Counterpoints Arts: We Move with Joy
Meet at our Riverside Stage for a day of activities to make us move, reflect on our beautiful city as home, and come together in celebration and radical joy.
Join us for a hub of queer SWANA creativity, with a diverse line-up of artists taking to the stage to share their stories, experiences and talents, culminating in a series of DJ sets to turn the celebration into a night of dancing and connection.
Co-curated by Counterpoints Arts and NAFS, this event is more than a celebration of art and culture; it’s a response to the ongoing challenges faced by queer SWANA individuals, and an act of resistance against pinkwashing.
This event is for anyone who values diversity, inclusion and the power of art to bring about social change. It’s an invitation to witness and support the voices that are often sidelined, to engage with art that challenges and inspires, and to be part of a movement that refuses to be silenced.
Schedule
Riverside Terrace
2.30pm – 2.45pm: Maxy Black
2.50pm – 3.10pm: lisa minerva luxx
3.15pm – 3.35pm: Hasna
3.40pm – 3.55pm: HUSS (poetry)
4.00pm – 4.20pm: Vincent J
4.25pm – 4.45pm: surprise performer
4.50pm – 5.10pm: Karima Francis
5.15pm – 5.35pm: Etaf Almutawa
DJ sets
5.30pm – 6.30pm: SEKSU
6.30pm – 7.30pm: Saba Kia
7.30pm – 8.30pm: TAAZ
8.30pm – 9.30pm: LUMA
9.30pm – 10.30pm: Hawazin O
Weston Roof Pavilion
3.30pm – 3.40pm: Marwan Kaabour
3.40pm – 3.50pm: Nour J
3.50pm – 4pm: break
4pm – 4.30pm: reflection
NAFS is a platform dedicated to exploring the queer SWANA experience through art, music and performance, where the unique experiences and identities of queer individuals from the SWANA region can be authentically expressed.
Presented in collaboration with Counterpoints Arts. Co-curated with an artist from Counterpoints Arts network.
This summer, we’re collaborating with a range of London-based collectives and organisations to curate the Riverside Stage in response to the theme of our season, You Belong Here, enabling these collaborators to welcome different audiences and recognise how they want and choose to belong here at the Southbank Centre.
Need to know
For your visit
This event is held at the Riverside Terrace Southbank Centre
The Riverside Terrace is open all day, every day*.
*If you’re attending an event on our Riverside Terrace, check the event listing for start and finish times.
Plan your visit
The Riverside Terrace is an outdoor space overlooking the River Thames, on Royal Festival Hall, Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Through the glass from Riverside Terrace on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.