Monday, 28 July 2025

Culture events at The Southbank Centre

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Fun in the sun


Wave farewell to FOMO with our top picks of the week, featuring a dance show, art exhibitions and plenty of free music and dance events to get stuck into.

And fill your diary with events coming up, including an evening with Lisa O'Neill, and a dubstep vs cumbia club night. Scroll on to find out more.


A breathtaking performance

Two people stood toward a dark space and their back to the camera wearing black tops. Their arms are lifted in different positions

Alex Baczyński-Jenkins: Untitled (Holding Horizon)

WED 30 & THU 31 JUL

A hypnotically sensual and haunting durational dance of desire, collectivity and queer gesture, built around the minimal box step.


 Free, free, free


An upside down person with their hanging off their head reads off a small piece of white paper.

Iris Colomb: Try! Try! Try! Again!

UNTIL SUN 4 JAN 

A man dj'ing in front of crowd on the Riverside Terrace

Our HeartBeats: Unity in Motion

THU 31 JUL – THU 21 AUG

Two young dancers twist on the Southbank Centre's Riverside Terrace

A Dance Floor Journey

SAT 1 AUG

A dancer with her arms up in the air infront of a disco box and a DJ

Grief Rave

SUN 3 AUG

A young person playing the saxophone with someone singing into a mic behind them

Tomorrow's Warriors Extraordinary Summer Showcase

SUN 3 AUG


Come to our playground

A little child with ginger hair is peeking through an installation in Replay

REPLAY: A Limitless Recycled Playground

UNTIL SUN 24 AUG

Enter an endless world of play and invention in a limitless recycled playground for children and their grown-ups to tap into their imaginations.


The must-see exhibition


Installation view of Yoshitomo Nara, Fire

Yoshitomo Nara

UNTIL SUN 31 AUG

Immerse yourself in the intriguing world of one of today's most celebrated artists. Free entry for members.

★★★★ 'A genuine highlight of the summer' Time Out

★★★★★ 'punk rock art for your inner child' The London Standard


Gif of Nara products on a yellow background

From the Hayward Gallery to your home

Decorate your walls with prints and posters featuring Nara’s iconic art – only available at the Southbank Centre Shop.

Artist Yoshitomo Nara – an older Japanese man with grey hair over which he wears a black baseball cap, and wearing a black hooded top, stands in his whitewalled artists studio which has paintings on the wall and various materials propped against the walls and at the room's edges.

Yoshitomo Nara: studio spotlight

Get an insight into the art and practice of artist Yoshitomo Nara as he offers us a special video tour of his studio in Japan.


Coming soon

Artwork of a face looking to the left with a red background. Text reads 'bonitaland slick and bobby presents Dub vs. cumbia

Terminal 1 & Bonita Worldwide: Dub vs Cumbia

FRI 22 AUG

Migration made the music – now the dance floor answers in a music takeover celebrating the radical joy of migration, guest-curated by Terminal 1 and Bonita Worldwide.

Person with short dark hair holding bells and looking into the camera

Lisa O'Neill

+ Poor Creature

SAT 20 SEP

Hear haunting vocals and melodies in a concert featuring some of the Irish singer-songwriter’s most powerful music, and that of Irish band Poor Creature.



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Image credits:

Installation view of Yoshitomo Nara. Fire, 2009. Courtesy the artist and the Hayward Gallery. Photo by Mark Blower.

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