26th June 2021 Town Centre GREEN 10am - 4pm WHITEGOLD FESTIVAL

A festival of clay, gardens and conviviality

White River Place The Market House Biddicks Court Fore Street Holy Trinity Church

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We are delighted that the Green and Whitegold WHITEGOLD INTERNATIONAL Festival of Clay, Gardens and Conviviality is CERAMICS PRIZE 2020 returning to St Austell town centre on the In the face of lockdown the artists set them out as markers on the trees shortlisted for the Whitegold Prize on Edible St Austell’s fruit tree trail. 26th June with satellite events taking place decided to give up the prize money and Clayground and Community around St Austell Bay throughout June and July. use it instead to work with community Café are making clay ‘Trees of Life’ and groups in St Austell. With conviviality as are bringing that project to the Festival. The Green and Whitegold Festival programme their theme they have creatively engaged (SEE HANDS ON WORKSHOPS) showcases what makes the St Austell area so with local people via digital means. Francesca Anfossi and special - the strong green horticultural connection Portland Inn Project and Edible St Neighbourhoods for Change are with famous sub-tropical gardens close-by and its Austell are delivering ‘Grow It! Cook delivering ‘A Cornish Banquet’ bringing It! Eat It!’ which culminates in a day community together to make ceramic unique whitegold, China Clay heritage. of clay planter making, gardening, plates, share food and conviviality cooking and eating at the community – see STALLS for more details. We want to celebrate what a special place this is and also to garden at Landrew Road on 19th June. Grizedale Arts are running online ceramic workshop open to all in the help reconnect our community safely after the challenging Clayground Collective and Edible St area, introducing ceramic skills that months of lockdown. Austell have made raw paper clay can be used to a lot of different things Cornish Choughs stuffed with seeds and - for use, ornament and for sale. Whilst the lockdown brought much of normal life to a standstill, the Austell Project is proud that our Whitegold International Ceramics Prize 2020 winners have continued delivering an immersive programme of projects in St Austell’s local communities throughout 2020, our commissioned artists continued working on public art pieces for the town, and planting projects initiated by our Austell Green team are blossoming - all bringing colour and life to our landscape. We also brought you a digital festival full of interesting ‘behind the scenes’ insights into our work on the Austell Project, all still available on our website for you to enjoy.

Here at the 2021 Green and Whitegold Festival there’s an exciting and diverse range of things to see, do and hear, including a choice of hands-on workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations, live music, roaming street performance, walks and talks. We’ve selected some fantastic traders selling seeds, plants and ceramic crafts, interspersed with representatives of local attractions and projects passionate about horticulture, biodiversity, public art, ceramic and clay culture. Take a deeper look into our programme of events, we look forward to welcoming you to St Austell. TOWN CENTRE AS A GALLERY

