St. Ives Arts Club

03/06/2026

Give these guys a follow if you haven't already. They’re trying to build up their new page and we are thrilled they're using the Arts Club for rehearsals.

01/06/2026

Where do the months go? This year is flying by! It's time for another Frug this Thursday 4th June. What is a Frug we hear you ask? Well it's basically an open mic night where anything goes, it's free and you byo drinks!
See you upstairs in the theatre. All welcome.


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31/05/2026

To accompany this year's 'Making Waves' exhibition at St. Ives Museum Cornish Art Historian David Tovey will be giving a talk at Porthmeor Studios on Friday 12th June. Scan the QR code below for tickets or contact the Cornish Riviera Box Office on 01726 63513.

The period from its foundation in 1927 to 1960 was the heyday of the St. Ives Society of Artists (STISA), with many Royal Academicians exhibiting. In order to put St. Ives Museum's 2026 exhibition 'Making Waves' into a wider context, this lecture concentrates on the St Ives resident artists who were the Committee members of STISA and organised the extraordinarily successful touring shows that visited more than twenty Provincial Public Galleries and even went out to South Africa in 1947. These artists all enjoyed very successful careers and had work bought by Public Galleries and yet in the past have been denigrated by modernist art historians as being second rate traditional artists who merely produced pot-boilers for the tourist market. This lecture aims to show how wrong that viewpoint is. Artists featured include Moffat Lindner, Borlase Smart, George Bradshaw, John Park, Arthur Hayward, Bernard Ninnes, Thomas Maidment, Shearer Armstrong, Dorothea Sharp and Marcella Smith.

31/05/2026

30/05/2026

Our colourful Ukulele Collective provided some sea shanties and sing along songs for the crowds at the Boats in the Bay festival today. Watch this space for where to see them next! Visit St Ives St Ives BID The St Ives Jumbo Association


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30/05/2026

Arts Club members are on the road again and going all the way down the road to the Crypt Gallery for the second year running! The exhibition will open on Saturday and run for two weeks with a preview party on Saturday 13th June at 6pm. We look forward to seeing you over the two weeks.

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