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Join Dorothy on her epic adventures as she gets swept up in a fierce tornado and carried to the Land of Oz where she encounters memorable friends and foes in her journey to meet the Wizard.
Cacophony turns to symphony in Lost and Found Orchestra, an irresistible celebration of found sound from the creators of the international hit Stomp.
The Wizard of Oz
Lost and Found Orchestra
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The Saison Poetry
Liz Mathews: Journey From Winter
Saturday 5 April 2008 - Sunday 29 June 2008
Liz Mathews, studio potter and lettering artist, celebrates texts in the Poetry Library's unrivalled collection, focussing on the work of Valentine Ackland (whose Selected Poems are newly published) and other poets represented in Ackland's own bequest to the Library.
Free
Royal Festival Hall, Level 1
Stack
Monday 14 April 2008 - Monday 9 June 2008
Stack is a commission by 2007 Paul Hamlyn Foundation artist award-winner Phyllida Barlow, one of the most influential teachers and artists working in Britain today.
Free
Gamelan Room
A new series of workshops for schools and other groups on the Gamelan and in the Poetry Library
Tuesday 22 April 2008 - Tuesday 15 July 2008
Learn to play the gamelan in free workshop sessions throughout the summer term.
Free
Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyer
Steve McQueen: Queen and Country
Saturday 26 April 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008
With Queen and Country, official war artist Steve McQueen commemorates British service personnel who have been killed during the current conflict in Iraq.
Free
Royal Festival Hall Level 2 Foyers
ISLANDS IN SOUND
Thursday 1 May 2008 - Saturday 10 May 2008
Throughout the foyers in Royal Festival Hall are six installations which seek to alter the public's perception of sound in space, encourage listening and provide a tangible means for understanding and responding to Luigi Nono's work Prometeo.
Free
The Hayward Project Space
May 68: Street Posters from the Paris Rebellion
Thursday 1 May 2008 - Sunday 1 June 2008
The posters of the Paris uprising of May 1968 comprise some of the most brilliant graphic works ever to have been associated with a movement for social and political change.
Free
Front Room
Adam Bishop Quartet
Friday 9 May 2008
Led by Australian saxophonist Adam Bishop, this quartet draws upon such diverse influences as Dave Holland, Mark Turner, Steve Coleman, Bela Bartok and Albert Ayler.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
A Listener's Guide to Prometeo
Friday 9 May 2008
Marshall Marcus, Head of Music at Southbank Centre, describes the key elements of Nono's Prometeo for the audience, and introduces the unqiue features of the work, with some of the musicians involved in its performance.
Admission free
Royal Festival Hall
Nono: Prometeo
Friday 9 May 2008 - Saturday 10 May 2008
As a fitting climax to the Luigi Nono: Fragments of Venice festival, Southbank Centre presents the UK premiere of Luigi Nono's final masterpiece, Prometeo.
£25 (unreserved) £9 (unreserved)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Zimmermann, Tamestit, Poltera
Friday 9 May 2008
The leading German violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann is joined by two rising stars of the European musical scene, French violist Antoine Tamestit and Swiss cellist Christian Poltéra, in three trios.
£22 £18 £14 £11 £9 Premium seats £30
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