Events
at Maker
Community Events
Across the site
Music, art, heritage, craft and wellbeing events happen across the site, especially during the summer months, with Patchwork Studios hosting regular live gigs, theatre, wellbeing, and spoken word events, alongside Kino Film Society and Elevation Film Festival. Garrison Gallery hosts regular DJ nights and exhibitions, while Heritage Open Days is regular fixture every September.
Events are delivered by the artistic community here, the best way to follow what’s going on across the site is to follow the Maker Heights Instagram account.
Event spaces
We’re keen to support community events, and we have a variety of small event spaces available. If you have a community event, talk, gig, exhibition or workshop you’d like to offer at Maker Heights or in the Chapel of Rest, please contact us and we’ll try to help.
Upcoming Events
Ros Atkins' Rave Machine
BBC News presenter Ros Atkins is joining us at Maker and bringing his Rave Machine along!
John Fairhurst
Our favourite one man world blues rock explosion is back at Maker for a rare gig!
Drawing deeply from blues, rock, folk and world music, with a penchant for slide guitar and a distinctive deep growling voice, the songs and virtuoso guitar playing of John Fairhurst, delivered in pure raconteur style, narrate all the wild first hand experiences of a life on the road.
paper hats EP launch
Swimming strongly against the tide of post-punk revivalism, paper hats look to further shores for inspiration.
The London-based emotional noise-rock quartet bring harsh sounds influenced by the crunching dissonance of ‘90s emo and post-hardcore blended with the liberating vocabulary of noise-rock to create a dynamic and cathartic sound that’ll have you screaming and jumping.
Original Rave Chasers World Debut
Expect great cocktail mixing, and some mediocre music mixing, all served up with a smile!
*b2b with Jet Set Joe who can actually DJ.
Higher Heights Sunday Special + guests
Weatherman Sounds joins us atop the hill for a bank holiday Higher Heights Sunday special, joined by a few special guests!
Expect high energy vinyl selections from around the world; Latin, Afro & Caribbean flavours blending into bass heavy bangers through the evening.
32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot
The 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot re-enactment group will once again be visiting Maker Heights for the weekend of May 2nd and 3rd. They will be based in the Barracks and will be training and conducting musket drills – weather depending – pm on Saturday and Sunday. (NB. All musket firings are strictly controlled and no live ammunition is used).
This is a free event & fun for all the family! Do come and watch.
Mammoth Sessions + friends
Blessed be ~ Mammoth Sessions is back!
Rapture is the word for this special return, as we once again summon you to the dancefloor for a night of exaltation and euphoria, with an all-night vinyl score of hot disco, lost gospel, and heavenly electronica.
The Maker Poetry Takeover - Workshop
On the 18th April, from 4–6pm, renowned poet and MC Jason Butler and WORD Coordinator Charlotte Turner will host a poetry and spoken word writing and performance workshop, exploring rhyme, rhythm, and how to translate work from the page to live performance.
Alex Hart Presents: James Dixon
The brilliant Alex Hart is back and hosting four special shows this year at Patchwork Studios bringing top quality music to the heart of the rame peninsula.
James Dixon is an emerging songwriter self-described as Anglo-Celtic Soul. He fuses the transatlantic folk-blues of the 60s/70s revival with the power and dirt of the grunge and rock he was raised on.
Bedlam Ball
The Bedlam Ball crew have been itching to throw a Patchwork party and we’re buzzing to finally bring them down to Maker to get weird and wild
They're kicking us off with a stacked lineup of Bedlam residents, plus a few carefully selected extras, delivering a high-energy, bass-heavy workout from start to finish.
Community Panto
A new play by the M.A.D. Society - the preposterous people who brought you Peter Panto and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It’s a Panto - or more accurately, a Panto’s late-father’s cousin’s wife’s brother’s ex girlfriend. There will be music. There will be intrigue. There will be dubious characters (and some kindly ones) flaunting many disguises. There will be death, singing orphans, a mysterious fire and also a circus. Hilarity will ensue.
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Previous Maker Heights Events
Elevation Film Festival 2025
Elevation is a celebration of experimental film and artists’ moving image from around the world.
In our second edition, we'll be screening over 55 films, installations and expanded cinema performances from 14 countries over one weekend, including a dedicated programme for filmmakers based in Cornwall and Devon.
6 – 7 September
ELEVATION FILM FESTIVAL GALLERY
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Heritage Open Days 2025
The Rame Conservation Trust welcomes you to Heritage Open Days at Maker Heights!
At Maker Heights
13th September:
10:30 – Historical walk & talk to Grenville
Meet at Maker Heights Visitor Centre
Free event – booking required
13:30 – Second World War walk & talk
Meet at Maker Heights Visitor Centre
Free event – booking required
14th September:
14:00–16:00 - Open Day at the Grenville Battery
Free event
20th September
11:00 - Guided tour of Redoubts 3 & 4
Meet at Maker Heights Visitors Centre
Free event – booking required
Saturday & Sunday 20th-21st September:
Live Re-enactment Weekend with 32nd Cornwall Regiment of Foot
To join one of the historical walks please book by emailing: info@rct.org.uk
In the Chapel of Rest, Millbrook:
15th – 23rd September
Art Exhibition by Byzantia Harlow with Rame Projects
Saturday 21st September
Choir Performance
27th September – 5th October
Art Exhibition by Helen Kuumbi
HERITAGE OPEN
DAY GALLERY
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