We know that for many of you, a hybrid arts and literature festival might be a totally new way to engage with the arts (and for those of you returning from last year’s digital only festival, hello again!).
The way to think of a hybrid festival is that you can attend ... Read More
Are you a keen writer, or someone who wants to try your hand at writing?
The Causley Festival of Arts & Literature will be offering people the chance to get their creativity flowing and put pen to paper with three digital writing workshops taking place over the festival weekend, from ... Read More
As part of the physical events happening across the festival weekend in partnership with Launceston Town Council we are delighted to bring you Star Crazy - a Miracle Theatre production!
It is written & Directed by Bill Scott with original Music by Tom Adams…
For just over an ... Read More
“A New Kind of Festival: for a New kind of Normal”
Welcome to the Charles Causley Arts and Literature Festival 2021l!
Following the success of last year's totally digital festival, the Charles Causley Trust has decided that 2021 is the year to take it one step further; a hybrid festival. Now ... Read More
After a challenging year, it was a wonderful and uplifting experience to host our Young Person's Prize Giving on Zoom recently. In normal circumstances, prizes are awarded at the annual North Cornwall Book Festival but, in fact, holding the event on Zoom actually meant that most of our esteemed winners, ... Read More
Here at the Charles Causley Trust, we are lucky enough to have in our possession a range of photographs and items once belonging to Causley himself - allowing us to unravel our beloved poet’s life story and inspiration behind his poems and writing.
However, these artefacts, photographs and objects piecing ... Read More
The Causley Festival of Arts & Literature 2021
As we look forward to another year of digital and online events, the organisers of The Causley Festival of Arts & Literature are calling for artists and performers from across the arts sector to submit an expression of interest in participating in the ... Read More
Since 2010, the Causley Festival of Arts & Literature has brought the work of local literary hero Charles Causley to the forefront of Launceston’s rich history during the summer months.
Causley enthusiasts and the literary world more generally, delighted in watching the Festival grow over the years, allowing for more and ... Read More
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of John Hurst, who died peacefully on December 8th after a long illness. Born in Yorkshire, John became Head of The Extramural Department of Exeter University in Cornwall. He was a staunch member of the Liberal Democrat party and became ... Read More
Once upon a time, I was a young English student at Exeter in Charles Causley’s days there. Nowadays, I’m both a Causley Trustee and an Exeter English postgraduate.
I didn’t know Charles Causley. I only encountered him, perhaps a dozen times over 25 years, always anonymously. He’d have no clue at ... Read More
During this year’s Digital Causley Festival of Arts and Literature, we at the Trust were amazed and delighted to suddenly find out that we had a hitherto-unknown Causley descendent joining us in our on-line ‘audience’– all the way from Australia, and over all three days.
We were also very honoured to ... Read More
The University of Exeter and the Charles Causley Trust have celebrated current and future collaborations with a special ceremony held online.
The two organisations have cemented their burgeoning relationship with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding witnessed by representatives from both sides.
Charles Causley was a prolific 20th century Cornish poet, ... Read More