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Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Falmouth Spring Flower Show
Saturday: 10am-5pm; Sunday: 10am-4pm
The 114th Falmouth Spring Flower Show is taking place on 23 March and 24th March 2024 at the Princess Pavilion, where dazzling spring floral displays will be accompanied by intoxicating scents.
This FREE event brings together some of the Cornwall’s top gardens, dedicated enthusiasts and those who are just discovering the joy of plants, as well as an array of inspiring trade stands to indulge horticultural passions.
In the 1900’s this spectacular Show was the premier season opener for the whole county, visited by royalty and renowned public figures, such as the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (click HERE to find out more about the history of the show).
After many years of hard work and dedication by the retiring Falmouth Spring Flower Show Committee, Falmouth Town Council are delighted to be the Show’s new custodians. The Show’s rich heritage will continue to be celebrated, whilst taking it into a new era by opening up the its appeal to a wider audience, embracing all ages, abilities and backgrounds, from professional gardeners and dedicated enthusiastic to those who are only just discovering the joy of plants. ….
Based at Princess Pavilion, there is something for everyone, with the added bonus of four acres of glorious gardens to explore and delicious food available from The Garden Room. It is a fantastic opportunity to come together and celebrate a love of plants and everything that they offer.
If you’ve never entered the Show before, why not give it a go? As well as horticulture, there are sections for photography, floral art and a rewilding sculpture challenge run in conjunction with Falmouth Art Gallery. Junior classes range from ages 3 -16 and include edible jewellery, miniature gardens and fruit and vegetable animals. Last year’s winning cauliflower poodle went viral (see left)!
Entries have to be in by Sunday 17 March, so email springflowershow@falmouthtowncouncil.com for your copy of the Show Schedule and entry form. Or click HERE to view the schedule and click HERE to view the entry form online.
The Show itself is on Saturday 23 March (10am- 5pm) and Sunday 24 March (10am- 4pm) at Princess Pavilion, Melvill Road, Falmouth, TR11 4AR.
For more information CLICK HERE
Princess Pavilion
Gyllyngdune Gardens
Falmouth
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Falmouth Spring Flower Show
Saturday: 10am-5pm; Sunday: 10am-4pm
The 114th Falmouth Spring Flower Show is taking place on 23 March and 24th March 2024 at the Princess Pavilion, where dazzling spring floral displays will be accompanied by intoxicating scents.
This FREE event brings together some of the Cornwall’s top gardens, dedicated enthusiasts and those who are just discovering the joy of plants, as well as an array of inspiring trade stands to indulge horticultural passions.
In the 1900’s this spectacular Show was the premier season opener for the whole county, visited by royalty and renowned public figures, such as the Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton (click HERE to find out more about the history of the show).
After many years of hard work and dedication by the retiring Falmouth Spring Flower Show Committee, Falmouth Town Council are delighted to be the Show’s new custodians. The Show’s rich heritage will continue to be celebrated, whilst taking it into a new era by opening up the its appeal to a wider audience, embracing all ages, abilities and backgrounds, from professional gardeners and dedicated enthusiastic to those who are only just discovering the joy of plants. ….
Based at Princess Pavilion, there is something for everyone, with the added bonus of four acres of glorious gardens to explore and delicious food available from The Garden Room. It is a fantastic opportunity to come together and celebrate a love of plants and everything that they offer.
If you’ve never entered the Show before, why not give it a go? As well as horticulture, there are sections for photography, floral art and a rewilding sculpture challenge run in conjunction with Falmouth Art Gallery. Junior classes range from ages 3 -16 and include edible jewellery, miniature gardens and fruit and vegetable animals. Last year’s winning cauliflower poodle went viral (see left)!
Entries have to be in by Sunday 17 March, so email springflowershow@falmouthtowncouncil.com for your copy of the Show Schedule and entry form. Or click HERE to view the schedule and click HERE to view the entry form online.
The Show itself is on Saturday 23 March (10am- 5pm) and Sunday 24 March (10am- 4pm) at Princess Pavilion, Melvill Road, Falmouth, TR11 4AR.
For more information CLICK HERE
Princess Pavilion
Gyllyngdune Gardens
Falmouth
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
A great time to visit Paradise Park with the start of the ‘Eagles of Paradise Display’ and ‘Free Flying Bird Show’ plus, close encounters at Lorikeet feeding time and the Easter Golden Egg Challenge with some yummy chocolate rewards.
