Southbank Centre's What's On Guide: October by Southbank Centre

WHAT’S ON

OCTOBER

CLASSICAL MUSIC 2015/16 THE SEASON BEGINS ALSO THIS MONTH LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL Tell me something I don’t know WHY? WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG Making children’s rights matter LA SOIRÉE The award-winning show returns

ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL

PURCELL ROOM

HAYWARD GALLERY

LE T THE LIGHT IN REFURBISHING QUEEN ELIZ ABE TH HALL, HAY WARD G ALLERY & PURCELL ROOM Help us secure our buildings for future generations. Southbank Centre aims to be the world’s most inspiring centre for the arts – with a welcoming site, safe and accessible buildings and opportunities for everyone to take part in art and culture for free. We successfully refurbished Royal Festival Hall in 2007, helping many more people to enjoy and participate in art at Southbank Centre. It’s now time to turn our attention to our 1960s buildings: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery. You can help us refurbish and restore these extraordinary 1960s buildings to provide the world-class facilities that our artists and audiences deserve. Join us to Let The Light In. The Let The Light In project will make the site more accessible for everyone, as we add new automated doors and lifts to the auditoria. The Queen Elizabeth Hall foyers will be made brighter with the addition of new glazing, creating a welcoming space where you can enjoy free concerts or meet a friend for a coffee (at our new, improved cafe and bar). The performance spaces will be lovingly restored to their former glory, giving our artists a platform to produce world-class art. Of the £25 million needed to complete this refurbishment, we have just £3 million left to raise. Get involved and help us inspire more visitors in times to come. Find out more by visiting southbankcentre.co.uk/letthelightin or calling 020 7921 0984

For a full calendar of events see page 24.

Image credits: Cover image: Philharmonia Orchestra violinist Lulu Fuller © Mark McNulty This page: Christian Gerhaher © Jim Rakete Sony Classical Terry Gilliam © Jay Brooks, Camera Press London

HIGHLIGHTS OCTOBER 2015 WOZZECK: ZURICH OPERA

Welcome to Southbank Centre. What makes a good childhood? That’s the question that our festival WHY? – What’s Happening For The Young asks. The arts is a powerful and essential ingredient in a child’s life and too many of our young people have very little chance to experience great cultural riches or find out how much their own self-expression can teach them. Come to WHY? as children and adults grapple together over subjects from friendship to celebrity stereotypes and how a child’s relationship to the arts can help with all these issues. October is also when all our orchestras, artists and ensembles are in full swing with their wonderful performances and programmes for schools and young people, providing opportunities to get involved in culture of all kinds both here and in local neighbourhoods. It’s possibly the most precious work we do.

A performance of Alban Berg’s masterpiece, with Christian Gerhaher (pictured) as Wozzeck. Friday 2 October. See page 7.

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

Talks, readings, comedy, poetry, films, music and free events for the incurably curious this autumn. From Monday 28 September – Monday 12 October. See pages 10 – 13.

WHY?: WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG

Jude Kelly CBE Artistic Director, Southbank Centre

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Festivals this month: LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL �� 10 – 13 WHY? �� 14 – 15 CLASSICAL MUSIC ��6 – 9 LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD �� 13 GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC �� 16 – 17 PERFORMANCE & DANCE �� 18 VISUAL ARTS �� 20 MEMBERS’ & SUPPORTERS’ EVENTS �� 22 EAT, DRINK & SHOP �� 23

Supported by Mishcon de Reya Our festival for children and young people is back. From Thursday 22 – Sunday 25 October. See pages 14 – 15.

LA SOIRÉE

The award-winning cabaret show is back for another awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping and downright unmissable Christmas run. From Tuesday 27 October. See page 18.

Highlights this month: Classical Season 2015/16 (see pages 6 – 9)

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CL ASSICAL MUSIC There are more than 200 classical music concerts listed in our season brochure for 2015/16. Flick through its pages and you’ll find world-class orchestras, star soloists, great new music and works that have endured for centuries. However, whether you’re a regular concert-goer or a newcomer to classical music, it can be tricky to know where to begin. At our award-winning festival of 20thcentury classical music, The Rest Is Noise, visitors told us they enjoyed concerts more when they took part in talks and workshops about the music. That’s what inspired us to create What You Need to Know, a series of one-day workshops looking in depth at some key pieces of music performed at Southbank Centre.

Led by Southbank Centre’s Director of Music, Gillian Moore, the sessions feature talks by musical experts, discussions and demonstrations – you can find out more about music that’s unfamiliar, deepen your knowledge of a favourite piece or attend the whole course to explore a wide range of classical music. What You Need to Know runs from autumn 2015 to summer 2016, taking in a classic Mozart opera, the 20th-century sounds of Steve Reich and a Wagnerian finale. Here’s a taster of the topics covered in the first three sessions.

SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 BERG’S WOZZECK Before the premiere of Wozzeck, its composer Alban Berg was unknown. After the first night, he was famous. How had this middleaged composer, who didn’t begin studying music until he was 19, created such a splash? Until the 19th century, most European music had been structured in a certain way, with one or two tones used as focal points, centres of gravity towards which the music is drawn. As the 20th century dawned in Vienna, composer Arnold Schoenberg began writing music that pushed against the boundaries of this traditional, ‘tonal’ structure. Atonal music, he announced, was ‘the emancipation of the dissonance.’ Berg was one of his first pupils and the two, with Anton Webern, became known as the Second Viennese school, who were led by Schoenberg’s creative example to explore new means of expression in music. Wozzeck steps into this brave new world while speaking directly to the emotions of its audiences, and was 2

popular from its first performance. Turn-of-the-century Vienna was a hub not only for classical music but also for philosophy, writing and art that defied convention and explored new creative possibilities; Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele were creating iconoclastic paintings, writers such as Robert Musil were embarking on grand modernist projects, and in 1900 Sigmund Freud published his Interpretation of Dreams. Unlikely as it sounds, these influential figures mingled in the city’s coffee shops, which also attracted men who would leave their political stamp on the century: Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Adolf Hitler. Berg wrote Wozzeck during the first world war, obsessively plotting it out in notebooks while working in a military desk job. It is now considered the first avantgarde opera, a dramatic struggle between tonal writing and dissonance in which the libretto is half spoken, half sung.

Berg was proud that each scene of the opera was based on a different classic musical form, yet his writing was so radically new that Wozzeck had to be rehearsed 34 times before the first performance. The opera was based on the true story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a soldier who had murdered his mistress. Berg was inspired by a play about Woyzeck by the 23-year-old writer Georg Buchner, who died of typhus before he had finished it. Focusing on workingclass characters, it examined the forces that might drive a soldier to kill his wife, and then himself.

Schoenberg wrote about Berg’s ‘powerful sympathy’ – his ability to empathise deeply with the suffering of others. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Wozzeck resonates with audiences, and why many people consider it the most exciting opera ever written. Christian Gerhaher & Zurich Opera perform Wozzeck on Friday 2 October in Royal Festival Hall.

