UP FROM UNDERNEATH: an evening with choreographer Kyra Norman and geologist Beth Simons
Nov
10
7:00 PM19:00

UP FROM UNDERNEATH: an evening with choreographer Kyra Norman and geologist Beth Simons

Tickets are £11/£9 prebookable by clicking this link.

In this informal evening gathering, Kyra will share excerpts from her personal archive of writing, images, film, sound and movement amassed through DEEP TIME MOVING research and practice so far....

Kyra will be joined by geologist Beth Simons, a collaborator on Deep Time Moving, who will introduce us to the geology of West Cornwall. 

DEEP TIME MOVING is a creative, original, growing body of multidisciplinary work rooted in Cornwall, inviting us consider and share contrasting ways of seeing time and place, and how we experience change, from the personal to the planetary.

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UP FROM UNDERNEATH is Kyra Norman | DEEP TIME MOVING in Residence at The Hypatia Trust for Hypatia’s Rest Regeneration and Research Residency Series, November 2026

@kyra_norman_ is an artist, dancer, choreographer and DJ based in West Cornwall. Her residency at Hypatia, UP FROM UNDERNEATH, focuses on her ongoing body of work DEEP TIME MOVING, a long-term, multidisciplinary art work exploring dance and geology as complementary ways of knowing, and experiencing, time, place and change.

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Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session
Nov
11
12:00 PM12:00

Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session

RSVP not required. Please drop in!

Explore Hypatia’s collection through the lens of November’s Resident Artist, Deep Time Moving.

Kyra Norman is an artist, dancer, choreographer and DJ based in West Cornwall. Deep Time Moving is a long-term, multidisciplinary art work exploring dance and geology as complementary ways of knowing, and experiencing, time, place and change. 

During her November residency, Kyra will be spending time with, and sharing, her personal archive of writing, images, sound and movement amassed through Deep Time Moving research and practice so far; bringing those materials into a productive conversation with the diverse materials within the Hypatia collection — finding serendipitous overlaps, contrasting ways of seeing time, place and change, and new understandings of these themes.  

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Creatures of a Brief Season book launch featuring Clare Owen in conversation with Cat Belshaw
Nov
14
7:00 PM19:00

Creatures of a Brief Season book launch featuring Clare Owen in conversation with Cat Belshaw

Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to RSVP. Tickets are £4 payable at the door.

Leonard is elderly, overweight, and battling with failing eyesight. The last thing he wants is a stranger moving in.

After years spent caring for her mother, Vanessa has been left struggling to find work. Leonard is her only option.

As the lives of two very different people intertwine, something unexpected happens: assumptions begin to shift, boundaries between obligation and companionship become less certain, and a friendship is forged.

“By turns lyrical and uncompromising, Creatures of a Brief Season is a deeply immersive and compassionate novel told in perfect, pellucid prose.”
— Jane Johnson

Creatures of a Brief Season is a novel about intimacy born of necessity, and what it means to rethink your life when the one you’d imagined hasn’t gone to plan.

Join us to discuss Clare’s new novel and to talk how writing honestly about aging, illness, and end-of-life care is not simply documenting decline but expanding our understanding of what it means to be human.

A companion workshop will take place on 12 and 13 February, consisting of two three-hour sessions for women who would like to explore their experiences of being a carer (in whatever form that may take) through a series of gentle creative writing exercises.

“Beautifully observed, deeply humane, and quietly unforgettable.”
— Paul Taylor-McCartney

Clare Owen worked as an actor and arts administrator in London before marrying a boat builder and moving to Cornwall. In 2008 she set up a theatre company specialising in improvising the real-life stories of audiences around the county, before going on to write and perform her own material. Her poetry and stories have been published in literary magazines and anthologies including Aspier, Mslexia, An Outbreak of Peace, Women Speak Volumes: An Anthology of Writing by Older Women, The Beautifully Mundane, and (in)visibilities. Her YA novel Zed and the Cormorants was published by Arachne Press in 2021 and won a Holyer an Gof award the following year. Creatures of a Brief Season was published by Hermitage Press in Sept 2026 and is her first adult fiction novel.

www.clareowenwriter.co.uk                           

Instagram/Facebook @clareowenwriter

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National Emergency Briefing film screening and talk
Nov
19
6:00 PM18:00

National Emergency Briefing film screening and talk

Free event. RSVP by email to catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk.

