Southbank Center – Your culture fix

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Sounds like summer 🌞

It’s music for days on our site, with our new announcements incoming from Pitchfork Music Festival, classical orchestra and the songs of Disney princesses. Plus, a new Goalhanger show joins the line-up.

Scroll on for this week’s picks of Harry Styles’ Meltdown, Anish Kapoor’s opening, and a poetry competition.

Southbank Center - Your culture fix

Music for all genres

Pitchfork Music Festival London Presents: HANIA RANI

Pitchfork Music Festival London: Hania Rani

SUN 8 NOV

Surrender to the hypnotic trance of the extraordinary pianist, composer and vocalist’s music.

 

A flautist playing the flute surrounded by other flautists.

Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

SUN 15 NOV

Kensington Symphony Orchestra performs Bartók’s spectacular orchestral showpiece.

 

Disney Princesses Jasmine, Ariel, Moana, Belle, and Tiana pose dynamically against a purple gradient background.

Disney Princess – The Concert

SUN 28 – TUE 30 MAR 2027

Dreams do come true – Broadway and West End stars bring the beloved songs of Disney princesses to life on stage.

 

Even more from Goalhanger

Hosts of The Rest is History standing against a beige background.

The Rest Is History: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure

FRI 4 & SAT 5 SEP

A queen’s fury and one dangerously daring rescue – podcast hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook weave an epic live tale of one of history’s boldest expeditions.

 

Inaugurate our new series

A graphic of an eye made up of tiny black numbers, with orange and purple shadows

Creative Intelligence

FRI 11 – SUN 13 SEP

Explore how AI and digital innovation are reshaping the world we live in at London’s newest celebration of technology and creativity.

Harry Styles’ picks

Left: A woman in a white fur coat poses with a retro mic under red lights. Right: A woman in olive green dancewear moves.

futuretense x Meltdown: Joviale + Loie

THU 18 JUN

Beverly Glenn-Copeland and his wife/artistic partner, resting their heads on each other.

Beverly Glenn-Copeland & Elizabeth Copeland

THU 18 JUN

Illustration of a person with hair containing a sunlit sky and a starry galaxy, hugging a small house as white birds fly.

Choose Love x Jon Hopkins

FRI 19 – SUN 21 JUN

A wet man in a dark button-down shirt arches his back, dancing dramatically in the ocean surf against a clear sky.

Dance with Kindness: Intermediate Workshops

SUN 21 JUN

Try a free beginner’s workshop

High-angle sepia-toned photo of a large, dense crowd gathering outdoors near a stage with smoke effects.

Hourglass Disco

SUN 21 JUN

Two bright, overexposed figures sit in a recording studio filled with complex synthesizers and audio equipment.

Soulwax

+ Pauli The PSM

SUN 21 JUN

A club scene with red lighting

Hourglass Techno

+ Sedef Adasï, Chloé Caillet and CARISTA

SUN 21 JUN

It’s here

A gif of Anish Kapoor artworks

Anish Kapoor

TUE 16 JUN – SUN 18 OCT

This week, one of the most influential artists of our time, Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery, where he staged his first major UK survey almost 30 years ago. Marvel at new and iconic works that create an uncanny sensation of awe, wonder and a thrilling sense of vertigo.

 

Artist Anish Kapoor stands in front of a red, white and black background. His hands are in the pocket of his brown coat and he looks directly at the camera

5 things to know about Anish Kapoor

As his major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery gets set to open, get a primer on the artist and his work.

 

An overhead image of a red book, the catalogue for Anish Kapoor's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery,

Pre-order the Anish Kapoor catalogue

Trace the genesis of the visceral sculptures and paintings featured in Kapoor’s dramatic Hayward Gallery exhibition, alongside their breathtaking realisation within and without the gallery walls. This essential volume includes insights from psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, art historians Nancy Spector and Sandhini Poddar, and an extensive interview with exhibition curator Ralph Rugoff.

Please note, this item is pre-order only and will be available for delivery in July.

 

Take part

A poet in every port van

The Word Exchange competition

Are you a budding poet aged 16+? Enter our free national competition celebrating poetry, languages and dialects found across the UK. Share a Word Exchange poem on Instagram or TikTok and you could win a live performance on stage at the London Literature Festival in 2027.

Hear from the project ambassador, Roger McGough.

This week’s picks

A woman looks at skateboard decks mounted on a polka-dot wall, featuring Cheech & Chong graphics and architectural photography.

Skate 50

UNTIL 21 JUN

A concrete brutalist building with the London Eye and Big Ben in the background

Southbank Centre Tours

UNTIL SAT 26 SEP

Coming up

A man in a white t-shirt sits on the floor surrounded by a drum kit and several traditional hand drums.

Anmol Mohara: Across The Sea

WED 1 JUL

A man and woman in wedding clothes pose in a pastoral setting

Making A Husband: Live

SUN 5 JUL

From our friends

Brazil on Film

UNTIL TUE 30 JUN | BFI SOUTHBANK

Celebrate Brazilian cinema history at BFI Southbank, from beloved classics to rarely seen gems. Use code BRAZIL50 to get half-price tickets (max two per screening).

libiversary Festival

FRI 24 – SUN 26 JUL | EARTH THEATRE

Celebrating three years of life is beautiful, libiversary Festival takes over EartH Theatre for three nights of experimental music, dance and large-scale live performance.

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