Image credits: Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marina Saanisvili Stockhausen © akg-images Philharmonia Orchestra violinist © Mark McNulty Stravinsky signature © Southbank Centre Archive

SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2015 STRAVINSKY’S RITE OF SPRING ‘It’s so fresh, it still kicks ass’ says Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, about The Rite of Spring. From its very first performance, listeners have found Stravinsky’s 35-minute ballet confrontational. The audience reaction to the music and choreography at the premiere has gone down in history as one of the first, hostile reactions to Modernist art. Catcalling and arguments were so loud that the choreographer, the ballet star Nijinsky, had to shout the cues to the dancers from the wings, while Stravinsky held onto the tails of his

coat. Critics still debate the level of violence seen at the riot (we know that members of the audience threw vegetables, and that 40 people were ejected from the

SATURDAY 5 DECEMBER 2015 STOCKHAUSEN’S HYMNEN Many fans of pop, hip-hop and drum and bass might not realise that the first musicians to use electronic sampling were working in classical music. One of the earliest and most influential was Karlheinz Stockhausen, laboriously splicing up tape with razor blades in his studio to create the desired effects. Now a gargantuan figure in 20th-century music, noted for his grand experimentalism – a work for three orchestras, a string quartet incorporating helicopters, a seven-day opera – and his varied eccentricities, Stockhausen’s youthful experiments in electronic music helped write the rulebook for the genre.

Having studied with Messiaen and attended the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music (which became well known as a home for the uncompromising, modern sounds of serialism), Stockhausen took up a post at the new WDR Electronic Studio in Germany, soon to become a centre of European electronic music. Here he not only made music from spliced and manipulated sound recordings, but created sounds using raw electronic waveforms – a difficult task that few other musicians had attempted. The pieces he wrote in the 1950s and 60s, such as Gesang der Junglinge and Kontakte, combined manipulated recordings, synthesized sounds and live performance to create a seductive alien soundworld.

theatre) and what caused it – was it a marketing stunt arranged by Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballet Russes? Promising music ‘that would doubtless inspire heated discussion’ he had offered free entry to some members of the audience – the bohemian critics and poets who ended up trading insults with the more traditional, fashionable crowd. The score to The Rite of Spring can still induce powerful thrills. There are its pulsing rhythms in a constantly shifting metre, sometimes performed in magical unison by musicians en masse. There’s its collage of sharply defined motifs, forbidding a single sonic perspective, as if a cubist drawing took musical form. There’s the story of the ballet, a Russian maiden sacrificing herself in a death-dance to ensure a good harvest, played out just a year before an entire generation of young men sacrificed their lives for their country in the First World War. Stravinsky’s subtitle, Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts, made an explicit link between the ballet’s shocking brutalism and the Russian past. Back in St Petersburg, his music teacher, the composer Nikolai RimskyKorsakov, was among a group who set out to write authentically Russian music in a reaction against the fashion for French composers.

Stockhausen’s innovative compositions attracted attention beyond the realm of classical music. His new fans included The Beatles, who in 1967 included his portrait on the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This was the year that Stockhausen composed Hymnen, a ‘metacollage’ of national anthems from across the globe interwoven with electronic sounds and other recordings – at one point Stockhausen and his studio assistants list names for the colour red taken from a Windsor & Newton watercolour paint catalogue. Stockhausen said that regular beats in music reminded him of the Nazi marching music played over the radio during his childhood (the war claimed the lives of both his parents). By the time he wrote Hymnen, in which the highly modulated German national anthem evolves into a recording of a jeering crowd, he had contributed numerous promising alternatives to the sounds of the past.

But Stravinsky’s vision of ‘pagan Russia’ also played into the Parisian audience’s fantasies about his ‘exotic’ homeland. His portrait of spring was a very Russian one; he once said that in his country ‘it seemed to begin in an hour and was like the whole earth cracking.’ The popularity of the Ballet Russes was down to the French fascination with Russian art – as was understood by canny impresario Diaghilev. Stravinsky’s ballet is considered a Modernist masterpiece. His vision of an inexplicably murderous society foreshadowed Modernist skepticism about social values. The scenery and costumes, designed by artist and anthropologist Nicholas Roerich, explored a ‘primitive’ culture, like the art of his contemporaries Picasso and Gaugin. In 1913, James Joyce had just begun to write Portrait of a Young Man, and Ezra Pound would meet TS Eliot the next year. These writers would sample the work of other cultures just as Stravinsky sampled Russian folksongs in his score. However, Stravinsky denied his use of folksong, saying that the echoes were down to ‘unconscious folk memory’ and claimed that the scenario for his ballet had come to him as if in a prescient dream. The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs The Rite of Spring on Wednesday 28 October in Royal Festival Hall.

London Sinfonietta performs Region III from Hymnen on Saturday 5 December in Royal Festival Hall. Notes by Lucy Peters

And there’s more… Saturday 9 January 2016 Messiaen’s Turangalîla Saturday 9 April 2016 Janáček’s Jenůfa Saturday 7 May 2016 Mozart’s The Magic Flute Sunday 15 May 2016 Stravinsky Myths & Legends Sunday 22 May 2016 Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians Saturday 25 & Sunday 26 June 2016 Wagner’s Ring Cycle

Highlights this month: London Literature Festival (see pages10 – 13)

THERE SHE BLOWS! We’re setting sail this autumn straight into the heart of Herman Melville’s classic tale of maritime obsession, first published in 1851. Actors, writers, members of the public and Herman Melville’s great-great-great-granddaughter join us to perform the entire unabridged novel, with surprising contributions every day from illustrators, artists and musicians. But before you hoist the mainsail and swab the decks, read on to find out more about one of the greatest novels of all time. Moby-Dick Unabridged takes place from Thursday 1 – Sunday 4 October in The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall.

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CALL ME ISHMAEL ...So begins one of the classics of American literature, taking the reader on a voyage across the high seas as its narrator, Ishmael, sets out aboard the whaling ship Pequod under the command of Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon discovers that Ahab is on a zealous quest for one particular whale, Moby Dick. This white whale is notorious for his colossal size and for his myriad fatal encounters with the whalers who pursue him. Ahab was one of those whalers – and lost not only his ship but his leg to Moby Dick. He is intent upon revenge, at any cost... What ensues is a rollicking tale of adventure and tragedy, infused with the blood and gore of whale hunting, the reckless passion of a monomaniacal captain, and the battle between one man and the infinite power of the sea. Melville plumbs the depths of good and evil in this story of desolate splendour, shot through with a dexterous comic wit. The genius of Moby-Dick was recognised long after Melville’s death – now, it is one of the best-loved American novels and looms large in lists of the top 100 novels of all time. 4

Image credits: Liza Klaussmann © Elizabeth Zeschin

Some of the contributors to Moby-Dick Unabridged share their thoughts about the best-loved sea voyage in literature. THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES MUSICIAN, JOURNALIST AND PARISH PRIEST, ST MARY THE VIRGIN, FINEDON

A L KENNEDY AUTHOR

When did you first read Moby-Dick? I first read Moby-Dick in my 20s and fell for it at once. I think, generally, it is the weirdness I like best, and in particular what passed for bedtime etiquette between 19th-century American whalers and tattooed strangers, and how to process a whale as you go along.

SAM TARADISH CO-ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (WITH JARRED MCGINNIS AND TOM BASDEN), THE SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP

BENJAMIN MARKOVITS AUTHOR What’s your favourite line, chapter or part of the story and why? The basic story is a great story. I was telling it to my five-year-old son a few days ago and it made sense to him. A guy is trying to catch the terrible whale that took out his leg. Of course, what’s wonderful about the book is that it’s really a tasting menu of different genres, but the opening pages seem particularly good: Ishmael’s restlessness, desire to change his life, and the quiet decisions and adventures this leads him into, even before he sets sail.

