WHAT’S ON IN AND AROUND
TRURO
November 2015
For more information please call
Visit Truro 01872 274555
DATE
Sun 1
Sun 1
Sun 1
Mon 2
EVENT
Children’s Craft
Workshop (in the
courtyard room)
Dedication of the
Field of
Remembrance, inc
the planting of
wooden crosses
Tea Dance – “Old
& New” with
Truro School Jazz,
Karen & Bromley
Hurn and Double
Bounce Band
Windows into the
Apostles Creed £10 per course
TIME
11am –
4pm
11.45am
3pm –
7pm
10am,
2pm
7.30pm
Tue 3
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Tue 3
Strollback the
years walk:
Boscawen to
Malpas
10am
OTHER INFORMATION
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Truro Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
The Alverton Hotel,
Truro
Tickets £17.50 from
Visit Truro - proceeds
to Mayor’s charity
“Emmaus Cornwall”
Pearson Room of the
Cathedral office, Truro
Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meeting place:
Boscawen Park car
park, Malpas Road,
Truro
Tue 3
Richard Alston
Dance Company
20th Anniversary
Season
Tue 3
NorthSouth
Theatre: ‘Pals’
Wed 4
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Wed 4
Churches together
in walking:
Porthcurno
9.30am
Wed 4
Royal British
Legion - Truro
Poppy Day
Adult Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
Lunchtime Talk:
The Portrayal of
Self: Exploring
Shee’s Portrait of
Sir Hussey Vivian
Beetle Drive –
Friends of the
Cathedral
All welcome
Concert: Charlie
Landsborough
From
10am
Wed 4
Wed 4
Wed 4
Wed 4
Preshow
talk
6.30pm
Show
7.30pm
7.30pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Helford Theatre, Truro
College, TR1 3XX
Tickets from Visit Truro
(CRBO)
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meet at car park behind
the Skatepark in St
Georges Road, Truro
Info 01872 273222
Lemon Quay, Truro
11am –
4pm
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
1pm –
2pm
Royal Cornwall
Museum, River Street,
Truro Tel 01872 272205
Places free but limited
– booking required
Chapter House, Truro
Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
2.30pm
7.30pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Wed 4
City of Truro Male
Voice Choir
concert
7.30pm
Thu 5
Guy Fawkes Night
– Fireworks
display – raising
money for
Cornwall Air
Ambulance &
Penhaligon’s
Friends
‘A proposal for
Peace; Calling for
a more humane
future’ with
Robert Harrap
Peter Donohoe –
Classical Season
- Gates
open
5pm
Fire lit
5.45pm
fireworks
6.45pm
Thu 5
Thu 5
Fri 6
Fri 6
Fri 6
Messy Little Ones,
every Friday from
today - £5
Jackie Pullinger
Young People
Event
The Simon &
Garfunkel Story
Carnon Downs Village
Hall, Tregye Road,
TR3 6GH
Tel 01872 865126
Tremorvah Playing
Field, Bodmin Road,
opposite Archbishop
Benson School, Truro
TR1 1BN
Guy judging: 5.30pm
7.30pm
Chapter House, Truro
Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
Pre show
talk 6pm
Show
7.30pm
9.45am –
10.45 am
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
6.30pm
–
9.30pm
7.30pm
Sat 7
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Sat 7
Second Hand
Book Sale (Lions
Club of Truro)
9am –
3pm
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Tel 01872 240567
Truro Methodist
Church, 18 Union Place
www.eventbright.co.uk
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Lemon Quay, Truro
Sat 7
Sat 7
Sat 7
Sat 7
Sat 7
Sun 8
Sun 8
Sun 8
Sun 8
Family and
Children’s Messy
Table – free art
and craft activities
Truro Record &
CD Fair
Music from
Frozen - family
concert with
Cornwall
Returners
Orchestra
11am –
2pm
Truro Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
11am –
4pm
3pm –
4pm
Churches
Together in Truro
Event – guest
speaker Jackie
Pullinger
The Blues Band
3pm and
7pm
Kernow Club, St Mary’s
Street, Truro
Truro School Chapel,
Trennick Lane, Truro
(tickets available from
Illustrated Living,
Lemon Street Market) bring a percussion
instrument to play!
