Cafe Scientifique

Tomorrow evening, the 8th of May, we have Falmouth’s very own Cafe Scientifique kicking off with a lecture from Dr Sasha Dall on; “Unintelligent design: understanding the complexities of life”

Dr Sasha is the Snr Lecturer in Mathematical Biology of Exeter’s Tremough campus, and will enlighten us with this broad introduction to the modern study of evolutionary biology, with particular focus on animal behaviour.

Sasha will also be able to give an indication of other areas which his research study group explores; and this may prompt ideas and suggestions for future talks.

Sasha’s talk will start at 8pm, run for 20-30 minutes; and then we will have a brief break for refreshment before the Q&A.

To help manage what might be a sudden rush of orders, you can order food in advance, and you will also be able to pre-order interval drinks on the night.

For more info visit Falmouth Cafe Scientifique’s Link to website

Courtyard Deli performs Miracles!

Ok, maybe not, but we will be performing alongside Miracle Theatre at a couple of their upcoming shows:

The Importance of Being Earnest

St Mawes Castle 8th & 9th of August

Pendennis Castle 16th & 17th August

We will be presenting an array of our wonderful refreshments to the outdoor theatre-goers from 6:00pm on the evenings of the performances; including hot & cold beverages alongside some tasty little nibbles to tantalize those taste buds. Alternatively you could follow this link to book a picnic to collect on the night…

For all the information you need about the current tour click here

And for more picnic info click here

Contact presents CountryBoy’s Struggle

Thursday 26^th of April from 7.30pm

Tickets £7 in advance/ £9 on the door (£6/ £8 with student discount)

Maxwell Golden stars in a fish-out-of-water tale of an MC’s journey from the cliffs of Cornwall to the streets of London on the search for a Hip Hop community. What will he find?

Last October we hosted a very special pre-tour performance of CountryBoys Struggle. We are delighted to be able to invite Maxwell Golden back for another intimate warm-up gig ahead of his short tour of Cornish town halls.

Country Boy’s Struggle tells the endearing story of Michael, a hopeful MC who travels from the wild Cornish cliffs of Bude to the bright lights ofLondonon a mission to find his place in the city’s hip hop scene. His dreams very quickly clash with reality as Michaal faces the challenges of washing dishes, stage fright and eccentric flat mates.  Maxwell Golden brings the story to life with a mixture of physical theatre, character driven comedy and an impressive range as an MC.

Fusing hip-hop and theatre, comedy and drama, this one man-show is an unmissable experience for audiences both young and old.  The intimate and friendly atmosphere at The Courtyard Deli offers the rare opportunity for a small audience to see a high quality theatre performance i
‘Maxwell Golden delivers a searing beat monologue to music…an excellent piece that does a lot with a little.’   n a unique, intimate environment.

- British Theatre Guide on Everything Must Go

“It is a privilege to watch him find his way, not only in London, but within himself and his community. The struggle is very real, but the message is positive and life-enhancing.”

 – Avril Silk, remotegoat.co.uk

You can read Luke Richards review of Country Boy’s Struggle at The Courtyard Deli in October 2011 here:http://www.hivemag.com/maxwell-golden-review-falmouth-courtyard-arts-cafe/

Tickets can be purchased by calling into the deli, phoning us on 01326 319526 or buying online

Ilker Cinarel – An Interview.

When we first approached Ilker Cineral to exhibit his paintings at the deli he suggested that he use the time to test out a new project he was embarking on, where he would be showing his work in cafes and other public spaces.

This in itself isn’t anything new, artists have been using the walls of restaurants, hotels and bars as a way of getting their work ‘out there’ for centuries.  

What was different in this case was that Ilker was suggesting that he would use this opportunity to embrace the spaces he was showing his work in. Rather than thinking of the space as a gallery, he would think of it as a café and consider how this would affect the way people would view his work. He even went so far as to give us the names of his paintings on a ‘menu’ that would be left on our tables. 

‘What was your motivation to start this project, where you will be showing in public social spaces?

When you invited me to show at the café it inspired me to think about what is the difference between showing my works at a café rather than in a gallery space and what the meaning could be? I started to think more about the idea of cafés and I realised how important cafés are to me both culturally and personally. I started to work around these thoughts.

It came to my mind that there were two different ways of looking at it through Coffee as a drink and café as a space. These two things presented a starting point for this project. It led me to think about how my work could be like a sort of coffee that stimulates conversation in a more relaxed and informal place.

From reading your statement it’s obvious that coffee, and coffee culture is really important to you and your background. How different do you find that culture in Cornwall, or the Rest of Briton, compared to Turkey or the rest of Europe?

Turkish Coffee in my culture is drunk publicly by everyone after each meal, and is offered to guests

 as a gesture of hospitality and friendship. I like to think of my work in this same context. Generally woman love to visit each other to have a coffee and to read their fortune and open up honest and trusting dialogues.

