May 2025 sees the second edition of South Asian Sounds, four days of concerts and gigs here at the Southbank Centre featuring a mix of big names and emerging new voices. South Asia is an undeniably ...

The words of Ione Gamble, founder and editor-in-chief of the intersectional feminist arts and culture zine, Polyester, as she explored our celebration of 50 years of the pioneering British feminist ...

Her compositions have been commissioned by artists and ensembles including Meitar Ensemble, Bat Kol Choir and Hyperion Ensemble, whilst her artworks have appeared in institutions including Paris’ ...

Hayward Gallery Touring will present To Improvise a Mountain, a group exhibition curated by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, one of the most important figurative painters today. For this exhibition, ...

The Southbank Centre has today announced that HRH The Duke of Edinburgh has become its new Patron. The Duke takes on the patronage previously held by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. The Southbank ...

In this 3 hour workshop at Somerset House Exchange, with facilitator Eljai Morais, you will be guided through the process of creating spoken word stage-ready work using free-writing exercises, prompts ...

Six artists are now officially on the bill for this year’s Meltdown – plus Little Simz herself – and to give you a flavour of the summer to come, we’ve brought them together in a single playlist. It’s ...

The Southbank Centre has announced the much-anticipated first wave of artists performing at Little Simz’ Meltdown. Taking place this summer from Thursday 12 – Sunday 22 June, Little Simz is assembling ...

Aside from a brief period in the 1990s when those ones with the brightly coloured hair topped every 11-year-old’s pencil, these fuzzy cuddly hippo-like creations have topped the troll polls for ...

The Southbank Centre is delighted to unveil its new destination bar, the Seventy5th Balcony Bar. Named in honour of the Southbank Centre’s 75th anniversary in 2026 and the bar’s location on the fifth ...

Enter an endless world of play and invention in a limitless recycled playground for children and their grown-ups to tap into their imaginations. Part installation, part adventure playground, REPLAY is ...

Resident Artist James McVinnie and producer/composer Tristan Perich present Infinity Gradient, merging primitive electronic waveforms with the sonic magnitude of the organ. Infinity Gradient, scored ...