International Mining and Pasty Festival Guide | 2023

INTERNATIONAL MINING AND PASTY FESTIVAL GUIDE

Friday 8th, Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th September 2023

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23rd - 27th October

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Redruth in Lights

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Pasty festival returns! Covering three days, this festival is a jam-packed celebration of Cornish heritage and international connections.

Day 1 - miners' day

Friday 8th September 4-6pm

The festival kicks off with an evening performance with Cobweb Tours leading a story-based walk accompanied by the Redruth Festival Band to Wheal Uny Mines. Once at the old mine workings, there will be more music and storytelling before the stacks of the engine houses are once again smoked in memory of all the miners who worked in mines at home and abroad.

Day 2 - pasty day

Saturday 9th September 10am-3pm

The festival continues with a day filled with live music, street food, interactive stalls, pasty competitions and workshops.

A brief rundown for the day includes:

Food village on Green Lane

Cornish, food, drinks and craft stalls on Fore Street

Live music around town

Pasty competition tent*

Pasty Trail *

Pasty Relay Championships

Classic Carousel

*Competition winners will be announced at 2:30pm by the Miners Statue.

Please note, some of the main streets will be closed to traffic but there is ample parking in Redruth.

Day 3 - Fun Day and mining Pilgrimage

Sunday 10th September 11am-3pm

The Victoria Park Fun Day returns! There will be entertainment, food and drink stalls, charity stalls, a face painter, family games and a fun dog show.

At 10am, join Lay Minister Jason HooleJackson and the Red River Singers for the annual St Euny Pilgrimage from Wheal Basset Stamps to Wheal Uny followed by a service of memorial to the miners.

We're running three homemade pasty competitions for avid bakers and one for rockstar crafters.

Categories

Best Cornish Pasty (Under 18s)

Best Cornish Pasty (over 18s)

Most creative

edible Pasty

Best Crafted Pasty

Pasty boxes from our friends at the The Cornish Pasty Association will be presented to all the winners at 2:30pm. Bring your creations along to Market Strand between 10:30 and 11:30am to enter.

COMPETITIONS

Enter a team into the Pasty Relay Championships.

Teams of 10 to 15 people will pass a salt dough pasty up Fore Street in the fastest time possible. There will be several heats followed by the grand final. The winning team will be presented with a chocolate ‘pasty’ cake baked by Rowe’s. The runners up will receive a hamper box from The Cornish Pasty Association.

Enter by emailing: engagement@ redruth-tc.gov.uk

Can you find the hidden word in the 5 pasty shops in Redruth?

How to enter

Pick up a trail card from our Info Point on Fore Street on Saturday 9th September. Complete the trail and return your completed trail card to our Info Point by 2pm to enter the prize draw

1st prize - 1 year supply of Rowe's pasties (voucher)

2nd prize - a Rowe's home delivery box (voucher)

Full competition details and T&C's can be found at: discoverredruth.co.uk/pasty-festival-competitions

We need your help designing an everyday outfit for Tolgus the LambRedruth Town Councils mascot

How to enter

Pick up a design sheet from the library Create your design. Hand your design sheet into Redruth Library by 5pm on Monday 11th September 2023 to be in for a chance of your design being made into his next outfit.

HOMEMADE PASTY PASTY RELAY PASTY TRAIL TOLGUS OUTFIT

MINERS' DAY - FRIDAY 8TH

Miners' tribute

Friday 8th September 4-6pm

Miner Statue to Wheal Uny

The festival kicks off with a celebration of all the miners who worked in mines at home and abroad and it’s set to be a great start to the festival. Working with local miners, storytellers and musicians, there will be a moving tribute to the heritage of Redruth.

This is an event dedicated to the men and women who worked the mines of past, present and future. Cobweb Tours will lead a storytelling walk departing the Miner statue in town at 4pm, along the route there will be some fascinating Redruth tales told with the Redruth Festival band playing tunes along the way The walk ends at Wheal Uny Mines where the miners will gather and share their stories and tributes will be told through music and dance before the evening culminates with the engine houses being smoked once again.