TED HODGKINSON SENIOR PROGRAMMER OF LITERATURE AND SPOKEN WORD AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE

Why do you think Moby-Dick is still so loved? You can read it as an adventure story but it also touches on universal themes with tremendous humour and insight. It asks deep moral questions, and leaves you wondering at the mystery of humanity and nature. And grateful not to be a harpoonist.

DENNIS JOHNSON CO-FOUNDER AND PUBLISHER, MELVILLE HOUSE

When did you first read Moby-Dick? I first read Moby-Dick when I was a young man with a menial job and a long commute on a New York City subway, which is where I read a lot of great literature. As it turned out, being underground, in the belly of the beast, feeling rather overwhelmed as I pursued my dreams, was a fairly ideal place/situation in which to read this tale of a man working for a maniacally obsessive leader seeking to hunt down and kill a pristine, white creature in its own element.

Why do you think Moby-Dick is still so loved? Because it’s bloody lovely. It grips your mind in a big salty velvet fist and doesn’t let you go. And it gives us Cormac McCarthy. What’s the most interesting thing you know about whales? I once tickled one on the tummy – they’re immensely sensual beasts. You can scrub at their heads the way you would scratch the head of a dog... which makes harpooning even slightly less pleasant as an idea. They may be big, but they feel as much as you do – fellow mammals that they are.

CHIBUNDU ONUZO AUTHOR

Who do you think is the best character? For me Queequeg was the most interesting character. I think Melville does a really good job of showing how strange we all are to each other. It was an early foray into cultural relativism (although the historian part of my brain winces at this transplanting of a 20th-century term to a time not its own). Nothing Queequeg does is strange to him and the character retains that cultural confidence, even when surrounded by Western norms, dietary practices et cetera. It reminds me of the project that later African writers like Chinua Achebe would take up with novels like Things Fall Apart. The ‘natives’ were not savages. Their colonisers just didn’t have the tools to interpret their world. What’s the most interesting thing you know about whales? They swim in their sleep.

Who do you think is the best character? I think the most interesting character is Stubb. The second mate knows the majesty of the sea, the danger of a whaling life, and even has a sense of just how far wrong things may have gone with the captain. He knows that his life is a small, fragile thing in a contest with uncontrollable forces, and he still sets to the hunt with humour.

LIZA KLAUSSMANN AUTHOR AND GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER OF HERMAN MELVILLE

What’s your favourite line, chapter or part of the story and why? The chapter that I find the most beautiful and the most arresting is the chapter that addresses one of the whale’s most obvious peculiarities: his colour... In the chapter, Melville basically floats the idea that the essence of white – far from being honourable, or even benign – is in fact inherently evil, merciless; it is, he tells us, the colour of spiritual death. I love this idea – it’s so original and unusual, and so part of the greatness of the novel. Then there’s structure itself: the chapter is an act of literary bravura, a perfect emotional history of the colour (or non-colour) white, from the divine to the apocalyptic (think of those four horseman). ‘And of all these things,’ Melville writes, ‘the Albino whale was the symbol. Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?’

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R THURSDAY 1 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI

TUESDAY 6 ANGELA HEWITT, PIANO

TUESDAY 13 DENIS KOZHUKHIN, PIANO

International Piano Series Haydn Sonata in D, Hob.XVI/24; Brahms Theme and Variations in D minor arr. for piano from String Sextet No.1 in B flat, Op.18; 7 Fantasias, Op.116; Haydn Sonata in B minor, Hob.XVI/32; Liszt Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude, No.3 from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S.173; Bartók Out of Doors Suite

Christoph von Dohnányi conductor Carolin Widmann violin Charles Ives The Unanswered Question (Contemplation No.1); Berg Violin Concerto; Schubert Symphony No.9 in C (Great) Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £42* £33* £27* £22* £17* £14* £11* Signature Seats £50*

St John’s, Smith Square, 7.30pm £28* £15* £10* Premium seats £35*

Royal Festival Hall, 6pm: pre-concert chamber music. Musicians from the Orchestra perform Strauss’ Prelude for string sextet from Capriccio, and Mendelssohn’s Octet in E flat, Op.20. FREE

FRIDAY 2 WOZZECK WITH CHRISTIAN GERHAHER & ZURICH OPERA International Orchestra Series Fabio Luisi conductor Christian Gerhaher Wozzeck Gun-Brit Barkmin Marie Brandon Jovanovich Drum Major Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke Captain Lars Woldt Doctor A performance of Alban Berg’s masterpiece featuring an all-star cast. Wozzeck tells the tragic story of a soldier driven to madness and murder by poverty and oppression. With Christian Gehaher, winner of the 2015 International Opera Award for Best Male Singer and the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £50* £35* £20* £10* Premium seats £65*

R SATURDAY 3 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: JUROWSKI EXPLORES SCRIABIN’S COLOURFUL SOUNDWORLD

Vladimir Jurowski conductor Leonidas Kavakos violin Knussen Scriabin settings; Sibelius Violin Concerto; Scriabin Symphony No.3 (The Divine Poem) Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39* £33* £27* £21* £16* £12* £9* Premium seats £65*

SUNDAY 4 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: YURI TEMIRKANOV

Yuri Temirkanov conductor Denis Matsuev piano Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No.1; Brahms Symphony No.4 Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £42* £33* £27* £22* £17* £14* £11* Signature Seats £50*

R THURSDAY 15 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: DANIIL TRIFONOV

St John’s Smith Square at 6.15pm. Pre-concert talk. Denis Kozhukhin discusses the programme.

International Piano Series Bach Capriccio in B flat, BWV.992 (On the departure of his most beloved brother); Scarlatti Sonata in F minor, Kk.69; Sonata in G, Kk.427; Sonata in D, Kk.96; Bach Partita No.2 in C minor, BWV.826; Beethoven Sonata in E flat, Op.81a (Les Adieux); Liszt Sonetto 123 del Petrarca & Après une lecture de Dante – Fantasia quasi sonata from Années de pèlerinage Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £40* £30* £20* £10* Premium seats £55* Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm: Pre-concert talk. Angela Hewitt discusses the programme.

R WEDNESDAY 14 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: PENDERECKI CONDUCTS UK PREMIERE OF HIS HORN CONCERTO

Krzysztof Penderecki conductor Radovan Vlatković horn Penderecki Adagio for strings (UK premiere); Horn Concerto ‘Winterreise’ (UK premiere); Threnody for the victims of Hiroshima; Shostakovich Symphony No.6 in B minor Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39* £33* £27* £21* £16* £12* £9* Premium seats £65*

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THURSDAY 8 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: DANIIL TRIFONOV

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Rafael Payare conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Tchaikovsky Fantasy Overture, Romeo & Juliet; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.4; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition orch. Ravel

Royal Festival Hall at 6.15pm: pre-concert talk. Krzysztof Penderecki discusses his Horn Concerto. FREE

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT: BOSTRIDGE SINGS R HANDEL

Garry Walker conductor London Sinfonietta Laurence Crane Chamber Symphony No.2 (The Australian) (World premiere); Marisol Jiménez New work (World premiere); Morton Feldman For Samuel Beckett St John’s Smith Square, 7.30pm £15*

Jakub Hrůša conductor Daniil Trifonov piano Smetana Overture, The Bartered Bride; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2; Dvořák Symphony No.7 Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £42* £33* £27* £22* £17* £14* £11* Signature Seats £50* Royal Festival Hall at 6pm: Music of Today. A composer portrait of Param Vir, conducted by Kwamé Ryan with Soumik Datta (sarod). FREE