The Hypatia Trust will be showing the film People’s Emergency Briefing — a film that discusses the latest evidence on the impact of the nature and climate crisis, how we respond as a community, and how it will impact us all.

Panel speakers to be announced.

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Painting to Poetry to Film: subjectivity and interwoven forms
Nov
20
6:30 PM18:30

Painting to Poetry to Film: subjectivity and interwoven forms

RSVP by email to catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk. Tickets £8 on the door with all proceeds donated to The Hypatia Trust.

featuring Penny Florence and Sarah Tremlett

Penny will show some very short film-poems that move between what she sees as the impossible gap between word and image; that’s always where she seems to find herself, and why she moves between media. She’s looking for new ways of expressing those things that open onto the apparently inexpressible, and she loves how digital media continue to open onto potential innovation. This is why she never knows what form her next piece will take, until it declares itself, and why the joke structure is never far away from what she does: it’s how we get to what we can’t think, let alone say.

Screening two art-based family history poetry films, Sarah will discuss how ekphrastic poetry films facilitate new narrative approaches (interweaving three sources: painting, poem and film). And how a ‘co-existence of perspectives’ can be in play, while expanding otherwise dull ancestral research. She will also read from Horse-Woman – her volatile poetic memoir inspired by early paintings about recording her life living in a London bedsit whilst painting and modelling. She discusses how revisiting your own artwork can help shed light on past unspoken trauma still held in the body.

Penny Florence has published eight books and (she says) far too many articles. She is a member of the NSA (Newlyn Society of Artists) and Professor Emerita at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL She has held chairs in three University departments, despite being a reluctant academic. But she says The Slade was great!

Sarah Tremlett MPhil, FRSA, SWIP is director of Liberated Words online and Board Member of Bristol Poetry Institute. Her films have won international prizes and her book The Poetics of Poetry Film  is the "ground breaking encyclopaedic industry bible".

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UP FROM UNDERNEATH: WORKSHOP with Kyra Norman | DEEP TIME MOVING
Nov
21
10:30 AM10:30

UP FROM UNDERNEATH: WORKSHOP with Kyra Norman | DEEP TIME MOVING

Advance booking required by clicking this link.

Kyra will share some ideas, activities and materials developed through DEEP TIME MOVING research and practice so far, and you will be invited to engage, explore and respond through moving, writing, making and discussion. 

A unique opportunity to be in creative dialogue with the themes of this work - time, place and change - in the particular context of the Hypatia Trust.

Places are limited to ensure a spacious experience, and to allow me to incorporate one-to-one input, where relevant, within the small group context. 

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UP FROM UNDERNEATH is Kyra Norman | DEEP TIME MOVING in Residence at The Hypatia Trust for Hypatia’s Rest Regeneration and Research Residency Series, November 2026

@kyra_norman_ is an artist, dancer, choreographer and DJ based in West Cornwall. Her residency at Hypatia, UP FROM UNDERNEATH, focuses on her ongoing body of work DEEP TIME MOVING, a long-term, multidisciplinary art work exploring dance and geology as complementary ways of knowing, and experiencing, time, place and change.

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Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session
Nov
25
12:00 PM12:00

Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session

RSVP not required. Please drop in!

Explore Hypatia’s collection through the lens of November’s Resident Artist, Deep Time Moving.

Kyra Norman is an artist, dancer, choreographer and DJ based in West Cornwall. Deep Time Moving is a long-term, multidisciplinary art work exploring dance and geology as complementary ways of knowing, and experiencing, time, place and change. 

