10.30am-4pm
A range of work by this enthusiastic local amateur artist, of various subjects and media. In aid of Cancer Research.
Jubilee Celebrations
The Launch Party
Friday 18th May in the Church Hall 7pm.
Hosted by the Steering Group and the Trengilly Singers
Come along for a glass of wine some nibbles
& listen to one of our amazing choirs.
Your first opportunity to buy the Constantine Jubilee CD
Featuring ‘6 village choirs , the Church Bells and our Band’
CD’s £6.00 each or 2 for £10, great value over 50 mins long.
Also available programmes at £1.00 each and a Raffle.
FREE ENTRY – All welcome so please come along
The Times
Tickets £9, £8, Children £4
Sunday May 27th 2012 from 1:00pm to 6:00pm
One Ticket for all the Gardens with just a donation of £5.00 per adult - Children Free
A wonderful variety of twelve very different gardens for you to enjoy from the mature to the very new.
Tickets are available at each participating garden. 
Brochures, with the gardens map, will be available, prior to the date, in the Spar Shop, Constantine Stores and, on the day, outside the Tolmen Centre, and at each garden.
The Constantine Garden Society will have a plant stall at Polly’s House, 2 Clinton Road.
Cornish Cream Teas will be served at Nancenoy Farm from 2:00pm t0 6:00pm @ £3.50 pp
All donations will assist the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations, and any surplus will go into the Constantine Diamond Jubilee Fund, administered by the Constantine Parish Council, which will help future projects in the village.
All gardens are entered at visitors’ own risk. The owners and organisers can accept no liability for any loss or injury.’
Another Oscar winner – a brilliant movie from writer/director Asghar Farhadi, about a marriage caught up in the fault lines of contemporary Iran. “Lively and suspenseful. . . .” – Time Out.
Four very different artists, living in and around the beautiful Helford creek village of Constantine, are opening their studios as part of the Open Studios Cornwall 2012, which runs from Saturday 2nd June to Sunday 10th June.
Kathy Atkins will have her delightfully light and fresh mixed media paintings, together with her drawings, there being both framed and unframed available.
George Willoughby’s work although produced mainly in oils now takes in some exciting exploration into watercolours and printmaking – these skills he combines with his love of the local landscape.
Lin Williams will have alongside her pastel traditional landscape and seascapes a new venture into oil and mixed media – hoping to trap the light and atmosphere with a new medium.
Marian Saunders – ‘the other one’ will be showing her stunningly vibrant and colourful jewellery, together with embellished textile and knitted accessories, cards and mixed media panels.
Each of the artists will be very pleased to welcome you – every studio will be bursting with art to suit all tastes and budgets. Just look for the big ‘O’ signs on the roads into Constantine. We have produced a trail map (available at each location), showing how to get around between the studios by road or on footpaths through the woods. Beautiful art, a woodland walk and maybe a delicious lunch – what’s not to like?
If you would like more information just ring 01326 341440 or 07989 898173
Saturday 2nd June to Monday 4th June
An exhibition in the hall of artefacts that were part of your life, or your family’s life, in 1952/3.
Photographs, books, small items all welcome.
Please give items to Margaret (340214), Gillian (340600) or bring to the hall on Friday 1st June 11am to 4pm.
You in 2002
The video of the Golden Jubilee celebrations in Port Navas will be screened in the hall during this exhibition.
Tea and Coffee will be available
Constantine Parish Celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee
From Fri. 18th May t0 Tues. 5th June 2012
Starting with a Launch party, followed by Open Gardens Day and culminating in a long weekend of celebratory events for the whole Parish to take part in and remember .
Programme £1 .00
Tentative plans have been made to hold a picnic in Port Navas. Please come to the AGM on 14th March to give your support.
An Anglo-New Zealand collaboration, starring Peter OʼToole and Judy Parfitt, in what the Guardian describes as a “delightful, oddly moving film, immaculately acted and nicely located in its period”. “Faintly bonkers” says Empire Magazine. Mmm – how to sum it up? A very satisfying fantasy comedy drama, perhaps – but come and see for yourself.
