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 ...

London Literature Festival unites readers of every age to celebrate the written and spoken word ...

Choose from our selection of performances that showcase the wealth of boundary-pushing, eye-opening new music that Southbank Centre has to offer. Try a weird, wonderful winter sport in an awesome ...

Founded in 2015 by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, the Chineke! Orchestra is Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra. ‘That exclamation mark says it all. Chineke! likes to startle and ...

Two supernovas of today’s piano world share the stage in virtuoso works for two pianos and four hands, crossing three centuries of music. Tonight is a rare chance to hear Yuja Wang and Vikingur ...

Stroll along the Thames under twinkling lights and sample indulgent drinks and scrumptious street food from our traditional alpine-style chalets. With pop-up bars, street food stalls and independent ...

Find inspiration from contemporary poems, and ideas of where to get your own poetry published in this list of current poetry magazines. 14 is an annual poetry magazine devoted to poems of 14 lines ...

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 ...

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...