During her November residency, Kyra will be spending time with, and sharing, her personal archive of writing, images, sound and movement amassed through Deep Time Moving research and practice so far; bringing those materials into a productive conversation with the diverse materials within the Hypatia collection — finding serendipitous overlaps, contrasting ways of seeing time, place and change, and new understandings of these themes.  

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A Bookish Evening
Nov
6
7:00 PM19:00

A Bookish Evening

Click here to RSVP.

Are you a book lover wanting to meet and chat all things books and share your favourites? Come along to this inaugural event hosted by Bevy Collective.

Partnering with local book clubs, The Penzance Library, secondary school libraries, Edge of The World Bookshop and local authors, attendees are invited to bring up to three books to populate a ‘donation station,’ along with a review of their favourite book for display.

Make friends with local book lovers, and bring home a new, highly recommended book. Everyone leaves happy! 

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Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session
Nov
4
12:00 PM12:00

Resident Hosted Open Archive Drop-in Session

RSVP not required. Please drop in!

Explore Hypatia’s collection through the lens of November’s Resident Artist, Deep Time Moving.

Kyra Norman is an artist, dancer, choreographer and DJ based in West Cornwall. Deep Time Moving is a long-term, multidisciplinary art work exploring dance and geology as complementary ways of knowing, and experiencing, time, place and change. 

During her November residency, Kyra will be spending time with, and sharing, her personal archive of writing, images, sound and movement amassed through Deep Time Moving research and practice so far; bringing those materials into a productive conversation with the diverse materials within the Hypatia collection — finding serendipitous overlaps, contrasting ways of seeing time, place and change, and new understandings of these themes.  

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Bearing Witness: Women's Voices, Collective Responsibility - A writing workshop for 16 Days of Activism featuring Mor Poets
Nov
2
6:30 PM18:30

Bearing Witness: Women's Voices, Collective Responsibility - A writing workshop for 16 Days of Activism featuring Mor Poets

Free admission. Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to RSVP.

As part of this year’s 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, Mor Poets are creating a community exhibition and reflection event that centres women's voices, experiences and creativity.

We are inviting women from across our community to contribute their experiences through creative expression. Whether through words, images, artwork, audio, film or spoken testimony, we want to create a space where women's stories can be heard, witnessed and respected.

One of the featured exhibits will be a powerful photography project documenting women's experiences of fleeing and rebuilding their lives after abusive relationships. Alongside this, we hope to showcase a diverse range of contributions from women in our community.

This workshop will guide women interested in possibly sharing their stories for the call for contributions in a safe and supported environment, with safeguarding support will be in place.

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Poetry and Happiness: A Workshop with Katrina Naomi
Oct
17
10:30 AM10:30

Poetry and Happiness: A Workshop with Katrina Naomi

In this uplifting and intimate session, Katrina Naomi guides us through free-writing exercises, which we’ll develop into poetry on the things we cherish. 

You’ll look at ways of turning difficulty around in our poems to add surprise and fresh ideas within often complex emotions. 

Katrina will also offer tips on some of the practical sides of writing, how to look after ourselves as poets, how to deal with rejection (we all get rejected!), plus suggestions on how to keep our creativity flowing, even in the bad times. 

We’ll read, write and discuss. Bring a notebook and an open mind.

SAT 17 OCT: £30

The workshop is capped at 10 people, so pre-booking is essential. Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to RSVP.

Katrina Naomi’s fourth poetry collection, Battery Rocks, (Seren, 2024) won the Arthur Welton Award from the Society of Authors, the Holyer an Gof award for Poetry, and was recommended in The Guardian. 

Her previous collections have won an Authors’ Foundation Award and Saboteur Award, the latter jointly with Helen Mort. She is a recipient of the Keats-Shelley Prize and has twice been highly commended in the Forward Prize. 

Katrina’s poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, The Verb, Open Country and Poetry Please, BBC’s Countryfile Podcast, and in The TLS, The Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. 

In September 2025, Katrina published the pamphlet dance as if with Verve, following a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kyra Norman. Katrina performs her poetry throughout the UK and internationally. 