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
This Easter holidays at The NLH our most popular activity is back! Visit the hatchery during the school Easter holidays here in Padstow, and enjoy a variety of science based games to inspire the next generation of Marine Biologists! Think microscopes, mystery trails and more visit The National Lobster Hatchery this Easter.
Activities all included with an annual pass, open daily 10-4
This Easter, join us at Cornwall’s Secret World of Play and Trains for a weekend of fabulous fun for the whole family – including chances to win prizes and even a unique opportunity to get up-close with our locomotives!
We’re open every day from the 28th March – no booking is required, just buy your ticket from the Ticket Office and hop on board!
Find out our train times and prices here.
Lappa Valley Duck Racing!
On your marks, get set.... QUACK!
Across Easter Weekend, join the Lappa team for our exciting Duck Racing Weekend – with free races across the boating lake and easter-themed prizes to be won!
Come and collect your ticket, and if your corresponding yellow duck wins - so do you!
Sit inside a real Steam Train!
This is a rare chance to get up-close with one of our Steam Trains!
Come and sit in the front and find out what all the levers and controls do - ask questions and of course, be the envy of your family and friends with a really cool photo opportunity!
We cannot guarantee which train will be available, but it will be either Ruby, Ellie or Muffin. Please note the engine will be a static display.
Join in on our Easter Quiz!
Hunt the eggs around Lappa Valley, collect the letters and when you've worked out the secret word hand your quiz sheet in to win a special sticker - and be in with a chance of winning a voucher to spend at Lappa Valley too!
Come and see if you can find the easter eggs around site and find out more about our owls and other animals.
Easter treat for all participants.
Ready for an EGG-citing adventure? Hop on over to China Fleet Country Club between Friday 29th March and Sunday 14th April for Easter Woodland Adventure Golf. Bring the whole family for an Easter egg hunt and solve the clues to win a FREE gift!
'Sealabrate' Easter at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary!
Visit us this Easter for a fun-filled family day out.
Meet the seal pups still in our care, take part in our onsite activities, such as Spring Bingo, Easter craft activities, seal rescue demos, and lots more!
Plus... We've hidden a Magical Golden Puffin Egg somewhere around the Sanctuary, hunt high and low and keep your eyes peeled, there's a special treat inside!
We have live music from Whisky Falls from 8pm.
We will be serving food all day until 5pm and then will be serving bar snacks in the evening.
Free entry and no need to pre-book for the band.
A great time to visit Paradise Park with the start of the ‘Eagles of Paradise Display’ and ‘Free Flying Bird Show’ plus, close encounters at Lorikeet feeding time and the Easter Golden Egg Challenge with some yummy chocolate rewards.
St Ives Kite Fest
1:00 pm | 1pm - 3pm
Let's bring in the Spring!
There’s something special about St Ives in spring. Clear, expansive skies and fresh sea air. As the clocks go forward and we leap into the new season, it’s the ideal time to blow away the cobwebs and embrace the elements with a fun, free activity for all. St Ives Kite Fest is back again for 2024!
Turn up, take off and have fun at The Island, St Ives on Saturday 30th March!
You can also make your own kite ready for Flight Day at St Ives Library on Saturday 23rd March at our Kite Making Workshops.
01736 796297
The Island
St Ives
TR26 1PL
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
This Easter holidays at The NLH our most popular activity is back! Visit the hatchery during the school Easter holidays here in Padstow, and enjoy a variety of science based games to inspire the next generation of Marine Biologists! Think microscopes, mystery trails and more visit The National Lobster Hatchery this Easter.
Activities all included with an annual pass, open daily 10-4
This Easter, join us at Cornwall’s Secret World of Play and Trains for a weekend of fabulous fun for the whole family – including chances to win prizes and even a unique opportunity to get up-close with our locomotives!
We’re open every day from the 28th March – no booking is required, just buy your ticket from the Ticket Office and hop on board!
Find out our train times and prices here.
Lappa Valley Duck Racing!
On your marks, get set.... QUACK!
Across Easter Weekend, join the Lappa team for our exciting Duck Racing Weekend – with free races across the boating lake and easter-themed prizes to be won!
Come and collect your ticket, and if your corresponding yellow duck wins - so do you!
Sit inside a real Steam Train!
This is a rare chance to get up-close with one of our Steam Trains!
Come and sit in the front and find out what all the levers and controls do - ask questions and of course, be the envy of your family and friends with a really cool photo opportunity!
We cannot guarantee which train will be available, but it will be either Ruby, Ellie or Muffin. Please note the engine will be a static display.
