Autumn
Find inspiring art and activities for all in the heart of London
Join us this autumn for music of all kinds, awe-inspiring exhibitions, great thinkers and writers, family fun and free events.
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Gift to the Future
Anish Kapoor
Luke Jerram: Stepping Out
Southbank Centre Tours
Musquiqui Chihying: A Life of Navigation
Quentin Blake: The Southbank Parade
The Rest Is History: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure
The Rest Is Classified: Live
The Rest Is Money: Live
The Rest Is Football: Bursting Onto the Stage
The Rest Is Politics: The Special Relationship
Empire: Live
Football Cliches: Live
Sherlock & Co.
Scaramucci vs The Rest Is Classified: Team America
The Rest Is Science: Live
The Book Club
The Rest Is Entertainment: Live
The Three Ayatollahs: An Unbreakable Dynasty?
Stanley Tucci: Film, Food and Me
The Real Housewives of Regency England
Ancient Myths: Mary Beard & Josephine Quinn
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Rest Is Politics US: Trump on a Knife Edge
The Rest Is Politics: Off the Record
The Rest Is Quiz
Playing with Fire
Creative Intelligence Summit
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: Pollinator Pathmaker
Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler: Anatomy of an AI System
Katie Paterson: Ideas
Andrew Thomas Huang: The Deer of Nine Colors
Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech
Holly Herndon: Listening Session
The Prologue
Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer's Sphere
Exploration Bazaar
Virtual Orchestra: Play Along
Saturday Talks Programme
Google Arts & Culture
THE DELUSION: I Can’t Move With You
Live Demos
Liam Young: World Machine
Algorave
Kevin Peter He: Vestige
Sunday Talks Programme
Jeanette Winterson: Creativity, Artists, Us
Dance of the Nine-Colored Deer
Jack Thorne: Authorship in the Age of AI
Julianknxx & THABO: Bantutronic – Finding 15 Live
futuretense x Letters to the Future: BUKKY + MA.MOYO
Amelia Dimoldenberg: The Future of Digital Media
Future Sounds: RAP Party x Out-Spoken
Rebecca F Kuang: The Future of Education
Reimagining Shared Spaces: The Future of Housing
London Oratorio
Olly Alexander: The Future of Queer Storytelling
BUMPAH x Future Rhythms
Mya-Rose Craig: Beyond the Climate Crisis
Future Rhythms DJ Takeover
The Future of Images in a Post-Truth Era
Letters to My Younger Future Self
Ash Sarkar: The Future of Relationships
Fire in My Mouth
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Marin Alsop conductor
London Voices
RSNO Youth Chorus
Farnham Youth Choir
Repertoire
Julia Wolfe: Fire in my Mouth (London premiere)
The Multi-Story Orchestra: Dreamer
Performers
The Multi-Story Orchestra
Repertoire
The Multi-Story Young Creatives: Dreamer
Santtu & Sol Gabetta
Performers
Philharmonia Orchestra
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conductor
Sol Gabetta cello
Repertoire
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Interval
Dvořák: Symphony No.9 (From the New World)
Pekka Kuusisto, Ale Carr & Aurora Orchestra: Four Seasons
Performers
Aurora Orchestra
Pekka Kuusisto director, violin
Ale Carr cittern
Repertoire
Caroline Shaw: Plan & Elevation for string quartet
Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E flat
Interval
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (plus tunes traditional and otherwise)
Mariam Batsashvili: Bach & Liszt
Performers
Mariam Batsashvili piano
Repertoire
Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV.974 (transc. from A. Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor)
Liszt: Sarabande and Chaconne from Handel's Almira arr. for piano, S.181
Thalberg: Grand caprice on motifs from Bellini's La Sonnambula, Op.46
Liszt: Valse from Gounod's Faust transc. for piano, S.407
Interval
Bach: Chaconne from Partita No.2 in D minor, BWV.1004 arr. Busoni for piano
Liszt: Après une lecture de Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage
Steve Reich at 90: Triple Quartet + After Dark
Performers
Carducci Quartet
Ligeti Quartet
Solem Quartet
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Different trains arr. for string orchestra (UK premiere); WTC 9/11 for string quartet & pre-recorded tape; Triple Quartet vers. for 3 string quartets live
Britten’s War Requiem
Performers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Edward Gardner conductor
Natalya Romaniw soprano
Allan Clayton tenor
Benjamin Appl baritone
London Philharmonic Choir
London Symphony Chorus
Tiffin Boys' Choir
Tiffin Girls' Choir
Repertoire
Britten: War Requiem (performed in English and Latin, with English surtitles)
Steve Reich at 90: After Dark
Performers
Junyan Chen piano
Joseph Havlat piano
Louise Goodwin marimba
Rich Cartlidge marimba
Freya Goldmark violin
FAUZIA electronics
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Piano phase for 2 pianos; Nagoya marimbas for 2 marimbas; Violin phase for violin & tape; My name is for electronics
Followed by a DJ Set
Jean Rondeau: Goldberg Variations
Performers
Jean Rondeau organ
Repertoire
Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV.998
Steve Reich at 90: Music for 18 Musicians
Performers
Paraorchestra
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Music for 18 musicians
Steve Reich at 90: London Sinfonietta & Jonny Greenwood
Performers
London Sinfonietta
Chloe Rooke conductor
Jonny Greenwood bass guitar, *, electric guitar, **
Students from the Royal Academy of Music
Repertoire
Steve Reich: Clapping Music; Pulse *; Radio Rewrite
Interval
Steve Reich: Electric counterpoint **; City Life
Manchester Collective & Sidiki Dembélé
Performers
Manchester Collective
Sidiki Dembélé Ensemble
Repertoire
Programme includes: -
Sidiki Dembélé: Teriya
Nwando Ebizie: New work (London premiere)
Rakhi Singh: Arrangements of and selections from John Playford, Henry Purcell, Hans Abrahamsen, Kevin Volans, Emily Hall and Edmund Finnis
Who Are We?
