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On this page you will find a link to a page with Gorsedh Kernow press releases, news and events, a link to the MAGA calendar and a feed from our Facebook page. For 'old' events, please see the archived News page or the archive of the previous website. At the bottom of the page you can find the Kalendar Kernewek organised by the Cornish Office.

You can find the newsletter for August/Sesptember/October 2018 here

Cornwall Archaelogical Society Newsletter September 2018 - fyi.

Press release: Gorsedh Kernow announces host town for 2019

Press release “Support for the Cornish language is growing” says the new Grand Bard of Cornwall

Gorsedh Kernow Awards presentation 2018

New gallery: Bardic Procession

New gallery: Installation of Grand Bard and Deputy Grand Bard 2018

New gallery: The Girls of Cornwall + 2018

Updated Bardic roll: by family name + by bardic name

Press release: “We must control our own destiny” says Grand Bard of Cornwall

New videos: Saturday at the 2018 Gorsedh

New gallery: New bards 2018

New gallery: Awards evening 2018

Press release: Newquay gets ready to host the 2018 Esedhvos Festival of Cornish Culture

Events posters for the Esedhvos Festival and Gorsedh Kernow ceremony 2018. Please print and display if you can.

General programme

Literary Festival Thursday 30th. August

Awards Evening Thusday 30th. August

Time & Tide Thursday 30th. August

Conference Friday 31st. August

Ceilidh/Troyl Friday 311st. August

Main ceremony Saturday 1st. September

Concert Saturday 1st. September

Come All Ye Saturday 1st. September

Cornish language taster Sunday 2nd. Septmber

Press release: Gorsedh Kernow names 16 new bards fo 2018

New gallery: St. Piran's statue at the Vallée des Saints

New Video: St. Peran and the Vallée des Saints

Gorsedh Kernow congratulates successful Cornish language candidates.

Breton Gorsedh 2018 - photos

Press release: Gorsedh Kernow Adults Awards 2018 announced

New gallery: Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards ceremony

Press release: Holyer an Gof Publishers' Awards winners announced.

New gallery: Awen ceremony 2018 at Indian Queens Pit

New video: Awen ceremony 2018

New video: Speak Cornish Week comes to the Awen

Press release: Holyer an Gof nominations announced.

Fifth May 2018. A great weekend in Falmouth. The granite sculpture of St Piran was taken through the town by a steam traction engine, followed by the Gorsedh Kernow banner and some bards, as well as many other well-wishers. On Sunday, St Piran was loaded on to La Nebuleuse and will be erected in La Vallée des Saintes Brittany, later in the summer. There were Cornish and Breton stalls and music and general enjoyment!

Gallery

News release: Gorsedh Kernow Proclamation in Newquay - Grand Bard's speech. Gallery of photos.

New video. Gorsedh Kernow Proclamation in Newquay.

Press release: "Let's celebrate real Cornish cultural identity" says the Grand Bard of Cornwall

A new video - St. Piran's Furry at Penzancec

Press Release: A letter from the Grand Bard to Cornwall Council.

Gorsedh Kernow sends Christmas wishes in all six Celtic languages.

News Release: Cornish Culture and Cornwall Council’s budget proposals.

Press Release: Gorsedh Kernow announces host town for 2018

Jackie Gainey's photos of the Gorsedh ceremony

Gareth Parry's photos of the Gorsedh ceremony

Ivor Corkell's photos of the Gorsedh

New bards gallery

Kesva ceremony

Awards evening at the Esedhvos

Audio-visual presentation of Gorsedh Kernow's Awards and Competitions 2017

Videos of the ceremony in Launceston 2017

New Bards' names.

Grand Bard’s speech at Launceston 2nd September 2017

Press release: “Step Into Cornwall’s Story” says the Grand Bard of Cornwal.

Launceston gets ready to host the 2017 Esedhvos Festival of Cornish Culture.

Cornish Bards in Brittany.

After breakfast in the lakeside town of Huelgoat with delegates from the Welsh Gorsedd (Hywel Wyn and John Bull) Cornish Bards Mick Paynter (St Ives) and Tim Hambly (Launceston) (were met by the Celtic Secretary of the Breton Gorsedd, Veronique Ury-Madec (Sklerijenn) and its harper Jean Paul Ury-Madec(Telennour) and driven with the Welsh to Brasparts, and thence with more Breton Bards to the Stone Circle at Sant Kaduan on the slopes of Menez Mikael where the Gorsedd ceremony took place.

Several Bards and Novices were initiated at the ceremony, Hywel Wyn spoke to the Gorsedd in Welsh and Mick Paynter (Skogynn Pryv) in Breton. He said that Cornish people always felt at home in Brittany which was after all Cornwall’s first colony and hoped this was reciprocated.
Tim Hambly(Roscarrek) carried the Cornish half of the joining sword which was attached to the Breton half and ceremonially presented to Hywel representing the mother gorsedd.

Per Vari Kerloc’h (Morgan), Head of Goursez Breizh, the Breton Gorsedh spoke in Breton of the challenges of recent developements in France and Brittany.
He referred to the success of Macron’s new party  The Republic Marches On
while wondering exactly to where it was marching. He approved of the President’s expressed wish for Britain to change its mind over leaving the EU, but hoped that this was not hiding an ambition to “take over our neighbour’s social position within the Union” he added that Brexit or not the Cornish and the Welsh will always be welcome in Brittany.

After the Gorsedd mead was passed around and all returned to the village hall in Brasparts for a splendid meal where old friendships were renewed, new ones made, music played, and joint business of the three Gorsedds was carried out.  As usual Breton hospitality was unsurpassed.

Thanks for Mick Paynter for the article and photo.

Photo left to right

Hywel Wyn, Mick Paynter, Veronique and Jean Paul Ury-Madec, Tim Hambly

Grand Bard's speech at the Welsh Eisteddfod 2017

The Grand Bard with Alison Davey, Corolyores, on the Esteddfod Field on Anglesey

August/September/October 2017 newsletter Word version. PDF version.

Gorsedh Kernow names 9 new Bards for 2017.

Gorsedh Kernow congratulates successful Cornish language candidates

Press release: Winners of the Gorsedh Kernow Awards 2017.

Press release:Winners of the 2017 Holyer an Gof Awards. Gallery.

Gallery: Awen 2017 at Bollowall Barrow (Carn Gloose) Sunday 18th. June.

Press release: Nominations announced for 2017 Holyer an Gof Awards.

Grand Bard Merv Davey visits Kernewek Lowender in South Australia (May 2017)

Summer newsletter from the London Cornish Association.

May/June/July 2017 newsletter Word version. PDF version.

Gallery of photos: Proclamation 2017 in Launceston.

New Video: Proclamation 2017 in Launceston.

Grand Bard's speech. Gorsedh Kernow Proclamation, Launceston 22nd. Aprl 2017

Press Release: Don’t deny us our global Celtic identity says Grand Bard of Cornwall.

Gorsedh Kernow's 'Do Something for Cornwall' Challenge

Newsletter for Bards: February/March/April 2017 Word PDF

Church services in Cornish

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