Join in on our Easter Quiz!
Hunt the eggs around Lappa Valley, collect the letters and when you've worked out the secret word hand your quiz sheet in to win a special sticker - and be in with a chance of winning a voucher to spend at Lappa Valley too!
Come and see if you can find the easter eggs around site and find out more about our owls and other animals.
Easter treat for all participants.
Roadford Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
During the school Easter holidays, join a ‘have a go’ session on Saturdays and Sundays to try your hand at sailing, windsurfing, archery, paddleboarding, kayaking or high ropes. These sessions are a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family.
There are also multi-activity days full of adventure for those aged eight to 16 on Friday 5 and 12 April. These could include sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/roadford-easter-2024
Stithians Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
Join us for a 'have a go' session in sailing or windsurfing - a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family. Or try your hand at a variety of land and water-based activities on a Multi-Activity Day (ages 8-16). This could be sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
Join the Easter Extravaganza on Saturday 30 March to participate in a mixture of on land and on water activities and challenges, working together in teams to collect clues and win chocolate!
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/stithians-easter-activities-2024
Ready for an EGG-citing adventure? Hop on over to China Fleet Country Club between Friday 29th March and Sunday 14th April for Easter Woodland Adventure Golf. Bring the whole family for an Easter egg hunt and solve the clues to win a FREE gift!
'Sealabrate' Easter at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary!
Visit us this Easter for a fun-filled family day out.
Meet the seal pups still in our care, take part in our onsite activities, such as Spring Bingo, Easter craft activities, seal rescue demos, and lots more!
Plus... We've hidden a Magical Golden Puffin Egg somewhere around the Sanctuary, hunt high and low and keep your eyes peeled, there's a special treat inside!
St Endellion Music Festival
The St Endellion Music Festivals take place at Easter and in the Summer every year, bringing together a wide range of musicians from all over the world to perform opera, choral, orchestral, chamber and recital concerts in the inspiring and intimate atmosphere of the Collegiate Church of St Endellion, North Cornwall and surrounds. St Endellion is near Port Isaac, about a mile from the glorious North Cornwall Coast.
Each year a community forms out of the shared desire to experience music for the sheer joy of it. What makes the Festivals special is that at the heart of everything is an immense spirit of generosity. The aim is to create the best Festival possible on the smallest possible budget – therefore the musicians and singers, the stage managers and administrators, the cooks and washers-up all give their services for free. The chorus and orchestra all contribute to the cost of accommodation and the balance is raised from the box office and the Festival Friends scheme. Ticket prices are kept as low as possible and the aim is to break even, with any surplus being put towards future festivals. Somehow the freedom from commercial constraints and from the pursuit of success enables every performer to rediscover why music is so important – it forms bonds, it connects people, it speaks as Beethoven desired “from the heart to the heart”. Rather than sharing an expensive bottle of wine in a posh restaurant, St Endellion is like finding a fresh mountain spring on a warm summer’s day and taking great gulps of the most delicious drink imaginable.
The St Endellion Summer Festival was founded in 1958, when a musical priest, Roger Gaunt, was inspired to invite a group of college friends down to help him renovate St Endellion’s derelict rectory. Slowly the festival grew and evolved from a group of friends putting on small-scale concerts and an annual play to include an orchestra and a chorus. And from the ranks of its enthusiastic participants emerged a young Cambridge graduate and organist - Richard Hickox - who became Artistic Director in the mid Seventies, when he also instituted a sister festival at Easter. Under Richard’s baton the festival developed and its reputation grew, and he remained at the helm until his premature death in 2008.
The Summer Festival has entered a new chapter and goes from strength to strength under the leadership of Artistic Director Mark Padmore, whilst still remaining true to the foundations laid by Richard. Concert performances of opera have become a popular tradition; Endellion operas include The Rake’s Progress, The Magic Flute, Ariadne auf Naxos, Gloriana, Tannhaüser, Die Walküre, Peter Grimes, Carmen, La bohème, Gloriana and Boris Godunov, with Sir John Tomlinson in the title role.
The Easter Festival has grown no less and was chaired from its inception until 2016 by its co-founder Fran Hickox, who latterly was also Festival Director. With a slightly shorter rehearsal period, and taking place at a very different time of year, it has a different kind of focus and concentrates more on smaller-scale orchestral works – although larger-scale works also feature on a regular basis. Always falling in Holy Week or the week following Easter, the programming reflects this special time of year, and the Festival is renowned for its performances of the Bach Passions - whose intensity in the church’s intimate setting can match anything experienced on the summer festival’s opera nights.