GUIDED TOUR: PAUL JACKSON: 3 FONT BOWLS MEANWHILE... SHOP FRONT NATURES GARDEN OF ART WHITEGOLD ART TRAIL 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM TAKE-OVER TERRARIUMS 26TH JUNE 10:30 & 14.30 21ST JUNE ONWARDS UNTIL 3RD JULY Holy Trinity Church, Meet in South Square, White River St Austell town centre St Austell town centre Windows of Café Tengo and The Place, St Austell town centre. “To carve a design for the first time in With the support of St Austell’s Business Market House, St Austell town centre Dr Alex Murdin, Curator of the Whitegold 1000 years is both a privilege and a Improvement District, the Austell Project A wonderful display of playful terrariums Project, will give a personal guided tour spiritual journey.” See this moving series adopts Fore Street as a temporary made by 80 children from ’s of some of the new public art projects of carved font bowls inspired by Norman gallery, using the empty windows of Home Education Groups and around the town – how they were made Nordic early Christian and Celtic designs currently vacant shops as a space for and St Dennis Primary Schools, inspired and the inspiration behind them. in a beautiful church setting. artwork. by workshops at the woodland and A collection of projects from Austell historic trails of the clay works. Numbers limited to 30. Book via Green and Austell Ceramic are featured Eventbrite in advance and at the Festival Drop into Café Tengo to pick up NEIL BROWNSWORD: TASKSCAPE in graphics, photography and illustration, Info Hub on the day. No tickets? Then instructions on how to make your own. UNTIL 30TH JUNE look out for work made by Whitegold self-guide with the Whitegold Art Trail Prize 2020 winners, Clayground Plants and charcoal for this project were on the Discover St Austell app. Unit D4 window, South Square, Collective, Francesca Anfossi and generously donated by Pengelly Garden https://austellproject.eventbrite.co.uk St Austell town centre Portland Inn Project. Centre, Nursery and the Lost Taskscape is a film created by Whitegold Gardens of Heligan. Quartz Award 2019 Prize Winner, Neil TANA WEST: CERAMIC PANORAMA Brownsword. It brings the viewer’s UNTIL 1ST JULY 10AM – 5PM attention to moments of china clay transformation coordinated by human The Market House, hand, showing us processes seldom St Austell town centre seen. Incidental elements, the flowing, A View from a Distance is a ceramic bubbling, accumulation of materials and artwork created by Whitegold Feldspar turquoise waters that occur in extracting, Award Winner 2019, Tana West. separating and settling the clay are Inspired by early 19th century wallpaper framed aesthetically and offered up for depicting the Bay of Naples that hung in poetic contemplation. the White Hart Hotel in St Austell, Tana has created a semi-circular hand painted ceramic panorama depicting St Austell’s contemporary clay country. Step into the view and immerse yourself in the MAKE IT BETTER SMART PHONE buildings, landmarks, people, flora and PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION fauna from round and about. 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM The Market House, St Austell town centre The act of taking a good photograph helps us to develop our curiosity and say something new about the world around us. These creative activities are important in helping us live well. See a selection of photographs taken by participants in Make it Better smartphone photography workshops. #mentalhealth #towardszero #activelooking TALKS & DEMOS

RITA FLOYD LUCY JOINES OPEN-AIR DEMOS: FORE STREET EMMA GUNN 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Lucy makes wheel-thrown ceramics in her 26TH JUNE Join the author of ‘Never Mind the studio on the North Coast of Cornwall. Burdocks’ who will give some tips on Unit D4 South Square, See the Fore Street blackboard She uses local stoneware clay and a what delicious edibles the local landscape St Austell Town Centre for times porcelain clay to make everything from has to offer and to share some of her Watch the highly skilled china flower earrings to stoneware teapots and vases, favourite seasonal recipes. maker, Rita Floyd create delicate and decorated with inspiration taken from the precise floral clay sculptures. Rita, who SORREL FLORAL DESIGNS beauty and magic of the natural world made a guest appearance on the Great Katie McBride is a Cornish flower grower around her. Lucy will show us how she Pottery Throwdown, remains the last of who makes wild hand tied blooms and throws a cup. a generation of traditional china flower floral arrangements for weddings and makers in Stoke-on-Trent still practising events. She’ll be giving us a demo on today. making button holes and flower crowns. RAKU FIRING Rita’s demonstration is generously Fleur Winter and Jackie Clark will be sponsored by Valentine Clays. demonstrating Raku firing technique throughout the day, taking us through each step in the process of heating of the pots in the kiln before cooling in an airtight bin of combustibles to make the distinctive crackle effect.

BLEUJYOWA Martin Pallet sells unusual and interesting plants grown in his own garden. As a teacher in horticultural skills, he’ll give us some tips on skills that you can employ in your own garden at home, from composting to seed sowing, taking cuttings and wildlife gardening. OPEN-AIR DEMOS: SOUTH SQUARE CAROLINE WINN 26TH JUNE Caroline Winn works experimentally See the South Square blackboard with clay, focusing on traces of the for times past. For this demonstration, she will make two industrial-inspired buckets: one incorporating metal and porcelain DEMELZA WHITLEY paper clay, the other combining black Winner of the 2019 Whitegold Festival clay, terracotta and white stonewares. ‘People’s Choice’ award, Demelza will be Using plaster moulds, she will show how demonstrating hand building techniques impressions and sprigging can enliven using paperclay. the clay surface with historical references. HANDS ON WORKSHOPS

