1st September - 26th November 2009
Farewell To Sails
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
The final days of the Windjammers
01326 313388
www.nmmc.co.uk

13 to 15 November 2009
Cornwall Film Festival
This year’s festival will be held in a new venue, the recently opened Phoenix Cinema, in the heart of Falmouth.
As always, the festival weekend will offer a diverse array of submissions by filmmakers and students resident in Cornwall. Planned highlights for the 2009 festival will include a number of South West feature film premieres and invited VIPs; a special presentation of the blockbuster climate-change film “The Age of Stupid,” just ahead of the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen; the final vote for the second annual Another Country International Short Film award; and a visiting delegation and programme of short films from this year’s Budapest BuSho Short Film Festival.

Annual Calendar of Events

Falmouth has an exciting year round calendar of events.
See www.cornwall.gov.uk for further details.

March

St Piran's day Celebrations

Easter to October

Pendennis & St Mawes Castles provide magnificent venues for a wide variety of events from fire power through the ages to jousting, theatre and concerts.

Summer Term

University of Falmouth

Exhibitions and summer shows of student final year work.

www.falmouth.ac.uk

Spring

Cornwall Open Gardens

Private gardens open to the public, celebrating Cornwall's mild climate with displays of unusual and exotic species.

June/July/August

Local sailing regattas are held throughout the summer, for full details contact Port of Falmouth Sailing Association on 01326 211555.

August

Falmouth Classics

Falmouth Harbour and Carrick Roads are filled with billowing sails and traditional boats, in this highlight of the sailing calendar, followed by Henri Lloyd Falmouth Week - racing for all types of craft from small dinghy to high performance racing machine. Supported by full day time and evening entertainment, fireworks and carnival.

Tel. 01326211555 (Racing)

Tel. 01326 312300/0845 4583311 (Entertainment).

www.falmouthweek.co.uk

September

Falmouth Festival of Literature & Arts

Three days of author talks, workshops, theatre, art and music throughout Falmouth.

Tel. 01326 211522

www.falmouthfestival.co.uk

Lowender Peran

The Cornish festival of celtic music, dance and culture. Concerts, ceilis, workshops, theatre, pageant and much more.

Tel. 01208 831642

www.lowenderperan.com

October

Falmouth Oyster Festival
Opened by celebrity chef Mat Folas (winner of the BBC Masterchef 2009) in 2009 and timed to coincide with the start of the oyster harvesting season. This annual festival celebrates one of the last remaining oyster fisheries still dredged under sail and oar. Oyster tasting, cookery demonstrations, sea shanties and jazz, an oyster ball, local produce and craft fairs are accompanied by an exciting Falmouth Working Boat race.

01326 377321

01326 312300
www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk

Campaign for Real Ale

An an enthusiastic festival with tasting of locally brewed beer and cider held at the Princess Pavilion.

Tel. 01326 211222

December

To add to the Christmas atmosphere in Falmouth, there is street entertainment and stalls each year for late night shoppers and a Christmas Harmony Choir parade on Christmas Eve morning.