festival
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Robert Smith’s Meltdown
15 Jun - 24 Jun

Robert Smith curates the UK’s longest-running artist-curated music festival in its 25th year. Smith is the lead singer and principal songwriter of...

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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
Art

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

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series

Classical Season
Chamber & Recital
Choral

Welcome to classical music at Southbank Centre.

We present close to 200 concerts a year alongside free events and more from the most exciting...

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happening at our venues

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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Purcell Room entrance

Royal Festival Hall

7:30 pm | Sun 27 May 2018

Les Amazones d'Afrique

Experience the power of this collective of West African musicians fighting for gender equality

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Hayward Gallery

7:00 pm | Wed 30 May 2018

Members’ Private View: Lee Bul

Be one of the first at this solo show of the acclaimed artist’s pioneering multi-dimensional work

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Queen Elizabeth Hall

7:00 pm | until Fri 25 May 2018

NeoArctic by Hotel Pro Forma

Experience this evocative and poetic visual music performance at its UK premiere

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Purcell Room

Various times | Sat 26 May 2018 - Mon 28 May 2018

Hamnet by Dead Centre

See this moving solo work centred around Shakespeare’s son, who inspired Hamlet

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stories
story

What’s on during summer half-term at Southbank Centre
Come rain, come shine, Southbank Centre’s the place to be this half term
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Lee Bul at Hayward Gallery
Introducing Hayward Gallery's mid-career survey of the work of acclaimed artist Lee Bul
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story

Five minutes with composer Charlotte Bray
Read our short but sweet interview with the young British composer Charlotte Bray
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