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China Changing: INK
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China Changing Festival
Contemporary Dance
Spoken word & Live literature

The final edition of our three-year festival showcasing contemporary China, and its creative connection with the UK, through cutting-edge art and...

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Andris Nelsons, conductor

Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

8 Oct
Classical music
Orchestra

Come and see Andris Nelsons conduct his debut London concerts as Kapellmeister (Music Director) of the great Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

In the...

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Salman Rushdie: From Midnight's Children to Trump's America

London Literature Festival
18 Oct - 28 Oct

Now in its twelfth year, Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival brings together today’s leading writers, thinkers and cultural observers to...

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Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Purcell Room entrance

Royal Festival Hall

7:30 pm | Wed 26 Sep 2018

Adès conducts In Seven Days

There’s a special dynamic when a composer conducts – as if their music is being created afresh

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Hayward Gallery

11:00 am | until Sun 14 Oct 2018

DRAG: Self-portraits and Body Politics

DRAG is an exhibition of radical self-portraiture from the 1960s to the present day

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

8:00 pm | Mon 24 Sep 2018

The Totally Football Show Live with James Richardson

It’s not quite over for the Totally Football Show team as they look back on the World Cup

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Purcell Room

7:30 pm | Sun 23 Sep 2018

Masayoshi Fujita

Hear the Berlin-based composer and vibraphonist’s latest experimental sounds from his new album

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stories
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See who’s on the shortlist for the 2018 Man Booker Prize
Take a look at the six books in the running for this year’s prestigious award
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Space Shifters: An introduction from Senior Curator Cliff Lauson
Dr. Cliff Lauson introduces Hayward Gallery's remarkable new group exhibition
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Still from the Hayward Gallery produced film looking back at Anish Kapoor's 1998 exhibition

Archive
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Conversations in the Archive: Anish Kapoor (1998)
Watch the fifth in a series of short films exploring key exhibitions from Hayward Gallery’s history
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