Join us to shake it out into the weekend at our monthly programme of social dances ...

A launch for ‘Covert’ issue 4, featuring readings from Shabnam Shabazi, Zita Holbourne, Niharika Jain, Sheyna Lam, Jasmine Sharif, Seema Kapila and others. There will also be open mic slots of up to 3 ...

Running from 18-23 February 2025, Imagine Festival will transform the Southbank Centre into a vibrant cultural playground for the February half term with a fun-filled range of events for children 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 ...

Experience the best of jazz past and present in a new collaboration celebrating Nina Simone’s work ...

Opening in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, the Royal Festival Hall was the first large-scale permanent public building to be built after the Second World War, a symbol of possibility and ...

Reading from Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus festival, 2012. Translated from Gun into Spanish by Agnès Agboton, and from Spanish into English by Maya García Vinuesa. the death of the dead.

physics. Interdimensional kiss folding in on itself like a star. Supermassive neutron collapsing in hot gloss bomb colours. Blood rich lyricism. He’s been on my mind – live in Hammersmith 1973 ...

Sola Olulode’s painting imagines a queer couple at the beginning of their romance, capturing a sense of joy, and creating a space for celebrating queer love. Sola Olulode’s paintings are dreamy queer ...

Jamaican-Irish rapper JayaHadADream has an introspective and gritty style, heavily influenced by grime and a range of hip-hop. Raised in Cambridge, and formerly a teacher, she brings authenticity and ...

Discover new poets through this free online collection of brilliant, moving, funny and groundbreaking poems curated by our specialist poetry librarians. Search the poems by type or by topic, or use ...