SATURDAY 17 GUIDED LISTENING: FRENCH CLASSICAL ORGAN MUSIC

An introduction to the organ by William McVicker with a recital by organ students from the Royal Academy of Music, focusing on their favourite French classical organ repertoire. Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon FREE

JONAS KAUFMANN, TENOR

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £42* £33* £27* £22* £17* £14* £11* Signature Seats £50*

R SATURDAY 10 LONDON SINFONIETTA FELDMAN: FOR SAMUEL BECKETT

Daniil Trifonov

Jochen Rieder conductor Sought-after tenor Jonas Kaufmann returns to Royal Festival Hall. He performs his own selection of arias accompanied by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Ian Bostridge

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £125* £95* £85* £50* £40* £30*

Steven Devine director Ian Bostridge tenor Star tenor Ian Bostridge joins the Orchestra to kick-start their 30th birthday celebrations with a Baroque programme featuring well-loved arias by Handel and his elaborate motet Silete Venti. St John’s, Smith Square, 7pm £39* £24* £10* Premium seats £60* St John’s Smith Square at 5.45pm: pre-concert talk. FREE

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Image credits: Unsuk Chin © Eric Richmond Patricia Kopatchinskaja © Marina Saanisvili Sarah Connolly © Peter Warren

R THURSDAY 22 PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: RAVEL & UNSUK CHIN

SUNDAY 25 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: STRAVINSKY THE RITE OF SPRING

TUESDAY 27 A NIGHT UNDER THE STARS: FAIREST ISLE Sarah Connolly

THURSDAY 29 NOISY NOTES: INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION

Sue Perkins conducts and presents music for children in a spectacular show. It features dancers, characters from Shrek, young West End stars, Eurovision’s Sarbel from Greece. Royal Festival Hall, 2pm £15* £12* £10*

SOUTHWARK YOUTH ORCHESTRA

Southwark Youth Orchestra bring their vivacious playing to The Clore Ballroom. Conducted by Lee Reynolds, the orchestra perform favourites including ‘Mambo’ from West Side Story.

Unsuk Chin

Nicholas Collon conductor Kari Kriikku clarinet Alwyn Mellor soprano Stravinsky Fireworks (Feu d’artifice); Unsuk Chin Clarinet Concerto (UK premiere); Wagner Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde; Ligeti Atmosphères; Ravel Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No.2 Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £42* £33* £27* £22* £17* £14* £11* Signature Seats £50* Royal Festival Hall at 6pm: pre-concert talk. Nicholas Collon in conversation.

An in-depth session exploring Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, looking at its controversial premiere and how it fits into Russian cultural history. Speakers include Professor Jonathan Cross of Oxford University. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon – 4pm £39*

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA: JAMES BOND – THE ULTIMATE R SOUNDTRACKS

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £50* £40* £30* £20* £12* Premium seats £60*

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R WEDNESDAY 28 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: MARKUS STENZ CONDUCTS THE RITE OF SPRING

Royal Festival Hall at 6pm: pre-concert performance. Children from the London Music Masters programme perform with LPO musicians in the premiere of a work by Gavin Higgins. FREE

R SATURDAY 31 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: SKROWACZEWSKI CONDUCTS BRUCKNER

Stanisław Skrowaczewski conductor Bruckner Symphony No.5 (no interval)

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39* £33* £27* £21* £16* £12* £9* Premium seats £65*

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Carl Davis conductor Lance Ellington voice Mica Paris voice Hazel Fernandes voice Sarah Brown voice Hear music from all the great Bond films, to coincide with release of the new instalment, Spectre. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £55* £45* £35* £29* £24* £15*

Markus Stenz conductor Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Beethoven Symphony No.1; Thomas Larcher Violin Concerto; Stravinsky The Rite of Spring Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39* £33* £27* £21* £16* £12* £9* Premium seats £65* FREE

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Thierry Fischer conductor Benjamin Grosvenor piano James Sherlock organ Bizet Symphony in C; Ravel Piano Concerto in G; Saint-Saëns Symphony No.3 (Organ)

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R FRIDAY 23 LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR PLAYS RAVEL

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39* £33* £27* £21* £16* £12* £9* Premium seats £65*

Orion Orchestra Edward Gardner conductor Sarah Connolly mezzo-soprano Duncan Rock baritone Esther Yoo violin Streetwise Opera An evening of music inspired by the British Isles including Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending and Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Walton’s Henry V Suite and arias by Purcell and Handel. In aid of homeless charity The Passage.

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PH ILH A R MONIA ORCHESTRA Conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and pianist Lang Lang share their love of Grieg, Beethoven and Prokoﬁev in three concerts (26 Nov, 1 & 3 Dec).

LONDON SINFONIET TA Hear Stockhausen’s take on national anthems from around the world, and music by living legend Pierre Boulez (5 Dec).

LONDON P H ILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Take a musical journey to Mexico with conductor Jaime Martín (6 Nov), France with Debussy and Ravel (11 Nov), or Italy with arias from Puccini’s Tosca (4 Dec).

ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT Enjoy Bach’s Double Violin Concerto in the beautiful Baroque setting of St John’s Smith Square – hear it in concert (24 Nov) or take a guided tour of the music at The Works (30 Nov).

Image credits: Royal Festival Hall © Ed Reeve; Maria Luigia Borsi © Richard Crean London Sinfonietta; Marin Alsop and Esa-Pekka Salonen © Clive Barda;

For a full calendar of events see page 24.

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL Terry Gilliam discusses his life, career and creativity as part of our annual literature festival.

MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER THE FORWARD PRIZES FOR POETRY 2015

Poets shortlisted for the Forward Prizes read from their collections, ahead of the announcement of the winners. With Ciaran Carson, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paul Muldoon, Claudia Rankine, Peter Riley, Mona Arshi, Sarah Howe, Andrew McMillan, Matthew Siegel, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Maura Dooley , Andrew Elliott, Ann Gray, Claire Harman and Kim Moore. Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £12*

THURSDAY 1 – SUNDAY 4 MOBY-DICK UNABRIDGED

Over four days, hear the epic novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville being read aloud by actors, writers, members of the public and comedians. Including illustrations and music – expect surprising contributions everyday. Presented by The Special Relationship and Southbank Centre. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, Thursday 7pm – 10pm, Friday 8pm – 10pm, Saturday, 10.30am – 10pm & Sunday 10.30am – 5pm FREE

THURSDAY 1 STORYSLAM:LIVE

Write and perform a five-minute short story on the theme of ‘Shining’ for your chance to impress the judges. Also meet aspiring authors and be a part of London’s literary scene. Ages 16+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £8*

EDWARD THOMAS SHARED READING

Join others and take part in a shared reading of the work of poet Edward Thomas. This event features Thomas’s poems along with fragments from biographies and other writings. 10

The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 8pm £5*

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Image credits: Terry Gilliam © Jay Brooks, Camera Press London Young Adult Literature Weekender © Belinda Lawley

FRIDAY 2 ROYAL COLLEGE OF MUSIC: WATER MUSIC

Friday Lunch with MasterCard Student pianists from the Royal College of Music perform pieces inspired by water. Features ‘Poissons d’or’ and ‘Reflets dans l’eau’ by Debussy and Ravel’s ‘Jeaux d’eau’. Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE

SUNSPOTS

A poetic, musical and visual exploration of the long and eventful life of the Sun. With poet Simon Baraclough, musician Oliver Barrett and visual artist Jack Wake-Walker. Produced by Penned in the Margins. Ages 16+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £8*

