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Relive Patti Smith’s eclectic 2005 Meltdown with tracks from the festival’s acts and a short video from one of the performances.

Take a look behind the scenes at past Meltdown festivals, including those curated by Nick Cave, David Bowie, M.I.A., Robert Smith and Jarvis Cocker.

Listen to an empowering discussion with the celebrated writer, scholar and activist Angela Davis, recorded at the Southbank Centre during WOW, 2017.

Find out about artist Zohra Opoku, whose self-portrait Rhododendron (2015) was displayed outside our Hayward Gallery from 2020 to 2021.

Revisiting the legendary Pink Floyd concert in our Queen Elizabeth Hall which cemented the band a place in rock history… and a ban from our venues.

Hayward Gallery’s Marie-Charlotte Carrier explores how trees challenge our sense of time in this short video from 2020’s Among the Trees exhibition.

Artist Eija-Lissa Ahtila explains how she created her huge, cinematic portrait of a spruce tree, Horizontal – Vaakasuora, for the Hayward Gallery.

Artist Eva Jospin explains how she created her fairytale-like installation Forêt Palatine entirely from cardboard, for Hayward Gallery’s Among the Trees exhibition.

Our playlist brings you some of Ludwig van Beethoven’s most brilliant works, including the well-known choral movement of his Ninth Symphony.

Naturalist, activist and writer Dara McAnulty explains how the restrictions of lockdown altered his daily interactions with nature.

In our Arts Unravelled series, music professor Laura Tunbridge explains when and why Beethoven wrote his most famous masterpiece, the Symphony No.9.

Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff leads a virtual tour of Among the Trees, our 2020 exhibition exploring our relationship with trees and forests.