Ura Matsuri’s Daylight Ninjas
Join us for an afternoon of East and South East Asian culture, making and transformation into ninjas.
Enjoy a live performance of traditional and original shamisen pieces, played on the traditional three-stringed Japanese instrument from an ensemble led by Hibiki Ichikawa, Europe’s only professional shamisen player and Shamisen London, accompanied by Akari Mochizuki, a singer of Enka, traditional Japanese ballads.
Through the afternoon, Toshiko Kurata, a Japanese origami artist, leads an origami workshop, teaching you how to fold the Ninja’s infamous ‘shuriken’ (spinning mini-spear), before Frank Chickens, the legendary punk pop performance group teach the crowd a simple dance routine for their indie hit ‘We Are Ninja’, incorporating your origami shuriken.
schedule
1pm – 1.20pm: Shamisen London led by Hibiki Ichikawa, accompanied by enka singer, Akari ‘Mochi’ Mochizuki
1.20pm – 2pm: origami workshop led by Toshiko Kurata
2pm – 2.20pm: Shamisen London led by Hibiki Ichikawa, accompanied by enka singer, Akari ‘Mochi’ Mochizuki
2.20pm – 3pm: interactive dance workshop with Frank Chickens
Need to know
Ura Matsuri also presents Ura Matsuri 2025 as part of ESEA Encounters. Find them in The Clore Ballroom in the evening for their free annual festival of performance.
Access
This event is British Sign Language interpreted (BSL). Interpretation is by Lian Duan (subject to change).
To book tickets for BSL interpretation, email [email protected] or call us on 020 3879 9555.
You can join our free Access Scheme through your online Southbank Centre account or via email.
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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.