Annual Strawberries and Wine fundraiser
All Welcome
‘Endless Journey’ brings together four musicians from two of Niger’s leading internationally known music groups, Mamane Barka and Etran Finatawa. Their swirling strings, driving rhythms and haunting vocals evoke the vast open spaces of the desert and the very soul of nomadic life.
Tickets £10, £8, Children £4
PORT NAVAS VILLAGE HALL
Laura Knight – In the Open Air
Dame Laura Knight (1877 – 1970) was a great celebrity in her time and her work is loved as much today as it was at the height of her fame. From her earliest days she wanted to paint in the open air, and this work began at Staithes, on the Yorkshire coast, and developed at Laren in Holland. It came to the fore when she arrived in Cornwall with her husband, Harold, in 1907 and embraced the county’s wonderful light, its seas and rocky coast. This exhibition includes outdoor paintings executed throughout her long and distinguished career, including depictions of Romany life, the spectacular panoramas below the Malvern Hills and the devastated townscape that forms the backdrop of her famous depiction of the Nuremberg war trials.
An outing is being arranged to visit Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance to see the ‘Laura Knight Exhibition’ on
Wednesday 4 July 2012.
We will be traveling by mini bus to Penzance leaving Port Navas at 9.30. At the gallery we will be given a brief introduction to the exhibition, There will also be an opportunity to see a selection of the work of the Newlyn School and The Museum’s archeological collection. Lunch and drinks will be available at the licensed café overlooking the attractive park.
The cost will be about £15 per head, depending on whether we can fill the bus. This will include the entrance fee. Places are limited; we can only take 16, so please book soon . To make your booking and if you need any more information please contact
Patricia Cross, Treviades Wollas, High Cross, Constantine TR11 5RG
01326 340123 email tom.cross1@btinternet.com
Black and white and silent, The Artist has taken audiences by unexpected storm – and won best picture at the Oscars. An homage to 1920ʼs Hollywood, the movie describes an actorʼs struggle to come to terms with the dawn of the talkies. Written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo.
10.00am – 12 noon
Our usual friendly gathering with goodies for sale. Organised by Sally Thomas and Helen Collins. Coffee, raffle and chatter.
Peter Knight’s Gigspanner has been hailed by Songlines magazine as “another milestone in folk’s rebirth of cool moment”, but those in the know will tell you that there is far more to Gigspanner than meets the eye.
A Bedrock of British traditional music is to be expected from Steeleye Span’s legendary fiddle player, but Gigspanner’s musical reach probes into Eastern European, French, African and even Aboriginal influences. It is no surprise that author Terry Pratchett wrote that “Peter Knight can spin the world on his Bow”. It is music played with a potency and love that leaves audiences spellbound.
Peter is joined by Roger Flack on Guitar, and Vincent Salzfaas on Congas and Djembe, both intelligent and powerful musicians in their own right. Together they promise “a blistering pace of a flamboyant musical world tour” (Lancashire Evening Post).
Gigspanner’s Debut Album ‘Lipreading the Poet’ was named as one of the best 15 Global Albums of 2009. But leave any pre-conceived ideas at the door, and ditch the pigeonholes. If you have a taste for “music of intelligently crafted brilliance” (Songlines magazine) there is something here to nurture your soul.
Tickets £10
Music samples can be heard at: www.reverbnation.com/peterknightsgigspanner
Further Information at: www.gigspanner.com
10.30am-5pm
(open late on Regatta Day)
Classical, life, marine and wildlife studies in pencil.
Our annual barbecue is later this year, but the same excellent food, expertly barbecued, will still be on offer. No booking necessary, just turn up. £6 per head.
A day’s walk with the option of cutting it short for those who want to. Bring a picnic, good walking boots and waterproofs (just in case). We’ll need to arrange our own transport. Meet at 10.30am in the car park at the end of Roughtor Road coming from Camelford.
Phone George on (340445) or Clare on (340336) to book a place(s).
Mondays, starting 10th September
2pm-4pm
This new group will meet to knit, natter, sew, share skills, drink tea (or coffee), make things, eat biscuits….apparently it’s happening in all the best places. Everyone is welcome, so do come along to this very informal gathering.