Saturday Sessions With BAC Beatbox Academy
Learn the foundations of beatbox sounds and drive the rats away in a workshop full of singing, rapping and vibes. Kids up! Rats down!
This month, fresh from their award-winning tour with hip-hop musical The Pied Piper, the Beatbox Academy are back with beats, bars and rat jams, including Off West End award winning songs.
Saturday Sessions are the perfect place to start the weekend. On a monthly basis you can watch a performance, make something with the artists and play with other children and their families – all for free! The afternoon rounds off with a freestyle Ballroom Boogie to get you moving into the weekend.
Schedule
1pm – 1.30pm: Microphone Making Workshop with Kirsty Reynolds
1.30pm – 2.30pm: Saturday Session with BAC Beatbox Academy
2.30pm – 3.30pm: Ballroom Boogie with Anna Greenwood
1.30pm – 3.30pm: crafty makes with Kirsty Reynolds on Level 2
The BAC Beatbox Academy has been running for 15 years (est. 2008) and is led by hip-hop theatre practitioner and artistic director Conrad Murray, who is a theatre maker, director, singer, beatboxer and loop artist.
Need to know
There is a ‘What to expect guide’ available for audience members who may benefit from preparing for the performance. This also includes access information.
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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.