Truro Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
Booking via
www.eventbright.co.uk
Royal British
Legion Service of
Remembrance
Story-telling
Workshop with All
Seasons StoryMakers
11am
Family Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
Hip Hop
Cinderella and the
Pop Prince
7.30pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Boscawen Street
3.15pm
11am –
3pm
Truro Cathedral
Innertide Living Gallery,
21 Pydar Street, Truro
TR1 2AY
Booking and Info Tel
01872 510630
11am –
4pm
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
2pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Sun 8
Sun 8
Sun 8
Mon 9
Live Theatre,
Opera & Ballet:
Bolshoi recorded
Live Jewels
Launchpad:
Games, Music,
Bible Stories, Craft
activities
Requiem Mass for
Remembrance
Sunday sung by
Truro Cathedral
Choir
Buddy Holly & The
Cricketers
3pm
The Plaza, Lemon
Street, Truro
Tel 01872 272894
4pm –
5.30pm
Truro Baptist Church,
Chapel Hill TR1 3BD
Tel 01872 241984
6.30pm
Truro Cathedral
8pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meeting place: Fox and
Hounds car park,
Scorrier
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Booking essential:
Tel 01872 863486
Tue 10
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Tue 10
Strollback the
years walk:
Scorrier, St Day
Lecture Lunch –
Wild Food
Foraging in
Cornwall & the
Isles of Scilly
Spires Dinner Jazz
Night: Thomas
Quirke and guest
10am
Tue 10
Tue 10
Tue 10
Royal Marines
Band
12pm –
3pm
5pm –
7pm
7.30pm
Spires Restaurant, Allen
Building, Truro College,
College Road, Truro
TR1 3XX
Booking 01872 267621
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Tue 10
Talk: Tin Mining in
Lesser Known
Areas of Cornwall
by Russell Holt
7.30pm
Wed 11
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Wed 11
Churches together
in walking:
Perranuthnoe
9.30am
Wed 11
Armistice Day
2 mn silence
11am
Wed 11
Adult Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
One Night of Elvis
with Lee Memphis
King
Live Theatre,
Opera & Ballet:
Royal Opera
House Live
Carmen/Viscera/
Afternoon of a
Faunt/Tchaikovsky
Pas de Deux
Manga Now –
Tuition &
Workshop with
Keith Sparrow
Opera & Ballet
International Ellen Kent – Die
Fledermaus
11am –
4pm
Wed 11
Thu 12
Thu 12
Thu 12
7.30pm
3pm
Truro Old Cornwall
Society, Society of
Friends Meeting House,
Paul’s Terrace,
Campfield Hill, Truro
Tel 01872 242464
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meet at car park behind
the Skatepark in St
Georges Road, Truro
Info 01872 561381
War Memorial
Standards, Veterans &
Bugler
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
The Plaza, Lemon
Street, Truro
Tel 01872 272894
5.30pm
–
7.30pm
Waterstones, Boscawen
Street, Truro
Mob: 07977 219006
7.30pm
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
Fri 13 – Sun
15
Fri 13
Fri 13
Cathedral City
Markets: Food,
drink, arts, crafts
Messy Little Ones,
every Friday - £5
Lemon Quay, Truro
TR1 2PU
9.45am –
10.45 am
Opera & Ballet
International Ellen Kent – Tosca
Open Road
Theatre Company:
‘Hitler Dances’
7.30pm
Sat 14
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Sat 14
Chopin’s 51
Mazurkas
Opera & Ballet
International Ellen Kent –
Carmen
Family Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
Open Road
Theatre Company:
‘Hitler Dances’
11am –
4pm
7.30pm
Watercolour
workshop with
Susan Hillier –
Botanical
Illustration
10am –
4pm
Fri 13
Sat 14
Sun 15
Sun 15
Mon 16
8pm
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Tel 01872 240567
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
St Erme Community
Centre, TR4 9BH
Tickets from Visit Truro
(CRBO)
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Truro School Chapel,
Trennick Lane, Truro
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel 01872 262466
11am –
4pm
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
8pm
Threemilestone
