SUNDAY
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Boat Jumble
Art Activities
2 to 5pm
The Bowling Green, Flushing, Free
10am
Penryn Rugby Club, £3 Nautical bargains, engines, chandlery, clothing, rope, fishing tackle & inflatables. Just turn up! Tarik Sasa: 07780 800257 info@rotamarine.co.uk www.rotamarine.co.uk
There will be a variety of art related activities. We open the afternoon with the return of the ‘Taiko Drum Ensemble’ from Falmouth University. You will be treated to a vibrant drumming performance followed by short ‘taster’ drum sessions. Toddlers are catered for by ‘Flushing Toddler Group’ who will help your children to make rainmaker instruments which will look good, make noise but
The poly,Spooner 8pm Around Falmouth Town, all day Paul Talk St Peters Church Hall, Flushing, £3 Paul Spooner specialises in a field known as ‘mechanical automata’.
Booking: Just turn up www.flushing.org.uk 7.30pm
for example, Louis Vuitton. After studying Art and Design at Lancaster and Cardiff, he went on to carve out a reputation through Cabaret Mechanical Theatre, in Falmouth.
He makes elaborate constructions from various materials - with a strong preference for wood - as much for the joy of making them, as to Opened in 1979 by founder Sue Jackson, it sold simple further any practical purpose. wooden toys alongside knitwear and ceramics, but went on to Also known as ‘vintage hacking’, become an institution dedicated his work fuses the worlds of to mechanical automata, conceptual art, cartooning, eventually relocating to Covent engineering and theatrical set Garden in London in 1985, as its design. reputation and popularity grew. Commissions can come from He can talk for hours about these a variety of sources, including and other enterprises including galleries, museums, theatre his current project, a goat which companies, private collectors and companies who require an will perform a handstand on top elaborate contraption, including, of a 3 metre pole!
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hopefully not bring on the rain! Details of other activities will be updated on our website. Come along and enjoy the entertainment and refreshments and ‘have a go’. You might find you have a hidden talent!
Booking: Essential (not suitable for children) Tickets available from: Flushing Village Stores
www.falriverfestival.co.uk