1 Jun 2013 London Lines Launch View More 1 Jun 2013 London Lines Launch Poems are peppering the site at Southbank Centre this summer with our London Lines project View More
1 Jun 2013 London Sinfonietta Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose View More 1 Jun 2013 London Sinfonietta Mauricio Kagel: The Pieces of the Compass Rose Mauricio Kagel was an Argentinian who relocated to Europe, and The Pieces of the Compass Rose are his musical travelogue taking you from the north ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Nassim Nicholas Taleb View More 1 Jun 2013 Nassim Nicholas Taleb Nassim Nicholas Taleb invented the term 'Black Swan' to explain the existence of high-impact rare events that occur outside the realms of normal e ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Rebecca Solnit View More 1 Jun 2013 Rebecca Solnit One of America's foremost public intellectuals, Rebecca Solnit discusses her new book 'The Faraway Nearby', an inspiring memoir about family, empa ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Point Blank Poets London LIVE View More 1 Jun 2013 Point Blank Poets London LIVE For this special London Literature Festival event, Point Blank Poets present poems and discussion about their own diverse heritage and relationshi ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Superhero Run with Charlie Dark View More 1 Jun 2013 Superhero Run with Charlie Dark Join Charlie Dark and the Run Dem Crew as they take you on a mission-impossible superhero run around Southbank Centre View More
1 Jun 2013 Breakfasting in London with the London Review of Breakfasts View More 1 Jun 2013 Breakfasting in London with the London Review of Breakfasts The 'full English' refers not to our technological, cultural or military achievements. View More
1 Jun 2013–2 Jun 2013 The Poetry Butcher View More 1 Jun 2013–2 Jun 2013 The Poetry Butcher Need some help with your poetry writing? Get a slice of feedback from one of our Poetry Butchers. View More
1 Jun 2013–2 Jun 2013 Tom Chivers The Neckinger Pilgrimage View More 1 Jun 2013–2 Jun 2013 Tom Chivers The Neckinger Pilgrimage Part walking tour, part site-specific performance, this urban pilgrimage combines poetry, soundscapes and storytelling to scrape away at the surfa ... View More
1 Jun 2013 James Robertson View More 1 Jun 2013 James Robertson The launch of a new novel, The Professor of Truth, loosely based on the Lockerbie bombing View More
1 Jun 2013–22 Sep 2013 Southbank Centre Tour View More 1 Jun 2013–22 Sep 2013 Southbank Centre Tour Explore more about our roots, architecture and some memorable moments in our 60 year history on this guided tour. View More
1 Jun 2013 Spitalfields Life View More 1 Jun 2013 Spitalfields Life The Gentle Author, writer of more than 1000 stories posted online at spitalfieldslife. View More
1 Jun 2013 Poems on the Underground View More 1 Jun 2013 Poems on the Underground A specially assembled group of poets and musicians presents an afternoon of words and music about and inspired by London, to celebrate 150 years o ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Gabriel Gbadamosi Vauxhall View More 1 Jun 2013 Gabriel Gbadamosi Vauxhall Playwright, poet and critic Gabriel Gbadamosi presents his debut novel Vauxhall, a tender and occasionally dark portrait of a child looking for hi ... View More
1 Jun 2013 Philharmonia Orchestra View More 1 Jun 2013 Philharmonia Orchestra Please note this concert performance of Oscar-winning film scores replaces the previously advertised screening of <i>Thief of Baghdad</i> View More
1 Jun 2013 Pete Firman View More 1 Jun 2013 Pete Firman The UK's top comedic conjuror returns to Southbank Centre with his latest box of tricks. View More
2 Jun 2013 Beethoven's Ninth A Coronation Ode to Joy View More 2 Jun 2013 Beethoven's Ninth A Coronation Ode to Joy An unmissable all-Beethoven concert featuring the heroic Emperor Piano Concerto and the monumental Choral Symphony with its celebratory 'Ode to Joy'. View More
2 Jun 2013 Richard Sennett: Together View More 2 Jun 2013 Richard Sennett: Together At the launch of our new Festival of Neighbourhood, Richard Sennett, University Professor at New York University, talks about the challenge of liv ... View More