The Collegiate Church of St Endellion
St Endellion
Port Issac
A great time to visit Paradise Park with the start of the ‘Eagles of Paradise Display’ and ‘Free Flying Bird Show’ plus, close encounters at Lorikeet feeding time and the Easter Golden Egg Challenge with some yummy chocolate rewards.
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
This Easter holidays at The NLH our most popular activity is back! Visit the hatchery during the school Easter holidays here in Padstow, and enjoy a variety of science based games to inspire the next generation of Marine Biologists! Think microscopes, mystery trails and more visit The National Lobster Hatchery this Easter.
Activities all included with an annual pass, open daily 10-4
This Easter, join us at Cornwall’s Secret World of Play and Trains for a weekend of fabulous fun for the whole family – including chances to win prizes and even a unique opportunity to get up-close with our locomotives!
We’re open every day from the 28th March – no booking is required, just buy your ticket from the Ticket Office and hop on board!
Find out our train times and prices here.
Lappa Valley Duck Racing!
On your marks, get set.... QUACK!
Across Easter Weekend, join the Lappa team for our exciting Duck Racing Weekend – with free races across the boating lake and easter-themed prizes to be won!
Come and collect your ticket, and if your corresponding yellow duck wins - so do you!
Sit inside a real Steam Train!
This is a rare chance to get up-close with one of our Steam Trains!
Come and sit in the front and find out what all the levers and controls do - ask questions and of course, be the envy of your family and friends with a really cool photo opportunity!
We cannot guarantee which train will be available, but it will be either Ruby, Ellie or Muffin. Please note the engine will be a static display.
Join in on our Easter Quiz!
Hunt the eggs around Lappa Valley, collect the letters and when you've worked out the secret word hand your quiz sheet in to win a special sticker - and be in with a chance of winning a voucher to spend at Lappa Valley too!
Come and see if you can find the easter eggs around site and find out more about our owls and other animals.
Easter treat for all participants.
Roadford Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
During the school Easter holidays, join a ‘have a go’ session on Saturdays and Sundays to try your hand at sailing, windsurfing, archery, paddleboarding, kayaking or high ropes. These sessions are a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family.
There are also multi-activity days full of adventure for those aged eight to 16 on Friday 5 and 12 April. These could include sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/roadford-easter-2024
Stithians Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
Join us for a 'have a go' session in sailing or windsurfing - a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family. Or try your hand at a variety of land and water-based activities on a Multi-Activity Day (ages 8-16). This could be sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
Join the Easter Extravaganza on Saturday 30 March to participate in a mixture of on land and on water activities and challenges, working together in teams to collect clues and win chocolate!
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/stithians-easter-activities-2024
Ready for an EGG-citing adventure? Hop on over to China Fleet Country Club between Friday 29th March and Sunday 14th April for Easter Woodland Adventure Golf. Bring the whole family for an Easter egg hunt and solve the clues to win a FREE gift!
'Sealabrate' Easter at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary!
Visit us this Easter for a fun-filled family day out.
Meet the seal pups still in our care, take part in our onsite activities, such as Spring Bingo, Easter craft activities, seal rescue demos, and lots more!
Plus... We've hidden a Magical Golden Puffin Egg somewhere around the Sanctuary, hunt high and low and keep your eyes peeled, there's a special treat inside!
St Endellion Music Festival
The St Endellion Music Festivals take place at Easter and in the Summer every year, bringing together a wide range of musicians from all over the world to perform opera, choral, orchestral, chamber and recital concerts in the inspiring and intimate atmosphere of the Collegiate Church of St Endellion, North Cornwall and surrounds. St Endellion is near Port Isaac, about a mile from the glorious North Cornwall Coast.
Each year a community forms out of the shared desire to experience music for the sheer joy of it. What makes the Festivals special is that at the heart of everything is an immense spirit of generosity. The aim is to create the best Festival possible on the smallest possible budget – therefore the musicians and singers, the stage managers and administrators, the cooks and washers-up all give their services for free. The chorus and orchestra all contribute to the cost of accommodation and the balance is raised from the box office and the Festival Friends scheme. Ticket prices are kept as low as possible and the aim is to break even, with any surplus being put towards future festivals. Somehow the freedom from commercial constraints and from the pursuit of success enables every performer to rediscover why music is so important – it forms bonds, it connects people, it speaks as Beethoven desired “from the heart to the heart”. Rather than sharing an expensive bottle of wine in a posh restaurant, St Endellion is like finding a fresh mountain spring on a warm summer’s day and taking great gulps of the most delicious drink imaginable.
