PORTHLEVEN CREATIVE ARTS COMMUNITY

January 2020

THE CREATIVE ARTS IN PORTHLEVEN

Porthleven is now an attractive village with considerable charm and a vibrant economy but, if Porthleven is to raise its profile as the Cornish village which encourages and excels in creativity in the arts, then a holistic approach to the arts will be necessary.

An impetus for this will be the promotion of the Porthleven Creative Arts Community (PCAC), members of which will share the following objectives:

1. Encourage creative art in all its forms in the Village and surrounding areas.

2. Establish Porthleven’s reputation as an innovative village renowned for creativity and its varied high-quality arts activities which make a significant contribution to the County of Cornwall.

3. Encourage arts-related projects which will increase opportunities for artists working in its various disciplines including the use of creative technologies, photography, performance arts, sculpture, painting and poetry - fully exploring the potential of a multi-disciplinary approach.

4. Encourage artists to live, work, create and develop businesses in Porthleven.

5. Increase the profile of individual artists connected with Porthleven.

6. Encourage the links of conventional expressions of art and advancing digital technologies in a spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation.

7. Provide opportunities for artists to engage and to sell work to both visitors and residents of Porthleven.

8. Encourage educational projects which will contribute to the objectives of the PCAC including the artistic use of digital technologies to create businesses, local prosperity and employment.

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9. Encourage, wherever possible, the use of all available venues to accommodate performance and activities within the Village and in support of its local economy.

10. Promote conditions to enhance employment in Porthleven by creating suitable floor space environments which will encourage creative start- up initiatives and the development of innovative market solutions.

11. Support the creation of space for year-round public performance.

12. Create a performance amphitheatre with audience capacity for 400/500 in which summertime events alongside existing established village festivals and activities

13. Establish a new “Emerging Talent Festival” in conjunction with Falmouth and Bath Spa Universities to showcase specifically created productions over July and August each year.

14. Work towards the creation of a new annual Porthleven Arts Festival to take place in September to respect the timing of other events and particularly the established annual Food and Music Festival. It may prove possible for such a Festival to run for two consecutive weeks immediately following the Emerging Talent Festival once both become firmly established.

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Creative Arts Projects

A number of projects which reflect the arts community objective are currently envisaged. The PCAC will be invited to support these and its members may wish to contribute in such ways as may be open to them. The following are examples of these projects:

1. The Innovation Building

1.1 After months of negotiation, the planning application to build this important building was approved. The design now takes into account views advanced by Porthleven residents and business interests. The design will add to the eclectic character of the Village where harbourside buildings individually contribute to variety in scale, use, and appearance. With the exception of Bay View Terrace, every building is different.

1.2 The building itself will be an artistic contribution to the built heritage of Porthleven, will provide a casual, light dining venue with a part-covered terrace, an improved bus shelter, new public toilets and, on the upper floors, flexible floor space offering a creative and versatile environment in which advanced and advancing digital technology will stimulate and incentivise creativity to encourage today’s emerging entrepreneurs to establish profitable and artistically-influenced businesses creating employment and support for the local economy. This philosophy recognises current entrepreneurship which connects art and design with internet computer technology to develop business applications and digital projects. The accessible rooftop terrace offers a venue for casual events and summer dining.

1.3 The architect for the project is Duncan Isherwood of Sunderland Peacock and Associates Ltd.

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2. The Band Room Public Performance Project

2.1 The Porthleven Town Band makes an important contribution to the life and culture of the Village and the Porthleven Harbour & Dock Company (PHD) has been pleased to support the Band for 40 years. It is disappointing that the Town Council has not been able to help the Band to achieve its ambition to build a Band Room but a solution has now emerged which will not only meet the Band’s requirements but will benefit other public performance objectives.

2.2 The Metalworks, currently housed in the Shipyard, has agreed to be relocated on the Tolponds site which is being developed by the Porthleven Harbour & Dock Company.

