A Complicated Woman – Installation will be displayed at Piccadilly circus on Tue 21 Oct from 7pm – 7.10pm The Royal Festival ...

A new generation steps forward to share their love of orchestral music with a performance featuring excerpts from Prokofiev’s ...

Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto isn’t as well-known as his First, but when you hear it played by the sensational young ...

A vibrant and dynamic performance celebrates 30 years of the Persona franchise, as the Bartosz Pernal Jazz Orchestra joins ...

To open, Ryan Bancroft has chosen Britten’s Four Sea Interludes. They’re taken from his opera Peter Grimes, a compelling ...

Manchester Collective is a Southbank Centre Resident Artist for Classical Music: Spring/Summer 2026. Discounts apply to selected events, February 2026 – June 2026 inclusive. Offer can’t be combined ...

A summer favourite returns to our site. By shooting jets of water into the air, the fountain creates rooms that disappear as quickly as they emerge. This interactive sculpture is the brainchild of ...

Join us for an afternoon of readings and conversation with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage as he presents his major new poetry collection, New Cemetery. Chronicling the extraordinary transformation of ...

Every February half-term our festival for children aged 0 – 11 and their grown-ups turns the Southbank Centre into one big playground. Imagine Festival is all about sparking creativity through ...

Bringing together the essential languages of Kapoor’s practice, this landmark exhibition focuses on the artist’s recent work alongside early seminal artworks. Uncover Kapoor’s continued exploration of ...

The annual Waltham Forest Poetry Competition is now open for entries. Send in up to 6 poems of 40 lines each per poem (not including the title) on the theme of WEATHER. There are Adult and Young Poet ...

Paula Rego’s radical art drew inspiration from a vast range of sources – from traditional folklore and fairy tales, to literary classics and nursery rhymes. For Rego, these sources conveyed essential ...