At Tate Liverpool, an ongoing partnership with the Pagoda Chinese Youth Orchestra in their Arts Award Scheme enabled members of the group to become the first young people in the North West to receive Gold Arts Award status, and led to programming performances by the Orchestra around the exhibition The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China. Over 100 young people from Liverpool's Chinese community who are new to the gallery took part, and this work will form the basis of new regular activity with Chinese families and young people in Liverpool and Manchester over the next three years, including Tate Liverpool's twentieth birthday celebrations in 2008.
Tate St Ives' collaboration with the Royal Academy of Music and Birkbeck, University of London, resulted in a programme of music and talks in the gallery aimed at working across disciplines to develop new audiences for both visual art and music. The high attendance in the gallery was mirrored by resulting concerts and was the starting point for a new composition, inspired by John Hoyland's work, by Cornish composer Jim Aitchison.
