2017 30th March – 17th April
Come and join us as we celebrate Falmouth in Springtime!
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Welcome to the seventh Falmouth BID funded Falmouth Spring Festival! We are delighted to be sponsoring the Falmouth Spring Festival again this year. It gives us the opportunity to celebrate the start of spring with the rest of the community, and for our students and staff to participate in the town’s activities, especially the spring clean, which always generates a crowd of willing volunteers. The University of Exeter is one of the world’s top 1% of universities and its two Cornwall campuses, in Penryn and Truro, play a key role in that success. We attract more than £16 million of research income into Cornwall every year and that helps to generate employment and a world focus on Cornwall as a centre for education and research. It also means the University of Exeter can invest in the local community, supporting individuals, schools, clubs and businesses.
This also gives us an excuse to remind you that, not only do we share the Penryn Campus with Falmouth University, we also share it with you. Come and walk in the beautiful grounds, filled with many horticultural delights, or call into one of our cafés for a drink and snack. The new sports centre and day nursery are open to all, as are our printing and copying facilities. You can book events and meeting rooms on campus and during the summer the halls of residence are available to let.
We’re delighted to have the University of Exeter sponsoring the event for the second year. Ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and regularly listed in the UK’s top 10, the University of Exeter have two campuses in Cornwall, one in Penryn, just outside Falmouth, and the other in Truro. Exeter bring a wealth of talent, creativity and imagination to the table and I look forward to working alongside them to deliver a colourful Spring Festival!
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So, whether you’re visiting Falmouth from another part of Cornwall or further afield, we hope you have a fantastic time, enjoy the Festival and return to this special part of the world in the near future. Have a good one!
The Falmouth Spring Festival offers a wonderful opportunity for us to continue giving back to the community that has been so supportive of us over the years. We look forward to hosting some fun events and joining together to celebrate all that Falmouth has to offer! To find out more about our activities in Cornwall and how to access the facilities here, visit www.exeter.ac.uk/cornwall
We’re planning a range of brilliant activities – a four-day Folk and Cider Fayre, Spring Clean Days, Paint the Town Yellow Day, Games & Fitness on The Moor, a load of guided walks and a host more besides!
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Festival Activities
Festival Activities Games & Fitness on The Moor
Paint The Town Yellow Day The town becomes ablaze with yellow in preparation for the Festival as local schoolchildren hand out 25,000 daffodils to shoppers and businesses through the town.
Have fun, get fit and it’s all free! There will be a variety of games, fitness classes and displays from Ships & Castles Leisure Centre and the Penryn Campus Sports Centre. Join in from 11am for free taster sessions and demonstrations from Falmouth’s premier sports providers and facilities.
Date: Thurs 30 March
Date: Saturday 8th April Time: 11am – 4pm Price: FREE Venue: The Moor
Atlantic Scuba Underwater Litter Pick For several years, Mark Milburn and his team of volunteer divers, have been collecting rubbish from the waters around Falmouth. This year they are teaming up with Falmouth BID and Fathoms Free to complete underwater and beach litter picks on Falmouth’s beaches. Watch out for Mark and his team patrolling the shore on Saturday 1 April.
Falmouth Spring Clean Days
Want to volunteer? Beach cleaning, painting, gardening - you name it we’ll be doing it. So, if you’d like to come along and get your hands dirty for a good cause, just shout! Venue: multi-sites across the town. Tel: 01326 313553 2
The Spring Clean Days are at the core of the Falmouth Spring Festival, which has engaged with hundreds of volunteers, schoolchildren, local businesses, staff and students from the universities and residents during that time. Over the years we’ve undertaken landscaping, litter removal and planting activities in dozens of areas around the town, sprucing up forgotten corners to colourful and award-winning effect. Dates: Fri 31 March & Sat 1 April
CORMAC Solutions Ltd provides unparalleled support on our major regeneration sites during the Festival’s Spring Clean Days. Their purpose is to enhance local communities by delivering innovative services which create a better local environment, and we are delighted to be working with CORMAC for the seventh year in 2017.
Spring Discount at the NEW Penryn Campus Sports Centre. To celebrate the Spring Festival 2017 we are offering a 10% discount on any membership purchased before the end of May 2017. Visit our Sports Centre or go to www.fxplus.ac.uk/sports to purchase your membership online using the discount code: SpringFestival17. Contact: sportscentre@fxplus.ac.uk 01326 370770 www.fxplus.ac.uk/sports
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Folk & Cider Fayre
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Folk & Cider Fayre
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Festival Exhibitions, Talks & Shows
Festival Guided Walks
Cornwall’s Daffodil Trains
Artists Afloat – Tuke and Hemy at Sea
A photographic history of the railways’ AND partnership with FALMOUTH Cornwall’s daffodil SPRING FLOWER growers and Falmouth’s SHOW Spring Flower Shows. Displays of gardening and railway books in Falmouth’s Library and model trains in the Art Gallery. For a taster follow Falmouth Spring Flower Show on Facebook.
Set sail into the Carrick Roads aboard the magnificent marine paintings of Henry Scott Tuke and Charles Napier Hemy. Both of these Falmouth-based Royal Academicians painted many of their artworks out at sea, aboard their own floating studios. Using research from Tuke’s diaries and Hemy’s articles and sketchbooks the exhibition will showcase works painted by Tuke, on the Julie of Nantes, and by Hemy, whilst afloat in the Vandermeer, on the waters surrounding Falmouth.
