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More info for Sing Out the Summer: Saturday
A choir standing on a stage, wearing different coloured t shirts to look like a rainbow
Gigs

Sing Out the Summer: Saturday

Join community and professional choirs on our Riverside Terrace to close out our summer season
Multiple locations
Tickets Free
More info for Sing out the Summer: Sunday
A mixed choir singing on stage, wearing all black
Gigs

Sing out the Summer: Sunday

Community and professional choirs take to our Riverside Terrace to wrap up our summer season
Multiple locations
Tickets Free
More info for Back Together Again
A conductor stands with his back to the camera conducting a choir.
Courses & workshops

Back Together Again

Experience the community, joy and magic of singing in a group, with choir leader Mark De-Lisser
Royal Festival Hall
Tickets from £10.00
More info for Two Destination Language: Hope & Ponies
Katherina, a white woman in a denim dress holds a colourful flag that reads
Courses & workshops

Two Destination Language: Hope & Ponies

Find messages of hope and add your own to a banner installation, created by Two Destination Language
The Clore Ballroom
Tickets Free
More info for Making Poetry: Experimenting with Interactivity
A pile of Jenga bricks scattered on the ground, with lines of poetry carved into the wood.
Literature & poetry

Making Poetry: Experimenting with Interactivity

Make your own interactive poems in a workshop led by poet and artist Astra Papachristodoulou
National Poetry Library
Tickets from £7.00
More info for Out-Spoken Masterclass: September
Literature & poetry

Out-Spoken Masterclass: September

Flex your creative muscles in this three-hour weekend poetry workshop
Royal Festival Hall
Tickets from £25.00
More info for Making Poetry: Creating Banner Poems
Blackboard covered in writing in white chalk with fragments of paper and material partially obscuring the words.
Literature & poetry

Making Poetry: Creating Banner Poems

Create your own protest banner poems in a workshop led by poet and artist Astra Papachristodoulou
National Poetry Library
Tickets from £7.00
More info for Outspoken Masterclass: October
Three writers sat at a table each holding a pen and writing in a poetry workshop
Literature & poetry

Outspoken Masterclass: October

Get your ink and ideas flowing at our monthly poetry masterclass for poets of all abilities
Royal Festival Hall
Tickets from £25.00

Whilst you’re with us

Modified Social Benches

Modified Social Benches

Benches that challenge the space and distance we place between one another.

Crazy Boules
A close up shot of the boules by the 'jack'

Crazy Boules

The classic French game gets a neon-spangled makeover.

Southbank Centre Food Market
Mango chutney being added to a wrap at La Sani

Southbank Centre Food Market

With a huge choice of street food and drinks, our weekly food market is a must-visit.

Ground & Sound
Gardener Paul Pulford listening to Ground and Sound in the Roof Garden

Ground & Sound

Experience an enchanting musical score in our very own secret garden.

Shopping
A variety of Block Scene merchandise on sale at the Royal Festival Hall shop including colourful printed t-shirts, mugs and tea towels.

Shopping

A vibrant range of inspiring books, homeware, prints, accessories and more.

Klaus Weber: Thinking Fountains

Thinking
Fountains

Water cascades and spouts over Klaus Weber’s bronze figures.

William Pye's Zemran
A photograph showing Riverside Terrace at Southbank Centre, with the metal sculpture Zemran in the foreground, next to Queen Elizabeth Hall

William Pye's Zemran

Pye’s beautiful stainless steel sculpture sits overlooking the Thames.

Natura Nostra Forest

Natura Nostra Forest

Our growing pocket forest creating a natural oasis.