Community Hall,
Pengelly Way,
TR3 6DP
Tickets from Visit Truro
(CRBO)
Truro Arts Company, 26
River Street, TR1 2SJ
Booking
Tel: 01872 240567
Tue 17
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Tue 17
Strollback the
years walk: Idless
Woods
Lecture Lunch –
History of Mining
Heritage Site
Levant Mine
Flea Market
10am
Tue 17
Wed 18
11am –
3pm
9am –
4pm
Wed 18
Churches together
in walking:
Halwyn
9.30am
Wed 18
Adult Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
City of Truro Male
Choir
City of Lights
Parade
(theme ‘The
Museum of Lost
Stories’
and Switch-on of
the Christmas
Lights
11am –
4pm
Wed 18
Wed 18
Wed* 18 –
Thu 19
St Petersburg
Classic Ballet
Giselle
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meeting place: Idless
Woods car park
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Booking essential:
Tel 01872 863486
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meet at car park behind
the Skatepark in St
Georges Road, Truro
Info 01872 273828
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
6.30pm
High Cross, Truro
7pm
Procession starts from
the Richard Lander
Monument, Lemon
Street (schools start
from Truro High School
for Girls,Falmouth
Road)
8pm*
7.30pm
Full details on
www.enjoytruro.co.uk
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Thu 19
Fri 20
National Theatre
recorded on
Broadway: Of
Mice And Men
Flea Market
7pm
The Plaza, Lemon
Street, Truro
Tel 01872 272894
9am –
4pm
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Tel 01872 240567
Mylor Theatre, Truro
College, TR1 3XX
Booking via HfC
01872 262466
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Fri 20
Messy Little Ones,
every Friday - £5
9.45am –
10.45 am
Fri 20
Truro 3 Arts:
Classical Series
Trio con Brio
Copenhagen
St Petersburg
Classic Ballet
Nutcracker
7.30pm
Fri 20 – Sat
21
7.30pm
(+ mat
Sat @
2.30pm)
All day
Sat 21
Cornwall College
Graduation
Ceremonies
Sat 21
Healing that
Works – half day
workshop
10am –
1pm
Sun 22
Family Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
Shakespeare
Schools Festival
11am –
4pm
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Mon 23
Tue 24
7pm
Truro Cathedral
Members of the public
wishing to visit today
should choose a
different day if possible
Friends Meeting House,
Paul’s Terrace, Truro
TR1 1HF
Booking 01752 224137
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Tue 24
Tue 24
Tue 24
Christmas Lino
Printing
Workshop with
Debbie Orford
Strollback the
years walk: St
Agnes Head
Lecture Lunch –
Lord Lieutenant of
Cornwall
10am –
4pm
10am
12.30 am
– 3pm
Tue 24 –
Wed 25
That’ll Be The Day
Christmas Show
7.30pm
Wed 25
Flea Market
9am –
4pm
Wed 25
Churches together
in walking:
Tintagel
9.30am
Wed 25
Adult Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
Come and Meet
Santa
11am –
4pm
Wed 25
5.30pm
–
7.30pm
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Booking
Tel 01872 240567
Meeting place: Wheal
Coates car par, Beacon
Drive, St Agnes
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Booking essential:
Tel 01872 863486
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Meet at car park behind
the Skatepark in St
Georges Road, Truro
Info 01872 240521
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Truro Community
Library
Advance tickets
0300 1234111
Wed 25
Wed 25
Wed 25
Wed 25
Wed 25 –
Sun 29
Thu 26
Thu 26
Thu 26
Thu 26
Reindeers
Santa arrives
Procession start
Led by Camborne
Youth Band,
joined by the
Santa Night run
entrants
6pm
6.15pm
6.45pm
Street Market &
Late Night
Shopping
Camborne Youth
Band
Late Night Fun
Run – Santa Series
for Cornwall
Hospice Care
Made in Cornwall
Christmas Market
(until 9pm Weds)
Farmers Market
additional date
Cornwall Hospice
Care Light Up a
Life Service
Branagh Theatre
Live: The Winters
Tale Live
Academy of
Ancient Music –
Classical Season
15/16
NB: Pre-show talk
on Thu 26 at 6pm.
