Available Events

MJUK presents: Music of the Night 
St Endellion Church  
Tuesday 27th August, 7pm
£10 

Our friends at MJUK Music and Arts return to St Endellion for a concert of music from the world of classical and musical theatre. With performances from young professionals, winners of the Chris Treglown Foundation Fund Award and guest performers from the West End, this is an evening not to be missed.

For more details contact Julia Treglown at 07815987172.
 

Make Club: Fairy Hideaways and Goblin Dens
St Endellion Hall
Saturday 21 September, 10am-12pm 
£5 per family 

Make a magical home for a mystical creature. Using twigs, leaves and other natural materials we will create treehouses, woodland dens and seashore shacks for imaginary creatures.

Each month we have new creative ideas to keep the whole family busy. The Make Club is a fun space to explore, create and get messy. The workshops are led by inspirational artists and makers. Remember to book in advance as tickets sell out fast.
 

BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends Live Recording (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Thursday 26 September, 5.45pm-6.45pm 
Free (please book)

Join Stuart Maconie and guests for a live recording of BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends. Expect an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.

We will be hosting a pop up street food cafe after this event, so you can grab a bite to eat ahead of our Evening of Cornish Stand-up at 7.30pm.

North Cornwall Book Festival 2024 - An Evening of Cornish Stand-up with Edward Rowe, Anna Keirle and Mimi
Festival Marquee
Thursday 26 September, 7.30pm 
£12

In a first for the book festival, we present an evening of proper Cornish stand-up. Featuring Roche’s own superstar, Edward Rowe and his support acts, Anna Keirle and Cornwall Comedian of the Year 2022, Mimi.

Edward Rowe is an award-winning actor, writer, director and comedian (under alias ‘Kernow King), best known nationally for his performance in BAFTA-winning film Bait and locally as Kneehigh Theatre’s ‘Pasty Man’, the much-loved pasty-making superhero. He is also a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd and appears in Strike, House of the Dragon, The Witcher and Enys Men.

Anna has a cheeky comedic storytelling style. Described as a bumpkin in her first ever review, she has, however, won the Weakest Link. A quick witted MC, Anna has performed stand-up locally and internationally, from festivals and clubs to prestigious events.

 Bodmin-based comedian, Mimi, was shocked to win Cornwall Comedian of the Year 2022 on her third ever gig. She is a high energy performer, super scatty and armed with a ukulele to accompany her sweet but sour observations. 

Before this event we will be hosting a pop up street food cafe, so you can grab a bite to eat and a drink. 
 

Printmaking Workshop with Sophie Fordham (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Hall 
Friday 27 September, 2pm-5pm
£30

Create your own autumn-inspired artist’s book with printmaker, Sophie Fordham. 

Sophie Fordham is a printmaker with over 30 years experience. She teaches all kinds of paper arts - including drawing, printmaking and book making. For this workshop you will create a three page dragon book, exploring printmaking and stamping. With autumn and the abundance of nature as a starting point, make your own stamps and use letter stamps to add words and create narrative within your pages. Finally we will fold these pages into an exciting book form, exploding with mark making and texture, a beautiful keepsake from an afternoon of creativity.
 

LYR (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Friday 27 September, 7.30pm
£12

LYR combines the creative powers of British poet laureate, Simon Armitage, Grammy nominated songwriter and singer Richard Walters, and acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and producer Patrick J Pearson.

In their Blossomise project, the band has produced songs inspired by the spring. These pieces concoct ethereal, pulse-altering, extraordinary sound. On this tour, LYR are collaborating with community choirs. At the North Cornwall Book Festival, we are delighted to announce that the local choir taking its share the floral limelight will be The Poet's Singers.

It may no longer be blossom season, but this will be a beautiful evening.
 

Cream of Cornish: Tina Baker, Adrian Markle, Beth Lynch and Edward Rowe (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Saturday 28 September, 10am
Free (please book)

Our traditional slot highlighting new writing in and of Cornwall. 

Featuring readings from tv critic Tina Baker’s Scillonian murder mystery, What We Did in the Storm, Falmouth University lecturer Adrian Markle’s searing tale of MMA fighting and seaside recovery, Bruise, Beth Lynch’s meditation on the North Cornish coastline, The Cove, and stand-up star Edward Rowe’s venture into fiction, Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections.

Sponsored by Seasalt
 

Journal For Joy Workshop with Hannah Bevan (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Stone Barn
Saturday 28 September, 10am-11.30am
£20

This feel-good creative workshop is designed to introduce you to positive journaling and help you connect with your most joyful self! 

