Things to do at Southbank Centre London, october 2024


Richard Ayoade: The Unfinished Harauld Hughes Tuesday 1 October 2024

Tue 1 Oct 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Lookalikes and literary excavations: join Richard Ayoade for an evening of live readings and conversation around his story of uncovering his doppelgänger.
Read, watch and listen more In The Unfinished Harauld Hughes , Ayoade chronicles his dogged quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the great mid-century playwright - from obscurity.
He first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Har

Wednesday 2 October 2024:
James McVinnie: Fantasias Wednesday 2 October 2024

Wed 2 Oct 2024, 19:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Vinnie continues his year as a Southbank Centre Resident Artist in this, the first of two recitals.
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Special Edition: The Last Dance Wednesday 2 October 2024

Wed 2 Oct 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Celebrate the privilege and process of ageing and building community in this poetry session for International Day of the Older Person and National Poetry Day.
Read, watch and listen more The received wisdom is that getting old is bad. If you wish to resist this socially normalised self-sabotage, come and join All Change and Well Versed to celebrate The Last Dance anthology launch, Internationa

Thursday 3 October 2024:
10 Years of Serial: An Evening with Sarah Koenig Thursday 3 October 2024

Thu 3 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
October 3 2014, a podcast launched which changed the face of podcasting forever. Serial became the first

Friday 4 October 2024:
Patricia Kopatchinskaja Plays Shostakovich Friday 4 October 2024

Fri 4 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
tonight’s London Philharmonic Orchestra concert.
Read, watch and listen more Sibelius sees a flight of
... > Performers London Philharmonic Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Repertoire

Saturday 5 October 2024:
Cara Dillon Saturday 5 October 2024

Sat 5 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
The celebrated Irish folk singer blends storytelling, poetry, and song in a performance celebrating her newly-released album and book, Coming Home .
Read, watch and listen more In the world of folk music, few shine as brightly as Irish singer Cara Dillon, renowned for her transcendent voice and deep connection to her home in County Derry.
Evolving from a collection of original poems, this

Sunday 6 October 2024:
Neneh Cherry: A Thousand Threads Sunday 6 October 2024

Sun 6 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Music icon Neneh Cherry discusses her memoir, a kaleidoscopic story celebrating love, family and the joy of creativity - and a call to arms to own your journey.
Read, watch and listen more In this beautiful and deeply personal memoir, Cherry remembers the collaborations, the highs and lows, the friendships and loves, and the addictions and traumas that have shaped her as a woman and an artist.
András Schiff: Haydn, Schubert & Mozart Sunday 6 October 2024

Sun 6 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
Spend an evening with classical music greats as Sir András Schiff play-directs and conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a trio of Classical masterpieces.
Read, watch and listen more András Schiff’s devoted fans will turn out for whatever he decides to play or conduct, and this evening they’re in for not one treat but three.
Schiff performs two of the finest concertos of the late 1700s. H

Wednesday 9 October 2024:
Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women Wednesday 9 October 2024

Wed 9 Oct 2024, 19:30 - Southbank Centre, London
The Chineke! Orchestra honours women composers whose powerful music resonates through the ages, ending with a UK premiere of a rediscovered Florence Price work.
Read, watch and listen more The Chineke! Orchestra and conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson guide us through Eleanor Alberga’s extraordinary, cosmic Jupiter’s Fairground , then to bask in the pastoral beauty of Avril Coleridge-Taylor´s Sussex

Saturday 12 October 2024:
Manchester Collective & Zubin Kanga (Double Bill) Saturday 12 October 2024

Sat 12 Oct 2024, 20:00 - Southbank Centre, London
Cyborg pianist Zubin Kanga summons ghostly vocal samples with the press of a key in a brand-new Laurence Osborn piece.
Read, watch and listen more There´s the dreamy romance of Tchaikovsky´s Serenade for Strings to get lost in - and an athletic concerto by Gra?yna Bacewicz to jolt you awake.
Performers Manchester Collective Zubin Kanga piano Repertoire Bacewicz : Concerto for string orche






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