Secondary Schools Takeover: Mickalene Thomas & Linder
Visit the exhibitions Mickalene Thomas: All About Love and Linder: Danger Came Smiling, and get to know the artwork through peer-led activities.
This day of free activities is organised and delivered by our lead secondary school, the Takeover Team.
For Hayward Gallery Takeovers, the Schools team at the Southbank Centre works closely with one secondary school group, the Takeover Team, and artist-educators to develop a deeper understanding of our current exhibition.
This prepares the Takeover Team to lead and deliver a day of workshops and discussions for other young people in the gallery.
The Takeover Team welcomes other secondary schools to come and learn about the artist’s techniques and works, explore careers in the arts and participate in art-making workshops in response to the exhibition.
Need to know
Open to secondary school groups from Years 10 – 13. Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is recommended for Year 7 and upwards, and Linder: Danger Came Smiling is recommended for key stage 4 and upwards. The gallery layout enables you to bring a school group and to see the exhibitions separately.
Please note, this is a full-day event and requires schools to attend the whole day.
Please get in touch with the schools team by emailing [email protected]
if you have any questions.
For your visit
This event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is home to both our second-largest auditorium and the Purcell Room.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.