This event is free but space and parking is limited at the site. Wheal Uny is located at: Redruth TR16 6RP / what3words: ///emporium.goal.spirit

*Please note, the route and mining terrain isn’t level and unfortunately not accessible for all and we would recommend suitable footwear. All timings are approximate depending on numbers on the day and the event is weather dependent.

If you would like to view the stack smoking from a distance, there are many great viewing points around the area from Redruth, Carn Brea and Carn Marth.

Off The Wall Aerial Dance Tipping Point

Friday 8th September 4:30 - 5:30pm

The Ladder Courtyard, Redruth

A powerful and dynamic aerial dance duet inspired by Nikita Gill's poem 'An Ode to Fearless Women' Expect a play between heart and humour, powerful female performance, and a soundtrack that packs a punch. Off the Wall put their own unique stamp on vertical and aerial dance, fusing contemporary dance practices, twisting perspectives and growing the way vertical dance is seen

PASTY DAY - SATURDAY 9TH

Daze Out

Saturday 9th September 10am - 3pm

Daze Out is coming to Pasty Festival! Artists dressed in tweed will be in various locations in town throughout the day with materials and easels to facilitate people’s expressiveness. Free to drop by and get creative.

be offering behind the scenes tours of Kresen Kernow. Book your free tour place on our website: kresenkernow.org/events

Wellbeing tote bag print and paint

Saturday 9th September 10am - 12pm and 1pm - 3pm

Kresen Kernow

Join us during the Mining and Pasty Festival to paint and print a wellbeing tote bag to take home and fill with things that make you happy Print an engine house and a pasty, mix your favourite colours, use magical rollers, and write or paint anything you can imagine onto your bag. This is a free, drop in activity on Saturday 9 September, 10am12pm and 1pm-3pm, suitable for all ages.

Your bag can become your mental health first aid kit, inspired by our current exhibition ‘She Cares: Women and Health in Cornwall’. Explore our exhibition with a mini book trail, discover a new book in our children’s library section, and eat cake in our café!

As part of Heritage Open Days we will also

Retell Retail - Revisiting Redruth

Shopping Week

Saturday 9th September 10am - 4pm

Murdoch House

Shopping Week will be making a return to Redruth on the 21st & 22nd October. The weekend will include:

The Make Amends Shop Trail

A Sponsored Wooden Block Race

Window Dressing Competition

Pavement Chalk Art Competition

Workshop Sunday

Flamm arts festival

Visit Murdoch House on Saturday 9th September to find out what’s in store for the weekend and to share your memories of previous Shopping weeks.

Story Republic

Saturday 9th September

10:10am at the Miner Statue

10:45am on the London Inn Steps

11:45am in Market Hall

12:30pm in St Rumon’s Gardens

Join the Story Republic in town for their delicious style of storytelling and song with a strong Redruth flavour. Timed performances but also stop them for a pop up personal storytelling moment.

Tolvaddon fire engine

Saturday 9th September

Tolvaddon Fire Engine and Firefighters will be on Alma Place open for engagement and interaction

buttermarket tours

Saturday 9th September 12-2pm

If you’re wondering what’s happening to the Buttermarket, Pasty Saturday will be the ideal time to find out in person. Redruth Revival CIC are hosting hard-hat tours of our historic Buttermarket site on 9th September, for anyone who’d like to see some previously hidden parts of our special buildings. Our construction team are hard at work restoring and transforming these buildings - the Buttermarket complex, Mining Exchange, and Wheal Peevor Purser’s Office - to help us achieve our goal of breathing new life into the town centre.

When the buildings re-open in 2024 they’ll be a place to meet, eat, work and play, with the Buttermarket Kitchens bringing tastes of the world to town, with artisan workshops, workspaces, markets, events, and entertainment too.