NEIL BROWNSWORD WORKSHOPS TREE OF LIFE (1) RAKU FIRING (2) MAKESPACE CRAFT WORKSHOP(4) 25TH JUNE 10:30 – 12:30 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM & 1:30 – 3:30PM South Square, St Austell town centre South Square, St Austell town centre Chandos Place, St Austell town centre 27TH JUNE 10:30 – 12:30 Whitegold Prize Winners 2020 24 Raku tea bowls will be available to Join Belinda and Hannah from MakeSpace & 1:30 – 3:30PM Clayground Collective is a company decorate on the day, before they go Cornwall CIC, for a day filled with Wheal Martyn Clay Works, St Austell of creative practitioners who create through the kiln in 3 separate firings. Your wonderful wire and found things to Join internationally renowned ceramic large-scale clay experiences with the pots will be available to take home later. create colourful flowers and leaves artist Neil Brownsword for a two-hour public. Working together with the help of to take home. Suitable from aged 6+ hands-on clay workshop that intertwines residents of St Blazey and St Austell, and with parental support, just pop to the ceramic histories of the clay countries with 1 tonne of clay, they will construct our stall in St Austell to take part. of St Austell and Stoke-on-Trent. a temporary clay tree of the imagination that reflects local and personal histories Use historic hand tools from ceramic of the area. HisTree, HerTree, TheirTree. TEA LEAF READING WITH manufacturing to form local china This workshop has been generously BAYLISS AND TEABAG (5) clay into vessels and objects and sponsored by Potclays Ltd. 26TH JUNE 10AM - 4PM explore new creative possibilities. 50 min - 1 hour readings at 10 To book a place call Wheal Martyn am, 11.15am, 12:30pm & 2:30pm Clay Works on 01726 850362. with moments of performance and poetry in between... Fore Street, St Austell town centre BRICKFIELD KILN FIRING 25TH & 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Join Simon Bayliss and MC Teabag for an afternoon of conversation, Blackpool Pit, St Austell collaboration and tea-based destiny! The Brickfield team will be firing hand- made bricks in their mini beehive kiln on After hosting an online event at last site at Blackpool Pit from 24 – 26 June. year’s Window into Whitegold, join Come along to meet the team, see the mystical pair for a real life, face the site and have a look at the brick to face (and mug to mug) session of structures co-designed by Falmouth tea leaf reading. Combining ancient University Architecture students PUT YOURSELF ON THE MAP (7) shamanic knowledge, performance art, and The Happy Wanderers built 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM social practice and a splash of silliness, BOTANY AND BEYOND: in April this year with the support these sessions have been designed just TILE WORKSHOP (3) The Market House, of The Heritage Lottery Fund. for Green and Whitegold, creating a 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM St Austell town centre space for festival participants to stop, Join Lynn Simms and Ceramicists Aylmer Square, St Austell think and muse upon their future. from the Clays and the Bay network Throughout the day you’ll have the Reserve a place in advance https:// to ‘put yourself on the map’ and opportunity to drop in and make your austellproject.eventbrite.co.uk help to build a representation of St own tile, embossed with clippings from a Austell Bay in the material that made selection of the plants from the local area. the town famous - white clay. The workshop brings together Robin SORREL FLORAL DESIGNS (6) Sullivan’s recent explorations into the 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Inspired by ‘Clay Story Map’ by knock-on effects of the china clay Zenna Tagney and Merran Coleman, Holy Trinity Church industry in Cornwall. Specifically, the our map will focus on the town and Drop in and make hand tied blooms, accidental introduction of over 600 will be drawn on to the floor of the buttonholes and flower crowns with Katie non-native plants species to SX0753 entrance to the iconic Market House. McBride from Sorrel Floral Designs. Par Harbour, transferred through the ballast water of ships exporting the minerals over 250 years. LIVE MUSIC & PERFORMANCE

