Great to see Max Whetter’s second year show in his degree course at Cornwall College, Pool, last month. Some very interesting takes on the famous self portrait by the 18th century Cornish artist John Opie at the Royal Cornwall Museum. Max won our competition for a new skateboard design in 2016. At the time he was working as a burger chef in Newquay.
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It was a blustery day but spirits were high at the Donald Thomas Centre, Camborne, where we staged part of our exhibition Playing For Camborne at Trevithick Day on Saturday. Trevithick Day is when the town celebrates its heritage – lots of fun and lots of people.Alison Pooley looked amazing in a World War One […]
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Trevithick Day (27 April 2019) in Camborne will have an extra layer of history this year as the town searches for the descendants of a group of miners from Dolcoath who joined up in 1914 and served throughout World War One. The descendants of some of these men still live locally and are keen to […]
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Local artist Pete Kirby created this ‘Fakir’ deck for our 2012 skateboard design competition WHATEVER IT TAKES. Here’s a web gallery of some of the other boards. Pete talking about his board: “Beyond the obvious comparisons with ‘fakie’, a simple skate manoeuvre and ‘f****r’, a sardonic term of affection, Fakir is a statement about the […]
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A great day yesterday (Tuesday 26 February 2019) at the Elders’ Club at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith. People brought in their traditional dishes and talked about the background to the recipes. So many were taught them by their mothers – from the Caribbean to Bangladesh and southern India. We’re hoping to put together a book […]
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It was lovely to be back in Estaires, northern France, last week (7 February 2019) – even briefly – and see our friends from the College du Sacre Coeur, the local history society and the Town Hall. We’ve been working with Estaires to mark the centenary of the end of World War One for nearly […]
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