Patricia Kaas sings Edith Piaf at Royal Festival Hall
The songs of Edith Piaf have long captured the imagination of the world. Now the internationally renowned French singer Patricia Kaas graces the stage to pay tribute to the iconic songs of the legend....
View ArticleExplore our new Festival Wing exhibition
If you want to find out more about our plans for Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery – the area of the site we’re calling Festival Wing – you can now visit our new exhibition in...
View ArticleScratch Mixer: cutting-edge spoken word line-up just announced!
What is Scratch Mixer? We want to discover and nurture the spoken word stars of tomorrow – Scratch Mixer is our first installment of a regular event in which poets and spoken word artists are invited...
View ArticleThe Gundecha Brothers and Ashwini Bhide Deshpande perform at Queen Elizabeth...
Join us to explore spirituality in the musical, poetic and oral traditions of South Asia, as two of the finest exponents of the Bhakti tradition sing in khyal and dhrupad styles. Don’t miss them live...
View Article£25 best available tickets to Mystic Voices this Saturday
Hear Umakant and Ramakant Gundecha, two of the most renowned performers of Dhrupad, (traditional sung poetry of Northern India), perform as part of Mystic Voices at Queen Elizabeth Hall. They’re joined...
View ArticleCalling all Poets and Spoken Word Artists making work for children!
Are you a poet or spoken word artist? Do you write live literature shows for children? Then we need you! Southbank Centre puts a twist on our regular Scratch Mixer night for Imagine Children’s Festival...
View ArticleShowcase your work at Imagine Scratch Mixer – Advice to Applicants
We have had lots of fantastic writers and artists sending us their work for Imagine Scratch Mixer after our call out for submissions of children’s live literature shows. However, we want make sure...
View ArticleGroove to the sounds of ‘Yoruba innovator’ Tunday Akintan
Don’t miss Nigerian musician Tunday Akintan’s triumphant return to Southbank Centre, as he showcases his intoxicating Yorubeat rhythms. As a taster, you can hear Tunday’s performance in the Purcell...
View ArticleWhat is the point of the poem? Tamar Yoseloff finds out…
As part of our celebration of Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed’s exhibition at Hayward Gallery, renowned poet Tamar Yoseloff is holding a five-week poetry course, The Point of the Poem,...
View ArticleStudents get £5 tickets for the Bach Choir at Royal Festival Hall
Hear the Bach Choir and Chetham’s Symphony Orchestra perform Cardinal Newman’s poem The Dream of Gerontius, one of Elgar’s greatest choral works, for just £5! Students simply need to quote DREAM1 when...
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