Until
9pm
Victoria Square, Truro
Route: Kenwyn St, Little
Castle St, River St, St
Nicholas St, King St,
High Cross, King St,
Boscawen St, Princes St,
Green St, Back Quay &
Lemon Quay, Lower
Lemon St, Boscawen St,
St Nicholas St, Victoria
Square
Truro
Road closure from 2pm
6pm –
8pm
7.30pm
Boscawen Street, Truro
10am –
5pm
Lemon Quay, Truro
From
9am
7pm
Lemon Quay Truro
7.15pm
The Plaza, Lemon
Street, Truro
Tel 01872 272894
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
7.30pm
Sign up
Tel 01726 668668
Truro Cathedral
Fri 26
Messy Little Ones,
every Friday - £5
9.45am –
10.45 am
Fri 27
Show of Hands
7.30pm
Fri 27
Martin Simpson,
(acoustic & slide
guitar)
7.30pm
Sat 28
08.40am
Sat 28
Churches together
in walking: The
Long Walk
Perranporth to
Truro
Flea Market
Sat 28
Craft Fair
10.30am
– 4pm
Sat 28
Family and
Children’s Messy
Table – free art
and craft activities
Jimmy Carr: Funny
Business
11am –
2pm
Three Spires
Singers Concerts:
Verdi Requiem
Family Christmas
Craft Workshop
(in the courtyard
room)
7.30pm
Sat 28
Sat 28
Sun 29
9am –
4pm
7pm &
10pm
11am –
4pm
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Tel 01872 240567
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Devoran Church,
Devoran Lane TR3 6PT
07775 423751 or
booking via HfC
01872 262466
Meet at Truro Bus
Station Truro
Info 01872 561381
Boscawen Foyer, Back
of Hall for Cornwall,
Boscawen Street, Truro
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Truro Cathedral
Tel 01872 276782
Hall for Cornwall, Truro
Booking
Tel: 01872 262466
Truro Cathedral
Booking with
HfC 01872 262466
Trelissick (NT), Feock
TR3 6QL
Tel 01872 862090
Sun 29
Bec Applebee: The
Ugly Sisters
8pm
Mon 30
Handmade Books
for Christmas
Workshop –
Megan
Stallworthy
Truro High School
Carol Service
10am –
4pm
Mon 30
7.15pm
St Erme Community
Centre, TR4 9BH
Tickets from Visit Truro
(CRBO)
Truro Arts Company,
River Street TR1 2SJ
Booking
Tel 01872 240567
Truro Cathedral
Royal Cornwall Museum: Exhibitions
Edge – Paula Downing and Antony Hosking, until 23rd January 2016
Space Visualised – Terry Pope, from 7th November until 27th February 2016
See Poldark’s Cornwall, until 30th April 2016
The Campaign Trail: Sir Hussey Vivian, From Waterloo to Westminster,
until 2nd January 2016
Art Galleries:
Lander Gallery
Pydar Gallery
Lemon Street Gallery
Lane Gallery
Truro Arts Company:
Heseltine Gallery (Truro School)
Studio 61 2015
Truro Cathedral:
For more daily information, pick up a copy of the Truro Cathedral Leaflet.
