Eye to Eye with Our Naked Truths
Join Our Naked Truths to celebrate the divine, diverse beauty of women and non-binary people of colour through life drawing and conversation.
Join Our Naked Truths, a creative wellness series that uses life drawing, conversation and connection for participants to ground their senses.
The event includes two sessions focusing on different areas and also two short breaks. Tickets cover participation in both sessions.
Schedule
7pm – 7.45pm: Session 1
7.45pm – 8pm: Break
8pm – 8.45pm: Session 2
8.45pm – 9pm: Break
9pm – 9.30pm: Conversation/final draw
Session 1: This session offers the participant to explore the feeling of summer, through the flames of joy and pleasure. Offering space for us to imagine through art, joy and community.
Session 2: This session offers the participant to explore what it means to be witnessed and to witness the other with love and compassion. Offering space for vulnerability and connection through art, joy and community.
Our Naked Truths centres the bodies, stories and experiences of women and non-binary people from the global majority, focusing on organically cultivating healing spaces through celebratory communion, meditation, creativity and storytelling, breathing life into the honouring of ourselves and ancestral legacies. Over the years, their community has shared stories of courage, vulnerability and reclamation globally, from the UK to New York, Berlin, Kenya, Ghana and Oman.
Conversations are facilitated by Yaa, who guides participants through a series of drawing and creative exercises during this session.
Need to know
Tickets are released for this event on Monday 3 June. A portion of tickets are also available on the day on a first-come, first-served basis.
Spaces for a global majority audience in these settings are rare. Please take care to acknowledge and respect the space of models and attendees with kindness, prioritising those who are in need of this opportunity.
For your visit
This event is held at the Royal Festival Hall Southbank Centre
The Royal Festival Hall is open six days a week.
Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 11pm
Monday, closed.
Plan your visit
The Royal Festival Hall is home to our largest auditorium as well as The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Members’ Lounge, Festival Bar & Kitchen, Ballroom Cafe and Skylon restaurant.
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.
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
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. You can grab a coffee and a slice of freshly made cake from our Ballroom Cafe. Or alternatively enjoy destination dining in the restaurant at Skylon.
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.