Families | Turner Contemporary

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Free admission
Open Tues to Sun and
bank holidays 10am-6pm

At Turner Contemporary, adults and children can have fun enjoying creative activities together in a friendly and stimulating environment.

Each activity is inspired by art works in our spring exhibitions, Hamish Fulton: Walk and Turner and the Elements. Our friendly Navigators are there to lend you a hand, simply turn up on the day and enjoy making your own art work.

'I visited the Turner Contemporary in Margate last week to take part in one of the painting the elements workshops and just wanted to let you know how much my children enjoyed it. Thank you so much for putting on such a wonderful event, it was their favourite activity of the holiday. They were so excited about the exhibition that they wanted to take their Dad and we went back at the weekend. As an art student graduate, it really gives me a lot of pleasure to see my children so interested in art and we are very grateful to have such a brilliant gallery so close by.'
Susie Bass, February 2012

Become explorers with our resource packs full of activities for families, created by the Generate artists and their children.

£1 per use, available from Information Desk

To see a full listing of events for adults and children to enjoy together, visit our what's on calendar.

Every Sunday, you can enjoy one of the following activities, inspired by art works in our current exhibition, Nothing in the World But Youth.

Our friendly Navigators are there to lend you a hand, simply turn up on the day and enjoy making your own art work.

Natural Wonders
Draw with a difference using the power of the elements and minerals such as iron filings instead of a traditional pencil. Find out more here.

Sonic Play

Create your own elemental scene whilst listening to tunes composed by students from Canterbury Christ Church University. Find out more here.

Children under 13 years must be accompanied by an adult

Time: 1 - 4pm
Venue: Clore Learning Studio
Cost £2 per child (under threes and accompanying adults free)
Just turn up
Clore Learning Studio
Please pay on the day at our reception desk

Visit our what's on section for details.

Watch a video about Easy Sundays at the bottom of this page.

Share your Easy Holidays photos
Add your photos of being creative with children to our Generate Flickr pool at www.flickr.com/groups/tcgenerate

Every Wednesday and Thursday during the school holidays, you can enjoy your free time trying a wide range of exciting creative activities, all inspired by the artists in Nothing in the World But Youth and their exhibited works.

Paint the elements

15 / 16 Feb

Try painting your own elemental scene.

Aniwalk

4 / 5 April

Be a part of our huge walking animation.

Sculpt Turner’s World

11 / 12 April

Imagine you’re in a Turner painting: sculpt what you might see; rocks, plants, explorers, elemental monsters...

Children under 13 years must be accompanied by an adult

Time: 1 - 4pm
Venue: Clore Learning Studio
Cost £2 per child (under threes and accompanying adults free)
Just turn up
Clore Learning Studio
Please pay on the day at our reception desk

Visit our what's on section for details.

Share your Easy Holidays photos
Add your photos of being creative with children to our Generate Flickr pool at www.flickr.com/groups/tcgenerate

Family workshops
Watch a video of our family animation workshop that took place during our last exhibition at the bottom of this page.

Watch our Aniwalk animation, made by families at our Easter 2012 workshops, below.

Every Saturday, adults, children and young people can learn a new skill related to the exhibition.

Sessions will rotate, for you to enjoy; try your hand at Explorer's Journal or Colour Lab with our friendly Navigators.

1-4pm
£2 per person
Under 3s free
Just turn up

Generate is an artist-led project that explores and promotes the creative exchange between

generations, through art making activities.

In 2007, we began work with 12 East Kent based artists to document the process of making art work with their children and the impact this has on their practice as professional artists.

The artists have been struck by their children’s confidence and pace of work and ideas. Children have inspired their parents through making unexpected connections between ideas and materials, and being able to make work in any environment. Communication and play are central themes to the project.

Each year, we’ve held a Generate exhibition to showcase the work created by the artists and their children. Take a look here.

We have held over 60 free artist-led workshops for parents and children in Thanet. At each workshop, our Generate artists work creatively with their own children, introducing the opportunity for local families to make artwork together, share ideas and try new things in a relaxed and friendly community setting. The workshops have taken place at Children’s Centres, shopping arcades, community centres, parks and on Margate beach.

Take a look at past Generate workshops in our project archive.

Generate DVD

We have created a Generate DVD that can be used as a creative tool by parents and teachers. We distributed the DVD free of charge to Children’s Centres in early 2009. Download the resource here.

Share your 'Generate' photos
Add your photos of being creative with children to our Generate Flickr pool atwww.flickr.com/groups/tcgenerate