THE HEART OF THE MATTER: HOW SCIENCE BORROWS FROM POETRY

SELFIE CONCIOUSNESS: NARRATING OURSELVES ONLINE

Is being able to narrate our lives online a new form of expression to be embraced? Discussion with Tom Chatfield, author of How to Thrive in a Digital Age, and addictions expert Henrietta Bowden-Jones. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 3.30pm £8*

AGENTS OF DISCOVERY

Meet publishers committed to bringing us stories from beyond the Anglophone bubble. With Meike Ziervogel (Pierene Press), Stefan Tobler (And Other Stories) and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf (Cassava Republic). Ages 16+. Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 4.30pm £8*

SATURDAY 3 & SUNDAY 4 YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WEEKENDER

Poet Rosemary Tonks turned her back on the literary world in the 1970s. Following her death in 2014, Bloodaxe published the first volume of her work in 40 years. This event examines the work of the ultimate poet’s poet. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to book your place. The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 6.30pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

POLARI: FIRST BOOK PRIZE

Find out the winner of the 2015 Polari First Book Prize, awarded to a work which explores LGBT experience. This year’s ceremony features Tom Rob Smith, Juliet Jacques, Charlie Flowers and Anny Knight, and is hosted by Paul Burson. Ages 18+ Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £8*

Physicist Carlo Rovelli, author of Seven Basic Lessons of Physics, and poet and Wellcome Trust writer-in-residence Lavinia Greenlaw talk about how poetry has inspired scientists.

WAR ON THE DOORSTEP: HOW MODERN WARFARE ENTERED THE HOME

How are today’s novelists writing about modern warfare, which can erupt anywhere? Discussion with Owen Sheer (Saw a Man), Sunjeev Sahota(The Year of the Runaways) and Mirza Waheed (The Book of Gold Leaves). Chaired by Kamila Shamsie(A God In Every Stone).

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.45pm £8*

SATURDAY 3 ISLAND SOUNDS: A NEW PIECE BY KEI MILLER

MONDAY 5 POETRY LIBRARY BOOK CLUB: ROSEMARY TONKS

This mini-festival features writers and spoken word artists, talks, workshops, performances, stalls and The Dystopian Book Club. It has been put together with advice of young writers and readers. Ages 13 – 25.

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7.45pm £8*

COMEDY COUPLETS: TIM KEY AND MARK WATSON

SUNDAY 4 ALTERNATE WORLDS

St Paul’s Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm & 7.45pm £8*

BELLOW AND BEYOND: POST-WAR AMERICAN FICTION

A discussion about Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow’s life and legacy. With biographer Zachary Leader and novelist Ben Markovits. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 3pm £8*

Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 5pm £8*

NEW EXPERIMENTALISTS: THE WRITERS

Hear from innovative writers who are experimenting with language and voice. With Paul Kingsnorth (The Wake), Max Porter (Grief is the Thing with Feathers) and Una (Becoming Unbecoming). Ages 16+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £8*

SOUTHBANK CENTRE FIRST LOOK BOOK CLUB

First Look Book Club lets you try books before they’re published. This time we look at Bret Easton Ellis and the Other Dogs, a novel by Swedish author Lina Wolff, translated by Frank Perry. Chaired by writer Saskia Vogel. Ages 16+. Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 7.45pm £8*

EVERYTHING IN A MOMENT: ANDREW MILLER AND COLUM MCCANN

Novelists Andrew Miller (Pure and The Crossing) and Colum McCann (Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic) talk about fiction, real life and significant moments. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 8pm £10*

LITERARY DEATH MATCH: SOUTHBANK CENTRE SPECIAL EDITION

WEDNESDAY 7 INTERCITY FLOW ANTHOLOGY LAUNCH

Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 3pm £8*

Hear authors shed light on a range of working lives. With Joanna Biggs (All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work), Jon Day (Cyclogeography: Journeys of a London Bicycle Courier) and Simon Bradley (The Railways: Nation, Network and People).

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm £10*

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £10*

Graphic novelists Stephen Collins (The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil) and Isabel Greenberg (The Encyclopedia of Early Earth) discuss how they create alternate worlds.

BICYCLES, TRAINS AND BEING ON TIME: A CONVERSATION ABOUT WORKING LIVES

The acclaimed Australian poet Les Murray reads from a variety of his poetry, including his most recent collection, Waiting for the Past, a Poetry Book Society Choice.

Part literary event, part gameshow, part comedy, Literary Death Match brings together four of today’s finest writers to compete in a edgeof-your-seat read-off. Ages 16+.

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1pm – 6pm, £8* per day

Hear Forward Prize-winning poet Kei Miller’s elegy to cacophonous island life, from crowing cockerels to Kingston’s roaring traffic.

TUESDAY 6 LES MURRAY

Tim Key

Tim Key and Mark Watson present an evening for literary types looking to laugh. Expect a stellar line-up of comedians and poets for an evening of epic proportions. Royal Festival Hall, 8pm £20* £15*

Come to the launch of the anthology that resulted from Ek Zuban Press’s mentoring project. With music from The Electric KoolAid Ensemble and performances by poets Esa Hirvonen, Daniil Koslov, Claus Ankersen, Maja Petrea Fox, Harry Zevenbergen, Sanne Bartfai, Dizzylez and Mo’stach. Ages 16+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £8*

For a full calendar of events see page 24.

Image credits: The Hollow of the Hand © Seamus Murphy Terry Gilliam © Jay Brooks, Camera Press London

WEDNESDAY 7 INSIDE THE HEAD OF TERRY GILLIAM

THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER – SUNDAY 10 JANUARY FARADAY’S SYNAPTIC GAP: AN EXHIBITION BY RICK MYERS

Faraday’s Synaptic Gap is inspired by Michael Faraday’s 1832 experiment across the Thames. Rick Myers’ new exhibition brings together the Poetry Library and the library at the Courtauld Institute of Art, on the north bank of the Thames and considers the neurological, material, and poetic aspects of Faraday’s experiment. The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall & The Book Library at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 8pm

Venture inside the mind of the filmmaker once described as ‘half genius and half madman’ in this immersive, multimedia journey. He is joined on stage by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz. Presented by Intelligence Squared and Southbank Centre. Ages 14+.

FREE

Joelle Taylor

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm – 6pm FREE

How do game designers draw on literature? Discussion with novelist and gaming expert Naomi Alderman and game designers Emily Short (Galatea) and Cara Ellison (Dishonoured 2). Simon Parkin, games critic of the New Yorker, chairs the event. Ages 12+.

BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 7.45pm £8*

Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £8*

The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 8pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

Friday Tonic with MasterCard KARAMA was formed by Moroccan oud player and composer Soufian Saihi. Their work is influenced by sacred Gnawa music, as well as North African and Classical Arabic traditions.

What are the dilemmas of telling another person’s story? With Åsne Seierstad, whose One of Us is about the 2011 massacre in Norway, Jonny Steinberg, author of A Man of Good Hope, about a Somali refugee, and Misha Glenny, whose Nemesis is about Brazil’s most wanted man.

Southbank Centre and The Poetry Society celebrate National Poetry Day with a group of Young Poetry Producers aged 18-25 who curate readings and performances on the theme of ‘light’. All ages.

An evening of poems inspired by early silent film. Three very different poetic responses summon up the voices of women from this world. Readers include Sharon Morris, Cleo Barnham and Claire Crowther. To book, email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

FRIDAY 9 KARAMA

TELLING THE UNTELLABLE: HOW WRITERS CHOOSE THEIR SUBJECTS

EXIT, PURSUED BY A ZOMBIE: LITERARY TRICKS TO MAPPING DIGITAL ADVENTURES

Poets write new poems inspired by this year’s National Poetry Day theme – light. The pieces receive their premieres here on National Poetry Day itself. A Jaybird Live Literature Project.