Koestler Arts: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Vadym Kholodenko: Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique
Performers
Vadym Kholodenko piano
Repertoire
Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op.17
Interval
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique arr. Liszt (S.470) for piano
Zubin Kanga: Ghost in the Machine + After Dark
Performers
Zubin Kanga piano, keyboards, electronics, interactive technologies
Repertoire
Nwando Ebizie: I Will Fix Myself (Just Circles)
Alex Paxton: Selection from Cuddley Wuddley (UK premiere)
George Lewis: Blombos Playground (World premiere)
Ben Nobuto: The Art of Sinking (London premiere)
After Dark: Club Cyborg – Zubin Kanga
Performers
Zubin Kanga piano, keyboards, electronics, interactive technologies
Repertoire
Alex Groves: PARTITA (World premiere); DANCE SUITE
Michael Lewis: Blockers
The Children's Bookshow with Katherine Rundell
Creative Encounters: Poetry and Ink
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Tareq Baconi: On Freedom
Hernan Diaz: Ply
Service95 Book Club: Nadia Murad in Conversation
Kwame Dawes: Afro-Style School & Kinships
Joseph Coelho & Friends
Out-Spoken: October
Indie Night: October
Poetry Day!
A Celebration of British Somali Poetry
Orwell's England: 85 Years Later
Dua Lipa & Zadie Smith: White Teeth
Words In, Words Out: A Night in With Koestler Arts
Poems on the Underground: 40th Anniversary
The 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry Ceremony: Live Stream
The 2026 Forward Prizes for Poetry Ceremony
Dua Lipa & Mustafa: Nour
Creative Future Writers' Day
Creative Future Writers' Day: Live Stream
Out-Spoken Masterclass: October
Jean Rondeau, Nicolas Altstaedt & Thomas Dunford
Performers
Thomas Dunford lute
Nicolas Altstaedt cello
Jean Rondeau harpsichord
Repertoire
Programme includes: Works by Marais, Forqueray & Couperin
L Couperin: Prélude in E, G.14
F Couperin: Prélude from Suite No.1 in E minor from Pièces de violes
Marais: Feste champêtre from Suite d'un goût étranger, Pièces de viole, Bk.4; Marche persane dite la Savigny from Suite No.7 in E minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.5; Le tourbillon from Suite d'un goût étranger, Pièces de viole, Bk.4; Tombeau de Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe from Suite No.6 in E minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.2
de Visée: Allemande; Courante; Sarabande; Chaconne from Suite No.7 in D minor, Pièces de théorbe et de luth
Marais: Le grand ballet from Suite No.1 in A minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.3; Couplets des folies (Les folies d'Espagne) from Suite No.1 in D minor, Pièces de viole, Bk.2; Les voix humaines from Suite No.3 in D, Pièces de viole, Bk.2
F Couperin: La favorite (Chaconne à deux tems en rondeau) from Pièces de clavecin, Ordre No.3
Forqueray: La Sylva (Très tendrement); Jupiter (Modérément) from Suite No.5 in C minor, Pièces de viole arr. JB Forqueray for keyboard
Debut London Literature
Dua Lipa & Patti Smith: Bread of Angels
V. E. Schwab: Victorious
Go All In: Gaming and the Power of Story
The Smeds and the Smoos
Service95 Book Club: Translated Fiction Showcase
Malorie Blackman: Noughts & Crosses at 25
Tice Cin: Safe Spaces
Creative Future Writers' Award Showcase
Creative Future Writers' Award Showcase: Live Stream
The Funny Business of Serious Literature
Service95 Book Club: Fierce Sounds
Service95 and English PEN: Censorship Live!
Counterpoints Masterclass with Hisham Matar
Wasafiri: New Writing Prize 2026
Service95 Book Club: Rewriting Male Tenderness
The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist Readings
The Goldsmiths Prize Shortlist Readings: Live Stream
Xiaolu Guo: AI-esque
Xiaolu Guo: AI-esque – Live Stream
While you're with us
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in.
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.