Hannah Bevan (Falmouth-based founder of Journal For Joy and author of the Hometown Journal) will introduce you to the simple yet powerful practice of journaling and how it can bring more positive feelings to our lives. Through the 90 minute session, Hannah will guide you through a series of joyful journaling prompts, with a mix of writing, drawing and mindfulness activities.

No experience necessary. All you will need to take part is your favourite journal and some pens and/or pencils. There will also be the opportunity to share and discuss your journal entries with others in our group, to spread the joy and find moments of connection with each other. If you have any questions ahead of the workshop, feel free to send Hannah an email at hannah@journalforjoy.co.uk. 

Seán Hewitt & John Wedgwood Clarke (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Saturday 28 September, 11.30am
£10

Readings from two poets who both tackle the travails of boyhood and the making of masculinity: Seán Hewitt and John Wedgwood Clarke.

Joining us from Trinity College, Dublin is Seán Hewitt. Tongues of Fire, Seán’s debut collection, saw him shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He will be reading from his new collection, Rapture’s Road. Exeter University professor, John Wedgwood Clarke, will be reading from his collection Boy Thing which taps into his memories of a 1970s boyhood in St Ives.

Sponsored by Ian McIntyre 
 

Tiffany Murray (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Saturday 28 September, 11.30am
£10

Novelist, Tiffany Murray, in conversation with legendary publisher, Lennie Goodings, discussing her new memoir My Family and Other Rock Stars.

My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiffany Murray's characteristically original story of growing up in and around the legendary Rockfield Studios on the Welsh borders - a 1970s rural idyll of dogs and Cordon Bleu cookery. This is the story of a childhood where the chances of bumping into Freddie Mercury playing the piano, a group of Hell's Angels turning up to record for Lemmy, or even the hope of David Bowie appearing, were as normal as hopscotch and homework. 
 

Flash Fiction Workshop with Dr Adrian Markle & Dr Eleanor Walsh (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Stone Barn
Saturday 28 September, 12pm-1.30pm
£20

Flash Fiction is an increasingly popular form that combines sharp, lean writing with often experimental content. 

Promoting imagination and ensuring clarity of ideas, flash fiction inspires the mind to think succinctly. Not only does a mastery of the form allow you to produce exciting, memorable short pieces, it can also help to craft rousing introductions, vignettes, and significant moments of characterization.

This lively workshop will include an informal lecture on the form, readings and discussions of exemplary flash pieces, generative prompts and an opportunity to produce and share work.

Simon Armitage (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Saturday 28 September, 1pm
£10

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, was born and raised in West Yorkshire. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the PEN Prize for Translation.

Simon has published over a dozen poetry collections, including Magnetic Field: the Marsden Poems, and acclaimed mediaeval translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Owl and the Nightingale. As part of the band LYR, he has received an Ivor Novello Award for song writing. The Poet Laureate is also the author of two novels and three non-fiction bestsellers: All Points North, Walking Home and Walking Away. A regular broadcaster, Simon presents the popular BBC Radio 4 series The Poet Laureate has Gone to his Shed.

Blossomise, Simon's latest poetry collection, is out now. Click here to find out more about Simon Armitage.

Sponsored by Sproull Solicitors

Petroc Trelawny (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Saturday 28 September, 2.30pm 
£10

Petroc Trewlawny will be in conversation with Patrick Gale discussing his new book, Trelawny’s Cornwall.

When a stranger challenged Petroc Trelawny on the authenticity of his ancestry, it inspired him to return to the lands of his boyhood to see if he could trace his bloodline to the Trelawny of history and analyse his Cornishness in the process.

Trelawny’s Cornwall is a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall’s past, present and future in which Petroc seeks the even stranger truths behind local legends. Holding a finger up to the winds of change and conjuring marvellously vivid figures from the inexhaustible depths of his memory, Petroc tells the story of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape still redolent of ‘Cornish otherness’. 

Sponsored by Savills
 

Poetry of Secrets Workshop with Seán Hewitt (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Stone Barn
Saturday 28 September, 2.30pm - 5.30pm
£30 

Every poem has a secret. Something underneath the language, something we deliberately bury, or some truth that only emerges when we write. But how do we make poems that contain secrets? How do we add depth and complexity to our writing? And why should we bother?

In this workshop, Seàn Hewitt, superb poet and literature professor at Trinity College Dublin, will show how to make use of your secrets - writing, cutting, deleting and rearranging to make poems that are like intricate vessels for hidden things.

Seán Hewitt’s debut collection Tongues of Fire saw him shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He will be reading from his new collection, Rapture’s Road on the Saturday morning at this year’s festival.