FARADAY’S SYNAPTIC GAP, OPENING EVENT

Join us at the opening event of Rick Myers’ exhibition, Faraday’s Synaptic Gap. View the works, enjoy a glass of wine and find out more about Rick Myers’ response to Faraday’s experiment. Email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk to book your place. The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

FRIDAY 9 & SATURDAY 10 THE HOLLOW OF THE HAND: PJ HARVEY AND SEAMUS MURPHY

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £8*

FREE

This event is live captioned and BSL interpreted.

WHAT IS SHE SAYING?: WOMEN AND SILENT FILM

Writers discuss crossing terrains – both physical and mental. With Kamila Shamsie (A God in Every Stone), Tahmima Anam (The Golden Age), Helen Simpson (Hey Yeah Right Get A Life) and Michael Salu, chaired byJohn Freeman. Ages 12+.

Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm

THURSDAY 8 NATIONAL POETRY DAY LIVE

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £30* £25* £17.50*

Cara Ellison

ARRIVALS: HOW DID YOU GET HERE?

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm £8*

GLOBAL CITY: LONDON INSIDE OUT

Discover new writing about London as seen from the perspective of the outsider who is inside. With Iain Sinclair, Jana Putrle Srdic, Livia Franchini and Karlis Verdins, compered by Steven J Fowler. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 8pm £8*

DATA AND DESIRE: CROSSCULTURAL STORIES OF LOVE AND ALGORITHMS Local Transport presents short, sharp, multimedia performances from Michael Salu & Rut Blees Luxemburg, Natasha Caruana and Catherine Anyango. Ages 16+. Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 8pm £10*

Don’t miss the world premiere of The Hollow of the Hand – an evening of poetry readings and new songs performed by PJ Harvey, and images and a short film presented by Seamus Murphy. With musicians John Parish and James Johnston, directed by Ian Rickson. Ages 18+. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £30* £25*

SATURDAY 10 THE POETRY BUTCHER

Get feedback on your poetry from Karen McCarthy Woolf, one of our Poetry Butchers, during an individual 15-minute session. Bring one poem only, no longer than a side of A4. To book, email specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 11am – 6pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

REVOLUTIONARIES AND RUNAWAYS: NEW BASQUE AND SPANISH FICTION

Kirmen Uribe is a Basque poet, multimedia artist and author of Bilbao-New York-Bilbao. Jesús Carrasco’s new novel emOut in the Open tells of a young boy fleeing his home. What can these fictions tell us about our present and future? Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 1.30pm £8*

ALI SMITH INTRODUCES TOM MORRIS

Author Ali Smith, winner of the 2015 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction for How to be Both, introduces rising star Tom Morris who read from his story collection We Don’t Know What We’re Doing. Ages 12+. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm £8*

Image credits: Exit Pursued by Zombies © Jamie Drew National Poetry Day Live © Hayley Madden Apex Predators © Richard Thwaites Man Booker Prize © Janie Airey

Image credits: WHY SLAMbassadors UK © Belinda Lawley Rug Rhymes © Belinda Lawley

THE IRISH NEW WAVE

Meet the new wave of Irish authors. With Colin Barrett (Young Skins), Kevin Barry (City of Bohane) and Claire-Louise Bennett (Pond). The event is chaired by Stinging Fly editor Tom Morris.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: STAYING HAPPY

Matt Haig, the author of Reasons to Stay Alive, leads a panel of experts as they try to find the secret to staying happy. Ages 16+.

Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 3pm £8*

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm £8*

APEX PREDATORS: A NOVEL ABOUT WOLVES, A MEMOIR ABOUT SHARKS

THE GROUNDNUT EXPERIENCE: TASTES OF AFRICA IN LONDON

Meet the chefs behind the hit popup Groundnut, which has set Londoners’ tastebuds tingling. Sample dishes and hear Duval Timothy, Jacob Fodio Todd and Folayemi Brown tell the stories behind their food.

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LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD EVENTS FRIDAYS IN OCTOBER RUG RHYMES: WHAT RHYMES WITH RUG?

SUNDAY 25 SLAMBASSADORS UK

Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 3pm £8*

UNSPOKEN STORIES: LOVE IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA

Sarah Hall

Evie Wyld, whose new Memoir Everything is Teeth was written with Joe Sumners, and Sarah Hall, who has just published the epic novel The Wolf Border, discuss their fascination with deadly predators. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm £8*

PAUL MULDOON

Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon reads from and discusses his poetry. His latest collection, One Thousand Things Worth Knowing, is published by Faber. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm £10*

Feminist Naomi Wolf and Elleke Boehmer, biographer of Nelson Mandela, discuss South African apartheid and forbidden love. Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 3.30pm £8*

MONDAY 12 VOICES FROM PRISONS

Re:form – Art by Offenders The Koestler Trust presents an evening of art created in custodial settings and by ex-offenders.Hear music, poetry and prose entries submitted to the Koestler Awards. Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6.30pm £8*

2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE READINGS

SUNDAY 11 MATT PARKER: THING TO MAKE AND DO IN THE FOURTH DIMENSION

FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)

Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2.30pm £8*

FREE

WEDNESDAY 7 CREATIVE WRITING COURSE 2015: CONTEMPORARY CRIME WRITING WITH LESLEY THOMSON

Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 6.30pm £15*

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm

Depression for many is a fact of life, but how can those who suffer survive it? Join Matt Haig, the author of Reasons to Stay Alive, to explore the science and stories behind depression. Ages 16+.

The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 10.30am – 11am (please note there is no session on Friday 30 October)

As well as being a successful writer of contemporary detective fiction, Lesley Thomson is a brilliant plotter and editor. Find out how the best crime writers weave their clever plots.

Matt Parker is known as the Standup Mathematician. Join him for exhilarating ride into a world fizzing with games, puzzles and mindbending possibilities.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS: STAYING ALIVE

Under-fives and their carers are invited to join the Poetry Library puppets, Federico and Firebird, for a short session of nursery rhymes, poems and rhyming stories, followed by the chance to look at and borrow books.

Join some of the Booker Prizeshortlisted authors for an evening of readings, conversation and the chance to find out about their novels. The shortlist is announced on Tuesday 15 September. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £20* £15* £10*

See the best young spoken word artists compete at the SLAMbassadors UK National Finals. Hosted by the Poetry Society. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm – 6.30pm FREE

WEDNESDAY 28 NOVEL WRITING COURSE 2015: NANOWRIMO, ARE YOU READY?

Review all of your ideas in preparation for the NaNoWriMo challenge. One workshop in a 12part course providing you with the necessary skills to write a novel. Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 6.30pm £15*

THURSDAY 29 ELVIS COSTELLO IN CONVERSATION

Join songwriter Elvis Costello for a conversation about his memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, which looks at his career and gives insights into some of his best-known songs. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7pm £20* £15* £10*

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WHY?: WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG? Over four days, we celebrate the influence and energy of young people and look at how we can give everyone a good childhood.

