Coltrane: Legacy for Orchestra - a symphonic tribute to the life, work & genius of John Coltrane, arranged & curated by Carlos Simon ...

Fuel your creativity through workshops, training and expert insight, and opportunities to get hands-on with the arts Our year-round programme of events, workshops and projects is designed to engage ...

A 295-seat auditorium for music and performance, screenings, poetry readings and a variety of talks and debates, the Purcell Room offers you a real closeness to the arts. Situated within our brutalist ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

The Koestler Awards is an annual programme encouraging people from the UK’s criminal justice system to change their lives through the arts. Jeremy Deller and John Costi have selected artwork from over ...

Join us to shake it out into the weekend at our monthly programme of social dances ...

Revered conductor Herbert Blomstedt, still sharing his musical prowess in his late 90s, conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. The last work Mahler completed, his Ninth is a ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...

Take a break in our Ballroom Cafe with a Community Blend coffee – or maybe even a cake or sweet-treat from our on-site bakery – and you might be lucky enough to take in a lunchtime concert or ...

This large, open space on Level 2 of the Royal Festival Hall hosts many of our free events – from performances by our Resident Orchestras, to joyful social dances where everyone is invited to take ...