Anne Enright (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Saturday 28 September, 4pm
£10

Anne Enright pays her second visit to the festival to talk with publisher, Lennie Goodings, about her new novel, The Wren, The Wren.

Generous queen of the Dublin literary scene, Anne Enright won the Man Booker in 2007 with her fourth novel The Gathering and Irish Novel of the Year in 2015 with The Green Road. Anne is a mistress of painfully honest comedy, delineating the ambiguities and shifting alliances of family life like no other. 

Shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize, The Wren, The Wren is a devastating, brutally funny portrayal of the damage and aftershocks inflicted on three generations of women when a poet walks out on his dying wife to become a national treasure.

Sponsored by Seasalt
 

Luke Thompson (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Saturday 28 September, 5.30pm
£10

Poet, academic and cultural historian, Luke Thompson, is joined, in what promises to be a conversation full of furry surprises, by fellow animal-lover, Tiffany Murray.

Luke’s latest book continues his grand tradition of defying tidy categorisation. It rejoices in the title, Domadomadoma-Blumblumblum: Conversations with Other Animals - the first part being a transcript of a mongoose when it first tried to speak English. His latest book explores the world of animal communication through the ages, from King Solomon to telepaths, by way of dolphin-masturbating psychonauts and poltergeist mongooses on the Isle of Man.  

Pre-Concert Dinner (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Hall
Saturday 28 September, 6.30pm
£25 (inc. a glass of wine)

Join us for a pre-concert dinner. Includes two courses and a glass of wine.
 

Haunt The Woods (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Saturday 28 September, 7.30pm
£12

Cornish indie quartet, Haunt the Woods, jump from genre to genre with youthful confidence, winning themselves rave reviews and a huge home following in Devon and Cornwall. The band’s unique sound interweaves alt rock, folk, prog and pop, with nods to Queen, Jeff Buckley and Radiohead.
 

Samantha Harvey (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Sunday 29 September, 9.45am
£10

Betty Trask Prize-winner, Samantha Harvey, will be in conversation with journalist and broadcaster, Rosie Goldsmith, discussing her latest novel Orbital.

Even without the deft maths behind its construction, Orbital is as far-reaching as it is svelte. By a narrative sleight of hand, Samantha gathers into amazingly few pages the thoughts of six international astronauts orbiting the earth in a space station. Their earthly lives are threaded through their experiences of sixteen sunrises and sunsets, while the distant marks of our precarious civilization far below come to seem impossibly fragile. As profound as it is poetic, Orbital is the perfect novel for people who think they’ve outgrown fiction. 

 

Foraging Workshop with Emma Gunn (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024) 
Sunday 29 September, 10am-1pm
Stone Barn (and outside!)
£30 

After last year’s sell-out foraging workshop, we are delighted to have Emma Gunn returning to run another. 

Emma is an expert forager, artist and designer based in Cornwall. After studying garden design, she joined the Eden Project and worked there for 22 years in many different roles, such as plant propagator, guide, florist, house plant expert and Seasonal Displays Supervisor. Due to Covid, Emma took redundancy and, with the help of Crowdfunder, set up her own house plant business. For the last 16 years Emma has run foraging walks throughout Cornwall in places such as St. Michael’s Mount, Eden Project, the Lost Gardens of Heligan, Philleigh Way Cookery School, the Potager and Enys Gardens. She has also given foraging masterclasses and talks at universities and a TED talk on “A Forager’s guide to surviving an apocalypse!”.
     
Emma enjoys sharing her knowledge and recipes to give people the confidence to start foraging and explore the unique flavours that are available on our doorsteps. Coastal and seaweed foraging are two of her favourites and it is her aim to get people hooked!
 

David R Abram (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Sunday 29 September, 11am
£10

Writer-photographer, David R Abram, has spent over a decade exploring prehistoric monuments from the air.

Collected in David’s acclaimed Aerial Atlas of Ancient Britain, his images are by turns hauntingly beautiful and revelatory. He shows how tombs, stone circles and burial mounds created thousands of years ago were, in effect, a form of ritual art using landscape as both its material and subject to inspire a sense of awe. If you’ve heard David speak before you’ll know his talks yield as much entertainment as they do archaeological insight, and we’re greatly looking forward to seeing what wonders he will be unveiling for us.

Abir Mukherjee (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Sunday 29 September, 12.30pm
£10

Best-selling author, Abir Mukherjee, will be in conversation with novelist, Adrian Markle.

Abir endured two dutiful decades as an accountant before making his name with a hugely popular series of murder mysteries set in 1920s British Raj. His latest, Hunted, is a contemporary thriller in which two parents find their children entangled in a battle between suicide bombers and the FBI. No less than Lee Child has dubbed it, “A pretty much flawless thriller”. 

