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Sunday 1 November

Xiaolu Guo: AI-esque
A three-quarter portrait of a smiling woman looking back over her shoulder, wearing a dark blazer and colorful earrings.

Xiaolu Guo: AI-esque

Literature & poetry
Purcell Room
Hanif & Carlo Kureishi: Are You With Me Now?
A man with grey hair wearing a blue shirt in front of a white wall

Hanif & Carlo Kureishi: Are You With Me Now?

Literature & poetry
British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) - The performance includes a live interpreter who translates the show into British Sign Language. Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Queen Elizabeth Hall

Friday 5 March

Friday WOW Festival Day Pass
Speaker on stage in front of silhouetted audience.

Friday WOW Festival Day Pass

Talks & debates
Royal Festival Hall
Gisèle Pelicot & Tarana Burke in Conversation
A split image of a woman with a reddish bob in a blue shirt, and a woman speaking into a microphone.

Gisèle Pelicot & Tarana Burke in Conversation

Talks & debates
British Sign Language interpreted (BSL) - The performance includes a live interpreter who translates the show into British Sign Language. Speech-to-Text transcribed - A transcribed performance shows live text of the dialogue and sound on screens.
Royal Festival Hall

Saturday 6 March

Saturday WOW Festival Day Pass
An audience watches a panel discussion on an illuminated stage under colorful event lighting.

Saturday WOW Festival Day Pass

Talks & debates
Royal Festival Hall

Sunday 7 March

Sunday WOW Festival Day Pass
A speaker stands at a podium next to a sign language interpreter on a stage with a panel discussion.

Sunday WOW Festival Day Pass

Talks & debates
Royal Festival Hall
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Saturday 3 April

Ira Glass: Stories for a Saturday Night
Ira Glass sitting at a table in front of a wood panelled wall.

Ira Glass: Stories for a Saturday Night

Literature & poetry
Royal Festival Hall

While you're with us

Shopping
Wooden displays in the Southbank centre shop, featuring books, plushies, and colourful merchandise

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains
Two statues; a green human body with water spouting from its neck and another of human legs with water pouring down from above displayed outdoors

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

Modified Social Benches
Two children eating ice cream on a red cirrcular bench

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest
Bright sunlight bursts through green leaves with a lens flare, set against a blue sky and a textured concrete building.

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.