2.3 The architect who successfully designed the much-admired and popular cinema in Newlyn, has proposed plans to re-purpose and re-clad the soon to be vacant building and to provide a larger Band Room than previously contemplated with a seated audience capacity of over 200. This will be the home of the Band and also a venue for other music, dance, theatre performance together with cinema screen projection, all provided with appropriate support space and back-of-house facilities. The financial structure for this challenging and worthwhile project will embrace a long-term partnership between the Band, PHD and other users. The facility will broaden opportunities for local artists and performers and provide public enjoyment of the performing arts. The brief for the project includes the following:

(a) a stage with screen backcloth for cinema projection;

(b) a recording studio and small practice rooms for individual musicians;

(c) additional space to allow other cultural and community activities to benefit by shared use of rooms;

(d) wall space with state of the art hanging facilities to permit easy changing of exhibitions of specific artists’ work in the public areas;

(e) a building of an architectural and acoustic standard to attract performances by other Cornish musicians;

(f) the already strong reputation of the Band will be enhanced, encouraging more Porthleven people to engage and for young people to learn and understand the world and art of musical and theatrical performance; The Proposed Performance Venue housed within the refurbished and extended Metalworks 4 building in the Shipyard

(g) the enlarged Band with its bigger reputation will add to the perception of Porthleven as the “Band Music Village of the South West”, having the Band linked to others and for other musicians to use the new facilities, not only for teaching and practice, but with the vital opportunity for public performance. Music will be central to the arts in Porthleven - essential to links with IMS Prussia Cove and the renowned Music Schools of Falmouth and Bath Spa Universities as well as the Hall for Cornwall and other magnets. Encouragement for teaching, composing and practice will be inherent in the concept; and

(h) the opportunity on special occasions to screen performances onto an external screen will be possible.

3. Public Performance Amphitheatre

3.1 It had been hoped that an opportunity might exist for an amphitheatre to be created from the disused Quarry between the Wresting Fields and Beacon Crag Hotel but, without the cooperation of the Coode Estate, it is unlikely to be available. As an alternative, consideration is being given to alternative sites including the disused quarry area at Highburrow car park. If it is pursued with grant aid, the project would provide Porthleven with a smaller version of the Minnack Theatre encouraging strong links with music schools and the performing arts to the further benefit of the local economy as well as local community arts. At this stage, it appears probable that 400/500 seats with views of a performance stage against the panoramic backcloth of Mount’s Bay could be achieved. The amphitheatre would be able to stage an “Emerging Talent Festival” annually in July and August each year.

3.2 Already the Village has strong links with Bath Spa University. For five years, Porthleven has welcomed students on a two-week residency supported by the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust. Valuable experience is gained by those who are selected and the Bath Spa Porthleven Prize is now a highly-regarded opportunity to work collaboratively across the disciplines of the arts. The University relates well to Falmouth University, which is also a Liberal Arts University, making significant advances in creative technology linked to conventional and contemporary art practice. Preliminary discussions suggest that the two Universities might work in a spirit of partnership with the PCAC. An enterprising element could be collaboration across the disciplines of the arts allowing groups to be formed within each University or jointly to create, in the third year of study, a “production for public performance” to be performed in a Porthleven amphitheatre before a paying audience. As a suggestion, and weather permitting, each such production would be staged twice with a matinee and evening performance over four or five agreed days in July/August by the team responsible for its creation. A full programme over the two months would require eight or nine productions to create the “Porthleven Emerging Talent Festival”. The potential for this enterprise to attract a TV series “The Emerging Talent Show” to broadcast all eight or nine productions over eight or nine weeks’ viewing with the audience able to vote for example:

Best Production / Best Scenery / Best Dancer / Best Singer / Best Actor / Best Wardrobe / Best Music / Best Plot / Best Opera

3.3 The PCAC, together with other parties, will work to develop this theme to bring about such an important addition to the collective arts repertoire of the Village.

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4. The Shipyard Opportunity

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4.1 Innovation Studio

Planning approval has been granted for the building of the Innovation Studio - the primary aim of which is to provide co-working space for innovative start-up businesses - a place where a desk space in a stimulating environment can be occupied by an individual requiring space and business support facilities where innovation and creativity is encouraged. The project is now in detailed design stage prior to the appointment of a contractor. The design will be such that proposals from local artists and makers, which characterise the aim of the project to stimulate and excite those who will work creatively in the spaces to be provided, will be incorporated.

Proposals from local artists and makers for art/design aspects which characterise the aim of the project will be welcomed.

