The Poly
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The Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society
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FBF Pam Ayres – Doggedly On: A Life in Poems
Britain’s beloved poet shares six decades of witty, tender verse, reflecting on life, love and laughter, with readings and stories. THIS EVENT IS HELD AT PRINCESS PAVILION
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FBF Philip Hoare: Celebrating William Blake
Philip Hoare explores William Blake’s enduring influence on art, music and protest, blending history, imagination and profoundly reflective personal insight.
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FBF Tim Key: L.A. Baby!
Tim Key discusses writing poems in Hollywood, creative adventures, loneliness and laundrettes, with readings, and behind-the-scenes stories. THIS EVENT IS HELD AT PRINCESS PAVILION
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FBF Damian Le Bas: The Drowned Places
Damian Le Bas explores legends and real undersea worlds, from Atlantis to wrecks and ruins, discovering meaning, grief, wonder, resilience.
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FBF Rose George: Every Last Fish, with Hugo Tagholm
Rose George investigates global fishing, law and illegality, communities and oceans, in conversation with campaigner Hugo Tagholm.
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FBF Horatio Clare: We Came by Sea
Horatio Clare brings to life the reality of the small-boat crossings to the UK, celebrating volunteers, lifeboat crews and refugees, blending reportage and memoir with urgent insight.
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FBF Miranda Sawyer: Uncommon People
Miranda Sawyer unpacks Britpop through twenty defining songs, revisiting artists, scenes and stories with humour and incisive critique.
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FBF Irvine Welsh in conversation
Irvine Welsh on Trainspotting’s legacy and its sequel Men in Love; discussing culture, language, clubs and chaos.
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FBF Jay Griffiths: How Animals Heal Us
Award-winning nature writer Jay Griffiths provides a unique and heartfelt insight into the healing nature of our relationship with animals.
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FBF Prue Leith in conversation
Prue Leith reflects on restaurants, Bake Off, writing and Britain’s food revolution, sharing candid stories, lessons, activism, enduring culinary joy. THIS EVENT IS HELD AT PRINCESS PAVILION
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FBF Lally MacBeth: The Lost Folk
Lally MacBeth encourages us to reexamine and revive British folk traditions in her new book The Lost Folk.
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FBF Merlin Hanbury Tenison: These Oaken Bones
Merlin Hanbury Tenison reflects on the importance of home and faces up to the environmental challenges facing our domestic temporate rainforests.
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Equestrian Painter Lucy Kemp-Welch (1869 -1958)
The story of Lucy Kemp-Welch a brilliant artist whose equestrian paintings gave her success but not the fame she deserved.
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Falmouth – The First 100 Years of Tourism 1860 – 1960
This well-illustrated talk will explain how and why tourism developed here, and what aspects can still be seen today.
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Jane Austen’s Regency Years
A talk on the novels of Jane Austen through the lens of the Regency era in which they were written. Talk by Emma Hughes (‘The Lady Time Traveller’).
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Art of War: Artists of the Second World War (1939 – 1945)
In this extended lecture we discover some of the art of the Second World War (1939 – 1945) created by British artists.
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My Helford Sketchbook with Sophie Velzian
Artist Sophie Velzian shares her plein air sketchbook journey, painting the landscape around the Helford River.
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The Art Of Sir William Nicholson (1872 – 1949)
From monochromatic prints, through enigmatic portraits of famous personalities to sumptuous still lifes, Sir William Nicholson’s art captured the Edwardian era.
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The Annual Paul Smales Lecture: Where are Cornwall's Mines Now?
What happened to Cornwall’s lost mines? We join Ben Sumpter for exploration of the secret Cornish underworld.
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The Art and Life of Gluck (1895 – 1978)
In this lecture Art historian Catherine Wallace, discusses the complex personality and various art works of Hannah Gluckstein known as Gluck 1895–1978
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Kernow To Kalahari - A Journey to The Old Way
Stories, survival, and the old ways: the living culture of the Ju/‘hoansi San people of Namibia.
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The Drawings Of Wilhelmina Barns- Graham
This lecture uses the drawings of Wilhelmina Barns- Graham to explore the themes and techniques of her artistic journey through life.
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Francis Hewlett RWA (1930 – 2012)
Follow the path of one of Falmouth’s well-known painters , Francis Hewlett RWA, whose figurative work defied the modernist era.
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Kendal Mountain Adventure Tour 2026 LIVE
Kendal Mountain Events returns for another season of adventure and human connection with guest speaker.
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Poly Pottery: Connections
'Connections' is a celebration of ceramics, reflecting on the dialogue between potters and the many ways in which they...
Find out moreCosy Craft: The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A)
Eccentric lottery winner Charles dreams of getting his favorite musicians, McGwyer Mortimer, back together. The fantasy...
Find out moreFestive Living Wreath Workshop
Craft a sustainable Cornish wreath with living plants and seasonal naturals. Refresh blooms as needed for a vibrant,...
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