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 ...

The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a leading London venue showcasing world-class talks, gigs, dance, performance and classical music. Originally opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, our Queen ...

A 295-seat auditorium for music and performance, screenings, poetry readings and a variety of talks and debates, the Purcell Room offers you a real closeness to the arts. Situated within our brutalist ...

Enter an endless world of play and invention in a limitless recycled playground for children and their grown-ups to tap into their imaginations. Part installation, part adventure playground, REPLAY is ...

Hear this towering work performed by the City of London Choir and the Choir of King’s College Cambridge with the RPO, under the baton of Daniel Hyde. Famously considered by Elgar ‘the best of me’, The ...

Haydn blows the roof off with one of his most explosive symphonies, the teenage Mahler gets seriously emotional in a rarely-heard early gem, and Tchaikovsky’s hugely popular Violin Concerto has never ...

Contact our press team for media enquiries, releases, press tickets, press images and filming requests. We offer a limited number of press tickets for most events at the Southbank Centre. Generally, ...

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 ...

Hear the best new poetry coming out of the UK and Ireland, read by the ten shortlisted poets for this year’s prize, in an event hosted by poet Ian McMillan. The TS Eliot Prize is the world’s most ...

Christmas Bop is a vintage show featuring festive classics that capture the sound of an era when rock and roll, jive and bunny hop filled the airwaves. Packed with a colourful, energetic arrangement ...

And from the iconic Royal Festival Hall, to the unique architecture of the Hayward Gallery, to the vibrancy of our Riverside Terrace our venues and spaces continue to showcase the best of the city and ...