4.2 Public Performance Venue

The industrial sheds in the Shipyard will be vacated when the businesses in them move to more suitable space on the Tolponds site. The available building, which Metalworks currently occupies, will be refashioned and repurposed to provide a building equipped for public performance. The architects, Burrell Foley Fischer, who so successfully created the Newlyn Cinema, have produced plans which show how a seated audience capacity of over 200 could be provided together with stage facilities and back-of-house floorspace. With extension to provide practice rooms, storage, a recording studio and other facilities, the building will provide ideal accommodation to house the Band. The Band plays an important role in Porthleven with young people and the more mature and its location in the Shipyard is ideal for the existing building to be reconfigured for this purpose. It is intended that the Band, already a Trust with charitable status, will partner PHD and the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust to create a building which will be available for use, not only by the Band, but also for the screening of films, drama, dance and music of all descriptions. Such a facility together with the Amphitheatre (paragraph 3) will enable the Porthleven music scene to increase considerably and, in addition, will offer opportunity to develop a programme of cinema showings, classical as well as popular music, drama and other linked performances. Ariel View of the Proposed Shipyard Site

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4.3 Medical Centre - In addition to the re-purposing of the Metalworks, it is proposed to develop a new medical centre to better accommodate the doctors’ surgery. The present surgery, which provides accommodation for three doctors, nurses and support staff in Porthleven, does not provide suitable accommodation and should be relocated such that there is easy-level access for our elderly and disabled to a site easily approached by ambulance. An ideal location is on the rear part of the Shipyard in a building which will overlook the newly-created public spaces to the south as well as views over Gala Parc (the Moor) to the north. The opportunity to build in that location will also provide four flats on two upper floors which should ensure that the centre including the medicines it will house will not attract unauthorised entry.

4.4 Lobster Hatchery

A building to provide a Porthleven version of the Lobster Hatchery in Padstow is included in the plan. This venture will provide marine ecology education and will enhance the lobster catch on the South Coast, attracting visitors as well as providing facilities for the children of Porthleven and other schools. The North Cornish Coast and Padstow have seen strong benefits from the Lobster Hatchery located there. The Hatchery, a Charitable Trust, is not only a visitor attraction – it is a source of education. The establishment of a Porthleven version of the Hatchery will be beneficial, not only to children and adult visitors, but will also considerably increase the lobster catch in Mount’s Bay to the benefit of Porthleven and its fishermen. Its proposed siting at the front of the Shipyard on the Harbour Head will allow fresh sea water to be pumped in and out of the building to enable it to function. The design is complementary to the Innovation Studio completing with Celtic House the frontage of the Shipyard on the Harbour Head.

The public spaces between the buildings will provide opportunities for public use – perhaps street theatre on occasions and occasional licensed street entertainers.

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4.5 Car parking

The provision of the facilities which are described will still enable essential car parking both in the public areas to be created between the buildings and also, as is currently the case, on the net-drying grounds owned by PHD on the northern side of the stream, subject to the right of fishermen to dry nets there if when they may wish to do so.

5. Commercial Road/Art Inspired Mixed-Use Project

5.1 With the exception of the Bickford-Smith Institute, this is the most prominent site in the Village and its development will be the final stage of the programme. For this reason, the building to replace the dilapidated single-storey shops must be of the highest architectural standard, symbolising the new confidence and stability of Porthleven.

5.2 The built floor space will create new shops of modest size to accommodate local independent traders as well as two local art galleries which will be displaced by the development. A colonnade is designed to give shelter on days when the weather is inclement. Public access to the covered public space will be designed to accommodate the Village noticeboard together with a calendar of creative art events to give entrance to a Market Hall with a variety of local traders with the emphasis on Cornish produce.

5.3 The upper levels above the covered public entrance space will have public spaces to display local permanent art, executed in varied media, chosen competitively with encouragement of local artists to submit proposals. At roof-level above a spire, a prize-winning bronze sculpture of a Cornish Chough in flight will grace the created skyline to symbolise the re-emergence of a depleted species suggesting a consonance with the regeneration of Porthleven.

5.4 Graphics associated with the development will be of local design implemented by local artists.

5.5 Creative technology reflecting the 21st century will be commissioned to provide app-operated information such as time, tide and weather etc.

5.6 The project will also provide Art Loft Studios to accommodate a number of artists who will be encouraged to invite visitors to view work in process (project 6), an archive centre and residential flats. At the rear of what is presently an uncontrolled parking area, a new

9 Site on the corner of Commercial Road and Shute Lane

courtyard will create an opportunity for sculpture to be displayed and for a media screen to continually advertise galleries as well as the work of local artists and creative art businesses.

