Talks
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Purcell Room
2009 Caine Prize Readings
Sunday 5 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Africa | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks
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The Caine Prize celebrates the best new fiction from Africa, and this year marks the tenth anniversary of the prize.
Purcell Room
Caught by the River
Saturday 11 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Advanced Booking | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Song | Literature & Spoken Word | London Lit Festival 09 | Talks
13394
Escape to the Southbank Centre for a special evening of readings, music and musings celebrating fishing, birds and life in the country.
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Royal Festival Hall
Sessions 2 & 3: And Another Thing... & Hitchhikers Live On Stage!
Sunday 11 October 2009
Sunday 11 October 2009
Advanced Booking | Fiction | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Hitchcon’09
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The sixth book in the series, special guests and a live gig – Sessions 2 & 3 of our day-long celebration of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Members' Bar - level 6
Members Sushi Workshop and Sake Tasting
Monday 11 January 2010
Tuesday 12 January 2010
Members | Workshops | Talks | Talks & Debate
13885
Best Available
Indulge your senses with ethically sourced sushi.
Members' Bar - level 6
Members' Classical Reception
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Tuesday 23 February 2010
Members | Music | Orchestral | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate
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Free
Find out about Southbank Centre's 2010/11 Classical Season and enjoy live music by the Piatti String Quartet from the acclaimed Park Lane Group.
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Yellow Room, Spirit Level
Southall Storytellers
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Sunday 11 April 2010
Free | India | South Asian | Visual Arts | Talks | Talks & Debate | Alchemy
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Free
Visit stalls, watch performances and meet local storytellers reminisce about Southall.
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Level 5 Function Room
India: Global Powerhouse?
Wednesday 7 April 2010
Wednesday 7 April 2010
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Is India the new America? Writers, presenters and leading commentators, Hardeep Singh Kohli and Bidisha, MC and actor, Rizwan Ahmed and Jayachandran Palazhy of Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, join Jude Kelly, Southbank Centre Artistic Director, to discuss India's world position and what that means for the UK and the diaspora's relationship to this new global power.
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The Clore Ballroom
The Nation's Favourite Dish
Thursday 8 April 2010
Thursday 8 April 2010
Free | India | South Asian | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Alchemy
14833
Free
BBC Radio 1 DJ, Nihal hosts his BBC Asian Network show live at Southbank Centre.
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Weston Pavilion
Location, Dislocation: Fusion, Confusion
Saturday 10 April 2010
Saturday 10 April 2010
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How successful can collaboration be? Introduced by Southbank Centre Artist in Residence, Gauri Sharma Tripathi, leading artists and practitioners set the terms of engagement for 21st-century cultural collaboration.
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The Clore Ballroom
Intergenerational Journeys
Sunday 11 April 2010
Sunday 11 April 2010
Free | India | South Asian | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | Talks & Debate | Alchemy
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Free
Modern democracies are increasingly concerned about young people disengaging from conventional politics.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
The Grewal Family: An Evening with Music
Sunday 11 April 2010
Sunday 11 April 2010
India | South Asian | Music | Talks | Talks & Debate | Alchemy
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Southbank Centre brings the stars of the popular Channel 4 series 'The Family' to the stage for the first time.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
Raimund Hoghe (Germany)
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Wednesday 5 May 2010
Dance & Performance | Contemporary Dance | Talks | Talks & Debate | 5 days in May | Dance May Festival
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Gain insight into the acclaimed work of artist Raimund Hoghe - best known as the dramaturge for Pina Bausch's company Tanztheater Wuppertal - as he presents this UK premiere event focusing on some of his seminal pieces
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Festival Riverside Level 1
Street Science
Saturday 26 June 2010
Sunday 4 July 2010
Family | Free | Get Involved | Learning & Participation | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | See Further
15534
Free
Don’t miss our science buskers, out and about on the Riverside Terrace.
The Front Room at QEH
Café Scientifique
Saturday 26 June 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
15625
Free
Join scientists, artists and writers to discuss the interesting, the unusual or provocative in science and culture over a cup of coffee or drink
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Southbank Centre
Walking the Science of the City
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Sunday 4 July 2010
Get Involved | Learning & Participation | Learning & Participation | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks | See Further
15551
Best Available
With its bustling streets, green parks and rich history around every corner, London always has plenty to catch your eye
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Weston Pavilion
Beautiful Noise: The science and evolution of music
Wednesday 30 June 2010
Wednesday 30 June 2010
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Advanced Booking
The origin and evolution of music is a topic of enduring interest. Why and when did humans create music for the first time?
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Visualise: Reloaded
Saturday 3 July 2010
Saturday 3 July 2010
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A smash-hit at two Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Visualise Reloaded is a mischievous mix of physical theatre, live science demonstrations, projected images and music.
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St. Paul’s Pavilion
The Boys and Girls from Brazil
Friday 16 July 2010
Friday 16 July 2010
Brazil | Gay | Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | Literature | Talks | Festival Brazil | London Literature Festival 10
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How do the large numbers of lesbian and gay Brazilians who are living in London experience the city? And how does their experience of London compare to life in Brazil? From gay go-go boys to samba dancers, we hear from some of the many Brazilians who've injected a bit of Latin spirit into London's lesbian and gay scene.
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Level 5 Function Room
Talking Tropicalia
Saturday 17 July 2010
Saturday 17 July 2010
Art on Site | Brazil | Film | Visual Arts | Visual Arts | Literature | Talks | Festival Brazil | London Literature Festival 10
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Paula Cosenza introduces exclusive extracts from her film Tropicalia, which documents the rise of a political and artistic movement that changed music and Brazilian culture forever.
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Poetry Library
Fabric of War Artists' Talk
Thursday 4 November 2010
Thursday 4 November 2010
17537
Best Available
Palestinian and Israeli members of the Families Forum, who have worked to create the Fabric of War exhibition, discuss their work at the Poetry Library.