CORNWALL S DAFFODIL TRAINS -
Paul Simmons of walkitcornwall and Kelly Bennett of Walk Kernow will be running themed walks throughout the festival.
Themed Walks
Through Falmouth Town
ILLUSTRATED AND DESIGNED BY BENEDICT FLANAGAN
Informative & entertaining walk through Falmouth’s 350 year history. The people, their stories and a few ghosts, cannibals and murders. Booking essential.
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CORNWALL S DAFFODIL TRAINS
AN HISTORIC JOURNEY TO FLOWER MARKETS AND SPRING SHOWS - FREE EXHIBITION
FALMOUTH SPRING FLOWER SHOW DAFFODILS GALORE, THE BEST SPRING BLOOMS AND LOCAL TRADE STANDS AT FALMOUTH'S 107TH ANNUAL FLOWER SHOW
MARCH 2ND - 31ST MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS THE MOOR FALMOUTH, TR11 2RT 01326 315559
MARCH 18TH - 19TH
PRINCESS PAVILION GYLLYGNDUNE GARDENS FALMOUTH, TR11 4AR 01326 211222
Dates: 2-31 March Time: 10am – 5.00pm
Dates: Friday 31 March, Wednesday 5 April and Saturday 15 April
Price: Free admission Venue: Foyer of the Municipal Buildings, The Moor
Time: 5pm Price: Adults £5/ under 14s free
Dates: 25 March- 7 June
Venue: Meet at the Maritime Museum, Events Square, Falmouth TR11 3XA
Time: 10-5pm Monday-Saturday
Contact: Paul Simmons on 07714 084644 or info@walkitcornwall.co.uk
Venue: Falmouth Art Gallery
Poldark’s Falmouth The characters and storylines in Winston Graham’s 12 novels where the themes of early 19th century Falmouth, smuggling, shipwrecks, riots and the packet ships are matched to the sites of Falmouth. Booking essential. Dates: Sunday 2 April, Sunday 9 April & Thursday 13 April Time: 5pm Duration: 1.5hrs
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Image credit: RCPS Tuke Collection
Price: Free admission Contact: Falmouth Art Gallery 01326 313863
Nordic Walking Beginners Workshop Led by Kelly Bennett, INWA Instructor. Want to exercise but hate the gym? Nordic walking means you can enjoy exercise at your own pace in the great outdoors. Start Nordic Walking knowing you’re steadily improving your health, and feeling more energetic and happy. Learn everything you need to know to Nordic Walk with pole hire included. Dates: Saturday 15 April
Scilly Laughs: Karma Comedy Bringing two fabulous comediennes all the way from the Scillies for some laughs. Join Joanna Neary as Celia Jesson for her Highway to Helston - A Village Hall Fundraiser Tour and renowned comedienne Julie Jepson who takes a light-hearted look at the challenges and triumphs of your day to day life. A great night of stand-up comedy with a warm glow guaranteed.
Price: Adults £5 /under 14 free
Time: 2pm Duration: 1hr
Dates: Saturday 8th April
Venue: Meet at the Maritime Museum, Events Square, Falmouth TR11 3XA
Price: Save £5 with the code FSF
Time: 8pm
Venue: meet at Trelissick Gardens
Venue: The Poly
Contact: Paul Simmons on 07714 084644 or info@walkitcornwall.co.uk
Contact: Kelly Bennett on 07540 478919 or walkkernow@gmail.com
Contact: Call 01326 319461 or visit thepoly.org for tickets
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Festival Exhibitions, Talks & Shows Rockpooling Session
Modern Cautionary Tales For Children
Join Professor of Animal Ecology, Stu Bearhop for a fun family afternoon of rockpooling, discovering the fascinating creatures found on our local shores. Based at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus, bioscientist Professor Bearhop will help you explore Gylly Beach’s rocky ledges and pools of salt water, boulders and pebbles. Living in this habitat is a community of hardy plants and animals and Stu will help identify each species that is specially adapted for coping with the environment around it. If you would like to join in, please email Lou. Please wear appropriate footwear.
Murray Lachlan Young A mixture of poetry, stand-up comedy, storytelling, a touch of panto, and lots of fun participation from the very wonderful Murray Lachlan Young. A hilarious and positive route to showing children that poetry can be fun, thought-provoking and even quite cool! Dates: Thursday 13 April Time: 3pm
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Time: 3-5pm Price: Free admission Venue: Meet outside Gylly Beach Café Contact: Lou Misselbrook on l.misselbrook@exeter.ac.uk
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Flotsam & Jetsam Workshop Dates: Sunday 2 April
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A collaboration between the University of Exeter and Falmouth Art Gallery, this drop-in workshop is for all ages. Come and help create a mobile art installation using flotsam and jetsam - beach debris collected during the spring cleans. With help from local artist, Tony Johns, this fun art session will also highlight the types of litter found in our seas.
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Capturing Nature in Clay
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Come and have a go at making some beautiful spring decorations. We will be using leaves, seed pods and other interesting things to print into clay.
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Dates: Saturday 8 April Dates: Thursday 13 April
Time: Drop in between 11am and 3pm
Time: 11am-3pm
Price: Free admission
Price: Free admission
Venue: Falmouth Art Gallery
Venue: Falmouth Art Gallery
Contact: Lou Misselbrook on l.misselbrook@exeter.ac.uk
Contact: Falmouth Art Gallery 01326 313863
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