Introduction to Cornish with Mark Trevethan (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Sunday 29 September, 1.30pm-3pm
Stone Barn
£20

This short immersion workshop in the Cornish language is for complete beginners.

You will learn enough to hold a simple conversation, play games and sing in Cornish. One of the six Celtic languages, Cornish is an intrinsic part of Cornwall’s heritage. Mark Trevethan is a fluent Cornish speaker. He was Cornwall Council’s Cornish Language Lead for 7 years and now leads on Cornwall Council’s cultural strategy.
 

Sathnam Sanghera (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Festival Marquee
Sunday 29 September, 2pm
£10

Award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera, will be in conversation with journalist and broadcaster, Rosie Goldsmith, discussing Empireworld - the follow-up to his bestseller Empireland.

The British empire's influence upon the quarter of the planet it occupied, and its gravitational influence upon the world outside it, has been profound: from the spread of Christianity to nearly 1 in 3 driving on the left side of the road, and even shaping the origins of international law. Yet Britain's idea of its imperial history and the world's experience of it differ greatly. In Empireworld, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. Travelling the globe to trace its international legacies, from Barbados and Mauritius to India and Nigeria and beyond, Sanghera demonstrates just how deeply British imperialism is baked into our world. And why it's time Britain was finally honest with itself about empire.

Sponsored by ShelterBox

Alan Hollinghurst (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
St Endellion Church
Sunday 29 September, 3.30pm
£10

We’re thrilled to be ending the festival with our second Booker winner, Alan Hollinghurst, and an advance glimpse of his stunning new novel.

Alan Hollinghurst’s Our Evenings gives us a portrait of modern England through the lens of one man’s acutely observed and often unnerving experience. It is a story of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and the cruel shock of violence, from one of the finest writers of our age. Alan will be in conversation with Patrick Gale.

Alan Hollinghurst is the author of seven novels, The Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star, The Spell, The Line of Beauty, The Stranger’s Child, The Sparsholt Affair and Our Evenings. He has received the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction and the 2004 Man Booker Prize.

Sponsored by local residents
 

Memoir Writing Workshop with Tiffany Murray (North Cornwall Book Festival 2024)
Stone Barn
Sunday 29 September, 3.30pm - 5pm 
£20

Do you want to write your story, or a family story in some form? This workshop will help you access these stories and craft them into a narrative other people will want to read. Whether you are thinking of publication or simply trying to get these stories down on paper, this session with novelist and memoirist Dr Tiffany Murray will open up your creativity. 

Tiffany Murray’s novels Diamond Star Halo, Happy Accidents and Sugar Hall, have variously been shortlisted for the Wodehouse Bollinger Prize and received the Roger Deakin Award for nature writing. Tiffany has been a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow, a Fulbright scholar, and a Senior Lecturer. Her series, Hulda’s Café is available on BBC Sounds. Tiffany will be talking about her own delicious memoir My Family and Other Rock Stars at this year’s festival.

This workshop is for writers of all levels. 

Hands of the Heron supported by Anna Anise
St Endellion Church
Friday 4 October, 7.30pm
£10-£18 | Free for accompanied under 16s

We are delighted to welcome Bristol-based dreamfolk trio, Hands of the Heron, supported by folk singer, Anna Anise. 

Hands of the Heron’s instantly recognisable vocal harmonies are delivered by three frontwomen - Bec Garthwaite, Beth Roberts and Claire Vine - each of whom brings a signature writing style to the band's mercurial sound. They move effortlessly between sparse choral folk and spellbinding chamber pop, richly layered with an assortment of strings, drones and reeds. 

The trio have played a diverse range of festivals, including Fire in the Mountain, Purbeck Valley Folk, Green Man, Summer’s End Prog Festival, Eppyfest, Fanny’s Meadow and Green Gathering. Recent shows include a sold-out Bristol headline show in September 2022 as part of the prestigious Outlandish Nights series, alongside Lisa O’Neill and Mikey Kenney. 

Anna Anise is a singer of feel-good folk songs, alongside the traditional jigs and reels from which she finds inspiration for her storytelling songwriting. Her recent single, Overexposed, earnt her radio plays on BBC Upload and BBC Introducing. Higher Plain Music said “(Anna’s) melodies are fantastic, the arrangements sound fresh and yet the listener feels connected to old-school roots.”
 