2 Jun 2013 Paul Theroux View More 2 Jun 2013 Paul Theroux A final African adventure from the writer whose gimlet eye and effortless prose have brought the world to generations of readers. View More
2 Jun 2013 Claire Tomalin: Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria: An Odd Couple View More 2 Jun 2013 Claire Tomalin: Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria: An Odd Couple In the fourth of five lectures on different topics, Claire Tomalin unravels the story of the relationship, or non-relationship, between these two ... View More
2 Jun 2013 China Miéville Visions of London View More 2 Jun 2013 China Miéville Visions of London To round off our weekend celebrating all things London, join us for an evening in conversation with China Miéville. View More
2 Jun 2013 Rachel Lichtenstein Diamond Street View More 2 Jun 2013 Rachel Lichtenstein Diamond Street In this illustrated talk, Rachel Lichtenstein reveals some of the extraordinary stories she uncovered whilst researching her latest book Diamond S ... View More
2 Jun 2013 Leo Hollis Cities Are Good for You View More 2 Jun 2013 Leo Hollis Cities Are Good for You More than half the world's population lives in urban centres and the numbers are only going to grow. View More
2 Jun 2013 A Guided Tour Around the Hidden World of Hatton Garden View More 2 Jun 2013 A Guided Tour Around the Hidden World of Hatton Garden Take to the streets of London's historic jewellery quarter, to jewellery shops, medieval crypts, the oldest pub in London and many other intriguin ... View More
2 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School View More 2 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School The Southbank Centre's Creative Writing School runs monthly, sold-out classes in the craft of writing - intensive, two-hour practical sessions. View More
2 Jun 2013–22 Jun 2013 Flown View More 2 Jun 2013–22 Jun 2013 Flown With a stunning clique of masterful acrobats, aerialists, dancers, musicians and daredevil stuntmen, the cutting-edge Pirates of the Carabina invi ... View More
2 Jun 2013 Simon Garfield London On The Map View More 2 Jun 2013 Simon Garfield London On The Map Maps fascinate many of us. View More
2 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School Location View More 2 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School Location The Southbank Centre's Creative Writing School runs monthly, sold-out classes in the craft of writing - intensive, two-hour practical sessions. View More
2 Jun 2013 Chelsea Opera Group Verdi - Alzira, Opera in a prologue and 2 acts View More 2 Jun 2013 Chelsea Opera Group Verdi - Alzira, Opera in a prologue and 2 acts A concert performance in two acts of Verdi's rarely heard eighth opera, Alzira. View More
2 Jun 2013 Tracey Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen View More 2 Jun 2013 Tracey Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen Tracey Thorn, one half of the band Everything but the Girl, talks about her candid memoir Bedsit Disco Queen. View More
3 Jun 2013 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson View More 3 Jun 2013 Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers: A Tribute to Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Tonight's tribute to former OAE soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson sees three great sopranos take to the Royal Festival Hall stage to sing some of Ha ... View More
3 Jun 2013 Claire Tomalin: Mary Wollstonecraft: Speaking Up for Her Sex View More 3 Jun 2013 Claire Tomalin: Mary Wollstonecraft: Speaking Up for Her Sex Claire Tomalin concludes her five-part lecture series in the week of the Women's Prize for Fiction with a study of one of the great voices of the ... View More
3 Jun 2013 Women's Prize and Grazia Write How to Get Your First Novel Published View More 3 Jun 2013 Women's Prize and Grazia Write How to Get Your First Novel Published Whether you have written your first draft, or are yet to write the first sentence, join the Women's Prize and Grazia at a special writers' evening. View More
3 Jun 2013 Poetry Library Book Club London: A History in Verse View More 3 Jun 2013 Poetry Library Book Club London: A History in Verse A whistle-stop tour of six centuries of poetry about London. View More
