Singing All About Love

Mickalene Thomas has become one of the most important image makers celebrating female and LGBTQIA+ empowerment. Her vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black women at rest – on show at the Hayward Gallery – reclaim space and representation in art history, celebrating love and radical repose.

The Multi-Story Orchestra is an award-winning music charity based in South East London, founded in 2011 by composer Kate Whitley and conductor Christopher Stark. Renowned for transforming the traditional concert experience, they stage performances in unconventional venues like multi-storey car parks, bringing orchestral music to new and diverse audiences and empowering young artists to lead the creative process.

Commissioned by the Southbank Centre

Need to know

Event information

Performances are included with a ticket to the Hayward Gallery exhibition Mickalene Thomas: All About Love.

Performances take place between 12.30pm and 5.30pm in the Hayward Gallery. Timings vary throughout the day and there is no guarantee of seeing a performance.

For your visit

This event is held at the Hayward Gallery Southbank Centre

Tuesday – Thursday, 10am – 6pm
Friday, 10am – 9pm
Saturday, 10am – 8pm
Sunday, 10am – 6pm

Closed Mondays

A concrete brutalist building with purple lit pyramids on the roof.

An installation view of a boat floating in black water with a brutalist building in the background.

Visitors looking at large colourful clay sculptures.

Two children looking at an art piece made up of green and purple shoe laces with wooden sticks hanging at the bottom

A person stands in front of three of Hiroshi Sugimoto's black and white Seascapes photographs.

The Hayward Gallery is also where you’ll find the HENI Project Space.

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.

Cloakroom

We have a cloakroom for coats, umbrellas and small bags; it costs £2 per item.

We’re cash-free

Please note that we’re unable to accept cash payments across our venues.

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.

Guided tours of our Hayward Gallery exhibitions are available to ticket holders; the dates and times of these can be found when you click through to book your exhibition tickets.

If you’d like to arrange a private/group tour of an exhibition, please contact us. The Hayward Gallery does not accept external tour guides or tour groups – all exhibition tours must be arranged through the Southbank Centre.

Offering sandwiches, salads, cakes and coffee, Hayward Gallery Cafe is the perfect spot for a pre-exhibition energy boost or a post-visit drink.

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.

Other places to eat and drink whilst you’re here