A Cornish Bestiary

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2-3.30pm

Tickets

Please book your free ticket via the Ticket Tailor event page £0

Location

Kresen Kernow, Redruth

Dates

Sat 17th October, 2026
2:00 pm |
2-3.30pm

About this event

Author talk – A Cornish Bestiary with Luke Thompson

Join us for a celebration of the animals of Cornwall with a talk from local author, Luke Thompson. Luke’s new book is a compendium of Cornwall’s most curious creatures from folklore, natural history, song, literature, hagiography and the news, featuring beasts real, imagined, suspected, rumoured, feared and hoaxed. Expect plagues of octopuses and ghost dogs, demonic chickens and devil birds, dragons and beavers, big cats and sasquatches, slug charms and owlmen and much, much more in this talk that takes a look at our close historic and creative relationship with the animals around us.

There will be time for questions, chat and book buying after the talk.

Tickets are free, but places are limited. Book your space on our Ticket Tailor event page now.

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Contact

01872 324 333 | https://kresenkernow.org/

Accessibility

Details

Kresen Kernow is fully wheelchair and pushchair accessible, with lifts to all levels and automatic main entrance doors. Accessible toilets are available on both floors, with a fully-equipped Changing Places toilet also available on the ground floor. Separate baby changing facilities are also available on the ground floor. If you are arriving by vehicle, there are six accessible parking spaces at the Tesco side of the building and a level entrance into the building. If you are arriving on foot or wheels, from Redruth town centre, the closest entrance is at the end of the public path which runs through the old brewery site, from Chapel Street to Kresen Kernow. Please note, Kresen Kernow does not have a fire lift, but two fire refuges are located on the first floor.

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