Discover incredible free art across our site with uplifting and inspiring works connected to the theme of our summer season, Dance Your Way Home.

Every February half-term our festival for children aged 0 – 11 and their grown-ups turns the Southbank Centre into one big playground. Imagine Festival is all about sparking creativity through ...

Inspired by Emma Warren’s book Dance Your Way Home, our summer programme is an ode to the dance floors – from nightclubs to Irish dance halls, to street parties – that unite us across space and time.

The Stephen Spender Prize is an annual competition for poetry in translation that celebrates the creativity of young people across the UK and Ireland – and their teachers. The competition has a ...

Explore a multi-layered exhibition of new work collectively created by two Iranian-Canadian artists, featuring image-based works, sculpture, video and found objects. Punning and playful, Freudian Typo ...

Creative Encounters is your creative space in the heart of the city, bringing together Londoners old and new for live performance, making and conversation. In an evening of collaboration, inks and ...

Did you know LEGO bricks from over 60 years ago still fit perfectly with bricks from today? They can be passed down through generations, and played with again and again, which is why we want to make ...

Our Royal Festival Hall organ celebrated 70 years in 2024. The organ's curator William McVicker's short history includes the story of its creation.

Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto leads us through the Hayward Gallery's 2023 survey of five decades of his work in this video interview.

The Hayward Gallery will present Mickalene Thomas: All About Love as the pioneering artist’s first solo presentation in a UK public art gallery from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Thomas is a trailblazer ...

The Hayward Gallery will present the first London retrospective of acclaimed British artist Linder from 11 February to 5 May 2025. Offering an illuminating overview of this iconic artist’s 50 ...

Paula Rego’s radical art drew inspiration from a vast range of sources – from traditional folklore and fairy tales, to literary classics and nursery rhymes. For Rego, these sources conveyed essential ...