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As part of Eastbourne ALIVE’s Youth Voice programme, Towner is leading an ambitious programme of bespoke school visits with Year 9, Special Educational Need (SEN) and home-educated and college students in the region. The young people will be supported to meaningfully engage with contemporary art through Turner Prize 2023 at Towner and Eastbourne ALIVE’s programme of public art and events across the town. 

Working with the Coastal Schools Partnership, over 3,500 students have been invited to visit Towner on Mondays when the gallery is closed to the public. Facilitated by Towner’s Learning and Front of House teams with student volunteers from the University of Sussex, each student will be given a copy of Give it Some Oomph! a resource designed by and for Year 9 students from The Turing School, The Nibble Bibble Duck Toes collective with artist Richard Phoenix. Groups will also receive insight and guidance into creative careers through our partnership with Talent Accelerator. 

This resource provides a useful toolkit and insights into how we can engage with contemporary art. It includes activities, a playlist and a video made by the group as well as exploring historical contexts, how we take ownership of a space and what we bring to an artwork and the spaces we encounter it. 

These visits will be supplemented by additional, in-school artist-led workshops. Artists will share their practice and responses through themes explored in Give it Some Oomph!, this year’s Turner Prize artists and conversations with the young people. 

Artist Facilitators: Hermione Allsopp, Sam Ayres, Sineid Codd, Tom Goulden, Ella Hempsted, Annis Joslin, Bill Leslie, Amy Leung, Daniel Locke, Christopher Sacre and Esther Springett

This project is supported and funded by Eastbourne ALIVE as part of the Eastbourne-wide Youth Voice programme.