Creative Encounters: Create with Courage
A Refugee Week edition of our regular workshops explores the theme of courage through printmaking, music and conversation, in partnership with Counterpoint Arts.
In this relaxed, beginner-friendly printmaking session, learn to design, carve and print using lino blocks.
Through lino printing, participants exchange stories and reflections with one another, transforming them into beautiful prints to take home and treasure. The session is guided by artist and printmaker Zafeerah Heesambee, whose practice explores memory, identity and joy.
The workshop is accompanied by live music from Bassel Hariri, who creates an evolving live-loop soundscape, exploring the workshop’s themes of courage and collaboration.
Join us to explore what courage looks like today, in your life, in your community, in this city. How is courage learned and passed between generations? Together, we reflect on the everyday acts of courage that shape our lives – from building connections and trying something new, to carrying stories, memories and experiences across time.
Come with curiosity and take home your own handmade prints, new connections and shared stories.
Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for art, making and conversation.
About the artists
Zafeerah Heesambee is a producer, interdisciplinary artist and director of Hurriya Arts, an emerging creative studio using art as a force for healing, justice and collective power. Through accessible creative approaches, she creates spaces for communities to create collectively, slowing down, making, reflecting and reconnecting with their creative instincts.
Bassel Hariri is a multidisciplinary artist whose work brings together artistic practice, lived experience and a political understanding of displacement. Hariri is also the founder and curator of Jamarabia, a London-based art collective creating space for diaspora sounds in the music landscape in London and beyond.
Rainbow Conspiracy (RC) is the moniker of London-based composer and electronic soundscapist Julian Dahab. Drawing inspiration from various electronic scenes and musical cultures, and delivering a unique sound across many spectrums and levels of energy — from drifting drumless ambiences to heavier percussive soundscapes — RC delivers immersive sound experiences using modular synths, acoustic instruments and syncopated beats.
Need to know
Creative Encounters is a fortnightly programme; dates are subject to change, so please check the website. It’s part of Open Doors, our regular series of free events welcoming you to get creative and connect.
Times & tickets
Dates, times and prices
Dates & times
10 Jun 2026, 6pm
Run time
2 hours (approx)
All timings are approximate and subject to change
Standard entry
Free – no ticket required
Concessions
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Access
Accessible events
Creative Encounters is a Relaxed event. This means that we have a relaxed approach to noise and movement in the space, and you are free to enter and exit throughout.
We have guides available for those who may benefit from preparing for the event.
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If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
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For your visit
This event is held at the The Clore Ballroom Southbank Centre
The Clore Ballroom is open six days a week.
Tuesday, 10am – 6pm*
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
*If we’re hosting a performance, the building will stay open until the event ends.
Plan your visit
The Clore Ballroom is located inside our Royal Festival Hall on Level 2.
Getting here
Our address is Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX.
The nearest tube stations to us are Waterloo and Embankment; Waterloo is also the nearest train station. And more than 20 different London bus routes pass within 500 metres of our venues. More information on getting here by rail, road or river is available on our Getting here page.
We’re cash-free
Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.
Access
We’re working hard to remove barriers, so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
All help points, toilets, performance and exhibition spaces at the Southbank Centre are accessible to all, as are the cafes, bars and restaurants. We also have excellent public transport links with step-free access.
There is step-free access to The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall, via a ramp.
All information about booking wheelchair spaces, step-free access, blue badge parking, access maps and guides and other help available whilst you’re here, including details about our Access Scheme, can be found on our Access page.
Food & drink
Next to The Clore Ballroom is our Ballroom Cafe where you can grab a coffee and a piece of freshly made cake. Also on Level 2 of our Royal Festival Hall you can grab a slice of life by the Thames with drinks and freshly made pizza at our Festival Bar & Kitchen which opens out onto our Riverside Terrace.
From coffee to cocktails, filling favourites to fine dining, plus some of London’s best street food – it’s all here at the Southbank Centre.