Remembrance Art Exhibit from Truro High School students (Mon-Sat 105pm & Sun 12-4pm)
CHILDREN:
For more information on events in Cornwall for Children please pick up a
copy of Blackbird Pie or Octopus from the Tourist Information Centre.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth: Every Monday during
term-time, 11 – 11.30am, Minnows’ Tales (stories, songs & rhymes
especially for little ones)
Hall for Cornwall: Term-time Activities
Toddler Tango (ages 2 -4) every Friday, 10.15 am or 11.15 am - £5 per
session (Max 2 children per adult - adult free) – Booking on 01872 262466
Little Waves - Story reading for under 5’s, free - Every Tuesday 10.30am in
HfC coffee shop
Truro Community Library:
Baby Bounce and Rhyme -coffee morning on the last Wednesday of the
month, 10am – 11am
Children’s after school club - Tuesdays, 3.45pm – 4.45pm (term time) age
5+ (tel: 07973 623242)
Storytime sessions - Mondays 2pm – 2.30pm & Wednesdays 1am –
10.30am (under-fives and their carers)
Truro Arts Company: For the 5-7 year old and 8-11 year old membership
for Saturday morning workshops – Tel 01872 240567 for more information
& prices.
For 10 year old Truro Arts Academy, Fridays 4pm – 5pm
Art Club for Grown-Ups, every Tuesday, 6.30pm – 8.30pm and/or Thu
10am – 11.30am - £10
DAILY EVENTS:
The Plaza Cinema – Lemon Street - Truro 01872 272894
Truro Ten Pin Bowling Centre – Truro 01872 222333
Truro Leisure Centre – Truro 01872 261628
WEEKLY:
Farmers Market, Lemon Quay - Wednesdays & Saturdays: 9am – 4pm
Truro City Cattle Market TR1 1RJ (0780 7807888) –
Car Boot Sale Sundays from 12 noon. Truro Cattle Market TR1 1RJ
Tel 078 07807888
Touch Rugby (social & fun non-contact game) for men & women - 6.15pm8pm, every Wednesdays Truro Rugby Club TR1 1NY (07739 426678):
Classes in Ballet, Tap, Modern, Acting & Singing for the stage: every
Thursday at Threemilestone Community Centre 01872 865865176 or
01872 273418 – Classes between 4pm & 8pm
Beginner’s ballroom dance club teaching tango, cha cha, swing, waltz,
foxtrot and others – Tue 7pm – 9pm & Sat 7pm – 10pm – All Saints
Highertown Church Hall, Tresawls Road, Highertown, Truro TR1 3LD
Tel 0744 3564760
Carrick Chess: Wednesday evenings from 6.30pm, Carnon Downs Village
Hall Tel: 01872 858602
Live Music in Truro:
Friday nights: The Old Ale House, Quay Street & Bunters Bar, Little Castle
Street
Jazz: The Wine Barrel: (occasionally) tel 01872 272757
MONTHLY:
Cornwall Bottle Collectors Club (First Saturday) 2pm – Church Hall, Kea, Nr
Truro
Local Produce Market (Last Saturday) 9am – 12pm Village Hall, Carnon
Downs
Grampound Village Hall Antique Fair, every third Sunday –
grampoundantiquesfair.co.uk
Ist Wednesday of the month – 2pm at British Legion Club, Oddfellows’
over-50s Friendship Centre
U3A monthly meeting at the Kernow Club: 2pm social meeting & a quiz
session – fourth Tuesday of the month – Tel 01872 273678
Truro Old Cornwall Society: Meeting second Tuesday of each month (Sept
– April), Society of Friends Meeting House, Paul’s Terrace, Campfield Hill,
Truro. Secretary 01872 242464
Truro Civic Society: Interested in the care, beauty, history and character of
the City and its surroundings? Meetings held every 6 weeks in Municipal
Building, Boscawen Street Truro – 7pm to 9pm. Info Tel: 01872 241146
It is advisable to check with event organisers in advance of travelling in
case the event is cancelled, postponed or moved to another venue, etc.