The St Endellion Summer Festival was founded in 1958, when a musical priest, Roger Gaunt, was inspired to invite a group of college friends down to help him renovate St Endellion’s derelict rectory. Slowly the festival grew and evolved from a group of friends putting on small-scale concerts and an annual play to include an orchestra and a chorus. And from the ranks of its enthusiastic participants emerged a young Cambridge graduate and organist - Richard Hickox - who became Artistic Director in the mid Seventies, when he also instituted a sister festival at Easter. Under Richard’s baton the festival developed and its reputation grew, and he remained at the helm until his premature death in 2008.
The Summer Festival has entered a new chapter and goes from strength to strength under the leadership of Artistic Director Mark Padmore, whilst still remaining true to the foundations laid by Richard. Concert performances of opera have become a popular tradition; Endellion operas include The Rake’s Progress, The Magic Flute, Ariadne auf Naxos, Gloriana, Tannhaüser, Die Walküre, Peter Grimes, Carmen, La bohème, Gloriana and Boris Godunov, with Sir John Tomlinson in the title role.
The Easter Festival has grown no less and was chaired from its inception until 2016 by its co-founder Fran Hickox, who latterly was also Festival Director. With a slightly shorter rehearsal period, and taking place at a very different time of year, it has a different kind of focus and concentrates more on smaller-scale orchestral works – although larger-scale works also feature on a regular basis. Always falling in Holy Week or the week following Easter, the programming reflects this special time of year, and the Festival is renowned for its performances of the Bach Passions - whose intensity in the church’s intimate setting can match anything experienced on the summer festival’s opera nights.
The Collegiate Church of St Endellion
St Endellion
Port Issac
A great time to visit Paradise Park with the start of the ‘Eagles of Paradise Display’ and ‘Free Flying Bird Show’ plus, close encounters at Lorikeet feeding time and the Easter Golden Egg Challenge with some yummy chocolate rewards.
Marine life and the ocean provides such an inspiration to the arts, and we are proud to have hosted many exhibitions from photography to pottery showcasing local talent here at our centre in Padstow.
This March and April it is Kathryn Burgess turn and her incredible ‘Flowmotion Art’ will be on display in our centre from 1st March to the end of April.
Kathryn’s art is created using the generic term of ‘fluid art’, which covers a range of techniques to move liquid acrylic paint across the canvas, rather than a more traditional style of applying paint with a brush.
The exhibition is included with all annual passes
This Easter holidays at The NLH our most popular activity is back! Visit the hatchery during the school Easter holidays here in Padstow, and enjoy a variety of science based games to inspire the next generation of Marine Biologists! Think microscopes, mystery trails and more visit The National Lobster Hatchery this Easter.
Activities all included with an annual pass, open daily 10-4
This Easter, join us at Cornwall’s Secret World of Play and Trains for a weekend of fabulous fun for the whole family – including chances to win prizes and even a unique opportunity to get up-close with our locomotives!
We’re open every day from the 28th March – no booking is required, just buy your ticket from the Ticket Office and hop on board!
Find out our train times and prices here.
Lappa Valley Duck Racing!
On your marks, get set.... QUACK!
Across Easter Weekend, join the Lappa team for our exciting Duck Racing Weekend – with free races across the boating lake and easter-themed prizes to be won!
Come and collect your ticket, and if your corresponding yellow duck wins - so do you!
Sit inside a real Steam Train!
This is a rare chance to get up-close with one of our Steam Trains!
Come and sit in the front and find out what all the levers and controls do - ask questions and of course, be the envy of your family and friends with a really cool photo opportunity!
We cannot guarantee which train will be available, but it will be either Ruby, Ellie or Muffin. Please note the engine will be a static display.
Join in on our Easter Quiz!
Hunt the eggs around Lappa Valley, collect the letters and when you've worked out the secret word hand your quiz sheet in to win a special sticker - and be in with a chance of winning a voucher to spend at Lappa Valley too!
Come and see if you can find the easter eggs around site and find out more about our owls and other animals.
Easter treat for all participants.
Roadford Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
During the school Easter holidays, join a ‘have a go’ session on Saturdays and Sundays to try your hand at sailing, windsurfing, archery, paddleboarding, kayaking or high ropes. These sessions are a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family.
