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A few weeks have passed since HushFest, and one of the things I keep thinking about is the look on people’s faces when they opened the Quiet Hearts wardrobes. They would see an ordinary wardrobe, open the door, and then pause as hundreds of colourful handmade hearts came into view. There were smiles, laughter, quiet…
From 17th August to 17th September 2026, three escape rooms in Cornwall are joining together for the first Cornwall Escape Room Challenge, with £1 from every booking made during the month donated to Quiet Connections CIC. The three taking part are Escape Rooms Cornwall in Penzance, Locked In Escape Rooms in Camborne and Escape Time…
We’re bringing two free Creative Get-Togethers to Saltash Studios this August, with one afternoon for adults and a separate one for young people aged 13–17. As with all of our work, they’re for those of us who are introverted, shy or highly sensitive, experience social anxiety, or simply prefer quieter, lower-pressure ways of spending time…
Pride Month brings a wonderful wave of bright colours, music and joyful gatherings. For those of us who are naturally quiet, introverted or feel anxious in crowds, Pride celebrations can bring a complicated mix of excitement and overwhelm. You might want to join in and connect with the community, while also feeling intimidated by the…
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…