas entertainments, Surf Relief, Fal Week and corporate events.

If you are a street performer, musician, busker, band or community group, we want to hear from you about what you can offer to our events.

Contracts are on a freelance project basis. Please contact Sammy on sammy@eventcornwall.co.uk with details of your performance/group to join our database.

New teaching/workshop/studio available

Added: Tuesday, 12th January 2010

The Art Studio is set high up on Carn Marth - a beautifully lit quiet peaceful space approx 30'x18', underfloor heating, full width mirror wall. Ideal for those wishing to teach, run classes, or give talks. Feeling miles from anywhere yet very accessible.

We can also accommodate up to 11 people in our 4 and 5 star cottage accommodation for those living further away.

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New Cornish Craft Fairs

Added: Tuesday, 5th January 2010

New weekly craft fairs in Fowey and Mevagissey. Running on Fridays and Wednesdays respectively. Situated above the Town Hall in Fowey and in Jubilee Hall Mevagissey. Open 10am - 4pm. Stalls selling Cornish hand crafted produce only. New crafts people welcome.

Please telephone Jo on 01726 70483 for more details.

Home Movie Roadshow

Added: Tuesday, 15th December 2009

Next year, BBC TWO is launching a new series which will travel the country in a hunt for the nation’s home movie archive.

This is the nation’s story through the eyes of its most important historians: the British people.

We are looking for any amateur-filmed footage that reflects the events of the last seventy years – and we are particularly interested in footage of Cornwall. It might be footage of the summer of 1976, or the great storm of 1987. It might be street parties celebrating the Coronation, Jubilee or the Royal Weddings. We’re interested in footage of annual celebrations or the big events in people’s lives – perhaps an important wedding or birthday party. We would love to see any footage of local festivals, or people who perhaps went on to be famous - a local who went on to be a sports or pop star for instance.

We are interested in finding any footage you may have of Royalty, or the building or opening of important buildings in the area. It might be Beatlemania for instance,

or political demonstrations. It could be that the footage is very particular to the area – the local industry – from ship building to cider-making.

We are throwing the net very wide, and we are really interested to hear from individuals or organisations about what they think is of importance and what deserves to be seen on the small screen.

If you have old cine, video or film footage we would love to hear from you. We are happy to take it on any format.

At this point, we are still at the research stage – so we are keen to hear about what people have. If any clips are used in the series, then a fee will be paid.

Please contact the production team at samia.murphy@diverse.tv or on 0203 189 3228.

Or you can post your footage to: Samia Murphy - Producer, Home Movie Roadshow, 1 Ariel Way, London W12 7SL

Cornwall Arts and Crafts Directory (CACD) now on Twitter

Added: Monday, 7th September 2009

Everybody is doing it, so now so have we.

CACD joined Twitter on Monday, 7th September 2009, we haven't done this before, so we will try it out for a few weeks and see what happens.

Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch with people through the exchange of quick, frequent answers. Twitter works over multiple networks and devices (including PC's and mobile phones).

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens - from breaking world news to updates from friends.

CACD has an account and we post messages, which will usually be about updates to our web site.  If you are interested in the things we are posting you can follow our updates, either by going to our Twitter page, or, if you have a Twitter account you can opt to receive our messages  via your mobile phone etc.

It's not for everyone, and we are new to it, so we are just going to trial it and see how it goes.

Visit our page at http://twitter.com/C_A_C_D