Southbank Centre

Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX, London

Activities at Southbank Centre, june 2024

Richard Flanagan: Question 7

Wed 5 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

' Question 7 is the greatest memoir of parents and place I have read ... Devastating and beautiful, mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet.'
Laura Cumming Booker Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan presents his magnificent memoir, a tale which weaves through history and continents, in conversation with Samira Ahmed.
Read, watch and listen more Beginning at a love

Special Edition: Joy//Us - Poems of Queer Joy

Wed 5 Jun 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Join us at the National Poetry Library for an unapologetically upbeat anthology of poems celebrating things that make LGBTQ+ people happy.
Read, watch and listen more Joy//Us was published to coincide with International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia - because how better to fight hate than with joy?
Alongside the more immediately obvious causes, joy is found in everythin

Miranda July: All Fours

Wed 12 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

Writer, director, screenwriter, artist and actress Miranda July introduces her subversive second novel in conversation with Eley Williams.
Read, watch and listen more Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman.

Les Amazones d'Afrique

Fri 14 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

The pan-African feminist supergroup embraces international voices to bring richly melodic and far-ranging music, and a message from Africa for the world.
Read, watch and listen more Les Amazones d’Afrique is a creative blend of African heritage and new generation talent.
Formed with the goal of campaigning for gender equality and eradicating ancestral violence, their music is a powerful ve

Norman Jay & Friends

Fri 14 Jun 2024, 22:30 - Southbank Centre, London

It’s good vibes all round with this line-up of three iconic DJs - Norman Jay, Charlie Dark and Marcia Carr - spinning the decks in a late-night party.
Read, watch and listen more Norman Jay is unquestionably one of the most respected and popular DJs in the world today. Co- founder of the legendary Good Times Sound System and London dance music station KISS FM, Jay fostered the 'Rare Groove’ sc

Tell Me Something Good with Habibti Nation

Fri 14 Jun 2024, 18:00 - Southbank Centre, London

Dance along to remixed SWANA and traditional Arabic music and high-energy anthems from emerging women, non-binary and trans DJs.
Read, watch and listen more Dance along to remixed traditional Arabic music and high-energy anthems from emerging Arab women, non-binary and trans DJs.
Expect high-energy house and disco sounds mixed with darbuka drums, mahraganat and raï and your favourite music

London Queer Soundsystem Day

Sat 15 Jun 2024, 14:00 - Southbank Centre, London

and people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism. In 2021 B.O.S.S was shortlisted for

Adonis Afters

Sat 15 Jun 2024, 22:30 - Southbank Centre, London

The cult queer rave celebrates Chaka Khan’s musical contribution to queer dance floors over the years, with Shay Malt, Josh Caffé and Hannah Holland.
Read, watch and listen more The cult rave that epitomises London´s queer scene - chaotic, hedonistic, fun and friendly - throws the after-party for London Queer Soundsystem Day (L.Q.S.D) .
The line-up includes house and techno stalwart Josh C

Emeli Sandé

Sat 15 Jun 2024, 21:00 - Southbank Centre, London

An icon of British singer-songwriting takes to the stage: emotional, honest and with a heartfelt pop sensibility, Emeli Sandé has a decade of hits to her name.
Read, watch and listen more Sandé’s debut album Our Version of Events has sold over 5.4 million copies to date. It was the biggest selling album in the UK in 2012 and 2013 and is certified platinum eight times in the UK and Ireland.

Master Peace

Sat 15 Jun 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London

Master Peace brings his weird, wonderful and cacophonous musical world to the stage as an explosive part of this year’s Meltdown .
Read, watch and listen more Peace Okezie, the brainchild behind Master Peace, does not mince his words. Luckily for us, his energy is upbeat and honest, on par with the effervescent, varied and cross-genre music he makes, attracting listeners who crave rebellion an