Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

In cooperation with Oxford University, the AHRC-funded Kafka’s Transformative Communities Project and The Shuffle Poetry, join three poets for a night of readings and discussion. Three contemporary ...

More info for Southbank Centre x Montreux Jazz Festival Residency ...

Poetry open mic for people of all experiences and levels. Sign up on the day between 1.00 and 1.30pm. Time willing, everyone will get 5 minutes (or 3 minutes each if it’s particularly busy). Or just ...

12.45pm – 1.15pm: Orphy Robinson’s Big Easy Big Band Orphy Robinson’s Big Easy Big Band brings together youth and adult amateur music-makers to learn an original suite of music, collaborate and ...

Explore poetry off the page in Astra Papachristodoulou’s debut solo exhibition, where poems exist as sculpture, objects and textiles. Papachristodoulou’s object poems encourage interactive and shared ...

The East Riding Festival of Words poetry competition is now open for entries. This year’s theme is “My Wish”. Once again entries are being judged by a panel of Yorkshire poets, led by James Nash. East ...

The Koestler Awards is an annual programme encouraging people from the UK’s criminal justice system to change their lives through the arts. Jeremy Deller and John Costi have selected artwork from over ...

Situated in the heart of London, on the banks of the River Thames is the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, a beacon for arts and culture for over 70 years. The 2,700 capacity Royal Festival Hall ...

Travel into the goblin city at a screening of Jim Henson’s original masterpiece, Labyrinth, with a live band playing David Bowie and Trevor Jones’ score. The band performs in sync with David Bowie’s ...

Housing the world’s largest public collection of modern poetry, we are the National Poetry Library; free to join across the UK, and London’s only space dedicated to poetry study. Founded by the Arts ...