St Ives September Festival 2009


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Once again this September St. Ives, Cornwall will celebrate Arts of all genres with its annual September Festival.

The Festival will start on Saturday 12th and run for a full two weeks until Saturday 26th.

There will be music of all types in the Guildhall and the Pubs, as well as Film, Exhibitions, Talks, Poetry, Classes, Guided walks and much much more. As and when information becomes available we will add it to the site. As before, you can purchase tickets online from the web site as well as from other outlets in both St Ives and Penzance.

  • St Ives Tourist Information Centre, Street an Pol: 01736 798577
  • Rainy Day Gallery, Market Jew Street, Penzance: 01736 366077

On the Waterfront

Director Eliz Kazan (1954).

Starring Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Rod Steiger, an ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.

7:30pm

Tickets: £5.00

St Ives Arts Club
14 December, 2008 - 19:30

Life Drawing

No booking is necessary - just turn up ten minutes early. There’s no surer way to develop one’s drawing skills than from the life model.

Basic drawing materials are available.

7:30 - 9:30pm

Beginners are welcome. Tickets: £7.00

St Ives School of Painting
14 December, 2008 - 19:30

Hepworth Garden Walk & Talk

Join Head Gardener Chris Green for an insightful tour of sculptor Barbara Hepworth’s sub-tropical garden. Further details: 01736 796226 www.tate.org.uk/stives.
Supported by Tate St Ives Members.
Tickets £7.00

6:00 pm

£5.00 concessions

Barbara Hepworth Museum
14 December, 2008 - 18:00

Tea and Tate

A regular event for seniors, exploring exhibitions led by artists and educators with lively discussion.

No art knowledge required.

For further details: 01736 796226 www.tate.org.uk/stives
Refreshments.

1:30 - 3:00

Free event - booking essential

Porthmeor Beach
14 December, 2008 - 13:30

Marianne de Trey CBE: Potter of consummate skill

Illustrated talk by freelance curator, researcher, writer and teacher Kathy Niblet who will chart the enormous contribution Marianne de Trey made to ceramics for more than six decades, including helping to found The Devon Guild of Craftsman and promoting The Craftsmen Potters Association of Great Britain.

Supported by The Devon Guild of Craftsmen and the Leach Pottery.

1:00 - 2:15pm

Tickets: £5.00

St Ives Arts Club
14 December, 2008 - 13:00

‘Where their Footsteps left no trace’, installation by Roy Ray

‘Where their Footsteps left no trace’, installation by Roy Ray recently exhibited at Truro Cathedral.
Memorial panels to the millions of innocent victims of conflict - either wrong place, wrong time or wrong nationality.

In aid of St Ives Parish Church.

Continues until 26th Sept.

10:00 - 8:00

Donations

St Ives Parish Church
14 December, 2008 - 10:00

A Century of Fashion exhibition

This traces the changing shape of fashion through the decades from the 1890s to the present, through clothes,
memorabilia and photographs.

Open Monday 14th - Thursday 17th 10.00-8.00 and Friday 18th 10.00-4.00

Daytime refreshments in the Parish Rooms. In aid of Children’s Hospice (South West) and the Parish Church.

Entry: £3.00 min. at the door

St Ives Parish Church
14 December, 2008 - 10:00

Readers' Day

‘Readers’ Day’. A day sharing much-loved books with some of our favourite writers incl. ‘Zennor in Darkness’ author Helen Dunmore, historical mystery writer Anne Perry, Patrick Gale with his new book ‘The Whole Day Through’, crime writer Simon Hall and poet Jane Weir.

Also Jessica Gardner, Du Maurier Archive Curator from Exeter University.

MC is poet John Siddique. Bookstall from Harbour Bookshop, book swap table and goodie bags.

Limited numbers.

10:00 - 4:30

Tickets available at Library: £10 for whole day incl cream tea

St Ives Library
14 December, 2008 - 10:00

Beginners Watercolour

Beginner’s Watercolour - No booking is necessary - just turn up ten minutes early. A course for those wishing to make a start with this popular medium.

All materials necessary to complete the sessions are provided.

Tickets: £10.00 per session

Two sessions 10:00 - 12:30 & 2:30 - 5:00

St Ives School of Painting
14 December, 2008 - 10:00
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