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More info for ZooNation: Hip-Hop Showcase for All Ages
People of all ages dancing together in a large room with a blue background
Performance & dance

ZooNation: Hip-Hop Showcase for All Ages

A spectacular showcase of hip-hop performers hand-selected by ZooNation Youth Company alumni
Riverside Terrace
Tickets Free
More info for Raze Collective: Friday
A crowd of people on the Riverside Terrace with the London Eye in the background
Performance & dance

Raze Collective: Friday

Enjoy a Riverside Session curated by producers from the LGBTQIA+ performing arts charity
Riverside Terrace
Tickets Free
More info for Arts Emergency: Explore
A crowd silhouettes against a stage with bright purple and white lights at an outdoor nighttime music event.
Performance & dance

Arts Emergency: Explore

Young members of the grassroots movement curate a line-up of free comedy and more
Riverside Terrace
Tickets Free
More info for Arts Emergency: Express
A diverse group of young women stand and talk animatedly in a bright cafe or community lounge space.
Performance & dance

Arts Emergency: Express

Finish your weekend in the best way possible at our afternoon of free, open-air comedy
Riverside Terrace
Tickets Free
More info for Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech
Close-up of hands sewing electronic components onto an orange felt cutout during a creative technology workshop.
Art & exhibitions

Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech

Performances, workshops and interactive art showcasing London’s creative computing communities
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets Free
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 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 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 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 collage of one performer in white makeup, green hair, and a floral dress and another performer in all black with one leg in the air
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 & young people

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

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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.