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Songs for the Future
Wednesday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm Late opening until 8pm on Saturdays
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Wednesday to Saturday, 10am - 4pm Late opening until 8pm on Saturdays
About this event
Sound and song play a central role in the work of award-winning British-Greek artist Mikhail Karikis, whose works employ the power of peoples’ voices and of collectively-produced sounds to focus on themes of social and environmental justice, human action and solidarity.
The exhibition at CAST comprises two short films made with groups of young people.
We Are Together Because… (2025) was made with a group of 52 fourteen- to eighteen-year-old students at the Artallis Conservatoire in Lisbon, with whom Karikis worked on a project that marked the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, which took place in 1974. During the development of the project with the students, he posed a series of questions relating to revolution and democracy. We Are Together Because… brings together the students’ sung responses, reflecting on what can unite us in times of crisis.
Ain’t Got No Fear (2016) features a small group of boys, aged eleven to thirteen, growing up in the post-industrial marshland of the Isle of Grain in Kent. The film follows the boys through their familiar haunts – woodlands co-opted for raves, fields overshadowed by the demolition of a power plant, and disused military tunnels. They rap about their lives, imagining the ways in which their futures might play out, periodically returning to the refrain ‘Are we going to stay or are we going to move?’
The films are shown as a loop with a total run time of 22 minutes.
Wednesday 24 June 2026 – Saturday 15 August 2026
Wednesday to Saturday, 10am – 4pm
Late opening until 8pm on Saturdays
Free admission, all welcome
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Art, Workshops
Fri 14th Aug, 2026
St Ives School of Painting, St Ives
£30 — £30
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Art, Family, Workshops
Fri 14th Aug, 2026
The Gardeners' House, Penzance
£0 — £5
Art, Community
Fri 14th Aug, 2026
The Gardeners' House, Penzance
£5 — £5
Art, Family, Workshops
Mon 10th Aug, 2026 — Fri 14th Aug, 2026
Leach Pottery, St Ives
£130 — £130