3 Jun 2013 ROSL 61st Annual Music Competion Final View More 3 Jun 2013 ROSL 61st Annual Music Competion Final Hear finalists of the 2013 ROSL Annual Music Competition battle it out for first prize. View More
3 Jun 2013–23 Jun 2013 Beyond View More 3 Jun 2013–23 Jun 2013 Beyond Circa are quite simply one of the world's great contemporary circus companies. View More
4 Jun 2013 Crouch End Festival Chorus Music from the 1953 Coronation/Belshazzar's Feast View More 4 Jun 2013 Crouch End Festival Chorus Music from the 1953 Coronation/Belshazzar's Feast The Crouch End Festival Chorus, Hertfordshire Chorus and The Dessoff Choirs from New York celebrate music from Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. View More
4 Jun 2013 The School of Spoken Word INSET View More 4 Jun 2013 The School of Spoken Word INSET Peter Kahn, the co-founder of the London Teenage Poetry Slam has launched the first ever Spoken Word Education Training Programme as a Visiting Fe ... View More
4 Jun 2013 The School of Spoken Word View More 4 Jun 2013 The School of Spoken Word Following on from the INSET for teachers event in the afternoon, Peter Khan, who has just has launched the first ever Spoken Word Education Traini ... View More
4 Jun 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo View More 4 Jun 2013 NoViolet Bulawayo Zimbabwean writer NoViolet Bulawayo's stories have won the Caine Prize for African Writing and been shortlisted for the SA PEN Studzinsi Award. View More
4 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School Dialogue View More 4 Jun 2013 Southbank Centre Creative Writing School Dialogue The Southbank Centre's Creative Writing School runs monthly, sold-out classes in the craft of writing - intensive, two-hour practical sessions. View More
4 Jun 2013 The Poetry Parnassus Postscript: Every Poem Tells a Story View More 4 Jun 2013 The Poetry Parnassus Postscript: Every Poem Tells a Story From the 2012 Poetry Parnassus Festival - the largest ever gathering of world poets - there arose some compelling connections which criss-crossed ... View More
4 Jun 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist Readings View More 4 Jun 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlist Readings Now in its 18th year, the Women's Prize for Fiction was set up to celebrate excellence, originality and accessibility in writing by women througho ... View More
4 Jun 2013 Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of you Either View More 4 Jun 2013 Brendon Burns Hasn’t Heard of you Either Edinburgh comedy award-winner Brendon Burns, who has partial hearing, addresses disability and exactly why he has managed to remain a painfully an ... View More
4 Jun 2013 Marcel Lucont: Gallic Symbol View More 4 Jun 2013 Marcel Lucont: Gallic Symbol Witty, acerbic, magniloquent Frenchman seeks willing, intelligent audience for one hour only for fun, adventure, maybe something more. View More
5 Jun 2013 Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano View More 5 Jun 2013 Elisabeth Leonskaja, piano The Moscow-trained pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Ravel, Debussy, Enescu and Brahms. View More
5 Jun 2013–6 Jun 2013 Lucy Guerin's UNTRAINED View More 5 Jun 2013–6 Jun 2013 Lucy Guerin's UNTRAINED <i>Untrained</i> is a quirky and irreverent theatrical exploration that takes both performers and audience into a whole new undefined ... View More
5 Jun 2013 A Match Made in Heaven View More 5 Jun 2013 A Match Made in Heaven Join Choi Tea founder Melissa Choi and award-winning chocolatier Fiona Sciolti of Scolti Chocolates for this unique Chinese tea and chocolate pair ... View More
5 Jun 2013 Rain of Poems Readings View More 5 Jun 2013 Rain of Poems Readings Join us at the launch event of a poetry publication featuring poems that were dropped from the sky onto London last year, with readings by some of ... View More
5 Jun 2013 The Digital Alternative View More 5 Jun 2013 The Digital Alternative Join us as we consider the digital alternative to poetry magazines in discussion with website editors from 'Ink, Sweat & Tears', 'Like Starlin ... View More
