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BP Saturdays: Spooky Tate 2009
Press release: 30 October 2009
Tate Britain, Millbank SW1P 4RG
Saturday 31 October 2009; 12.00–17.00
Supported by BP
Admission Free
For ages 5-12, siblings welcome. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Some activities require booking, for public information please print: visit www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888
This Halloween, wicked witches and ghostly ghouls will invade Tate Britain for BP Saturdays: Spooky Tate, an annual, free family festival for 5-12 year olds. Kids are invited to celebrate all things spooky this half-term with an array of fun activities in and around the galleries, from trick or treat costume workshops to spooky storytelling.
The programme will bring together Halloween favourites with activities inspired by spooky celebrations from around the world. Kids will encounter the Chinese Hungry Ghost festival by watching traditional opera and make puppets inspired by the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.
All the activities are free. Highlights include:
Dancing Skeletons - Celebrate Mexico’s colourful Day of the Dead by making your own dancing skeleton puppets.
Trick or Treat Costumes - Make you own costume so you’re ready to go trick or treating tonight.
Monster Mash - Have fun with food and make your own edible Halloween creatures.
Scary Stories - Join a storyteller on a ghostly tour of the gallery
Hungry Ghosts – Join a music workshop with traditional Chinese Opera
Flying Witches - Make your own witch and then, as if by magic, watch her fly through the galleries
BP Saturdays: Spooky Tate is part of the BP Saturdays series which gives young visitors the opportunity to interact with the BP British Art Displays at Tate Britain.
For further press information contact Selina Jones/Daisy Mallabar Tate Press Office, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG Call 020 7887 4906 Email pressoffice@tate.org.uk Visit www.tate.org.uk/bpsaturdays
Notes to Editors
BP Saturdays are a series of free events celebrating the BP British Art Displays (1500 – 2009) at Tate Britain. BP has supported Collection Displays at Millbank since 1990, first at the Tate Gallery and then from the opening of Tate Britain in 2000 to the present. BP's continued support allows Tate Britain to create a broad and dynamic displays programme which explores in depth British art from 1500 to the present.