However the Kahvahane – kahve(coffee) hane(house) is generally for men as a meeting place to play 

cards, tavla, dominos and snooker etc. When I was a young adult, women were not welcome to the kahvehane. These days women visit kahvehane in the city but still not really in small towns. I went to the kahvehane often with my male friends but I never enjoyed it that much. It was smokey and just like all the other men we were wasting time there, hanging out, when I thought we could be doing something much more creative. But since then some new cafes in Turkey have become much more European just lik

e here. Cafes have become more fashionable to young people and welcome everybody. So I suppose the difference between Cornwall and Urban Turkey is now much less than it used to be.

It seems like Kahvahane culture is more similar to traditional British pub culture than our cafe’s are. Do you think the exhibition would change significantly if it were displayed in a hotel or bar? Are there any spaces it would not work, and why?

I like the idea of exhibiting at a hotel but the work would have to be different or I would display it in a different way. But a bar might work just like a café does for me. Generally I’m interested in showing to wider audiences through sort of ‘do it yourself’ exhibitions in unexpected places.

I said showing work in a pub or a bar works in similar way for me but I think at a pub or bar people people will relate to the work completely differently because of the condition are they in. But at the moment just I am looking all sort of possibilities making, doing looking all sort of possibilities to show to work as much as different places. I started and I don’t know how will be end up.

That ‘do it yourself’ approach is really valuable in somewhere like Cornwall where we don’t have many non-commercial art spaces. Rather then just parachuting into a space and treating it like a white cube, it’s normal to consider the context of the space, it’s history, it’s architecture 

etc. It’s not often I’ve seen the same thinking applied to cafes though, they often (but not always) get treated as a blank wall.

I borrowed the idea of “Do it yourself” from Andy Warhol and I’ve been developing it. When I was watching interview with Jasper Joffe he was saying his friends were asking him; “I want to do show, how can I get the show? How do I get to my work out there?” Joffe said to them that if you want to show your works put them in a café, put in a pound shop. They thought about different places to show thier works and this

 thought generated and developed into the project. They often treated spaces as a blank wall but also, I believe, a chance for recognition and assurance.

One of the appeals, for me, of showing contemporary work in places like the deli is that it is not as intimidating as a gallery. If someone has the idea that they don’t get ‘modern art’ they probably wouldn’t go to a gallery were they have to make a commitment and they might feel pressure to ‘understand’ the art, or have opinions, or even to like it. In cafe people come in 

because they want a coffee or some lunch, and there happens to be something interesting on the walls. 

Sure, the audience will be different. But I enjoy the fact people can take it or leave it on their own terms. People can react how they want to. On the one hand it is public but it is also very intimate.

I think it also gives time for people to appreciate the art on their own terms, and over several different occasions. If you are a regular customer there’s an opportunity to keep noticing new elements. It’s a really different way to interact with work, compared to a gallery.

I enjoyed the part of your statement where you said that the paintings could join in the conversation of the customers.

Do you have any conversation starters to help people start these discussions?

Well, of course in depends which kind of mood people are in or which kind of  reason they came to the café.  Often people coming to the café meet up with their friends or they are having a meeting or they are completely coming to be alone have a rest, read, have a coffee. Generally if is not serious meeting, if we went to just have a little catch up with our friends then in that moment we are starting to looking around us and talking about what surrounds us. Then conversations start and we can start to wonder what these works are about or who is the artist and discuss about all how they reflect upon us. This can, unconsciously, be a very productive discussion.’

The exhibition runs until 24th March.

‘Talented & Inspired’

Having just updated details of our upcoming events I felt it was about time to review our last evening of entertainment…  Helped along by a lovely little note from some of our guests on February 9th.

Mac Dunlop lead an evening of poetry and music made complete with the art of food, presented as a 3 course meal with bites of entertainment between each course.  Mac was joined by Rob Barratt, Nick Jarvis, Seamus Carey and Danielle Allen; who all offered their own take on the upcoming Valentine’s Day…

One guest offered this review:

Good venue, good food & service and a great mix of talented and inspired entertainers.

A Caravanserai Valentines Dinner

Coming up at The Courtyard Deli Arts Cafe

A Caravanserai Valentines Dinner

Thursday the 9^th of February from 7pm

Tickets £20 in advance only, including an Asian inspired three course meal.

A celebration of food and entertainment for friends’ and lovers’ alike.

In December we hosted our first collaboration with Caravanserai; a Yuletide Dinner accompanied by an evening of poetic entertainment.  The evening was a great success and it was the perfect way to kick off a busy Christmas at the deli.  The event was so well received that we couldn’t wait to invite Mac Dunlop and friends back for an encore.

Entertainment

If music be the food of love, play on!
Did you know the Romans worshipped the apple as an aphrodisiac?
That the word comes from the Greek god Aphrodite?

The romance of the journey continues as we stock up on our aphrodisiac charms – from the mouths of poets into the hearts of diners. Come and share the love, with Rob Barratt, the cuddly Bard of Bodmin, Nick Jarvis, the lascivious Voice of Falmouth, hear the sonorous temptations of Seamas Carey’s music, and the Sirens calling you from Danielle Allen’s poetic shores. While your host Mac Dunlop attempts to hold back all temptations with his own commingling musings on the meaning of love.

