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Africa Utopia
19 Jul - 22 Jul
Folk & World

Africa Utopia is an annual festival celebrating the arts and culture of one of the world's most dynamic and fast-changing continents. Championed...

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exhibition

Lee Bul, Via Negativa II (interior detail), 2014. © Lee Bul 2018. Courtesy: Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York and Hong Kong. Photo: Mark Blower.

Lee Bul
30 May - 19 Aug

Lee Bul transforms Hayward Gallery into a spectacular dream-like landscape featuring monstrous bodies, futuristic cyborgs, glittering mirrored...

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series

Summer at Southbank Centre
25 Jul - 27 Aug

Experience an amazing array of summer events for the whole family at Southbank Centre. Choose from exhilarating summer shows for young and old, a...

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Lee Bul at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Purcell Room entrance

Royal Festival Hall

7:00 pm | Thu 19 Jul 2018

Violet Nights: Homeless in the City

Hear from those trying to solve the homelessness crisis in this month’s Violet Nights

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Hayward Gallery

11:00 am | until Mon 6 Aug 2018

Yuan Goang-Ming: Tomorrowland

A free exhibition of recent work by pioneering Taiwanese video artist Yuan Goang-Ming

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

7:30 pm | Mon 16 Jul 2018

Mandela: The Legacy Debate

Catch a glimpse of the life and legacy of Mandela at a debate chaired by BBC presenter Zeinab Badawi

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Purcell Room

7:45 pm | Tue 17 Jul 2018

Tangos for Angels and Demons

Join The Tango Siempre septet for a retrospective of their tango repertoire

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stories
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Hayward Gallery celebrates its 50th birthday
Find out how we’re celebrating the golden anniversary of our iconic art gallery
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podcast

Hilary Mantel & Pat Barker: Rewriting the Past
Listen to two Booker Prize-winning writers discuss how historical fiction can shed light on our present
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View of Event Horizon part of Antony Gormley Blind Light at The Hayward 2007. Photo copyright Gautier Deblonde
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10 iconic exhibitions from 50 years of Hayward Gallery
Revisit fantastic images of exhibitions from the gallery’s first fifty years
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