Tag: Penzance
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Sun build update
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Who Knew? My workshop is a stellar nursery. Gravid with just the one protostar. Making it up as I go along Now I know why so many jazz greats were off their faces more than half the time – like slack-lining across Niagara Falls … naked … while trying to remember the words to Nine
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The Montol Sun
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The willow is here. The sun WILL be reborn. Had a really clear idea this year and then I made a maquette and went: Oh! It might fit through the double doors on the workshop but there’s no way to get it down into town. Would’ve been cool but … I’m not terrified at all
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Cornish Dance Workshop
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Do you know your toes from your heels, never mind your Crowshensas from your Reels?Tros an Treys together with Montol are very pleased to present a Cornish Dance Workshop On Sunday 14th December 3:00-4:15pm Upstairs in the Ballroom at The Union Hotel, Chapel St, Penzance Get your steps ready for Montol with Tros an Treys
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Through the looking glass
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One of the biggest changes we’re making to Montol this year is a complete ban on mobile phones. Well, OK … we’re not … but, believe it or not, it has been seriously suggested. One of the other things that comes up in Team Montol conversations, is a ban on people walking backwards, specifically while
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What’s this Gathering thing?
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So wrapped up in Montol prep it hadn’t occurred to me that half of our followers on FB and Instagram are new and weren’t even here last year … looking at their profiles I think a few of them weren’t even born yet. My bad. So, what is The Gathering? For Montol, traditionally groups of
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Montol is home made
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We think of ourselves as the Mighty Montol but Penzance is just a little place.Well we are famous – in a little way and getting famouser all the time. This year I’ve had to explain to so many people from around the world that we’re not a Festival … in the way that Glastonbury is.We
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Phew!
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A huge thank you to Penzance Council for awarding Montol grant funding again.The money will ensure that this year’s festival goes ahead and is brighter, more brimful and safer than ever before. On Monday 15th September the council voted to award the grant and we are enormously grateful. We are now looking forward to delivering
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How Did Montol Get Its Name?
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On our page about the origins of Montol we mention that there has been – how shall we put it – a bit of to-and-fro in the past about the origin of the name. So we did a bit of looking around and talking to people who were there at the start and here’s a