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More info for Playing with Fire
Yuja Wang plays piano in a dreamy landscape
Classical music

Playing with Fire

Get closer to the explosive talent of Yuja Wang at a groundbreaking concert merging VR and live piano
Royal Festival Hall
Multi-buy
More info for Get Your Hands-Dirty with Creative Tech
A series of laptops using the Hydra coding software in a purple lit room
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 Kevin Peter He: Vestige
A dancer arches backward on stage beneath a large digital projection of a leaping figure and a robotic arm sculpture.
Performance & dance

Kevin Peter He: Vestige

Two performers search for contact across stage and screen in a magnetic live dance-theatre work
Purcell Room
More info for Dance of the Nine-Colored Deer
a colourful deer puppet stands astride a dancer in a crouched position
Performance & dance

Dance of the Nine-Colored Deer

A live performance telling a tale of the afterlife and reincarnation, transformation and return.
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Tickets Free
More info for Julianknxx & THABO: Bantutronic – Finding 15 Live
Two people in ceremonial white clothing stand on a path in a dense, green forest.
Performance & dance

Julianknxx & THABO: Bantutronic – Finding 15 Live

Narration, movement and live-scored music tracing Bantu and African diaspora histories and futures
Purcell Room
More info for Duckie: Why Do Benders Love Divas?
A high-contrast pink stencil illustration of a singer on a black background, performing with arms spread wide.
Performance & dance

Duckie: Why Do Benders Love Divas?

Neil Bartlett, David McAlmont and Rupert Smith chat about the fierce queer connection to women icons
The Clore Ballroom
Tickets Free
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 About Us! Artists' Scratch Showcase
Charlotte, a Black women artist smiles as she reads her own poetry in front of a yellow screen.
Gigs

About Us! Artists' Scratch Showcase

Join us for an evening of diverse new work from five artists, hosted by curator Awate
The Clore Ballroom
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 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

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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.