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HushFest is on the horizon. Cornwall’s festival of quietness, shaped by our community. |
What is a Quieteer? There’s no one way to be quiet. No single story that fits us all. We’ve come to know and love a wide and wonderful range of people who feel most at home in the calm, the thoughtful, and the slow. People who care deeply, notice quietly, and move through the world…
A Space for Quiet Teens: New Liskeard Youth Group for those joining Years 10-13 this September If you’ve ever watched a quieter teenager in a group setting, you’ll have seen the effort it can take. The scanning for a safe place to sit. The careful listening, the way their words might not quite make it…
This July, something quietly beautiful is taking shape across Cornwall. As part of HushFest, Cornwall’s Festival of Quietness, we’re inviting people from across our communities to contribute a small piece of creative work to a shared exhibition celebrating quietness. Together, many individual contributions will form the HushFest Community Gallery; a community-created exhibition exploring the richness,…
Back in February, when we first introduced Quiet Hearts here, the installation existed mostly as an idea with materials around it. Baskets of wool. A growing set of crochet patterns from Sue. Conversations across tables at Meet Ups about what people might like to make and how they might achieve it. There are now more…
In a Meet Up, trust doesn’t arrive in any clear or defined way. It builds slowly over time, and most of the moments that shape it are ordinary enough that they’re easy to miss. Someone speaks and isn’t interrupted. Someone offers a smile or a kind word to another quieteer. A pause is left without…
People often arrive at a Quiet Connections Meet Up carrying a word they’ve been given about themselves. Shy. Introverted. Anxious. Sensitive. Sometimes all four at once, as though they are the same thing, or as though one explains the others. They are not the same thing. Understanding the differences matters, not just for the sake…
Hayle Meet Up opens on Monday 20th April from 1-3pm. We meet at the Annex at Hayle Daycare Centre. Find out more here. There’s a moment a lot of quieteers know well. You’ve heard about something, thought it might be for you, turned it over in your mind for a while. Maybe you’ve looked at…
Birthdays come with a lot of expectations. It can feel like, to have a “successful” birthday, you need to be surrounded by a massive group of friends, having a big, visible celebration. For many of us quieter people, these expectations can feel heavy when our birthdays roll around. It can feel like a challenge to…
Have you ever noticed someone struggling with something -carrying too many things, looking a little lost, trying to manage on their own at the end of an evening- and felt the pull to help, but held back? I have. More times than I’d like to admit. And the reason I held back wasn’t indifference. It…
I, Hayley, want to share something I’ve been thinking about for a while. An invitation… This might be obvious to some of you already, but Quiet Connections doesn’t belong to me. Nor does it belong to the team listed on the website. It belongs to you, and to all of us. I know people sometimes…
Hello Quieteers, This is a callout to any musicians, poets, writers, or performers who might be reading this. And more specifically, I am writing to those of you who are right now questioning whether you are “good enough” to call yourself a musician, poet, writer, or performer. Have you ever written a poem no one…
Many of us grow up believing that connection and closeness is created through talking, quick replies and confident story-telling. For some of us, that takes significant effort – especially with new people. Recently, eleven Quieteers met at Locked In Escape Rooms in Camborne. We split into two groups. I was in The Smokehouse Curse. The others…
There are parts of us that don’t rush to the surface – not hidden exactly; they’re simply not always invited out. Many of us know what it’s like to be described as the quiet one. The shy one. The one who hangs back. Over time, those descriptions can start to feel fixed, as if quietness…