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Breton and Cornish Piran Statue Celebrations in Falmouth

The spectacular Breton sculpture park La Vallée des Saints, (the Valley of the Saints) celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2018 and will mark the milestone by unveiling its 100th giant statue in Falmouth on the 5th May, 2018.

Located on a feudal mound in central Brittany, the park immortalises the priests and monks from Cornwall, Ireland, Wales and Scotland who left their mark on the region 1,500 years ago, such as St Brieuc and St Malo. 

Saturday 28th April, 2018 will again see thousands flock to Camborne to celebrate Richard Trevithick, that great Cornish engineer so sadly neglected by the British Parliament in 1828, as has been and still is usual in their handling of Cornwall and Cornish matters. But we celebrate despite their governments aim to subsume us as part of their bland greater England project so desired by the Rt Hon Sajid Javid MP.

Here is the great man's story:

Richard Trevithick, was born in Illogan, Cornwall, in 1771.

Gorsedh Kernow Proclamation

The Killacourt, Newquay

Sat 21st April, 2018 11am at the Killacourt

Announcing the forthcoming Gorsedh Kernow ceremony

The bards of Cornwall hold their annual Esedhvos Festival of Cornish Culture in a different Cornish town each time, and this year we’ll be in Newquay.

The Proclamation ceremony presents the formal invitation from the Mayor and townspeople of Newquay to Gorsedh Kernow to hold their Festival and bardic ceremony in the town later in the year.

‘What does Cornishness mean to you?’

In 2014 the HM government recognised the Cornish as a ‘National Minority’. After years of campaigning, that means that we are no longer regarded as English in law and now have equal status with the Scots, Welsh & Irish.

Construction work is moving on apace at Kresen Kernow.

The roof tiles have gone on the old brewhouse and most of the windows are in.

The spine that runs across the roof line and ends in the viewing window on the first floor has been covered in copper and it looks great!

The gable ends of the brewhouse are just about finished and work has started on linking the brewhouse to the new archive store.

The archive store is just about complete and it’s huge.

Kernow

27 III 2018

Stop Press: Friday’s ‘Cornwall Housing Summit’ for developers has recommended an increase of new builds in Cornwall from 52,000 to 60,000!

A message from campaign co-ordinator, Orlando Kimber:

Purely by chance, I met one of the UK’s leading landscape architects last week.

The following statement has just been received from C4C:

Dear Friend,

Last weekend (10 March 2018) the event ‘Planning for People or Profit?’ was attended by scores of town and parish councillors environmental associations, local action groups and other activists in Cornwall. The common concern to everyone is over-development and a Planning system that strongly favours profit-seeking housing corporations over the needs of communities.

Kernow

12 III 2018

The following statement has been received from Cornish Solidarity:

Cornish Solidarity was pleased to take an active role to demonstrate its support for Cornwall 4 Change and the Community Voice on Planning (COVOP).

We were able to join everyone in welcoming Cornwall Councillors Rob Nolan and Loveday Jenkin and a number of town and parish councillors along as observers.

C4C - CoVoC Conference a resounding success!

An excellent conference was organised on Saturday 10th March, 2018 at Crossroads, Scorrier, Redruth organised by Cornwall4Change and Community Voice On Planning.

Extremely well attended including by many KMTU members, the room was crowded with scores of those concerned at the amount of house building going on in Cornwall which is destroying all that is held dear.

Cwll Cllrs Loveday Jenkin and Rob Nolan were present in the audience along with dozens of town and parish councillors.

Kernow Matters letter sent to London Evening Standard following members discussion a copy of which is detailed below:

Kernow
7 Mis Merth, 2018

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"A DYING LANGUAGE SPOKEN FLUENTLY BY FEWER THAN 1000 PEOPLE"

....well that's according to a review of 'Le Kov', newly released album of fabulous musical talent, Cornish speaking Gwenno, carried by the widely read newspaper, 'The London Evening Standard'.