There are also multi-activity days full of adventure for those aged eight to 16 on Friday 5 and 12 April. These could include sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/roadford-easter-2024
Stithians Lake is the perfect place to visit this Easter! Enjoy an unforgettable family adventure, jam-packed with new experiences.
Join us for a 'have a go' session in sailing or windsurfing - a great way to try an activity for the first time with friends or family. Or try your hand at a variety of land and water-based activities on a Multi-Activity Day (ages 8-16). This could be sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, stand up paddleboarding and raft building, depending on the weather conditions on the day.
Join the Easter Extravaganza on Saturday 30 March to participate in a mixture of on land and on water activities and challenges, working together in teams to collect clues and win chocolate!
You can also hire a variety of watersports equipment and launch your own craft.
For more information and to book see https://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/Event/stithians-easter-activities-2024
Ready for an EGG-citing adventure? Hop on over to China Fleet Country Club between Friday 29th March and Sunday 14th April for Easter Woodland Adventure Golf. Bring the whole family for an Easter egg hunt and solve the clues to win a FREE gift!
'Sealabrate' Easter at the Cornish Seal Sanctuary!
Visit us this Easter for a fun-filled family day out.
Meet the seal pups still in our care, take part in our onsite activities, such as Spring Bingo, Easter craft activities, seal rescue demos, and lots more!
Plus... We've hidden a Magical Golden Puffin Egg somewhere around the Sanctuary, hunt high and low and keep your eyes peeled, there's a special treat inside!
St Endellion Music Festival
The St Endellion Music Festivals take place at Easter and in the Summer every year, bringing together a wide range of musicians from all over the world to perform opera, choral, orchestral, chamber and recital concerts in the inspiring and intimate atmosphere of the Collegiate Church of St Endellion, North Cornwall and surrounds. St Endellion is near Port Isaac, about a mile from the glorious North Cornwall Coast.
Each year a community forms out of the shared desire to experience music for the sheer joy of it. What makes the Festivals special is that at the heart of everything is an immense spirit of generosity. The aim is to create the best Festival possible on the smallest possible budget – therefore the musicians and singers, the stage managers and administrators, the cooks and washers-up all give their services for free. The chorus and orchestra all contribute to the cost of accommodation and the balance is raised from the box office and the Festival Friends scheme. Ticket prices are kept as low as possible and the aim is to break even, with any surplus being put towards future festivals. Somehow the freedom from commercial constraints and from the pursuit of success enables every performer to rediscover why music is so important – it forms bonds, it connects people, it speaks as Beethoven desired “from the heart to the heart”. Rather than sharing an expensive bottle of wine in a posh restaurant, St Endellion is like finding a fresh mountain spring on a warm summer’s day and taking great gulps of the most delicious drink imaginable.
The St Endellion Summer Festival was founded in 1958, when a musical priest, Roger Gaunt, was inspired to invite a group of college friends down to help him renovate St Endellion’s derelict rectory. Slowly the festival grew and evolved from a group of friends putting on small-scale concerts and an annual play to include an orchestra and a chorus. And from the ranks of its enthusiastic participants emerged a young Cambridge graduate and organist - Richard Hickox - who became Artistic Director in the mid Seventies, when he also instituted a sister festival at Easter. Under Richard’s baton the festival developed and its reputation grew, and he remained at the helm until his premature death in 2008.
The Summer Festival has entered a new chapter and goes from strength to strength under the leadership of Artistic Director Mark Padmore, whilst still remaining true to the foundations laid by Richard. Concert performances of opera have become a popular tradition; Endellion operas include The Rake’s Progress, The Magic Flute, Ariadne auf Naxos, Gloriana, Tannhaüser, Die Walküre, Peter Grimes, Carmen, La bohème, Gloriana and Boris Godunov, with Sir John Tomlinson in the title role.
The Easter Festival has grown no less and was chaired from its inception until 2016 by its co-founder Fran Hickox, who latterly was also Festival Director. With a slightly shorter rehearsal period, and taking place at a very different time of year, it has a different kind of focus and concentrates more on smaller-scale orchestral works – although larger-scale works also feature on a regular basis. Always falling in Holy Week or the week following Easter, the programming reflects this special time of year, and the Festival is renowned for its performances of the Bach Passions - whose intensity in the church’s intimate setting can match anything experienced on the summer festival’s opera nights.
The Collegiate Church of St Endellion
St Endellion
Port Issac