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THURSDAY 22 – SUNDAY 25 WHY? WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG WHY? What’s Happening for the Young returns to consider how the needs and ideas of under-18s can influence the world around them. Inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the festival provides an empowering forum for children, young people and adults. We ask young people, artists and authors including Jacqueline Wilson, Lemn Sissay and Michael Morpurgo, big questions: what makes a good childhood? What rights do young people really have today? How can they stand up for themselves and what they believe in? With music, spoken word, theatre, film screenings, creative workshops, talks, debates and a marketplace, get involved as we tell unheard stories and inspire change at a lively, thought-provoking festival. southbankcentre.co.uk/WHY

THURSDAY 22 & FRIDAY 23 WHY?: DAY PASS

THURSDAY 22 & FRIDAY 23 WHY?: DAY PASS + SCORE

Key Stage 4 students or young people aged 14-16 can attend our WHY? Days, as well as seeing a special matinee of the play Score, inspired by real events and dealing with the subject of drug addiction, for only £7*. Foyer Spaces at Royal Festival Hall, 10am – 4.30pm £7* for under-18s, free for accompanying adults. Ticket includes the full Day Pass activities plus entry to a performance of Score. Email groups@southbankcentre. co.uk for details.

THURSDAY 22 – FRIDAY 23 SCORE As part of the celebrations, bring your school class or group of young people along to one of our WHY? Days. In a programme of workshops, performances, talks and debates, we explore the right to freedom of expression, play, care, safety and access to arts and culture. There are timetabled events aimed at young people aged 7-16 and Key Stages 2, 3 & 4. The Day Pass welcomes both school and non-school groups of young people accompanied by adults. Foyer Spaces at Royal Festival Hall, 10am – 3pm £2* for under-18s, free for accompanying adults. Email groups@southbankcentre.co.uk for details.

Score is a play inspired by true stories of addiction. It follows Hannah and Kirsty, childhood friends who’ve been through everything together: from playground fights to heroin addiction, missing dogs, and motherhood. With music by Verity Standen, creator of HUG. Ages 14+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £14*

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Image credits: WHY? 2014 © Belinda Lawley WHY SLAMbassadors UK © Belinda Lawley Teachers Evening: Women of the World © Pete Woodhead Beyond the Bassline © Belinda Lawley

THURSDAY 22 VOICELAB: SING FOR YOUR RIGHTS

From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, raise your voices to learn protest songs and then sing them at the WHY? Protest Parade. All abilities welcome. Ages 18 and under.

SATURDAY 24 BEYOND THE BASSLINE: A SINGING WORKSHOP FOR MEN AND BOYS

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1.30pm

ALSO FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THIS MONTH

FREE

SATURDAY 3 & SUNDAY 4 YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WEEKENDER

WHY? PROTEST PARADE

A special WHY? edition of our dropin workshops that aims to get more men and boys singing. All abilities welcome. Ages 7+. Under-18s must be accompanied by an adult male also taking part in the workshop. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm

Stand up for what you believe in and join our Protest Parade. Watch young people take to Southbank Centre’s external spaces to make their opinions heard.

FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)

FRIDAY 9 WOW PRESENTS: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL

WEDNESDAY 14 CAREERS IN THE ARTS

Join a day for young people interested in forging a successful career in the arts. With talks, workshops and Q&A sessions. Ages 14 – 21. To book, email groups@southbankcentre.co.uk. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 10.30am – 4pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

THURSDAY 15 TEACHERS EVENING: WOMEN OF THE WORLD

SUNDAY 25 SLAMBASSADORS UK

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2.15pm FREE

FRIDAY 23 SONGS OF CHANGE: EAST LONDON ARTS & MUSIC Friday Lunch with MasterCard See page17.

Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE

ELLIOTT GASTON-ROSS Friday Tonic with MasterCard See page 17.

FREE

Hosted by the Poetry Society, see the best young spoken word artists compete at the SLAM bassadors UK National Finals.

SATURDAY 24 UNDER THE COVERS

FREE

Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm – 6.30pm

Under The Covers examines young people’s attitudes to sex, inspired by the Wellcome Collection exhibition The Institute of Sexology, and the National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles. Ages 14+.

WOW: Women of the World Join us for International Day of the Girl, where the day kicks off with speed mentoring on the London Eye followed by workshops and talks celebrating the amazing achievements of girls as part of our year round WOW – Women of the World festival. Ages 11 – 18. To take part, email wowschools@ southbankcentre.co.uk.

Girls and young women have always been at the heart of the WOW – Women of the World festival. Now we invite schools to get involved. To book, email groups@southbankcentre.co.uk. Sunley Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 5pm – 6.30pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 7am – 3pm FREE (BOOKING ESSENTIAL)

Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 6.30pm £12*

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GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy present the world premier of their collaboration The Hollow of the Hand on Friday 9 October.

SATURDAY 3 HARMONIC SERIES: BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN & LIAM BYRNE

In the vacated Hayward Gallery, Harmonic Series presents music from French electro-acoustic artist Bérangère Maximin and viola da gamba soloist Liam Byrne. Hayward Gallery, 8pm £10*

FRIDAY 16 GOERGE BOOMSMA + KIERAN TOWERS

Friday Lunch with MasterCard North Yorkshire folk singer George Boomsma and old-time fiddler Kieran Towers perform a mixture of original songs and folk tunes. Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE

MADS MATHIAS QUARTET

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £30* £25*

WEDNESDAY 21 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES

The rabble rousing godfather of the alternative country scene returns to the UK. With a full-band, Steve Earle plays tracks from his latest album Terraplane. Friday Tonic with MasterCard Danish vocalist and saxophonist Mads Mathias is influenced by great jazz singers past and present, from Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra to Harry Connick Jr. Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm

Frank Zappa’s eldest son Dweezil brings his father’s musical legacy to life on stage. Zappa Plays Zappa perform classic 1975 album One Size Fits All in its entirety, alongside other favourites from the Frank Zappa back catalogue. Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39.50* £29.50* £19.50*

FRIDAY 9 & SATURDAY 10 THE HOLLOW OF THE HAND: PJ HARVEY AND SEAMUS MURPHY

London Literature Festival Don’t miss the world premiere of The Hollow of the Hand – an evening of poetry readings and new songs performed by PJ Harvey, and images and a short film presented by Seamus Murphy. With musicians John Parish and James Johnston, directed by Ian Rickson. Ages 18+.

SUNDAY 18 ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA: ONE SIZE FITS ALL, 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

FREE

Royal Festival Hall, 7.30pm £39.50* £32.50*

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Image credits: The Hollow of the Hand © Seamus Murphy Elliott Gaston-Ross © BBC

THURSDAY 22 VOICELAB: SING FOR YOUR RIGHTS

SATURDAY 24 BEYOND THE BASSLINE: A SINGING WORKSHOP FOR MEN AND BOYS

LEARN GAMELAN AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE THIS AUTUMN Southbank Centre is home to a beautiful gamelan – a Javanese percussion orchestra – and you can learn to play it. Come for a taster workshop or sign up for a 10-week course. Many of our sessions are suitable for children and complete beginners. You don’t need any musical experience, just a willingness to take your shoes off, sit on the floor and join in. southbankcentre.co.uk/gamelan

FROM MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER GAMELAN NOVICE COURSE WHY? What’s Happening for the Young From Bob Dylan to Bob Marley, raise your voices to learn protest songs and chants and then sing them at the WHY? Protest Parade. All abilities welcome. Ages 18 and under. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1.30pm FREE

WHY? What’s Happening for the Young A special WHY? edition of our dropin workshops that aims to get more men and boys singing. All abilities welcome. Ages 7+. Under-18s must be accompanied by an adult male also taking part in the workshop. Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm FREE (TICKET REQUIRED)

FRIDAY 23 SONGS OF CHANGE: EAST LONDON ARTS & MUSIC

Friday Lunch with MasterCard WHY? What’s Happening for the Young Hear some of London’s finest emerging musicians perform classic protest songs as musicians from East London Arts & Music perform memorable protest songs and their own music. Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm FREE

ELLIOTT GASTON-ROSS

MONDAY 26 RANDY NEWMAN

Grammy, Emmy and Academy Award-winner Randy Newman returns to Royal Festival Hall, performing songs from throughout his four-decade career.

