Over 940 talks, discussions, symposia and courses were programmed across the galleries, excluding our daily gallery tours. Talks with artists included Trisha Brown (Tate Liverpool); Howard Hodgkin (Tate Britain); Thomas Demand (Tate St Ives); and Gilbert & George (Tate Modern). A series of talks with leading architects and another with digital artists were scheduled at Tate Modern, along with a wide range of debates including one on art and censorship at Tate Britain. A highlight in the Tate Britain programme was the 2007 BP British Art Lecture by broadcaster and writer Armando Iannucci. Many of our talks are available as audio downloads (and a smaller number as video downloads) from Tate's website.
A number of events explored the connections between different art forms. Tate Britain hosted a successful Gothic Horrors creative writing workshop which considered literature, film and the visual arts within the context of the Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination exhibition, while Tate Modern ran the high-profile photographic treasure hunt Shoot London in collaboration with Tate Liverpool, and also staged the London premiere of two plays by Tim Crouch. A programme dedicated to exploring the dialogue between art and music at Tate St Ives was attended by 350 people, and the popular Café SciArt continued at Tate Liverpool, looking at the crossover between art and science. In addition we continue to run The Community Grid for Learning, a Tate-wide project working in partnership with City Lit, to engage and encourage lifelong learning through the use of networked technologies and access to the Collection. Tate’s many online courses have attracted over 36,000 registered users around the world.