THE SCAFFAL DANCE all. The story walks will pop up as LAUNCH CORNWALL COLLEGE ALTITUDE CORNWALL COLLEGE 26TH JUNE a gentle, family friendly busk! 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 10:30 – 11:30AM & 1 – 2PM Roots was commissioned by FEAST, Pop up performance in various Pop up performance in various Wheal Martyn and The Austell Project Various locations around spots in St Austell town centre spots in St Austell town centre in 2020. Thank you to Green and St Austell town centre Students of Cornwall College St Austell’s Dance students on Altitude, Whitegold festival for bringing it back. The Scaffal Dance was created by acting programme, Launch Cornwall Cornwall College’s renowned The UPG Team as a new May Day College, will celebrate the town’s dance programme, will celebrate St celebration, responding to the industrial prosperous China Clay mining heritage Austell’s thriving China Clay mining heritage of this area and incorporating through physical theatre. Ebbing and heritage through the art of dance their performance-parkour style into flowing through sound and movement, and movement. Demonstrating and a traditional floral dance format. they will explore the intricate sifting exploring the creation of clay employing The simple aim is to raise a smile of material and spreading of wealth as different pathways throughout. as we come out of lockdown. competitive Cornish ‘hard graft’ met the gentleness of ‘white gold’; St Austell’s world recognised china clay resource.

NEIL BROWNSWORD: CLAY SETTLING TANKS MON 21ST – THURS 24TH JUNE SATURDAY 26TH JUNE 11 DOORS Wheal Martyn Clay Works, St Austell 26TH JUNE Cost of museum Entry 2PM/2.30PM/3PM/3.30PM Watch internationally renowned ceramic artist, Neil Brownsword working in one Various spots around of the old clay settling tanks, shaping St Austell town centre four tonnes of Imerys’ china clay into The true story of 11 Doors is a curious a variety of shapes and forms using one… Look out for an actual door replica moulds and tools from ceramic ROOTS STORY WALK popping up in St Austell town centre, tableware production, together with 26TH JUNE 11AM – 2PM revealing Anna Murphy’s tale ‘11 Doors – shivers, ladles and dubbers traditionally a story of dirt and washing’. See the story LIVE MUSIC AT THE Busking around St Austell town centre used in china clay extraction. come to life with dancers Rob and Suzie, MARKET HOUSE Singing and storytelling duo Emily combining music, dance and that famous Call Wheal Martyn Clayworks on 26TH JUNE 10AM – 3:15PM Faulkner and Alex Devine will be 11th Door. Music composed by Jim Carey. 01726 850362 to arrange your visit. promenading through our festival site The Market House, St Austell This performance was commissioned with White River and Clay Country A great line up of live music acts: by Kneehigh Theatre for their inspired performances. Tributes to 10.00-10.45 Melodees and Harmonix Random Acts of Art programme. the wild, overlooked beauty of your 10.45-11.30 Vintage Duo home have been turned into poems, 11.30-12.00 Synergy songs and stories written by Bec 12.00-13.00 Garker St Band Applebee, Emily Faulkner and Ben 13.30-14.15 David Hayes, classical guitarist Sutcliffe (People String Foundation). 14.30-15.15 Barry’s Shed, ukulele band The performance is inspired by the wonderful photographs, stories and tributes from residents and regular visitors to Wheal Martyn. During lock down the wild and beautiful landscape of Cornwall has been a haven to us The china clay of St Austell is an amazing material for artists. WHITEGOLD ART TRAIL On this walk around the town centre discover inspiring public art projects made from china clay and about the people, culture and landscape of St Austell.

1 Living Wall 2 Street Art - Flowers 3 Age of Aquarius 4 Clay Planet 5 As Above, So Below 6 China Cafe 7 Cornish Honey Bee 8 Street Art - Kingfisher 9 Seed Bank 10 Ceramic Signs 11 Ceramic Planters Walk with Me 12 White River Benches WALKS & FIELD TRIPS