Our small-group tours will start from the Buttermarket courtyard at 12 noon, 1 pm and 2 pm. It’s first-come-first-served and we can provide hard hats, but please be aware there will be uneven ground, so do wear sturdy shoes. Whether you want to take a tour or just find out more about our plans, members of the Redruth Revival Team will be on hand to answer your questions and, if you’re interested, you can sign up to receive our newsletters

Redruth library

Saturday 9th September

Open 10am-3pm 10am-2pm Lego Club

10am-3pm Crimp N Craft a Pasty

10:30am Introduction to Cornish Language

Redruth Library are looking to form a Pasty relay team to represent the Library. Pop into the Library and talk to a member of staff by 6th September if you’d like to join their team. Come on readers!

The Summer Reading challenge is ending soon so if you haven’t already taken part make sure to do so by the 16th of September.

FUN

Fun Day

Sunday 10th September 11am-3pm

The Victoria Park Fun Day returns! There will be entertainment, food and drink stalls, charity stalls, a face painter, family games and a fun dog show.

Performances:

12pm - 12:40pm Redruth Town Band

1:15pm - 1:55pm Redruth Town Band

2 - 3pm Redruth Record Club DJs from The Wooden Box and Lucky’s Record Bar

Rumons Club

something to look forward to

MINING PILGRIMAGE

mining Pilgrimage

Sunday 10th September 10am-12pm

On Sunday 10th September the Lay Minister, Jason Hoole-Jackson will lead a Mining Sunday pilgrimage both celebrating the heritage of mining in the town, but also commemorating those who lost their lives in the mining industry over many years We are delighted that this year this event is back in its more usual format, and that the Red River Singers will be leading us in song at various points along the way.

We begin at 10am at the Bassett Stamps building on the south side of the valley above Carnkie village (what3words reference: balloons mixed gathering; OS grid ref: 692398). It’s about a 3km walk here from the middle of Redruth, or you could park either at Seleggan car park near the top of the hill to the east of Carnkie, or park near St Euny Church an walk along Church Combe (about 1 5km After some songs and words and a pray we walk steadily along the Great Flat Lode to Wheal Uny Arriving at approximately 10:40am we w then pause at the open mine shaft to commemorate in song, poetry and silenc those who lost their lives in the mining industry, and we drop flower petals dow he shaft in their memory

while people gather, the short service will begin at 11.30am, after which refreshments will be served.

The walk is only really accessible on foot – please bring outdoor footwear appropriate to the weather. Well-behaved dogs are welcome on the walk and in church. Alternatively, you are welcome to miss the walking part, and join at St Euny Church instead, which is fully wheelchair accessible.

Then on to St Euny Church. Pausing to listen to Red River Singers outside churc

For more information contact Lay Minister Jason Hoole-Jackson on 07866 391952

DISCOVER REDRUTH

Rediscover Redruth Trail

We have just launched our second Digital Town Trail. The Rediscover Redruth Trail is an interactive, family friendly trail, around Redruth that encourages participants to discover Redruth’s heritage and rediscover the innovation of today. Hosted digitally on Geocaching’s Adventure Lab app participants can use their phones to complete the trail learning fun facts about Redruth and answering some simple trivia questions a long the way. The trail is extensive so splitting the trail up into more manageable sections or driving between points may be preferred.

Scan the QR Code or follow this link to take part in the trail: adventurelab.page.link/1eyn

A message from us

We are encouraging all involved in the International Mining and Pasty Festival to keep the environment in mind by reducing needless plastic. Do your part by bringing your own reusable water bottle and tote bag.

If you don't live locally, or are unable to walk to the festival, consider using public transport or car sharing with friends/family.

A message to our sponsors

Thank you to our our friends at Rowe's and the Cornish Pasty Association for sponsoring this year's International Mining and Pasty Festival. As a result of their generosity we have been able to add a new event to the festival this year as well as provide some fabulous Pasty themed prizes for all the competition winners.