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REPLAY: A Limitless Recycled Playground
Vienna 1897: Brahms' Last Concert
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Steven Isserlis cello
Repertoire
Brahms: Symphony No.4
Interval
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No.73 (La chasse)
COLOSSUS
An Evening with David Sedaris
The Divine Comedy
Stadio Live with Nish Kumar
Your chance to win tickets to see Harry Styles at Meltdown
The only way to see Harry Styles’ headline Meltdown gig on Tuesday 16 June is by entering our prize draw.
Festivals & series
Harry Styles’ Meltdown
London Literature Festival
Classical Music
Performance & Dance
Refugee Week
South Asian Sounds
Poetry International Festival
Rough Trade 50
Goalhanger: The Rest Is Fest
Letters to the Future
Recently announced
Dog Man: The Musical
REPLAY: A Limitless Recycled Playground
The Divine Comedy
Vienna 1897: Brahms' Last Concert
Performers
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Maxim Emelyanychev conductor
Steven Isserlis cello
Repertoire
Brahms: Symphony No.4
Interval
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No.73 (La chasse)
COLOSSUS
Stadio Live with Nish Kumar
An Evening with David Sedaris
Free events
While you’re with us
Make the most of your visit and explore all our venues and spaces have to offer.
Jeppe Hein: Appearing Rooms
A summer favourite returns to our site with water fountains to splash around and cool down in
Thinking
Fountains
Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.
Modified Social Benches
Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.
William Pye's Zemran
Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.
5 things to know about You Are Here
Get an insight into a special one-off spectacular to celebrate 75 years of the Southbank Centre.
Playlist: Harry Styles’ Meltdown
Get ready for this summer’s Meltdown, by listening to this playlist of all the artists added to the festival line-up so far.
Yin Xiuzhen: Heart to Heart, Portable Cities and ‘second skin’
Go behind the works of Yin Xiuzhen’s Hayward Gallery exhibition in the company of Senior Curator Yung Ma and choreographer Julia Cheng.
Who is composer Alban Berg?
Discover the Austrian composer who hid an affair in his music score and whose first orchestral work caused a riot.
My mixtape: John Gosling’s 10 tracks for Lee Alexander McQueen
The musician and producer shares a playlist of pieces which put him in mind of his friend, the designer Lee Alexander McQueen.
How I create... with visual artist Yin Xiuzhen
The artist behind our current Hayward Gallery exhibition on ideas she can’t abandon, and the evolution of her creative process.
5 things to know about Quentin Blake
Of course you’ll know who Quentin Blake is, but did you know these things about him?
Ocean Vuong on The Emperor of Gladness
Watch writer Ocean Vuong discuss his second novel The Emperor of Gladness with novelist and critic Mendez in this talk recorded on our stage in 2025.
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