FORAGING WALKS ON PAR BEACH BRICKFIELD FIELD TRIP SX0753 @ PAR HARBOUR 20TH JUNE AND 4TH JULY 10AM 25TH JUNE 2021 24TH JULY 2021 (TBC) Par Beach Booking required Booking required Booking required Join members of the Brickfield Team Join Robin Sullivan on a field trip focused ripple effects of the china clay industry Join Emma Gunn, author of the for a walk that will circumnavigate the on the accidental introduction of 628 on the landscape and local ecologies. foraging series Never Mind the 200ft deep lake at Imerys’ Blackpool non-native flowering plants and ferns To express interest in joining Burdocks on a hunt for wild food! Pit and take in Watch Hill, one of during the china clay industries history. this walk, contact Robin: After meeting the group in the car the highest points in Clay Country Learn how Par Harbour and its [email protected] park at Par Beach, Emma will take you where you can see West to St Agnes unassuming local plants are actually on a foraging ramble where you will Beacon, Goonhilly and . directly linked to Liverpool and the rest taste plants in their raw state and enjoy Places are limited, please book of the world via Liverpool’s connection the beautiful views across St Austell in advance via Eventbrite. to the East India Trading Company. The Bay. Sharing recipe ideas along the reason SX0753, Par, is in fact the most way as you traverse along the dunes, biodiverse 1km in the whole of Cornwall. the walk is about a mile or so with gentle terrain. It will be slow paced to This will be a casual walking field trip allow discussion of specific plants. around Par, the woods, docks and river bed. Exploring with Robin and local Emma always practices sustainable botanists, we will be guided through the foraging and weaves this into her walks to landscape looking at the less well known encourage awareness of the environment, leaving plenty behind and never over- harvesting and never uprooting. The aim is to give everyone a unique insight into new plants, new flavours, new experiences and to gain confidence in the delicious art of foraging! These walks are free and open to all but with limited numbers available. HOLY TRINITY TOWN WALK Please book in advance 26TH JUNE 10:30AM austellproject.eventbrite.co.uk Meet at Holy Trinity Church grounds No booking necessary Heart of Cornwall Health Walks is a walk scheme based in the St Austell Area. The walks are coordinated by St Austell Healthcare who work with local community and voluntary groups to set up new walks. They are passionate about helping people get and keep active. The walk from St Austell’s Holy Trinity Church is around 1 hour long along the and does involve some inclines. There is no need to pre-register, just turn up at the starting point fifteen minutes before the start time and introduce yourself to the walk leader. No special equipment needed - just wear sturdy, comfortable footwear. GREEN & WHITEGOLD STALLS

