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Celebrating truly extraordinary musicians, the Aga Khan Music Awards recognise and support exceptional creativity, promise and enterprise in music performance, and creation, education, preservation ...
Poems for Family & Loved Ones is an online workshop led by poet Jonathan Edwards as part of Romalyn Ante’s workshop series. This workshop will use poetry as a tool to approach, examine, and create in ...
The Grief Rave invites anyone and everyone to shake out their day, to dedicate a song to someone or something they may be missing – from a personal bereavement to a breakup or a few minutes of ...
Explore a multi-layered exhibition of new work collectively created by two Iranian-Canadian artists, featuring image-based works, sculpture, video and found objects. Punning and playful, Freudian Typo ...
Every February half-term our festival for children aged 0 – 11 and their grown-ups turns the Southbank Centre into one big playground. Imagine Festival is all about sparking creativity through ...
Discover incredible free art across our site with uplifting and inspiring works connected to the theme of our summer season, Dance Your Way Home.
Inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, our summer programme is an ode to the dance floors – from nightclubs to Irish dance halls, to street parties – that unite us across space and time.
The Winchester Poetry Prize 2025 is now open for submissions from poets all over the world. Entrants are welcome to submit previously unpublished poems on any subject, in any form or style, and must ...
The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers. The competition has a ...
Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for live performance, making and conversation. In an evening of collaboration, inks and ...
Listen to a playlist curated by artist Yoshitomo Nara to accompany his 2025 Hayward Gallery installation My Drawing Room 2008, Bedroom Included.
The Royal Festival Hall organ celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2024. Organ curator William McVicker's short history includes the story behind its creation.