The etymology of ecology is oikos + logy, i.e., the study of house or home and family or kin. In this day-long inquiry, we will delve into what it truly means to study our home; i.e. to re-entangle ourselves within a wider web of interspecies relationships. For this we will work with the Penryn woodland as our ecological collaborator.

Join writer, artist and facilitator Sophie Craven for an intensive exploration into the poetics of place…

POSTPONED FROM 08/01 TO 15/01 DUE TO RED WEATHER WARNINGS!

For this session of The Convivial, Ceda Parkinson will invite us to re-imagine our relationship to the spider as we map a web of cultural mythologies. What lessons from the spiderweb can we bring into our own fragile and interrelated world? What if we were as attuned to the vibrations in our environment as spiders are to the vibrations in their web?

Quiet Pen Mornings gather at the Convivial on the second Tuesday morning of every month from 9.15-11.30am starting January 13th 2026.

A quiet morning of companiable writing to soften the solitude of the writing path. A place to settle, focus and feel held by a community that understands the mysteries and challenges of putting words into the world…

A 60 min class with Kasia Murfet to wake up your body, mind and spirit.

Venue: The Convivial, 18 Lower Market St, Penryn

Sliding Scale available £1-£15

If you have been looking for story-place and story-people, come and join this winter solstice evening of myth in its raw form. Sam Crosby of Recalling Fire is coming to The Convivial for a night of sprawling story, food, community around the proverbial fire.

They say bear doesn't hibernate because winter comes, but rather that winter comes because bear hibernates. Time for us to get together and dare ourselves to invite the old stuff…

Join Cory Wilson and Rose Pugh for an evening of academic rebellion and contemplation, exploring the so-called ‘natural unnatural’ that flourishes despite the writings of a cisheteronormative, anthropocentric system. Together, we will delve into the challenges of queering ecology, of dissecting the subjective from the objective, and of blurring the lines between science and society…

A 3rd Year Fine Art, Comic/Zine exhibition on for one day only. With original paintings, comics and prints for sale, a comic and book exchange as well as behind the scenes 'making of' installation…

How can we as Artists/Makers re-cognise, re-concile and co-create with the more than human?

MARE presents the first in a series of workshops and eventual longer course using an alternative art school model, aiming to promote theoretical discussion and application of ideas which have been historically suppressed or sidelined in critical academic environments…

There is so much in the air we breathe – pheromones, spores, viruses, bacteria – that we always speak as hybrid selves, as holobionts, as mouth pieces for the air itself.

So, who really speaks when we speak?

Join writer, artist and facilitator Sophie Craven in a speculative creative writing workshop exploring interspecies communications, translations, and textual collaborations…

Winter asks us to turn inward. The world turns. Darkness is birthright. The underworld calls. Instead of spiralling alone this winter, why not spiral together? Come, turn towards the darkness and wrangle with its questions / have an existential crisis - in community. With candles. And tea.

In the belly of the whale is a fortnightly existential reflection group for the darker months...

A zine making workshop exploring crip theory, mutual aid and creativity with artist Jo Tang.

Come along and become Jo's hands, become an extension of their body-self and support a disabled creative’s work, whilst in turn, exploring what creativity and community means to you in the wider lens of access, crip theory, and queer theory…

A 60 min qi-gong class with Kasia Murfet to wake up your body, mind and spirit.

with Elizabeth Tomos

What stories do stones tell? There is an African proverb that “Mountains don’t meet, people do”, but if stones do meet each other from different places, countries, or even continents, what passes between them? What languages do they speak? How do they converse with each other? Do they experience longing for home when they are separated from their homelands?

What do the stones yearn for? And what do they remember?

Join Dr Rebecca Sykes and Sophie Craven for an exploration of our relationship with water, using pilgrimage, art, ceremony and science. Following water upstream, we will bring attention to water through mythology, posthumanism, flows, tides, hydrodynamics and history, exploring water through both its site-specific particularity and its mythological and ecological universality.

Who is water? How can re-remembering water and its ways and pathways help us become bodies of water for future times?

Winter asks us to turn inward. The world turns. Darkness is birthright. The underworld calls. Instead of spiralling alone this winter, why not spiral together? Come, turn towards the darkness and wrangle with its questions / have an existential crisis - in community. With candles. And tea.