Before poetry, Katrina worked as an activist and commissioning editor for an international human rights organisation. She has a PhD from Goldsmiths, and tutors for Arvon and the Poetry School. Katrina lives in Cornwall.

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Wild Women Poetry Workshop and Open Mic
Oct
10
2:00 PM14:00

Wild Women Poetry Workshop and Open Mic

Wild Women celebrates those women who, flawed but unbowed, rise from life’s wreckage and carry its story in their bones.

This poetry walks the cliffs of Cornwall with salt in its hair and defiance in its stride. 

These voices cannot be ignored: here is survival, solidarity, and the strength of women’s shared stories. 

This hard-hitting, generous and tender anthology written from the front line of their Mor Poets’ experience. 

These poems, as diverse and wide-ranging as the poets themselves, move through birth and motherhood, heartbreak and healing, disbelief and anger, and the quieter ache of loss and grief. 

Anchored in Cornwall’s own rugged and enduring landscape, these words challenge silencing and shame, speaking truth above all. 

✍️ Poetry Workshop 2–5pm: £20 with RSVP

🗣️ Spoken Word Open Mic 6:30–9pm: £5 at the door

🎤 BOTH: £20

Space is limited. Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to RSVP.

Mor Poets is a women’s poetry collective based in Cornwall that began by invoking the ocean as their muse. 

Founder members Ella Walsworth-Bell, Abigail Ottley, Kate Barden and Fi Read have together written about the special relationship that exists between women and the sea in Cornwall, exploring not only the joy but also the physical and mental benefits of sea-swimming and surfing. 

As a collective, @‌morvorenproject produce community-focused anthologies, live performances, and audiobooks and often collaborate directly with local surfers and sea swimmers. 

Published works include: Morvoren: The poetry of sea swimming ( 2021), Mordardh: Surf poetry (2023) and Mordros: Sound of the Sea (2024).

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Handbags Love and Hatred: A talk and workshop featuring Dr Meredith Jones (WORKSHOP)
Oct
9
1:30 PM13:30

Handbags Love and Hatred: A talk and workshop featuring Dr Meredith Jones (WORKSHOP)

Handbags are complicated, with rich histories. They’re extensions of the body, allowing women to take up more space but also constricting us because in holding a handbag arm movement is constrained.

On Thursday 8 Oct Professor Meredith Jones delves into the memories, desires and freedoms associated with handbags:

💎 Luxury and status
👐 Holding and being held
🥀 Beauty and death

FRI 9 OCT: As a companion to Professor Meredith Jones’ talk, she will host a writing workshop in which you will be invited to unlock the stories of handbags you have known—your own or those of others.

Feel free to bring a handbag or photos of people holding them etc. to the session to use as inspiration. You will leave the workshop with a piece of writing (fiction or nonfiction) that will be rich and meaningful and ready for sharing.

Talk: £10 at the door
Writing Workshop: £35 with RSVP
BOTH: £35 with RSVP
Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to save your spot.

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Handbags Love and Hatred: A talk and workshop featuring Dr Meredith Jones (TALK)
Oct
8
6:30 PM18:30

Handbags Love and Hatred: A talk and workshop featuring Dr Meredith Jones (TALK)

Handbags are complicated, with rich histories. They’re extensions of the body, allowing women to take up more space but also constricting us because in holding a handbag arm movement is constrained.

On Thursday 8 Oct Professor Meredith Jones delves into the memories, desires and freedoms associated with handbags:

💎 Luxury and status
👐 Holding and being held
🥀 Beauty and death

FRI 9 OCT: As a companion to Professor Meredith Jones’ talk, she will host a writing workshop in which you will be invited to unlock the stories of handbags you have known—your own or those of others.

Feel free to bring a handbag or photos of people holding them etc. to the session to use as inspiration. You will leave the workshop with a piece of writing (fiction or nonfiction) that will be rich and meaningful and ready for sharing.

Talk: £10 at the door
Writing Workshop: £35 with RSVP
BOTH: £35 with RSVP
Email catb@hypatia-trust.org.uk to save your spot.

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