Southbank: Your culture fix

On November 2, 2025

In News

Treats only

We hope your Halloween was all treats and no tricks! With spooky season ending, we’re ready to light up your calendar with our Winter Lights opening.

Plus, we’ve announced a new family show, and you can get your fill of literature, classical music and gigs this week, as well as a series taking art to its limits. Scroll on, if you dare!

Shine bright

A striking outdoor light installation of a ring of glowing, upright crystalline shapes reflected in a puddle on a dark city square.

Winter Light

UNTIL SUN 18 JAN

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all.

See the lights

Just announced

A boy is standing his back to the viewer. He is wearing a red backpack and has dark, short hair.

The Boy at the Back of the Class

TUE 7 APR – SUN 12 APR

Come along on a heartfelt and often hilarious adventure as a group of friends set out on a quest to reunite their new classmate with his family.

Thu 9 Apr at 6pm and Sun 12 Apr at 11.30am: British Sign Language interpreted (BSL)

Book now

This week for experience seekers

A person with blonde hair and wearing a blue outfit sitting on stacked chairs in a blue/grey room.

KUNSTY

WED 5 – SUN 8 NOV

Our new performance series platforms the rad, the queer and the uncategorisable.

Pick your show

Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius

THU 6 NOV

The choreographer invites us to consider how art can spark action in the face of a climate crisis.

Justin Talplacido Shoulder: ANITO

FRI 7 NOV
Enter a future folkloric world of dance-theatre and elaborate craft reimagining Filipino myths.

Someone wearing a white jacket and jeans leans their head against a cream wall

Adam Russell-Jones: Release the Hounds

SAT 8 NOV

Witness a performance of dance as an escape from reality – but also a means of surviving it.

Four performers in black suits and white shirts all wear large red curly wigs

Harry Clayton-Wright: Mr Blackpool’s Seaside Spectacular

SAT 8 NOV

An end-of-the-pier show at the end of the world, twice nightly.

Make the most of it

Book to see multiple KUNSTY shows in the same transaction to get up to 30% off your tickets.

Take a chance

The Christmas shop is open

Shop our range of kitsch baubles, festive homeware and artful gifts – every penny spent keeps the SouthbankCentre thriving.

Shop now

Listen in

Is classical music just one big remix?

Should classical music be remixed, reused, and recycled? With music choices including John Williams’ Star Wars and Luciano Berio’s daring reimaginings, they explore how reinvention keeps classical music alive and surprising.

Listen now