In the belly of the whale is a fortnightly existential reflection group for the darker months...

A gorgeous exhibition space with Raven and other small artists, who will be selling work to raise funds. Raven is so grateful to be on this journey within themself and let others venture into their mind as a trans, disabled artist…

Virginia Woolf stated, "For most of history, anonymous was a woman.” Women of the past are mysteries, their stories shared in terms of roles: wives, mothers, or daughters. 

Join Poppy Wonnacott as she explores the work of Pamela Coleman Smith, and asks the questions: What about the other roles? What about the stories that don’t get told? Did Smith need to be definable to fit in? Do we need to define her? Do we ourselves need to be definable to understand others, to fit in? 

This November, join writer, artist and facilitator Sophie Craven for an intensive exploration into the poetics of place. We will co-develop an inquiry into what it means to become intertwined and entangled with the landscape around us.

Using the ancient woodlands of Penryn, as well as The Convivial’s learning space as our campuses, we will explore what it means to ‘world the world’ (Mika et al) through eco-phenomenology, posthumanist theory and practice, and storytelling…

A 60 min qi-gong class with Kasia Murfet to wake up your body, mind and spirit.

Join local poet and practising witch Andi Searle for a celebration of the magic of Samhain in an evening of stillness, reflection, grief and ritual…

On Sunday 28th September, Falmouth Trans Collective will be hosting their second ever Rad Ed — a celebration of the wealth of knowledge that exists within our community, without the pressure of intimidating and often inaccessible educational institutions.

This time, the theme is QUEERING PRACTICE — what does it mean to ‘queer’ something? How does queerness intersect with creativity, with education, with our lives? How does queerness relate to you?

Join artist Rachel Elizabeth Coleman at the ZedShed, Jubilee Wharf, for a gentle movement and collective imagination workshop to explore what ‘rural life’ means to us, and how we understand and relate to the idea of rural spaces and communities now.

Drawing from their practice as a dance artist, the session will use gentle movement such as walking, sitting and lying down to open up a warm and curious discussion about our personal experiences of rural life, what are some of the challenges rural communities face, and what makes these places unique and important…

Join Kasia Murfet for a 60 min class to wake up your body, mind and spirit.

Sliding Scale available: £1-£15

Cacao helps us to create a space where masks drop, tenderness rises and people meet each other in their humanness. Living well through the lens of cacao means choosing to slow down, listen deeply and offer love freely. It is a practice of remembering that self-love is very much interwoven with community care.

For this final session of evening talks for the summer, join Babu and Moss in a heartfelt offering and exploration of what it means to create a soft circle in which to stir the sacred, sip slowly and move ourselves gently back into the heart of things…

Come on over at 5PM on Saturday 23rd August to hear Penryn’s first poet laureate, Jeni Whittaker, and other acclaimed poets of the poet laureate competition, give a reading of their poems in celebration of Penryn’s town fair…

A free fruit punch will be on offer in the sweet summer sunshine (fingers crossed!)

Our contemporary society operates on a myth of growth, ascension and immortality — all ways of thinking which inspire distraction, future focus, scarcity. But can tapping into the inevitability of endings help us to live with more presence, more cyclicality, and more abundance?

In this generative and reflective talk for The Convivial, musician, writer, story gatherer and funeral celebrant Alex Dunkley will explore the nature of endings and the rituals we use to support and process these…

A drop-in vigil and reading session of 45 Palestinian folktales; all proceeds to UNICEF.

Movements of Solidarity: Embodied practices for change

with Ruth Pethybridge

What moves can you make towards the world you want to build?

What does solidarity really feel like in the body? 

How can we move from 'I' to 'We' as we face the polycrises of the 21st century?

Through this session at The Convivial, Ruth will share her research on dance as a form of protest and gently invite you to participate in movement scores inside and out that reflect on the theme of solidarity and support change from within our own bodies…

Storying from the Imaginal

Have you ever read a great novel and felt that it was alive? Have you ever wanted to write a story or book that was alive in just that way?

In this generative and exploratory workshop for fiction writers and aspiring fiction writers, writer, fiction editor, and book coach Eleanor Robins will present a fresh-but-ancient approach to the fiction writing process…