News 2011

London’s celebration of Cornish music and art Kernow In The City returns on 10th March

It’s all go here behind the scenes, putting together this year’s line-up – which we’ll be telling you about very soon.

We asked a few of our friends what they are enjoying reading at the moment and here are their replies…

Those long, lazy summer evenings may be slipping away, but fear not – we have some news to lift your spirits as winter approaches: the Port Eliot Festival 2012 dates and EarlyBird tickets are now out!

What was your highlight of the 2011 festival? Share your photos and short films with us and you could win a pair of tickets for next year’s festival…

Pictures from Martin Parr’s rolling exhibition, ‘The Pleasures of the Immediate’, at Port Eliot Festival 2011

Some events are for a limited number of people (but look out for repeats over the weekend). Please note that we’ve changed the system this year – THERE IS NO PRE-BOOKING

Tents are springing up in every corner of Port Eliot’s beautiful grounds. This time lapse video was taken a couple of days ago and shows the Big Top tent going up:

This trailer provides a taster of the films specially selected by Martin Scorsese to be shown in his Paradiso Cinema down by the St Germans estuary, starting THIS THURSDAY!

With the festival just around the corner, you’re probably starting to think about what to bring to Port Eliot. Vicki Sarge-Beamon has one piece of unusual advice: dig out your old jewellery, broken trinkets, beads, chains, brooches, bracelets, buttons and even broken china lying around your house and bring them along to her ‘Trash to Treasure’ masterclass in The Wardrobe Department on Sunday.