On Saturday 23rd September Agan Tavas is organising a boat trip on the River Fal. While we are sailing there will be a chance to sing sea shanties in Cornish. You need to be at Custom House Quay, Falmouth at 6.00pm for a 2 hour trip. Do come with friends and family members. The cost […]
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Meriasek’s Rock
On Wednesday 3rd August 2022 members of Agan Tavas and others visited Reens Rock near Troon. This is thought to be the place imagined in the play Bewnans Meryasek where Meryasek hid himself from the evil tyrant Teudar. The relevant extract from the play was read out in Cornish and English by some of those […]
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Arlo wins its class Holyer an Gof 2022
Arlo the lion who could not sleep wins the Books for Children class at the Holyer an Gof awards 2022.
Speak Cornish Week 2022
Cornish language Sea Shanty singers at the Tyacks Hotel Camborne. Monday 27th June Al Fresco Yeth an Weryn at the Tyacks Hotel Camborne Wednesday 29th June
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Christmas Lunch 2021
Kyn ve agan nyver le an vledhen ma, awos bos Covid heb mar, Prys Ly Nadelek dhe’n Tavern Pons Resulyan a ve mar lowen avel usyes. An bos o da dres ehen del yw gwaytyas lemmyn hag y whrussyn gorfenna an dohajeth gans nebes canow Nadelek dhyworth an lyver gorrys warbarth gans Hilary Shaw us […]
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Speak Cornish Week – 2021
Al Fresco Yeth an Weryn Wednesday 23 June at the Tyacks Hotel, Camborne.
The Gruffalo in Cornish
Coming soon. Agan Tavas are pleased to anounce the forthcoming publication of The Gruffalo in Cornish. The Cornish edition will join 105 other translations of this wonderful book. It will be sold at a price for one and all.
Language classes start in Camborne
The Camborne Cornish Language Fellowship will be starting classes at Centenary Methodist Church for beginners and more advanced on Thursday 10th September time 7.00pm. We aim to teach Cornish in a friendly atmosphere, at the same time teaching about the meaning of Cornish place-names and surnames and the history of the language and its revival. […]
Passing of a Great Cornishman
It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of our former Chairman and honorary life member Craig Weatherhill. Craig had been suffering from poor health for a few years but in spite of this he continued with his work and research and his publications. His death will be a great loss […]
The Charter Fragment and Pascon Agan Arluth
THE CHARTER FRAGMENT AND PASCON AGAN ARLUTH gans Williams, Everson, Kent The first fully comprehensive examination of these historical Cornish texts including a palaeographic transcription of the handwriting of the original scribes. h.b. K.S. 978-1-78201-182-8 […]
Beanie Hats
Beanie Hats, 3 captions various colours £7.00. Please state colour and caption when ordering.
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Dedh Tregedna
Everone who came agreed that the Tregedna type day organised by Agan Tavas was a great success. About 20 people altogether came and were engaged in various activities all through the medium of Cornish. The Art demonstration given by Jan Lobb was very challenging with variable results. This was followed by a cheese tasting competition […]
Agan Tavas at FOCS Winter Festival
Denise and Ray took the Agan Tavas book stall to the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies’ Winter Festival at Torpoint. A good chance to talk about Cornish and sell a few books, caps etc.
Games Evening
On Friday 25th October we are holding a board games evening, all welcome. Play Scrabble, Cluedo, Mouse Trap and many more including simple games like Snakes and Ladders for beginners. Venue: The Liberal Party Hall, Vivian Street, Camborne. Time: 7.00pm, £2.00 on the door, tea and light refreshments.
Agan Tavas wins award at Holyer an Gof
On Wednesday 10th July 2019 at the Holyer an Gof ceremony held at the RIC Truro the Agan Tavas publication Bewnans Meryasek won the award for its class ‘Cornish for Adults’. Secretary Ray Chubb, who accepted the award, thanked all those who had helped with the publication of the book and he explained that the […]
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Performance of Sylvester and the Dragon
Members of Agan Tavas recently performed a play within a play from Bewnans Meryasek, (The Life of Meriasek). This was the part about Pope Sylvester driving away a dragon which was terrorising the population around Rome. The performance took place in The St Ives Arts Club as part of the St Ives Literary Festival. The […]
Day out at Moseley Museum
Agan Tavas members enjoying a train ride behind a mineral tramways engine at Moseley Museum, Redruth as part of an Agan Tavas fun day on Monday 6th May. The quiz in Cornish was won by Matt Blewett.
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Cheques in Cornish
In early February 2019, Agan Tavas had a problem paying cheques into its own branch of Lloyds Bank plc because the cheques were written in Cornish only. The matter was taken up with the bank’s complaints department. There seems to be no problem with other banks in Cornwall and further afield in England. Those wishing […]
Agan Tavas Christmas 2018
The dinner for members at the Bridge Inn near Redruth was up to the usual high standard. Fun was had attempting to translate Christmas Cracker jokes into Cornish and the evening was rounded off by the singing of carols, in Cornish of course!
Kescows Nebes Moy
Kescows Nebes Moy gans Ian Jackson Publisher: Agan Tavas This is a follow on dictionary from Gerlyver Kescows but with words allocated to categories of use. For example Agriculture, Emotion, Finance/Economics and many, many more. Ian has ensured that the 5000 additional words to be found in this dictionary are not repetition of those found […]
Bewnans Meryasek – edited by Ray Chubb
Publisher: Agan Tavas This fabulously interesting transliteration of the original 1504 version of the miracle play, Bewnans Meryasek or the Camborne Play, is of great interest to Cornish language speakers and also to those with no Cornish because it a bilingual edition with a literal English translation. It contains 12 illustrations taken, with permission, from […]
Indoor Games Evening
Agan Tavas will be holding an indoor games evening on Friday 28th September at the The Old School Centre Illogan from 7.00pm onwards. A chance to try your hand at playing Scrabble and or Boggle and other games devised by members, through the medium of Cornish. If you are only a beginner in the language, […]
Cornish Giants explained in Cornish
As part of Speak Cornish Week, Agan Tavas arranged a lecture from Cornish historian Matt Blewett which touched on the link between folk tales about giants and the archaeology of West Cornwall. Matt gave the entire lecture, which was lengthy, in Cornish and fielded questions on the subject from fluent speakers in the audience.
Day Out to Mullion
Mullion Cornish class and Agan Tavas members got together on 2nd June for a day out in Mullion. After a pub lunch we explored the church and this was followed by a treasure trail of the village. A local bus was used to get to Mullion, a chance for the public to hear Cornish. The returning […]
Pystrior Marthys Pow ÒZ
Publisher: Evertype This wonderful book now in Cornish. It has the all of the original illustrations in full colour and it is beautifully type set. The Cornish is easy to read and it would make a great bed time story or maybe something to read for the less advanced learner. KS ISBN: 978-1-78201-203-0 £28.95
Cornish Mining History in Cornish!
On 10th November at Murdoch House, Redruth Agan Tavas member Ian Jackson gave a talk in Cornish on the mining history of the countryside around Carnkie. Ian, who is a scholar of languages rather than mining history, had obviously carried out a great deal of research on the subject. This made his talk very interesting and […]
Gerlyver Kescows gans Ian Jackson
Publisher: Agan Tavas A new dictionary intended to aid conversation at Yeth an Weryn and other gatherings of Cornish speakers. Cornish – English, English – Cornish, containing about 5000 words which have been selected on their likelihood of being used at social events. Size A5, 300 pages. A sample of the content may be seen […]