Friday 4 July 2008, 10.00–16.00

The speakers include artist Rineke Dijkstra.

With an opportunity to see the major exhibition Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900.

Just how much are children and young people really encouraged and supported to be creative and to engage with cultural activity? Are the endless government initiatives really delivering ? And just how much do schemes support children and young people outside London?

What's on offer? will explore the range of current opportunities for schools that aim to promote and support children and young people's creativity and encourage their engagement with a range of cultural activity.

With keynote addresses as well as inspiring case studies and interactive gallery based activities this day presents an exciting opportunity to consider how you and your school are promoting, accessing and facilitating engagement with a range of creative opportunities for children and young people.

As Capital of Culture for 2008 Tate Liverpool is the perfect place to host this year's annual Tate Teachers Conference.

The programme

9.30-10.15	Coffee and Registration Sign up for workshops and exhibition visit	Fourth Floor Concourse
10.15-10.20	Welcome and Introduction: Lindsey Fryer Head of Learning, Tate Liverpool	Auditorium
10.20-10.45	Keynote: Paul Kirkman, Department for Culture, Media and Sport	Auditorium
10.45-11.30	Keynote: Rineke Dijkstra, Artist.	Auditorium
11.30-11.45	Coffee	Fourth Floor Concourse
11.45-12.30	Seminars and  Workshops	Various locations
12.30-1.45	Lunch Opportunity to visit Twentieth Century: How it Looked How it Felt Display	Fourth Floor Concourse 1st and 2nd floor Galleries
1.45-2.30	Seminars and workshops	Various locations
2.30-3.00	Workshop	Galleries
3.00-3.30	Tea	Fourth Floor Concourse
3.30-4.00	Feedback and Summary	Auditorium
4.00	Conference finish
4.00-5.00	Opportunity for delegates to visit Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900	Fourth Floor Galleries
5.00-6.30	Tate Liverpool Annual Programme Preview for Schools Wine and refreshments	Auditorium Fourth Floor Concourse

Tate Liverpool  The Auditorium
£50 (£25 concessions), booking required
For tickets call: 0151 702 7400. Places are limited so we recommend you book early. Price includes lunch and exhibition entry. 100 places
KS 1–5

  

Break-out Sessions.

Virtual Lives
Karen Hickling, Collaboration and Education Manager FACT, Liverpool
11.45-12.30 or 13.45-14.30

This session will share the findings of this recent research project undertaken with Cornerhouse Manchester, folly, Lancaster, International Centre for Digital Content, Liverpool and Liverpool John Moore’s University. Virtual Lives aims to develop a better understanding of the new media technologies being used by today’s young people with the aim to influence and challenge the long-term programming of media art organisations. The session will explore models that encourage and support young people in more active and responsible roles as researchers, commissioners and collaborators.

Practice, Reflection and Pathways
Mark Miller, Curator: Youth Programmes, Tate Britain
11.45-12.30 or 13.45-14.30

This presentation introduces the award-winning work of Tate Britain’s Youth Programme in partnership with University of the Arts London, Widening Participation in the arts, Arts Aimhigher and National Arts Learning Network programmes. The projects and programmes offer young people, who would be the first in their families to enter higher education, opportunities to gain an insight into galleries and art interpretation as well as advice and practical experience in accessing education and careers in the creative industries. Youth Curator Mark Miller will discuss the highlights and challenges from three of Tate Britain’s recent Widening Participation initiatives: Enslaved Fashion Show; First Day at ArtSchool and Portfolio Advice Day.

tagRADIO Project
Jonty Lees, Artist and Kerry Rice, Learning Curator: Tate Schools & Tate Teachers, Tate St Ives
11.45-12.30 only

Former Artist in Residence at Tate St Ives, Jonty Lees, has been working with St Ives Junior School since November 2007, supporting Year 4 to develop their own response to criminal damages in St Ives.

Through discussion, sculpture, photography and drawing, the children have been experimenting with ways they can use creativity to positively express themselves and their community. Artist Jonty Lees proposed the concept of a radio station 'Instead of doing graffiti on the walls our radio show is going to be tagging every surface of the community but in a non-damaging way, with interviews, stories, poems and our own music'.

Cine Hub, Derby
Students from Wilshtorpe Community School
11.45-12.30 or 13.45-14.30

This presentation will discuss the current film-making project linking seven Derbyshire Secondary schools with professional filmmakers in the region. With training and equipment the cine hub schools are now running a self sustaining enterprise undertaking local and regional commissions. Students will discuss the some of the work they have done and present one of their films.

Surreal beauty: Interpretations of the uncanny
Judith Walsh, Art Historian, LiverpoolUniversity
11.45-12.30 or 13.45-14.30

This gallery based session will introduce you to some of the Surrealist experimental strategies devised to liberate us from the constraints of ‘civilized’ living.

Particpants will discover how current works on display at Tate Liverpool reveal how the concept of the uncanny transforms the ordinary into something as ‘beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella’. (Lautréamont)