Creative Encounters: Stacy Makishi
Ready for a Hawaiian holiday? Pack your bags for an event that’s part ritual, part workshop and part party, exploring how we might build community in this busy city.
Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for live performance, making and conversation.
With generous scoops of her characteristic aloha, Stacy Makishi leads this edition with intimate stories, games and playful exercises. She shares stories from her (long) life to help you find connection to your own story, lead you through ritual-making to open your heart and finally help you to reclaim your true self through stupid games with top-quality* prizes.
What happens when our curiosity becomes larger than our fears?
How do our hearts shift when we openly share our struggles?
What does playfulness have to do with ritual?
This event welcomes you just as you are – especially the imperfect, messy, awkward, shy, ‘not good enough’ parts of you. You are welcome to take part as much or as little as you like, and to take breaks, observe, exit and enter the space as you wish. It’s all allowed!
Stacy Makishi is a transplant from Hawaii who found paradise in Dalston, London in 1993. Like a bonsai plant, she is small but old, and has been making art and infecting folks with curiosity and creativity for over 40 years. A cross-fertilization of live art, theatre, comedy, film and visual art, her work ranges across stage performances, large-scale participatory projects and intimate one-to-ones. Also a teacher, director and mentor in international demand, she believes in art’s transformative power and strives to share her creative process with others in order to put more ‘aloha’ into the world.
Please note that this edition includes themes of loneliness, caring and loss.
*prizes at Makishi’s discretion. Quality may vary…
Creative team: Stacy Makishi, Jo Allitt, Sue Baynton, Meg Hodgson, Claire Nolan, Vick Ryder, Mary Tooley, Nikki Tomlinson, Lois Weaver
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Need to know
This is a free event with no booking required. Activities begin at 5.30pm, but instructions are provided for any later arrivals.
Our friendly sessions are designed for both those attending on their own or with others; there are opportunities to socialise and take part in activities together, but you are also very welcome to have a solo experience.
Creative Encounters is a fortnightly programme; dates are sometimes subject to change, so do always check the website.
Creative Encounters is part of our Open Doors programme to welcome everyone into our creative spaces.
There is a ramp down to The Clore Ballroom stage and wheelchair accessible bathrooms throughout the venue.
Access
This event is British Sign Language interpreted (BSL). Interpretation is by Vinessa Brant (subject to change).
You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.
Find out more about our Access Scheme
All our access information
There is a ramp down to The Clore Ballroom stage, and wheelchair accessible bathrooms throughout the venue.
For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on 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.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
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
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also 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 which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
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.