5.7 The much-admired architect, Richard Reid, has been commissioned for the project, the concept of which has already received encouragement from the Cornwall Design Review Panel. Discussion has begun with Planning Officers at Cornwall Council. 6. The Arts Hotel

6.1 The project, for which planning consent has been granted, will feature:

(a) the restoration of the Fish Warehouse (listed Grade II) described as:

“Warehouse 1814. Painted rubble walls with segmental arches and projecting keyblocks; half-hipped concrete tile roof. rectangular plan, built into bank at rear. 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay front. Central loading doors over doorway with pairs of ledged doors; 2nd-floor openings with 8-pane 2-light casements over old 6-pane windows over C20 windows. Right-hand return has loading doorways to upper floors and attic approached by flight of granite steps from the front.”

(b) the listed Grade II Lime Kiln, built in 1814 for Archibald Blair, ceased use in 1920 and described as:

“Lime-washed rubble. Semicircular-on-plan built against a retaining wall of loading platform. Small doorway into right-hand side.”

6.2 The Warehouse will remain relatively unchanged in its external appearance but will provide an entrance to the Hotel with public rooms on the ground floor and bedrooms accessed from galleries on two upper floors.

6.3 A new building will connect the Warehouse to the restored and adapted Lime Kiln which will include in its restored semi-circular walls under a mono pitch lean-to roof, as once existed, a unique picture hanging space publicly entered from the Quayside.

6.4 Above - effectively at first floor level - the brick-lined kiln will become a wood-burning fire pit with seating around its circular perimeter walls, making an intimate external space to meet for discussion, live music, poetry readings, book clubs and local heritage talks.

6.5 The levelled and paved terrace extending from the Lime Kiln to the cliff face will provide an opportunity to display sculpture as well as an external space to sit in the open air to enjoy live music and a drink or to converse alongside the art. Artists will be selected annually in advance to create work to be exhibited within the building for an agreed monthly period before replacement with new works.

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6.6 The Hotel will contain only 17 rooms for guests. The corridor designed as a gallery linking the Fish Warehouse will run alongside the cliff face on the upper floors to the Lime Kiln terrace. Public areas will offer gallery/exhibition space for local artists to display recent work. Twelve artists will be chosen annually by a panel of respected experts and each artist, either individually or in collaboration with others, will be allocated a month of free hanging for a minimum of 60 pictures each, available for sale/purchase. The displays will be open to the general public as well as to guests and, by these means, contributing local artists will display at least 720 paintings for commission-free sale each year.

6.7 Each bedroom will be influenced and designed alongside a separate chosen artist to bring variety for returning guests.

6.8 The marketing of the Hotel will be aimed at artists and art collectors and will offer art experience and tuition holidays.

6.9 The acclaimed architects, Burrell Foley Fischer, have worked to a design brief to produce a design which has been locally admired which and been given planning consent.

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7. Studio Lofts for Artists

It is recognised that the Hotel Project will cause initial loss of studio space and PHD proposes to replace the lost floorspace by making artist studio space in the courtyard to be formed as part of the arts-inspired project at Commercial Road where extensive open floorspace loft at first floor level will make space overlooking the courtyard with good overhead daylight from rooflights allowing the rear wall to be without fenestration providing uninterrupted wall space to support large canvases.

8. The Former Lifeboat House Studio

8.1 Built in 1894, this building ceased its use as a boat house on 10 September 1929 after which followed many years of occasional use and vacancy.

8.2 In 2010, the building was stabilised, repaired and brought into use as an art studio. In 2014, the great storm wrecked the roof causing extensive damage, all of which has been repaired. In 2017, the renowned public art artist, Sketch, created a trompe l'oeil artwork which reflects the historic significance of the building and includes images of local people. The building, which has been gifted to the Osborne Charitable Trust by PHD, provides space for the exhibition of art works and for art/craft related education courses. In addition, the Studio hosts the students and academic support of Bath Spa University for an annual two-week residency. It is planned to continue this pattern of use and the re-branding of the facility to reflect the PCAC’s involvement in its promotion and use.

