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Carn to Cove is Cornwall’s performing arts scheme for rural communities. We fill our wonderfully varied community halls with poetry, laughter, music, drama, stories and dancing. Local people choose the live shows they want to see and hear in their halls. This means we have loads of variety for everyone across Cornwall.
Carn to Cove works in close collaboration with Cornwall Young Promoters Scheme which enables young people to select and promote shows in their communities. Groups are springing up all over Cornwall! If you would like to talk about programming work for young people in your venue or need help attracting younger audiences visit www.youngpromoters.org
The success of Carn to Cove is founded on the commitment and enthusiasm of the local promoters across the county. Tickets can be booked here or by calling your local hall on the phone number given on the events pages.
Please support your local volunteers who work so hard to make a great night out by making sure you are in the village hall on the night Carn to Cove comes to you!
If you are interested in joining our mailing list, our 200+ volunteers, or wish to enquire about including your community on the scheme, please contact us on 01209 312500.
Tim Smithies and Claire Marshall
Carn to Cove
Carn to Cove raised over £4500 through the Big Give Christmas Challenge last December, so we want to say a massive thank you to everyone who pledged or went online to donate during the Challenge Week - it wasn't without it's problems, so we were really chuffed once again to have taken part! Thanks one and all.
Coming Soon
Seven Ages of Man
Kepow Theatre Company
A comedy from one the UK's leading touring theatre companies. Kepow's comedy theatre show explores the seven stages of life that Shakespeare says we go through.
Garnering 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh Festival, Seven Ages of Man had a sell out run and then transferred to London's West end for three weeks, receiving a standing ovation on the last night.
Essentially a comedy with touching moments in it, Seven Ages has been seen at over 350 venues across the UK. Kevin Tomlinson's comedy show will make you think and laugh.
Event Dates
19:30 |
CAVE, Callington Town Hall |
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20:00 |
Carleen Village Hall |
Freddy Dare & The Ginger Robber
Cube Theatre
Fred’s lost his Dad, and now it looks like he might be losing his Mum too.
Looks like a job for... Freddy Dare and the Ginger Robber!
The toe-tapping twosome must dance with destiny, take on a terrifying quest, and stop their arch-enemy before it’s too late!
But as Fred sinks deeper into the world of his imagination to avoid reality, will he ever be reunited with his Mum?
Is it a film? Is it a play?
Yes... Freddy Dare and the Ginger Robber brings you both!
cube theatre transports you on an epic adventure through striking visual effects, great music, strangely-shaped props, exceptional performances, and a dazzling script that packs an emotional punch.
Come and find your inner superhero!
Event Dates
15:30 |
Grampound Community Hall |
Aubade
Cube Theatre
A young female trainee teacher finds herself being mentored by a single, middle-aged man in a failing school.
Beset by shattered illusions and impending failure she burrows underneath her mentor’s placid exterior, little realising that she is about to unleash something hidden- his past and her predicament combusting with horrifying consequences.
Blending film and theatre, knife-sharp dialogue and dance, unflinching realism and fantasy, cube theatre presents Aubade (Oh Bad)!
A satire, a psychodrama, a twisted love-story.
Not for the squeamish or the easily offended.
Event Dates
20:00 |
Grampound Community Hall |
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Kepow Theatre Company
A comic look at love, in all its many forms. Romantic love. Platonic Love. The love of a hobby, pet, money or God. You name it, this comedy show explores it!
The show stars Kevin Tomlinson and Abi Hood (The Bill ITV) and contains storytelling, improvisation and sketches.
Kepow Theatre Company are one of the UK's leading touring companies. Their shows have been seen at over 300 rural venues across the UK.
Event Dates
19:30 |
St Erme Community Centre |
Bach Pilgrimage
Thomas Bowes
Thomas Bowes has led many of the UK’s finest orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, London Sinfonietta, and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but it is as a solo artist, both as recitalist and concerto player, that he has made the greatest impression. Equally at home in the concert hall playing the much-loved music of Elgar, Walton or Britten as in the recording studio leading orchestras in such recent hit films as The King’s Speech, The Iron Lady and Skyfall, British violinist Thomas Bowes will this summer become a pilgrim of that musical giant JS Bach.
This summer he will play Bach’s Six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in five of Cornwall’s loveliest churches and has invited local Cornish poets and writers to read poetry between movements.
Victoria Field is a writer and poetry therapist now living in Canterbury. Her new poetry collection, The Lost Boys is forthcoming from Waterloo Press. She is a former writer-in-residence at Truro Cathedral, which recently hosted a rehearsed reading of her new play Benson. She will be performing at St Bartholomews Church in Warleggan on 31st May with Charles Fox and at St Just in Roseland Church on 2nd June with Philip Marsden.
Event Dates
19:30 |
St Bartholomew's Church, Warleggan |
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19:30 |
Tresmeer Church |
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15:30 |
St Just-in-Roseland Parish Church |
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19:30 |
St Mary's Church |
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19:30 |
St Endellion Church |
Hoagy, Hornpipes, Handel & Hoedown
Mayor & James
This show is spiced with Simon Mayor’s unique brand of off-beat humour and Hilary James' ‘honey-dripping voice’. There can’t be many performers who can slide easily from a beautifully evocative Irish ballad into a mandolin and guitar version of Handel’s Arrival of the Queen of Sheba and finish with everyone singing one of their own notoriously comic songs reminiscent of Hilaire Belloc and Flanders and Swan.
Simon Mayor is one of the world’s leading mandolin virtuosos as well as a fine guitarist and fiddle player. He has had his own series on Radio 2 and an album in the Classic FM Top Ten chart, but his most thrilling moment was a journey through the square window on BBC’s Playschool!
‘A witty and captivating mix of folk, swing, blues and classical showstoppers’ The Guardian
Event Dates
19:30 |
Warleggan Jubilee Hall |
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20:00 |
Millbrook Village Hall |
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19:30 |
The Centre, Newlyn |
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19:00 |
Whitecross Village Hall |
Great Expectations
Dave Mynne
Dark, daring, deft, daft, delightful ...and definitely Dickens!
The sheer magic of theatre and the awesome skill of Dave Mynne (a founder member of Kneehigh) bring you a 'cast of thousands' in this one-man adaptation of Charles Dickens' epic novel.
This highly-engaging production of Great Expectations combines Dickens' profound and complex story of Pip's life, loves and legacies with some of his best-loved, rip-roaring comic characters ...and all presented by one extraordinary performer.
Be prepared to be scared and amazed, to cry and to laugh ...a lot!
Directed by Simon Harvey (o-region/Kneehigh)
Suitable for accompanied children aged 10+
Tickets :
Standard : £9.00
Concessions : £7.00
Event Dates
18:00 |
Launceston Town Hall |
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19:30 |
Grampound Community Hall |
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19:30 |
John Betjeman Centre, Wadebridge |
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20:00 |
Hall for Gwinear |
Click on our venue page for some gorgeous pictures of a selection of our village halls...