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 ...

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 ...

An unforgettable evening features Beethoven’s monumental Choral Symphony with its climactic ‘Ode to Joy’, performed by the renowned Philharmonia Orchestra.

Olulode’s painting imagines an intimate moment between a queer couple at the start of their romance ...

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 ...

Kamancheh virtuoso and composer Kayhan Kalhor presents an album inspired by Iranian classical poetry and the music of Mohammad-Reza Shajarian. Lost in the Desert Sky is a tribute to Mohammad-Reza ...

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 ...

M Marais: Les voix humaines from Pièces de viole, Bk.2; Le tourbillon in E minor from Pièces de viole, Bk.4 ...

Celebrate Banger Factory Records with some of the very best performers on today’s British jazz scene ...

Opening up to our Riverside Terrace, with views over the River Thames and beyond, Festival Bar & Kitchen is one of London’s most popular meeting spots. But there’s more to this place than just a great ...

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 ...