Southbank Centre Your culture fix
Dial in to Claudia Rankine’s take on culture wars and cocoon yourself in contemplation of the natural wo
Screen time
Are video calls lighting up your day? Or have you had enough of scheduled hang-outs and the same old news? We’re taking over your screen with cultural icons such as Claudia Rankine and Arundhati Roy, for thoughtful, in-depth discussions that might just inject some more sparkle into your conversations.
Book for events in our new online series, Inside Out, below. Or leave technology behind altogether and visit our free site exhibition, Everyday Heroes.
find out more →Poetic justice
Claudia Rankine: Beyond the Culture War
FRI 9 OCT
In her new book, Just Us, one of America’s leading writers talks about breaching the silence that surrounds whiteness. In this streamed discussion, Claudia Rankine speaks with journalist Gary Younge about lighting a path beyond cultural conflict.
find out more →Legends of the fall
Everyday Heroes
SEP – NOV
Did you know that our free outdoor exhibition features poetry from Simon Armitage, Raymond Antrobus and Jackie Kay, as well as over 40 portraits? Take a tour of our site this autumn to see how artists have responded to the current crisis.
Installation view of Simon Armitage’s ‘Omnipresent’ at the Southbank Centre’s Everyday Heroes on until November. Copyright the artist. Photo credit: Linda Nylind.
find out more →Leaf troubles behind
Worlds of Time: Marina Warner on Among the Trees
In a lyrical essay, the cultural historian and writer ponders our Among the Trees exhibition. Follow her lead and contemplate branches lifting and dancing, trunks leaning and bending, the stir of the wind and the creaking of timber.
Tacita Dean, Crowhurst II, 2007, gouache on photograph, 297 x 380.5 cm. Copyright the artist. Courtesy Collection de Pont Museum, Tilburg (NL). Photo credit: Peter Cox.
read now →Access all areas
Six things everyone should know about disability
We may not be able to invite you to our Unlimited festival this September, but we can continue to bring you extraordinary work by disabled artists. In this blog, comedian and performer Jess Thom challenges common misconceptions about disability.
read now →Sofa so good
Culture Picks
Hunker down with a selection of recommendations from the hot shots who choose what appears in our venues. Who needs to leave the house (or even take off your bunny slippers) to be au courant with arts and culture?
Support the Southbank Centre
We continue to face challenges and uncertainty as we look to our future. If you feel that you can make a donation, no matter how small, you will be making a huge difference.
Text 70085 with the code SOUTHBANK 20 to donate £20, SOUTHBANK 10 to donate £10 or SOUTHBANK 5 to donate £5. Texts cost your donation amount plus one standard rate message. Thank you.
donate online →Name that tune
Plug in for toe-tapping music
Need a musical break? Try one of our playlists to discover new artists and shake it out with a dance around the room. We’ve got mixtapes hand-picked by Joan As Police Woman, Marius Neset and Susheela Raman, to name a few.
listen now →Lend us an ear
Learn something new with our podcasts
Our podcast series features conversations with great writers, comedians, thinkers and musicians. Consider women on the page with Roxane Gay, spend an evening with Roger Daltrey or mull mental health and creativity with Matt Haig and Jordan Stephens.