9. Bickford-Smith Institute

This Grade II listed iconic building is part of Porthleven’s national image. Developed by the Sir William Bickford-Smith Trust circa 1884 on land provided by the Porthleven Harbour & Dock Company, it is no longer a Literary and Scientific Institute and remains in near derelict condition. Its freehold ownership has transferred by devolution to the Porthleven Town Council which plans its repair and restoration under the direct and singular control of the Council. It is hoped that the arts might benefit alongside other community uses to be determined by the Council. The most recent proposal to create a cottage for holiday letting, a venue for weddings and space for the Town Council fall far short of the aspirations of the philanthropic gift of its 19th century donor. The Town Council is being reminded of earlier suggestions that an independent Charitable

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Trust on which some Town Councillors would be represented would be an appropriate means to pursue proposals which could attract grant support.

10. The Pill Box

10.1 On the Outer Harbour on Breageside, the concrete pill box built as part of the coastal wartime defence infrastructure stands as a reminder of that time. The adjoining small grass-covered level area hosts a memorial bench from which a fine view of Mount’s Bay can be enjoyed. An opportunity to use the pill box and adjoining land to create an art installation on the cliff has been put forward by a Bath Spa alumni artist who proposed the reuse of a salvaged timber baulk to create a seating arrangement which if considered against the potential repair and the lighting of the concrete pill box could be an attractive way of retaining an historic feature with the reminder of past conflict as part of an art project which could be intriguing and visually attractive. Participating members of the PCAC considered a detailed presentation of the proposals but, despite the innovative and thoughtful quality of the proposal, could not confirm that the presented design met the requirements of the brief. The site continues to offer a challenge to artists to find a means to express the site’s intrinsic history.

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Partnerships

It is intended to form contributing partnerships with arts-related organisations to create depth and expertise to the advancement of the Community. At this formative stage, the PCAC will continue discussions to define the role and potential involvement of such organisations as may be relevant to the ambitions and further development of the community.

The following prospective partners have been identified:

• Bath Spa University

The University is a Liberal Arts University. Its Arts & Design Faculty is held in high regard and has its roots in the South West as the Bath College of Art established in 1862. Today, its Art & Design School University numbers over 170 alumni students resident in or within a few miles of Porthleven.

For the past nine years, with the support of the Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust and PHD, it has developed and operated the “Bath Spa Porthleven Prize” which provides a two-week residency with exclusive use of the Lifeboat Studio for five students selected by competition from applicants across its various courses and disciplines. A Judging Panel receives presentations from which students are chosen. The selected students work together to produce work which responds to the unique character of the Village. The resultant work is exhibited in Porthleven and Bath and, until 2016, also in Oxford.

The Trevor Osborne Charitable Trust has confirmed its intention to continue support for this initiative and, since 2017, has agreed to the residency being increased to seven students each year.

The University provides courses in music and in all aspects of the performing arts. Its Chancellor is the world acclaimed actor, Jeremy Irons. The University has agreed to consider a possible partnership with Falmouth University to create a full programme of entertainment which could be performed by its students in the proposed Amphitheatre.

• Falmouth University

Already, Falmouth University has a constructive relationship with Bath Spa University. It has a renowned Art School with dynamic leadership, is expanding rapidly to create entrepreneurial businesses which link its entrepreneurial digital and computing courses with the established Art College to build commercial partnerships harnessing art and technology with substantial benefit to employment and Cornwall’s economy.

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Preliminary discussions have opened a door of opportunity for the two Universities to work together to support the PCAC in its various ambitions. • Other Potential Partners

It is important to the realisation of Porthleven’s aspirations for it to engage and enlist the support and involvement of other art organisations in close proximity including:

• International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove

The International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove was founded in 1972. It has become a renowned centre of musical idealism which continues to grow its international reputation. For three weeks in each September, over 100 musicians come together to explore and play chamber music of the highest standard. The music is toured following the seminar (www.i-m-s.org.uk). It is hoped that Porthleven could host concerts annually as a venue close to Prussia Cove. PCAC will discuss ways in which links can be established.

