FLAWA: LatinXtravaganza
Dive into family-friendly performances, sustainable fashion and lots of dancing into the night to celebrate the London Latinx community.
Celebrate the weekend in style with a fashion launch from sustainable label Anciela, with music from Gloria Exillio, Luzmira Zerpa and Popola.
Schedule
Anciela takeover: 2pm – 4pm
DJ G: 4pm – 6pm
Live music from Luzmira Zerpa: 6.30pm – 7.30pm
POPOLA: 7.30pm – 10.30pm
Anciela is a London-based sustainable luxury womenswear label celebrating South American folklore and experimental tailoring through the lens of migration and childhood memories. In this event, they launch their new collection ‘Echoes of Earth’ in an immersive fashion presentation reimagining the role of fashion in an era of environmental challenges. Inspired by Tavares Strachan’s work You Belong Here, Anciela invites the audience to collectively answer this question, to dream and envision a sustainable and just future.
DJ G’s electrifying sets blend tropical Latin beats with an eclectic mix of genres. As the founder of Exilio Latinx, a pioneering event series established in 1996, DJ G has been instrumental in providing a safe, festive space for the LGBTQ+ Latinx community and lovers of tropical crossover music.
Luzmira Zerpa is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter based in the UK whose music blends traditional, folkloric music from Latin America with international influences that come from over 15 years of involvement in the alternative London music scene. Her latest journey is an exploration of the music she grew up with in Venezuela, reimagined for the 21st century, which is set for release as her debut solo record in late 2024 in partnership with the Mais Um label. Refracted through a London lens, these folk songs fuse with other styles of Latin and African music, electronic and psychedelic sounds.
Popola’s music spotlights the rich diversity of London’s Queer LatinX & Afro-Caribbean diasporic communities by producing vibrant celebrations of culture and roots. Through our events, Popola provides welcoming spaces where diasporic women and QPOC can uninhibitedly express their artistry, individuality, and cultural heritage. They strive to make sure that historically excluded voices are heard, while working to create safer, healthier environments and promote diasporic art/expressions.
Curated in collaboration with FLAWA, this weekend showcases music, performances and new proposals inviting audiences to engage with artwork by new generations of LatinX artists.
FLAWA is an organisation that works to give visibility and celebrate the art created by women (cisgender, queer, non-binary). They strive to create multidisciplinary events for anyone interested in the many angles and trajectories of Latin American culture.
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 Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
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
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. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
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.