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Discover & Do

King’s College London and Southbank Centre launch unique MA programme.

The MA Education in Arts & Cultural Settings offers an exciting opportunity to study at one of the world's leading arts organisations as well as learn from leading academics in education research and teaching at King's College London. The programme is jointly taught by the Learning and Participation department at Southbank Centre and the Department of Education and Professional Studies at King's.

Click here to find out more about this innovative programme for current and aspiring educators in arts and culture.

Read our blogs, delve into our interactive projects and find out how you can participate at Southbank Centre through the links below.

 

Festival memories

Southbank Centre is looking for memories, personal photographs, film, letters, postcards, diaries or other personal writing about any of the Festival events that took place at the Southbank Centre or anywhere else around the country.

We'd love to hear from you if your family or friends have memories of the Festival or any of the following:

  • Photographs or film of you or your family at any Festival of Britain exhibition or event
  • Letters, diaries, postcards or other personal writing about experiences at any Festival of Britain event

Visit southbankcentre.co.uk/festivalmemories to see some of the memories we have already collected and find out more about the project.

 

Soundbank

Soundbank is a brand new, exciting instrumental ensemble. Players of any instrument, with intermediate to advanced performance experience, are welcome to join this new branch of the Southbank Centre’s creative family. Find out more

Global Poetry System

Get involved. Our user-generated website is involving people from around the UK in finding poetry, mapping it and sharing it. Visit the website

Global Poetry System

Voicelab

For anyone interested in singing, Voicelab offers a huge range of opportunities to get involved in projects, from one-off workshops to major performances and collaborations that end up on the stages at Southbank Centre. Find out more

Voicelab

Collision: 1-31 January 2010

Collision, devised by Artistic Director Jude Kelly and Jeremy Deller, is a radical development period for Southbank Centre’s Artists in Residence, audience and the staff of Southbank Centre to test current creative and organisational practice and forge new artistic relationships and ways of working. Find out more

Gamelan at Southbank Centre

Royal Festival Hall is home to a beautiful set of Javanese percussion instruments called gamelan. For more information about the instruments, taster sessions, classes and performances please see our dedicated gamelan site: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/gamelan

Tomorrow's Warriors

Tomorrow’s Warriors at Southbank Centre is a weekend residency enabling Tomorrow’s Warriors to develop its various ensembles and repertoire in partnership with Southbank Centre.

During this special project, which started in September 2009, Tomorrow’s Warriors is working with approximately 50 jazz musicians, the majority of whom are aged 15 – 25 years old. The programme consists mainly of rehearsals, workshops and masterclasses for the core ensembles, but there are also opportunities for other organisations and young individual musicians to participate. 

Visit the Tomorrow’s Warrior’s website.

Tomorrow's Warriors

Poetry Library

Come to the Saison Poetry Library and find riddles, stories, nonsense, picture books, pop-ups and recordings. You can pick up a Poetry Trail in the library that will help you discover poetry all around you, at Southbank Centre and beyond.

Visit our nursery rhyme reading area for children and parents, where you'll find books, audio tapes and games as well as an exhibition of nursery rhyme posters and postcards.

Create your own nursery rhyme postcard to upload onto the GPS website.

Saison Poety Library is on Level 5 at Royal Festival Hall. Admission free.

Find out more at poetrylibrary.org.uk

Poetry Library

Artform blogs

Keep up to date by reading our Classical, Literature, Visual Arts, Dance and Gigs blogs.

Blogs

Hayward Gallery Project Space

With a regularly changing programme of single installations and small exhibitions of works by emerging artists, the Hayward Gallery Project Space is free to the public – See what's on. 

Hayward Gallery Project Space

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