MAYES CREATIVE produce creative engagement opportunities for Cornwall and Devon. In partnership with heritage, science and technology partners, our aim is to bring exciting events, activities and experiences to local communities, whilst continually seeking new ways to share inspiring ideas through creative collaboration.

Latest News...

How do you make films about
​the stars?

Our young filmmakers at Liskeard school are working with Jo Mayes and Jacqui Knight from Cinestar to think about and work out ways of making films about the history of astronomy....how do you show time, stars, our relationships to planets without telescopes? Students saw examples of films from artists Derek Jarman and SemiConductor to help them find creative inspiration... Students filmed glitter in water and food dye in the air to represent the stars, alongside filming light in unusual ways to help think about our relationship to time, waves and particles. Wow! Next week they are off to The Hurlers to try some outdoor filming to add to their experiments. Watch this space!

Vital Spark: call for involvement

Exciting opportunity for Liskeard creatives! See below....

Dark Skies: Bright Stars - Astronomy Heritage Project

Mayes Creative is now working on an exciting new project series, inspired by the Bodmin Moor Dark Skies bid. Our first phase, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Feast, involves looking at the heritage of astronomy in Cornwall, working with Brian Sheen of the Roseland Observatory & Caroline Kennett of South West Astronomy Heritage and our team of artists. A first call is out for dancers to work with Lois Taylor on her exciting Rosehip Barn astronomy heritage project and four schools around The Hurlers are booking up for heritage tours and an amazing shadow puppetry project led by Cornwall artist Reg Payn.
School children at the Hurlers
Darite school pupils visit The Hurlers site as research for our puppetry project. Travel support kindly supplied by Cornwall Heritage Trust

Dark Skies: Bright Stars Phase 2 Plans...

WE ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO LEARN MORE about the world we live in, through creative exploration. Our next phase moves into the exciting territory of deep space astronomy and Cosmic Rays....
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Phase 2 sees a significant expansion of the project, involving Launceston Museum, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, more schools, community groups and local libraries in the area. ...more news here as we have it! We are seeking additional funding to bring in exciting new science and technology partners to extend the project into deep space exploration (contemporary astronomy), including a Raspberry Pi home-built cosmic ray detector! Exciting talks this week with Falmouth University Computing for Games Department abut how to visualise/work with our cosmic ray data in a virtual world.....

Love To Read, at Plymouth University

Love To Read: The Love To Read filmmaking project - created at Loop The Loop in Saltash on Love To Read weekend last November - was screened at Plymouth University last month. Five filmmakers were given 100ft of film to create work about their experience of being at Saltash Library, which was kept open on a Saturday afternoon specially for the project. The results were screened at the Future Imperfect Symposium at Plymouth University and will be screening at the libraries as part of our exhibition of project outcomes over the next few months.

Loop the Loop news….

We have just completed Loop the Loop in Saltash, Looe and Liskeard libraries. Wonderful creative outcomes, music film, graphic drawing and photography! We are currently planning our exhibition of outcomes at local libraries, along with those from the Branching Out project over the next few months. Info on the project so far at LoopCornwall.com
Headline image credit: Still from Day Trip to Looe, (Joanna Mayes 2016) made as part of Loop the Loop: Branching Out. Dancers Lois Taylor & Sarah Fairhill.
Creative Production * Participatory Artwork * Performance * Experimental Film *