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Winter Reimagined: Family Morning

Bring all the family down for craft workshops using recycled and scrap materials to create your own hilarious, homemade crackers.

More details for The Clore Ballroom, Level 2, Royal Festival Hall
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Make your own winter fun with our DIY cracker-making workshop: join visual artist Elizabeth Jackson to make crackers from recycled and unwanted scraps, and laugh along as Hilarity Academy takes the whole family through a joke-writing workshop, adding the magic you need to make those crackers go off with a bang.

Get that funny bone wiggling through games and exercises as well as on paper with puns, knock knock jokes and more!

From 1pm, Let’s Go Gospel Choir brings their unique, festive energy to the floor, offering a fun, joyful, and interactive performance for all the family to enjoy. Join in the celebrations with a repertoire that spans gospel, soul, pop and reggae, along with Christmas classics.

Winter Reimagined aims to use only reused or waste materials throughout the day, partnering with scrap projects and getting inventive to make use of scraps and salvaged materials.

Schedule
11am – 12.30pm: Drop in children’s book swap
11am – 1pm: Drop in cracker crafting with Elizabeth Jackson
11.15am & 12.15pm: Joke making workshop with Hilarity Academy (30 mins)
1pm – 2pm: Performance by Let’s Go Gospel Choir
2pm – 2.45pm: Sing-along with Let’s Go Gospel Choir

For the book swap, bring a gently-loved children’s book to swap and discover a new adventure. From 12.30pm you can simply take a leftover book, no swap required.

Hilarity Academy is run by Kitty Devlin and Martin Willis who met on the London comedy circuit in 2015. They teach regular sessions each week through BBC Children in Need in East London. Their workshops focus on finding the fun by exploring sketch, stand-up and improv and about everyone discovering their own unique comedy style!

Let’s Go Gospel Choir is one of the UK’s most exciting and diverse community choirs, offering a dynamic and joyful experience for audiences of all ages. Founded by choir director Lena Wright, the London-based choir organisation currently runs community choirs in a variety of boroughs across London.

Elizabeth Jackson lives and works as an artist and facilitator in London. She graduated in 2021 with an MA in Ceramics & Glass from the RCA. She leads creative workshops in schools, prisons, care homes and other community settings.

Need to know

Age guidance
For all ages

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.

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A tabla workshop in The Clore Ballroom. The instructor is cross-legged on a stage, with people playing instruments in front of him. View larger image
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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.

Other places to eat and drink whilst you’re here