BILL JONES (1) A CORNISH BANQUET (19) EDEN PROJECT (15) HELIGAN (6) 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 12 NOON 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM & 2 – 4PM Aylmer Square, Fore Street, St Austell town centre Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre St Austell town centre Fore Street, St Austell town centre We are really excited to give you a Explore a selection of the finest From Rock Cottage Pottery Bill throws Community artist and Whitegold sneak peak of what is happening at handpicked pollinator friendly plants earthenware pots in the traditional way International Ceramic Prize winner 2020 the Eden Project this season. It will from the Heligan Plant Centre. You’re also on the wheel and decorates them with Francesca Anfossi of Rochester Square be a summer of vibrant celebration: invited to enter a prize draw to be in with coloured slips and oxides under lead- London, has worked together with incorporating people, plants and the chance of winning a £100 voucher to free glazes. Bill throws large garden pots Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change to performance with the spirt of a carnival. spend in the Heligan Plant Centre to turn which he will demonstrate during the day. create ‘A Cornish Banquet’. Participants Visit us on our stand to find out more. your garden into a haven for pollinators. have engaged with Francesca online to share recipes, images of food and create brightly coloured ceramic plates. On EDIBLE ST AUSTELL (17) Festival day she’ll be sharing information 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM about the project in Fore Street. The Fore Street, St Austell town centre info stand will be close during lunch, Edible St Austell is a local group using when the project participants will come community spaces and sharing skills together for a picnic eating homemade to grow healthy and delicious food for pasties off their plates and sitting on all residents to share and enjoy. They’ll bespoke picnic rugs made by Francesca. be bringing edible plants with them to dress their pitch as a ‘garden’, and will be sharing their new Tree Trail & CORNWALL COLLEGE Community Garden leaflet as well as ST AUSTELL (8) interactive activities. Edible St Austell 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM has been working over the past year with Whitegold International Ceramics Chandos Place, St Austell town centre Prize 2020 winners Portland Inn Project At Cornwall College St Austell our and Clayground Collective. Find out specialist courses will give you the more from community members. right environment to explore, discover and progress, offering one of the widest ranges of vocational FRIENDS OF MENACUDDLE KAREN NEEDHAM (5) courses from Acting to Visual Art WELL (7) 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM BLEUJYOWA (13) to Catering and Construction. 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre Chandos Place, St Austell town centre White and black stoneware clay pottery, Fore Street, St Austell town centre DEMELZA WHITLEY (2) Friends of Menacuddle Well is a surface decoration along with lava glazes Quality home grown plants in small 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM community group set up to preserve and standard glaze application. Depicting quantities propagated in our own and protect the Holy Well which lies our Cornish coastline and landscapes. Carlyon Bay garden. We focus on Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre just to the north of St Austell. more unusual plants and grow many Demelza works in a Cornish stoneware, southern hemisphere plants including a quarried locally at St Agnes. She number originating from South Africa. then process this clay into paperclay, which is great for handbuilding and copes well with the stresses of Raku firing. Her work is influenced by folk stories, myths and her everyday life. LUCY JOINES (3) NATIONAL WILDFLOWER CENTRE ST AUSTELL TOWN HERITAGE WHEAL MARTYN CLAY WORKS (16) 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM AT THE EDEN PROJECT (10) INITIATIVE (12) 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre Fore Street, St Austell town centre Wheel-thrown ceramics made on the Chandos Place, St Austell town centre Fore Street, St Austell town centre Discover more about the lives of those North Coast of Cornwall. I use local The National Wildflower Centre at the Hear about plans towards the restoration who live and worked in the shadows of stoneware clay and a porcelain clay Eden Project is establishing creative of traditional facades including the the famous ‘White Pyramids’ at the UK’s to make everything from earrings to conservation projects in urban and decorative ceramic detailing on historic only museum deducted to the heritage stoneware teapots and vases, decorated rural areas across the country and buildings, shop fronts and signage in St of china clay. with inspiration taken from the beauty using wildflowers as a conduit for new Austell. Learn more about the launch of and magic of the natural world around cultural ecology projects. The NWC’s the Discover St Austell Heritage Trail app, me. I finish off all my pieces with a touch conservation work also connects with unlocking the secrets of St Austell’s past. of gold lustre sparkle. rare plant conservation in the South West of England, and ‘flowerhouse energies’ through projects and seed production TRILLIUM HOUSE PLANTS (9)­ North and South. 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM We will be displaying images of the Chandos Place work we do, giving away seed packets, Trillium House Plants is a small local recruiting volunteers, answering business, dedicated to growing and questions about wildflowers and supplying a wonderful assortment of generally talking about ways people can plants to customers and providing them get involved with us. the best plant care advice. This business was created by Emma Gunn, after 22 years at the Eden Project. Emma is also an expert forager, garden designer and all round plantswoman.

LUCY OWEN (4) 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM Aylmer Square, St Austell town centre I’m a ceramicist from St Austell and have STUDIO HOTMESS (18) found working with clay as a form of 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM therapy for my chronic health condition. I mostly hand build and I’m inspired by Fore Street nature. I love to explore different textures Edible Hinterlands is an ongoing project in clay using plants and fabrics. with Studio HOTmess, a collaboration between two designers based in London. For the Green and Whitegold Festival SARAH SULLIVAN (14) 2021 they will be exhibiting their work- 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM in-progress designing a tiled façade for Café Tengo. It draws on the historic Fore Street, St Austell town centre tiling practices, landscapes and colours Calm, meditative sculpture based on on of the china clay region, making them the theme of ‘serenity’ and sea swimming contemporary by developing tiles that particularly and beautifully tactile carved are hollowed out in order to support functional pots, perfect for a posy of plant life. flowers. SPIN OUT, SPIN IN

