Family Day: Quiet Hour

Join us for a more relaxed experience this Family Day, one hour before the main event.

This event is for families with children and young people with additional support needs who would benefit from a quieter, more relaxed session.

Free, booking required.

Children and caregivers must book tickets per person attending.

Recommended for ages 5+

Studio 1

Listen to the sounds in the studio, what feelings, thoughts or emotions do they give you? What do they look, or feel like, can we them draw them without using words and create your own musical notations?

Use our mark-making tools to add to a studio wide installation, feel the vibrations of the sounds in the space and explore the textures and colours that speak to you.

Please note: This is a wet space, we will provide coveralls but we advise wearing messy clothes. Leave any wet materials to dry here before leaving the space.

Materials: Chalk, Charcoal, Food Dyes, Paints, Brushes, Sponges, Sticks, Feathers and more!

Main Foyer (Under the Stairs)

Experiment with the sounds of this hanging installation or add your own mini instrument to the space.

Cinema Foyer - Quiet Space

Explore a selection of found and foraged objects in the space, what do they sound like together, do they sound different when played with a stick or a feather? Work together to create your own symphony or start a band with strangers. Draw your made-up instruments or write instructions and hang up in the space for the next person to try!

Materials: Found objects

This is a designated quiet space, please be respectful of other families in this area.

Gerard Byrne film inside an image – Gallery 1

Use our puppets and torches to create your own film. Use the wearable costumes to become an animal or use the weird and wonderful puppets to tell a story. Use the biophony and geophony of the artwork as a soundtrack for your film – what feelings or thoughts do you get from those noises? How would we interpret them in movement?

The corridor is your rehearsal space, look for movement and dance prompts for ideas!

Materials: Preprepared puppets, costumes and torches.

Collection Library - Quiet Space

Plan your performance - Listen to our playlist for inspiration and map out your film using a storyboard.

This is a designated quiet space, please be respectful of other families in this area.

Materials: Paper, pencils, headphones and playlist (QR Code)

Corridors - Level 1 and 2

Take a moment to create a quick sculpture and display it on one of our plinths or display the works you’ve already made there. Take a photo and tag us!

Materials: Any you’ve brought with you!

Level 2 Corridor

Create your own instrument with our foraged and found materials. Using string and wire to make it wearable, activate it with movements or create an a group-wide sound piece that only works with one another.

When you’re finished you can leave it on display under the stairs, or in our display space on the stairwell or take it home to add to!

Materials: Cardboard, Sticks, Wool, Jars, Lentils, Papers, Fabric, String and more!