Events
at Maker
There’s a wonderful schedule of events through the seasons. Check out the info below, follow us, and get those dates in your diary!
Community Events
Across the site
Music, art, heritage, craft and wellbeing events happen across the site, especially during the summer months, with Patchwork Studios hosting regular live gigs, theatre, wellbeing, and spoken word events, alongside Kino Film Society and Elevation Film Festival. Garrison Gallery hosts regular DJ nights and exhibitions, while Heritage Open Days is regular fixture every September.
Events are delivered by the artistic community here, the best way to follow what’s going on across the site is to follow the Maker Heights Instagram account.
Event spaces
We’re keen to support community events, and we have a variety of small event spaces available. If you have a community event, talk, gig, exhibition or workshop you’d like to offer at Maker Heights or in the Chapel of Rest, please contact us and we’ll try to help.
Please check the Patchwork Studios events pages for events throughout the year.
Previous Maker Heights Events:
Over 60 short films, features, installations and expanded cinema performances from 18 countries, over three days
See the full programme here!
Elevation Film Festival
4 – 6 October 2024
The first ever Elevation Film Festival celebrates emerging voices in artistic, experimental, and expanded cinema across southwest England, the UK and internationally.
We aim to bring together exciting creative talent, welcoming filmmakers to showcase work across a weekend of screenings, workshops and seminars. These cover a range of cinematic topics, connecting regional and international artists in a vibrant community celebrating moving image culture.
Elevation is an in-person film festival with screenings held at Patchwork Studios and other spaces in the historic Barrack Block.
Taking place from 4 to 6 October 2024, Elevation is supported by Patchwork Studios, Maker Camp, Rame Conservation Trust, and the wider community of artists based at Maker Heights
We welcome submissions of artist films, moving image proposals and expanded cinema events. The submission deadline for this year closed on July 31, 2024.
To submit to future editions, please follow our listing on Film Freeway:
Maker Heights Heritage Open Days
7– 15 September, 2024
Celebrating our heritage!
Immerse yourself in a captivating lineup of events at Maker Heights, as part of England's largest festival of history and culture, Heritage Open Days. This year's theme, "Routes - Networks - Connections," promises to unveil the deeper nature of our heritage.
Explore lost art forms through engaging workshops, capture the stories of your family that has attended Maker across generations, and delve into the histories of ancient Redoubts and the forgotten Second Armada.
Step into the past during the first weekend, with an exhibition at Millbrook Chapel - discovering how the space might be used in future, mindful workshops and drawing sessions, and a reenactment by the 32nd Regiment of Foot.
Throughout the week, lose yourself in the tales of early 20th-century Maker, listening to firsthand accounts in recreated dormitories. Gain insights into the Second Armada, and share your own modern folk tales in the flicker of the fire light.
As the weekend approaches, explore a second exhibition at Millbrook, book generational portraits with Dom Moore, and immerse yourself in the rhythms of a drumming circle. Discover the art of mono printing with Helen Round and the craftsmanship of flax weaving with Flax Project CIC.
The festival concludes with two book celebrations: introducing "Cornwall: Beneath and Beyond" and "Twelve Stories for Twelve Sections," offering a glimpse into the rich heritage of the region!
Read more: Full programme here.
Most events are free, but capacity is limited for some, so it is essential to book in advance. Click here to see all events available to book.
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