Southbank

Essential

Gigs 

EFG London Jazz Festival features everything from jazz icons playing the biggest stages to fledgling greats serenading intimate bars

Tried and Tested

Dance 

Back at its former home in the Southbank, English National Ballet presents Solstice, a programme of highlights from its extensive repertoire showcasing the excellence of its dancers

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Dance 

The Southbank's Unlimited Festival is a five-day online jamboree celebrating the artistic vision of disabled artists. Here are the dance highlights

Tried and Tested

Dance 

Holly Blakey’s Cowpuncher My Ass, a post-punk deconstruction of Western movies dressed by the Vivienne Westwood House, provided a fun outing at the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall

Tried and Tested

Dance 

Belfast in all its complexity took centre-stage at the Southbank for one performance only of Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft, as part of DU19

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Lifestyle 

While away those long summer days (and nights!) in our favourite river-side spots

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Musicals 

Tony Award-winning musical The Light in the Piazza comes to the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall this summer, starring Renée Fleming, Dove Cameron and Alex Jennings

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Opera 

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is a must for devotees of either electronic avant-garde or mammoth opera

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Festival 

Underbelly Festival Southbank is back – featuring comedy, circus and much more

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Dance 

ZooNation Youth Company make an explosive return to the Southbank with The Next Generation 2018, a show by the young, for the young

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Things to do 

From a Finnish rooftop sauna to sure-to-sell out theatre, long, winter nights are bright along the South Bank; here're the best things to do and see this Christmas

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Festival 

Part of the year-long Nordic Matters festival on the Southbank, Finland's Tero Saarinen Company brought its intriguing Morphed to the Riverside Terrace

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Dance 

Immerse yourself in an all-consuming celebration of dance, art and music when Iceland Dance Company present the UK premiere of Sacrifice

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Things to do 

Three of the best London food pop-ups to book now

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Food 

This two-floor pop-up will stage evening supper clubs with river views, and will add to the eclectic mix of places to eat on the Southbank

Things To Do

The EFG London Jazz Festival 2016 is back with star-studded performances all over the capital this November

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Talks 

Expect fun filth and feminism: Caitlin Moran brings girls between ages of 11-18 her Moranifesto at the Southbank Centre

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Festival 

16 days, 80 films: the UK Jewish Film Festival coming in November has something for everyone.

Essential

Kids 

Children learn about the art of performance as the Southbank Sinfonia Family Concert players take control and try to play without the conductor