Stolen From God
St Endellion Church
Friday 25 October, 7.30pm
£10-£18 | Free for accompanied under 16s

Reg Meuross’s belief that folk songs provide a rapid and accessible route into history and its current relevance stood him in good stead when it came to tackling the history of the transatlantic slave trade in story and song. He unearthed both incredible tales and uncomfortable truths – now brought fully to life with this stunning song cycle.

Featuring the sparkling playing of kora master Suntou Susso alongside narration on the historical background to each song, Stolen From God was previewed during 2022’s Black History Month. With vocals from all three musicians, alongside incredible instrumentation, it has received a tremendous reception at shows across the country.


Endelienta Arts have a new tier system for the ticket pricing of our events. If you book at least two weeks before the event you can purchase the Early Bird Ticket for £10. For the two weeks in the run up to the event you can purchase the Standard Ticket for £12. If you would like to put in a little extra to give us a helping hand in providing amazing year-round arts programming and nurturing the next generation of artists in Cornwall, you can purchase the Endelienta Arts Future Ticket for £18.     

Make Club: Vegetable Printing Mobiles
St Endellion Hall
Saturday 26 October, 10am-12pm 
£5 per family

Celebrate the abundance of harvest with vegetable printing. We will be turning our prints into mobiles to take home. 

Each month we have new creative ideas to keep the whole family busy. The Make Club is a fun space to explore, create and get messy. The workshops are led by inspirational artists and makers. Remember to book in advance as tickets sell out fast.
 

Facing the Storm with Love: Shakespeare's The Tempest and Spiritual Dimensions of Life
St Endellion Church
Saturday 2 November, 10.30am-3pm
£10

Revd Professor Paul S. Fiddes, Prebendary of Minver at St Endellion, will be reflecting on the text and performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. He will also be introducing a new church liturgy based on the play. This reflective day will be an amazing opportunity to get a sneak peak of the liturgy script, to be presented at St Minver in April 2025 

All are welcome, including any who might be interested in participating as actors in next year’s liturgy. Please bring your own packed lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided. 
 

Make Club: Maps, Kingdoms and Story Boxes
St Endellion Hall
Saturday 16 November, 10am-12pm 
£5 per family

Using recycled maps, we will be creating imaginary lands filled with adventure stories. 

Each month we have new creative ideas to keep the whole family busy. The Make Club is a fun space to explore, create and get messy. The workshops are led by inspirational artists and makers. Remember to book in advance as tickets sell out fast.
 

Endelienta Arts is delighted to showcase performances by our 2023/24 Future Routes cohort. Over the past year, we have been supporting five young emerging Cornish/Cornwall-based musicians and singers to develop their skills and launch their music careers. This year’s cohort includes Karum Cooper, Kitty Crocker, James Rann, Rachael Watson and Martha Woods.

Chris Ricketts and Port Isaac Gulls
St Endellion Church
Saturday 23 November, 7.30pm
£10-£18 | Free for accompanied under 16s

We are thrilled to bring you a double bill of performances by internationally acclaimed folk singer and guitarist Chris Ricketts and local shanty group the Port Isaac Gulls. Expect an eclectic evening of spellbinding sea shanties and beautiful harmonies with lots of laughter thrown in. 

“Chris Ricketts is the sort of artist who can hold a whole room spellbound with the sound of his voice alone” Acoustic Magazine
 

The Christmas Story on Stage with Rowan Williams 
Saturday 30 November, 10.30am - 3pm
St Endellion Hall
£12

Since the 14th century there have been numerous attempts to depict the story of the nativity through theatre, music and visual art. Rowan Williams will be exploring important mediaeval dramas, aspects of liturgy, and the various efforts by modern poets and dramatists to capture the Christmas story.

Please bring a packed lunch. Tea and coffee will be provided. 
 

Squashbox Theatre: The Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness! 
St Endellion Hall
Saturday 7 December, 11am & 2pm (50 mins)
Pay What You Decide

Squashbox Theatre returns to Endelienta Arts for our Christmas family show, a celebration of everything Christmassy, from fir trees, fairy lights, sleigh bells and snowflakes to crackers, carols, presents and puddings!

​Join Craig as he goes on a quest to find The Twelve Sprouts of Christmas, and along the way spot some naughty elves, meet a wise-cracking snowman, say hello to an over-excited Christmas puppy, endure the world’s worst Christmas jumper and gaze in wonder at the “beautiful” Christmas fairy. The Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness! is an over-stuffed stocking of seasonal surprises crammed with puppets, songs and comedy, and over-flowing with crazy characters, silly slapstick, tall tales and fantastic facts - all presented in that unique Squashbox style!

 For children aged 4+ and their families. This event is pay what you decide - please book in advance and bring cash on the day.