We are able to offer a wealth of co-curated THE MARKET HOUSE: CRAFT FAIR MAKING SPACE FOR NATURE activities taking place across St Austell Bay in & LIVE MUSIC 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM partnership with our local friends and colleagues. Cemetery Park, St Austell The Market House, St Promoting green volunteering, Making Austell town centre Space for Nature hopes to sign a few The Market House will be hosting local residents up to garden alongside a craft fair with live music and our new Urban Ranger and the Cormac BRICKFIELD AT GREEN AND KURT JACKSON’S CLAY COUNTRY singing and is home to a number of team in the coming months. Find WHITEGOLD EXHIBITION public art displays especially for the them at the western entrance (town 25TH, 26TH JUNE UNTIL 5TH SEPTEMBER Green and Whitegold Festival. end) of the park, with a free treasure 10AM – 5PM Blackpool Pit, Trewoon hunt, wildlife friendly gardening chat Stalls include: For this year’s Green and Whitegold Wheal Martyn Clayworks and a pollinator flowers giveaway. Rainbow Bridge Glass Festival the Brickfield community Access to the exhibition is free, as part of Seaglass Crafts brickworks will be opening its site at the normal museum admission fee Resin jewellery and decorations Blackpool Pit to the general public, Prebooking is required. Photos and frames running drop-in brickmaking workshops, Wheal Martyn Clayworks are delighted to Peacock Blue Arts and Crafts and Plants firing their mini beehive kiln and present an exhibition by contemporary Handmade lampshades taking participants on a walking tour artist Kurt Jackson, influenced by his time Home/garden décor – Made by Muver of Blackpool Lake and up Watch Hill, at Littlejohns China Clay Works. A gin bar and sales one of the highest points in Cornwall. Fused glass workshop with Come along and meet the team, make a Kurt’s work is fuelled by a long standing Claire Harris Fused Glass brick, have a look at the prototype brick interest in Cornwall’s extractive industry structures built by Falmouth University and its role in shaping the physical MA.Architecture students and see the landscape, culture and heritage of the HOLY TRINITY CHURCH kiln firing. county. Kurt worked in situ, observing 26TH JUNE 10AM – 4PM the workers in the pit as they extracted and transported the china clay in an Holy Trinity Church is looking forward to Directions to the Brickfield Site, Imerys extraordinary manmade landscape. The opening up the back of the church for Blackpool Pit nr Trewoon, St Austell. exhibition includes new mixed media people to come and see the exhibition The Brickfield site is just off the A3058 paintings, from huge tarpaulin-sized of Paul Jackson’s 3 Fonts and to view between Trewoon and Lanjeth at Imerys’ canvases to small intimate studies. The progress in the reconfiguring of flexible old Blackpool Pit. PL26 7TG will get you subject matter ranges from the ‘washing’ seating for the church. You’ll also be able in the right vicinity. Turn off the A3058 of the clay with high pressure monitors, to view a presentation about all aspects when you see the big brown Brickfield to the blasting of the rock and breaking of our church life in the town, including signs at the main entrance to the pit. and transportation. information about the renovation of the Drive up the road a few hundred metres Trinity Centre as a new community venue. and just before the right hand bend, turn left through the metal gates. Continue along the track until you see another gate and cars on your left. Enter the site through this gate, park in this upper area and walk down to the main site from there. AND EVERYTHING AND THANKS NOTHING HAS CHANGED We would like to thank all the A five-month Public Arts & Heritage community groups, individual Programme in the heart of the volunteers and artists who have China Clay Country by queer Artist participated in and supported and Producer Robin Sullivan. our work over the past year, and at the Festival, all of this The programme consists of public is by you and for you. field trips, talks, workshops, collaborative performances, temporary The Austell Project is funded by Installations and ceramic firings in the Coastal Communities Fund. collaboration with archaeologists, The Festival, Green & Whitegold botanists, museums, arts festivals, and projects have been supported by importantly, the local community. - St Austell BID - White River Place At its core this work is about bringing - Wheal Martin Clay Works people to together to unite, share and - Cornwall College celebrate. It’s about landscapes, and how - St Austell Print Company we as communities shape them and in - The Eden Project return are shaped by them. Taking the - St Austell Brewery china clay landscapes, and its 6000- - St Austell Town Council year history of occupation as a starting - point to go on a journey of discovery. - Imerys - Eco-Bos Still to come in July and August: - Nationwide Print – Building A Stand Stone workshops - APS Construction. – A 72 Hour wood firing of Robin’s - The National Lottery through the new 4.5meter high wood fired kiln Heritage Fund & Arts Council England – The Big Reveal! A performative firing event on 27th August where the giant kiln will be opened mid firing to expose the standing stone…on fire... yes you read that right... robinjamessullivan.com Find out more at staustell.co.uk @austellproject