Tate's Priorities: Learning
Tate's learning programmes are an important way in for all our audiences, whether they are new to art or experts, to engage more deeply with our programme.
Children, Schools and Families
There’s a lot on offer for children from gallery tours and workshops to touch screen activities and learning zones.
We also want our museums to be a place where families feel welcome. We do this through a number of family-friendly activities such as the Early Years and Art Trolley programmes at Tate Britain, Start at Tate Modern and Super Sundays at Tate St Ives.
In all our galleries we offer a professional development programme, Tate Teachers, as well as a wide range of resources to help them plan class visits.
Young People
Exchanging ideas and enabling debate are at the heart of our activities for young people. We regularly stage a range of participative events that stimulate creativity and foster young people’s interest in art now and into their adult life.
Our programme Visual Dialogues, for example, enabled young people aged 15-25 to work with contemporary artists to find innovative ways to interpret and engage with artworks in the Tate Collection and regional collections in six partner galleries across the UK.
Another initiative aims to enhance students’ understanding of the world through facilitating interactions based around contemporary art with other schools and museums. The Unilever Series, turbinegeneration, is the world’s first, online, educational partnership programme linking schools and major galleries across the world. Our aim is that by 2012-13 turbinegeneration will be working with students and galleries in over 30 countries.
We also have a special area of our website which is dedicated to activities for young people. ‘Young Tate’ is an initiative run by a group of people aged between 13 and 25 who work with all of our galleries to plan and deliver programmes and events for young people.
Adults
Our adult programmes of events are designed to inspire adults with a wide range of specialist interests.
Our adult audiences can discover Tate's Collections through a series of evening classes, talks, seminars focused around exhibitions, life drawing workshops, and even poetry, philosophy and music.
