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More info for THIS IS MY LIFE: Duckie Salutes Shirley Bassey
Silhouette of a singer with arms raised, composed of shimmering gold sequins against a solid black background.
Performance & dance

THIS IS MY LIFE: Duckie Salutes Shirley Bassey

Drag, singalongs, musical chairs, boogie bingo and boas await at this dance club and variety show
The Clore Ballroom
More info for Forced Entertainment: Cold Sweat
An actor with long dark hair sits in a red inflatable chair on a stage scattered with oversized playing cards, tinsel, and white cups.
Performance & dance

Forced Entertainment: Cold Sweat

Figures move to strange rhythms and try to articulate their desires in an absurd yet subversive work
Purcell Room
More info for Who Are We?
Performer wearing all black performing a flip through the air on a floury stage
Performance & dance

Who Are We?

Witness modern circus in a show combining humour and playful self-reflection with dance and theatre
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Tice Cin: Safe Spaces
British writer Tice Cin standing by a tree
Literature & poetry

Tice Cin: Safe Spaces

Enter an extraordinary world in a multi-art form event. In association with Service95 Book Club
Purcell Room
More info for IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!!
Two bearded performers in red sequined outfits and makeup pose expressively against a solid black background.
Performance & dance

IT’S GOT LEGS!!!!!!!

Embrace the chaotic beauty of identity in a visceral, vampy cabaret by Samir Kennedy and Sean Murray
Purcell Room
More info for Kim Noble: How to Write
a man in a black blazer looking directly at the camera while a chaotic cluster of books and a roll of masking tape are bound tightly to his head and stuffed into his mouth using beige tape.
Literature & poetry

Kim Noble: How to Write

A witty lecture about the comedic artist’s new book with writing advice from the greats and his mum
Purcell Room
More info for NOW NOT NOW
Two performers wearing blue suits and floor length green ties, cutting a very long cucumber with slices floating in the air.
Performance & dance

NOW NOT NOW

A mind-bending performance about how time flows, with two performers and their uncanny video doubles
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Fag Packet: DYKE Systems Ltd
A vibrant studio portrait captures a comedic duo dressed in exaggerated 1980s business attire, with one person talking into a pink brick cell phone
Performance & dance

Fag Packet: DYKE Systems Ltd

A comedy and physical theatre takedown of pyramid schemes, heteronormativity and corporate feminism.
Purcell Room
More info for Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music
Taylor Mac in a headdress surrounded by balloons
Classical music

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Take a glitter-soaked journey through the soul of the US with the theatre-maker and the Philharmonia
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy
More info for Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas
A two-panel image shows a drag performer with green hair posing on a bright red background.
Performance & dance

Thick & Tight: Camp as Christmas

A sizzling revue-style cabaret for the bleak midwinter that’s all camp and a little bit Christmassy
Purcell Room
More info for There's a Bear on My Chair
Illustration of a white polar bear sitting on a small yellow chair waving it's paw. A tiny grey mouse points at the bear.
Family

There's a Bear on My Chair

Pull up a seat for an enchanting adaptation of Ross Collins’ beloved books about a mischievous pair
Queen Elizabeth Hall
More info for Fascinating Aïda: Bawdacious!
A group of three women wearing beige/black blazers and black trousers.
Performance & dance

Fascinating Aïda: Bawdacious!

Devilishly funny and gloriously glamorous, the sensational cabaret troupe have an uproarious new show
Queen Elizabeth Hall

While you're with us

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
People enjoying the Jeppe Hein Fountain at the Southbank Centre

Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms

A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in.

Shopping
Wooden displays in the Southbank centre shop, featuring books, plushies, and colourful merchandise

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains
Two statues; a green human body with water spouting from its neck and another of human legs with water pouring down from above displayed outdoors

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

Modified Social Benches
Two children eating ice cream on a red cirrcular bench

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest
Bright sunlight bursts through green leaves with a lens flare, set against a blue sky and a textured concrete building.

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.