Teylu Festival welcomes families of all ages to join in with making, playing and performing, for a festival inspired by contemporary folk and Cornish heritage.
Join artist duo WABKIN in our Foyle Studio for MAKE MYTH. Create your own monsters out of scrap, record your own myth and join a monster procession through the galleries. Make your own brick and explore the heritage of Cornwall’s china clay country with Brickfield, a local artist-led community brickworks. At midday, join St Ives Library for a special Cornish storytime.
WABKIN
Frances Daykin and Huhtamaki Wab are WABKIN. With backgrounds encompassing play-work, support-work, creative facilitation, art education and visually based artistic practice, WABKIN situates itself as a multiplicity. A re-weaving of traditional hierarchical values within the art world is reflected through their work at the Plymouth Scrapstore.
Brickfield
Brickfield is a community brickworks set in a disused china clay pit in the heart of Cornwall’s china clay country co-founded by artist Rosanna Martin and supported by Imerys. The project welcomes participants to walk the land, experiencing the extraordinary terrain formed by china clay extraction, and to learn how to hand make bricks in wooden frames using clay from industry waste.
This project is part of Teylu at Tate.
Teylu (pronounced Tay-loo) is the Cornish word for family. At Tate St Ives, our families programme is intergenerational and inclusive of all kinds of kin. From parents and carers to chosen family, we develop creative learning activities and artist-led experiences for early years through to elders.
Tate St Ives is located on Porthmeor Beach. There is a ramp up to the gallery entrance alongside stairs with a handrail.
There are lifts to all Levels of the gallery, or alternatively you can take the stairs.
- Accessible and standard toilets are on Level 3, next to Gallery 6.
- A Changing Places toilet is on Level 3, next to Gallery 1.
- Ear defenders can be borrowed from the information desk.
To help plan your visit to Tate St Ives, have a look at our visual story. It includes photographs and information of what you can expect from a visit to the gallery.
For more information before your visit:
- Email visiting.stives@tate.org.uk
- Call +44 (0)173 679 6226
