Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature will present three of the artist’s most ambitious series of graphic works; Jane ...

Situated in the heart of London, on the banks of the River Thames is the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, a beacon for arts and culture for over 70 years. The 2,700 capacity Royal Festival Hall ...

Today the Southbank Centre announces a raft of new programming highlights for the year ahead, reflecting the vision of Artistic Director Mark Ball and the venue’s role as leading creator of culture ...

Contact our press team for media enquiries, releases, press tickets, press images and filming requests. We offer a limited number of press tickets for most events at the Southbank Centre. Generally, ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

Who uses the Medusa’s eye? Have you heard a chorus of frogs? Do you know who Gentle Dobbin is? The library keeps a running list of frequently asked for ‘lost’ quotations that for some reason have come ...

The Southbank Centre and the Montreux Jazz Festival’s new partnership brings together two music institutions to explore the theme ‘What is jazz today?’. Both organisations have a rich history of ...

In 2022 we were delighted to partner with Apple to launch Reframe, an innovative programme designed to uplift emerging Black creatives across the UK. This collaboration also included our partners at ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...

Step into a bespoke, experimental sound system that turns the Queen Elizabeth Hall itself into a living, breathing, epic three-dimensional instrument. Concrete Voids is made up of over 80 speakers ...