• Tate St Ives

Tate is an exemplar non-departmental public body and an exempt charity. Its mission is to increase the public’s enjoyment and understanding of British art from the 16th century to the present day and of international modern and contemporary art

• The Fishermen’s Mission

The objective of the Mission is to support and assist fishermen and their families at times of distress and difficulty. In raising money for its objective, the Mission recognised the power of art by cutting timber baulks fractured in the great storm of 2014 and enlisted over 50 artists to produce art to recall and preserve the historic memory of the event and by creative experience to create significant works exhibited first in the Lifeboat Studio and then sold by auction in the Atlantic Inn. The proceeds of circa £50,000 will enable the Mission to continue its work. Thus, a charity and those it supports will benefit from the generosity of artists – an example of art working to benefit the Community.

• CAST Helston

This commendable hub for the arts in Helston has developed over past years, establishing an enviable reputation for practice, education and innovative artistic expression which has involved many artists and supporters in projects of all descriptions and at all levels of expertise.

• Hall for Cornwall • Minack Theatre • Kneehigh Theatre

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• Arts Council England • Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership

PCAC will engage with these and others to develop strong ties with Porthleven.

Porthleven groups to be linked to the initiative may include:

• Porthleven Town Council • Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership • Cornwall Council Culture Group • Porthleven Community Interest Company • Since 2017, the Porthleven Food and Music Festival has provided increased music content including the Porthleven Town Band alongside which it was possible to stage a concert in the Methodist Church featuring the famous Porthlevener, Wagnerian tenor, John Treleaven, accompanied by Charles Wiffen, Dean of Music at Bath Spa University • Porthleven Arts Festival • Porthleven Town Band • Porthleven Lights Committee • Porthleven Branch of RNLI

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Festivals

Porthleven has a number of annual events which attracts visitors and which are beneficial to the Village. Inevitably, PHD provides sites and contributes financially. The most successful is the Food and Music Festival which has been in existence for only 12 years. Circa 30,000 people attended the Festival in 2016, more came in 2017 and, in 2018, attendance was circa 40,000. In the past, the music content has included popular music, jazz and drum bands.

In addition, the Osborne Charitable Trust has organised and financed a number of musical events including concerts involving:

• The Culdroses – Military Wives Choir • Classical Strings Quartet • Mount’s Bay Singers • Fisherman’s Choir – Cape Cornwall Singers • Eve Strasburger (soprano) and Charles Wiffen • Joyce Edwards and Ruth Best • Penzance Youth Orchestra • Heironymous Quartet (IMS Prussia Cove) • John Treleavan accompanied by Charles Wiffen • Bilegtugs Lut (Bill) classical violinist

The success of the Food and Music Festival suggests that the PCAC could succeed in growing an Arts Festival to be spread over two weeks. Such an ambitious proposal might be accomplished in a carefully planned partnership with the two Universities and perhaps with IMS Prussia Cove and others. If it is thought appropriate to include such a concept, the PCAC could plan a trial festival for one week in September 2021 using facilities and venues which already exist with a plan to increase the range of the festival progressively over future years. If the creation of the Amphitheatre is to be realised, our two University partners will be asked to consider the way in which course work in the academic year might be showcased by live performance to a paying audience over July and August being the busy hospitality months of the summer - the “Emerging Talent Festival” would take place immediately prior to or as part of the annual Porthleven Arts Festival. This suggestion has already met with encouragement.

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The Membership (Founding Members)

To give identity, shape and recognition to this ambitious endeavour, the enthusiasm and commitment of a large number of individual members who are artists or, in some way, supportive of the arts and the creative impact of its various forms is being drawn together.

Those who are already inclined committed to being part of the “Community” will be listed as the “Founding 100 Members” and, by association, will encourage others to join its growing numbers. It is not initially necessary to seek a subscription to join but it would be reasonable to foresee a time in the future when a modest annual donation might be offered by Members to contribute to events and evidence strength of commitment creating a shift in perception in Porthleven.

Once a cohort of Founding Members is in place, an organising committee can be assembled to develop the objectives of the PCAC and perhaps to secure the use of Village buildings which remain in need of grant support and investment which may prove to be forthcoming if the PCAC is seen to be delivering an agenda which is beneficial to the Village in a structured form compatible with the stated requirements and expectations of grant-aid bodies.

Membership Benefits

Beyond the personal pride of involvement, PCAC Members may be able to reap tangible benefit from declared support. Such possibilities may include:

- attendance at bi-annual events - previews at art events - priority ticket allocation to events - savings on ticket/entry prices - savings at galleries/performance tickets - regular updates of Porthleven progress

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