SPEAK Cornish Week 2026 runs from Sunday, June 21 to Sunday, June 28 with community-led activities, workshops and challenges across Cornwall to help hone Kernewek skills.

Activities will include taster sessions for beginners, “yeth an werins” (informal conversational get-togethers), talks about Cornish place names, a toddler rhymetime session in Cornish, a podcasting workshop and a guided nature walk on the Lizard.

Many museums – including Penlee House in Penzance, Wheal Martyn Clay Works in St Austell and Bodmin Keep - will have Cornish language trails to follow throughout the week. The week will begin with Gorsedh Kernow’s Awen Ceremony, including a procession of bards from Carnkie Village Hall, and will end with a “mega online yeth an werin”, and a good old Cornish shout in Penzance.

Cornwall Council will host a colourful and musical Go Cornish morning for schoolchildren and their teachers at County Hall (Lys Kernow).

Commissioned by the council’s Fifth Nation Members’ Working Group, the event will showcase the impact of Kernewek in schools and communities and will include the launch of the new Go Cornish schools’ sampler pack, the presentation of Go Cornish Bronze Awards to successful schools, performances from pupils sharing songs, rhymes and stories in Kernewek, and Cornish language artwork created by local schools.

A council spokesperson said: “Cornwall Council is proud to support the Go Cornish programme, which is embedding Kernewek in 30 primary schools across Cornwall, with growing interest from many more.

“This is an important moment for the Cornish language, with Part III recognition under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, the forthcoming Cornwall Council Cornish Language Strategy, and progress of the Cornish Language Bill.”

For full details of Speak Cornish Week, visit www.speakcornish.com.