Raising the bar for Cornish Culture and Arts
The Gorsedh Kernow Annual Conference

The conference begins with a presentation on the Region of Culture project by its principals - Julie Seyler and Miranda Bird. This is a Cornwall Council led campaign to persuade the EU to create the deignation of RoC to match Cities of Culture. To have shaped EU policy will be a key achievement in itself. To then apply for RoC in future will be a key ambition for Cornwall, and Cornish culture should be aiming to be the keynote and the major resource base to make it happen. There is a long way to go.

The afternoon is dedicated to a presentation by Gorseth administrator, Colin Roberts, who is also charged in a partnership between the new Council and GK, with setting up Bewnans Kernow - the Cornish Cultural Partnership. This is a key platform for developing strategies that will support the development of creative, promotional and developmental aspects of Cornish culture, enabling it, amongst other things, to meet the challenges of greater demand and higher standards. It will include a general discussion about the future role of GK in this process.

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Between these two sessions we will feature three practitioners who are engaged in different ways in extending and developing Cornish arts.
  • Pol Hodge will speak about the relationship between film making and the Cornish language.
  • Jowdy Davey will describe the opportunities and challenges of developing Lowender Peran for the next generation in a more competitive and rapidly changing world, including reference to the development of 'An daras' as a 'virtual' component of the modern festival.
  • Neil Davey will discuss the challenges and achievements of managing and promoting Dalla - a Cornish band intent on broadening the market and sustaining a group of people with mortgages to pay who wish to work in the modern Cornish arts.

At lunchtime we will experience the work of two of our best practitioners - Jack Morrison will show 'Nebes geryow a-dro dhe'n SWF!', a short film that won Goven Kernewek in 2007, and Pauline Sheppard, playwright, will present a short piece 'The Bus Shelter’.

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