Caravanserai is an ongoing project run by artist Annie Lovejoy and writer Mac Dunlop from Treloan Coastal Holidays on the Roseland Peninsula. They offer a residency space as well as hosting a series of fireside talks over the summer period. To date Caravanserai has hosted artists, writers, musicians, storytellers, foragers and geographers.

Menu

Guests can enjoy a delicious, seasonal menu with Indian inspiration, featuring:

Indian Breads and our Trio of Homemade Chutneys

Our Fragrant Rose Petal Curry with Saffron Rice & Onion Bhaji

Sweet Asian Assiette of Afters

As always we can cater for specific dietary requirements on request including Gluten free, vegan and dairy free.

We are fully licensed and a range of alcoholic and soft drinks will be available to compliment the meal.

Happy New Year!

After a great Christmas it feels good to hit the ground running with loads lined up for 2012.

We have new products on the horizon; the imminent arrival of our new fly-wheel meat slicer and some refurbishment on the cards; that’s just for starters, so we’re hoping for another exciting year of developments at the Courtyard Deli.

Normal opening hours have resumed – including Sunday’s from 10-16:00 with the small exception of January 22nd (we are off out on our belated and well earned Christmas-do for the day, sorry about that).

Coming Soon:

• Lunchtime Take-Away Meal Deal
• A return show from Caravanserai… details to follow.
• Next art exhibition dates
• New Menu including an exciting new Breakfast & Children’s Menu
• Outside Catering - did you know we offered a whole variety of solutions for all manner of events?

For further info on all of the above simply watch this space x

Jo Neary presents ‘Youth Club’

Tonight at the Courtyard Deli Arts Cafe Jo Neary will be presenting her one woman, comedy show, ‘Youth Club’. The sell out gig has got us all at a flutter at the deli: Bulk Wassail Cider orders, and mulled wine at the ready, we will be accommodating 45 very lucky people at this intimate arrangement…

Watch out in the next couple of days for reviews, photos and upcoming events!!

Arts Line-Up

Coming up at The Courtyard Deli Arts Cafe:

Friday 28^th of October, 7.30pm

Joanna Neary – Youth Club

‘Character comedy of the highest order’, List

Tickets £5 in advance and £7 on the door, available from the Courtyard Deli

www.joneary.com

In the Gallery:

Elle Batchelor Peapell

23^rd of September – 18^th of November

An exhibition of intricately detailed paintings on wood from a recent University College Falmouth graduate.

Private View – Friday the 23^rd of September, 6pm to 8pm

 

Joanna Neary – Youth Club

Fresh from Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brighton based comedian Joanna Neary returns to her home county to present a one woman show inspired by Camborne Youth Club and growing up in a town where there was once an industry and now there’s none. ‘Youth Club’ threatens to be both delightful and humiliating in equal measure. A bit like real life.

Where do you go when you’re 15, bored, living in a backwater and it’s 1987? Joanna’s delightful, hilarious story of teenage longing, crushed dreams, weak squash and table tennis.

•  Meet! Mr Eddy, the well-meaning Youth Club Leader who serves the (warm) squash at the hatch

• Admire! Wayne Gayson’s outfit
• Gasp! as Diana Budd attempts to play ping pong
• Frown! as you are hear tell of fashion crimes from the late 1980s
• Sing along! to the rude nursery rhymes that clearly rang out across our nations playgrounds

Joanna Neary has established herself as a well-respected character comedian. Her one woman live shows have won her rave reviews and critical acclaim. She has also appeared on our screens as Judith in Johnny Vegas’ hit BBC3 series Ideal, as well as supporting roles in Skins, That Mitchell and Webb Look and Armando Iannucci’s Time Trumpet.

She has described her first gig as a performance in a friends living room whilst she was a student at Falmouth School of Art. ‘I was 17 and told a story sitting on a beanbag whilst smoking and wearing my friend Sybil’s silk satin pyjamas.  The cigarette set fire to my trousers but I reached the end of the story whilst patting out the flames.’

‘Neary is a character actress par excellence, not only are her characters well observed and immaculately performed, but they are well written and, most importantly, funny… A Joyce Grenfell of our age.’ The Guardian, 2008

‘She writes with perception and humour and narrates with an energy and enthusiasm that make it clear that she is really enjoying what she is doing. This energy extends to interludes in the dialogue where she manages to sing in that truly cringing teenage style – discordant and loud – and perform a much admired mime involving a table tennis bat.’, Tim Wilcock, Fringe Review, 2011

September Excitement

So August really is in full swing! Falmouth week has brought hundreds of new faces to the Deli and we even managed to squeeze in a night out amongst it all

Now a lot of our energies are thinking about September when we will be introducing our Italian focus with some new products, Italian specials as well as a new range available from Cornish Food Market. Part way through the month we will hang our next exhibition bringing another new dimension to our gallery seating upstairs. The Arts Cafe is taking on a new form (subscribe or email info@courtyarddeli.co to stay in the know), and we hope to bring you evenings of wine tasting as well as espresso training.

Hopefully there’s a few reasons to stay chirpy despite the summer flying by . Would love to know what you’re excited about, leave your comments or drop me a line rae@courtyarddeli.co …