Up on the Roof Community Day
Join our Arts & Wellbeing team up on the roof of the Queen Elizabeth Hall for music and activities for all the family.
Come and experience the Queen Elizabeth Roof Garden, which is home to over 250 species of British wildflowers, fruit trees, native trees and herbs. We believe that everyone belongs in nature, and this community event features free creative activities and music for all the family.
This day is open to all, but we especially welcome our Lambeth and Southwark neighbours to experience the wellbeing benefits of getting your hands into the earth.
The Gardening Drawing Club, led by artist and gardener Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, leads a workshop on the basics of planting. Nurture your skills and confidence in gardening, then engage in a painting and drawing session inspired by the shapes, colours and energies we find within plants and seeds.
Nature-connection advocate Kwesia, aka City Girl in Nature joins us for an interactive talk. City Girl in Nature is Kwesia’s ongoing project, sharing her passion and love for the outdoors, and the belief that everyone should have the chance to be healed, nourished and live life with abundance.
Shaped by her life events and experiences growing up mixed heritage in Deptford, in inner-city south-east London, a life-changing expedition to the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest with no phone or contact with the outside world changed her trajectory. Kwesia shares her story and information about her projects around the power of connecting with our natural world, especially on our doorsteps, wherever we may be.
Artist, poet and visual storyteller Tyries Holder leads a creative workshop, Back to Centre, to recentre and ground us through creative aromatherapy and textiles. Create a custom decorated textile aromatherapy pouch to revitalise yourself throughout the day.
Deptford-based tapestry weaver Sara Kelly leads a Weaving with Nature workshop to create a tapestry of natural materials from the garden.
Community music and creative arts centre Raw Materials amps up the summer with a live set throughout the event. Under the mentorship of Double O – DJ, producer, label owner and mastermind of music label Rupture – emerging DJs ONKXR and Mirror Me from Raw Material’s Sync Lab and Run Da Track DJing intensives spin the perfect mix of catchy summer grooves. Expect fun, chilled out and laid-back vibes.
This event is part of our You Belong Here summer season.
Need to know
Come prepared for all weather
For your visit
This event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall Southbank Centre
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is open from 90 minutes before events start until they finish. It’s closed at all other times.
Plan your visit
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is home to both our second-largest auditorium and the Purcell Room.
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
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.