THIS Friday sees the launch of the Penryn Arts Festival at Miss Peapods Kitchen Cafe on Jubilee Wharf from 6pm to 7pm.

Penryn will be a hub of activity for the next couple of weeks as the festival brings to life a number of public and private spaces.

The PAF committee, town council and community have joined forces to supply spaces as well as creative projects.

The recently renovated town halls and green outdoor spaces are providing a steady base for the festival. Exhibitions, poetry and theatre are moving into pubs and cafes.

Local businesses, empty shop fronts, Penryn College and Falmouth University, as well as local galleries, will also be taking part.

Here is a round-up of some of the events that you can see at the festival: The Performance Centre, Tremough Falmouth University Campus The venue hosts dance performances by its students Grace Nichol and Emma Jane Martin, by Wild Oak Theatre’s production of Nick Drake’s King of Prussia and also Penryn College’s Cube Youth Theatre staging Victory Day. Victory day is also presented in Penryn College’s theatre.

PENRYN LIBRARY and ST GLUVIAS CHURCH The Story Republic (KEAP) will present student Bedtime stories as well as an exhibition of local artists.

JUBILEE WHARF The Wharf provides the ZedShed for a Craft Fair and for a Cut and Paste workshop and lecture by Andrew Marston. In the courtyard there are open studios and a community photographic project exhibited by Lee McIntyre.

MISS PEAPODS KITCHEN CAFÉ A photography exhibition by Aaron Harcourt will be on show, while folk singer Martha Tilston will be performing alongside Bristol’s Clayton Blizzard. The Devil’s Hatband and The Sketch Club completes the line up.

TEMPERANCE HALL There is a food fair organised by Steven Tiller and Bonnie Gogdenbut, then being transformed into the Tee Rex Cinema by local artist and curator Maria Christoforidou. Showing children’s films most afternoons, current releases in the evenings and a special art film night in collaboration with Redruth based Backlane West Gallery. Tee Rex boasts a Café run by artist Josie Mitchell .

The cinema will also be home of Interanima animation workshops and screening, a project by animation director Becalelis Brodskis. Also in the Temperance Hall Independent School of Art (ISA) will present Touretteshero Workshop and Talk co-founder Jess Tom will share the secrets of her transformation from Tourettes ‘sufferer’ to Tourettes ‘superhero’.

Getting inspiration from the Penryn museum Susan Kinley is running a children’s workshop making paper mosaics.

TOWN HALL See Derek Godridge’s photographic portrait project, Penryn Works and poetry workshops by Caravanserai to DakaDoom dance percussion workshop and music by folk legends Steve Tilston and Wizz Jones.

Eugenia Demeglio invites you to de-stress at lunch times by dancing at Lunch Beat with some fantastic music and DJs.

Sample local experimental music collected by Kunst Kernewek or learn about local folklore with Steve Patterson’s Talk and Walk. Be transported to Haiti with Graeme Hogg and the sounds of Haiti Street Radiophonia.

THE PENRYN MUSEUM Displays Penryn’s permanent work of art - an automaton clock by Fi Henshall MEMORIAL GARDENS Jolt Dance Theatre, DakaDoom Samba Reggae gig and a spot for knitting workshops with Fi Hill and Josie Mitchell will take place in the CommuKnitty tent.

TRELAWNEY PARK Enjoy local music with I Fought The Law’n, with Julian Gaskell. Spanish duo Orchestina de Pigmeos will stage a six-hour performance event focusing on the effects of the tide on people and landscape on Church beach near St Gluvias Church.

College Wood Viaduct Ruth Pethybridge uses the architecture of College Wood for her intergeneration dance performance Via: The distance that connects.

FACEBACK is an exciting socialising game by artist Katie Etheridge that will be launched in Miss Peapods on the first festival evening and will be popping all around Penryn including the one day festival in Trelawney Park, Seven Stars and Temperance Hall.

Private properties are also becoming part of the festival.

The Ark Barge at Jubilee Wharf will host School of Noises and an array of experimental sound performances and installations. 22 LOWER MARKET STREET will host songwriter Minko. 65 THE TERRACE, previously an empty shop, was kindly donated for use as PAF Festival office and bookshop for publications like Atlantic Press and The Parabola Project.

81 THE TERRACE, previously an empty shop, will be the home of Printmaking Exhibition featuring John Howard, Felix Packer, and Lou Brett. For one day and night. 81 The Terrace will also become the venue for 24 Hour Comic an endurance illustration project by Phil Rushworth and Tom Sharp.

The pubs and bars are embracing exhibitions and performances too. THE KINGS ARMS, the much-loved Lip Sync by local comedy troupe Trifle Gathering starts off the festival.

SEVEN STARS is the home of Penryn Community Theatre. The Famous Barrel hosts Mac Dunlop’s Caravanserai Poetry Slam and All Season Story Makers will have a storytelling performance in the garden.

NUMBER 20 wine bar puts up an exhibition of prints by Nicola Kite and hosts Tom Hubmann’s workshop Draw!

The EARTH AND WATER DELI combines great food and art showing new works by ceramic and print artist Dulcie Curtis.

Local galleries have hung great exhibitions for the duration of the festival. LITTLE YELLOW HOUSE will be open to showcase the work of its resident artists/makers.

FANNIE AND FOX shows a mix of contemporary art and craft, glass, jewellery, paintings and textiles.

MALCOLM SUTCLIFFE GALLERY brings together the Cornish Glass exhibition and THE FISH FACTORY ART SPACE opens its studios and puts on Ink and Pressure, an exhibition of handmade prints.