Royal Festival Hall, 8pm £60* £50* £40*

THURSDAY 29 NOISY NOTES: INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION

Sue Perkins conducts and presents music for children in a spectacular show. It features dancers, characters from Shrek, young West End stars, Eurovision’s Sarbel from Greece.

Royal Festival Hall, 2pm £15* £12* £10*

FRIDAY 30 CECILIA STALIN + KHARI CABRAL SIMMONS

Friday Tonic with MasterCard WHY? What’s Happening for the Young Hear a performance by the amazing percussionist Elliott Gaston-Ross. He is 16 years old, and was a finalist in the BBC Young Musician competition.

Friday Tonic with MasterCard Cecilia Stalin and Khari Cabral Simmons perform songs mixing jazz, soul and Brazilian influences. Their debut EP, The Story of Love, is inspired by artists including Qunicy Jones and Sergio Mendes. Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm FREE

Complete newcomers are invited to learn to play the gamelan at our novice course, tutored by David McKenny. Runs 10 weeks from Monday 29 September to Monday 7 December. Ages 16+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm – 9pm £100* per term

FROM WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER GAMELAN BEGINNER COURSE

This course is aimed at gamelan musicians with over one term’s experience or who have been playing for less than two years. Runs 10 weeks from Wednesday 30 September to Wednesday 9 December. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm – 9pm £100* per term or three terms in advance for £270*

FROM THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER GAMELAN INTERMEDIATE COURSE

This intermediate course caters for gamelan students with at least two year’s prior playing experience. It is led by expert tutor Pete Smith. Runs 10 weeks from Thursday 1 October to Thursday 10 December. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm – 8pm £100* per term or £270* for all three terms in advance

GAMELAN ADVANCED COURSE

An advanced class for gamelan musicians with more than four years’ playing experience. Runs 10 weeks from Thursday 1 October to Thursday 10 December. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 8pm – 10pm £100* per term or £270* for three terms in advance

MONDAYS IN OCTOBER DRAGON BABIES: GAMELAN FOR 3 – 5-YEAR-OLDS

Bring your little ones to shake, rattle and gong at this fun session. Experience the beautiful gamelan and introduce your Dragon Babies to creative musical play through singing, movement and percussion. Monday 5, 12, 19 & 26 October. Ages 3 – 5. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, £5* (for one child and one adult)

TUESDAYS THROUGHOUT AUTUMN GAMELAN & POETRY WORKSHOPS Lambeth Primary Schools are invited to book free gamelan and poetry workshop sessions. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 10.30am – 12.30pm Phone 0844 875 0070 to book. FREE

TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & THURSDAYS THROUGHOUT AUTUMN GAMELAN INTRODUCTORY WORKSHOP 2015/2016 Up to 20 participants can take part in these fun workshops. No musical experience is necessary, just a willingness to sit on the floor, take off your shoes and have fun. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, Tuesdays at 2pm, Wednesdays at 10.30am and Thursdays at 10.30am & 2pm. £195* per group. Phone 0844 875 0070 to book.

MONDAY 26, THURSDAY 29 & FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER FAMILY GAMELAN TASTER SESSION Bring your family to explore the music and culture of Java, at this practical workshop, which ends with a group performances. No experience necessary. Ages 6+. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, Monday 2pm – 4pm, Thursday & Friday 11am – 1pm £10*

Central Bar Foyer at Royal Festival Hall, 5.30pm FREE

For a full calendar of events see page 24.

Image credits: La Soirée © Prudence Upton

DANCE & PERFORMANCE The award-winning smash hit La Soirée is back to wow you with extraordinary cabaret, burlesque and circus skills.

‘Weird, wonderful and hilarious, La Soirée is a must-see!’ (XFM)

TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER – SUNDAY 17 JANUARY LA SOIRÉE

THURSDAY 22 – FRIDAY 23 SCORE

Hit cabaret show La Soirée returns to London following last year’s Olivier Award-winning season. A theatrical phenomenon, an inspirational night of live entertainment, its heady cocktail of cabaret, new burlesque, circus sideshow and contemporary variety is more potent than ever. So step in from the cold, leave your troubles at the door and prepare for a night of thrills, shocks, laughter and disbelief. May contain nudity, not recommended for children. Winner – Best Entertainment, Olivier Awards 2015 La Soirée’s Spiegeltent, £67.50* £47.50* £37.50* £32.50* £15* Early bird prices available if you book by Saturday 31 October.

THURSDAY 29 NOISY NOTES: INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION

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SECRET SOUTHBANK CENTRE

LE T THE LIGHT IN

EXCLUSIVE PERFORMANCES, GIGS AND MORE After five decades of intense artistic activity, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery close for refurbishment on Sunday 21 September 2015 for two years. After we shut the doors, we invite you to experience the buildings in the quiet, empty days before we hand them over to the building contractors, in a series of special events.

THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 4 OCTOBER MEMORY POINT(S)

Journey through an imaginative world of installations, miniature sculptures, films and photographs, and delve into your own memories and relationships in a revival of last year’s hit interactive performance. Presented by Platform 4 and Southbank Centre. Meet at Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office 15 minutes before start time, Monday & Tuesday, 5.30pm, 7.15pm & 8.30pm, Thursday, 5.30pm, 7.15pm & 8.30pm, Friday – Sunday, 4pm, 5.30pm, 7.15pm, 8.30pm & 10pm £15*

SATURDAY 3 HARMONIC SERIES: BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN & LIAM BYRNE

In the vacated Hayward Gallery, Harmonic Series presents music from electro-acoustic French artist Bérangère Maximin and viola da gamba soloist Liam Byrne. Hayward Gallery, 8pm £10*

SATURDAY 3 & SUNDAY 4 BORDERLANDS

Dudendance’s Borderlands sees dreamlike, ghostly figures appear in and around the concrete spaces, moving among choral chants. Queen Elizabeth Hall and Hayward Gallery, 5pm & 7pm

Millions of people have fond memories of performances shows and exhibitions in Southbank Centre’s 1960s buildings. They have been loved by audiences and artists alike for decades but they are now in urgent need of repair. Please help us to refurbish the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery and make a difference to audiences and artists. To find out more and to support the Let The Light In campaign please visit www.southbankcentre. co.uk/letthelightin or call 020 7921 0984

FREE

COMING SOON

SLAVA’S SNOWSHOW From Wednesday 16 December

London’s favourite Christmas show returns! The award-winning hit is now established as London’s leading Christmas show, having delighted theatregoers around the world for over 20 magical years. Slava’s Snowshow is theatre like you’ve never seen before. Fun for the whole family, it sees Royal Festival Hall filled with a heart-stopping blizzard of snow. Featuring breathtaking visual effects, it has been described by The Sunday Times as ‘theatrical brilliance’.

‘A magical work of wonder’ (Evening Standard)

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For a full calendar of events see page 24.

VISUAL ARTS Don’t miss Re:form, the Koestler Trust exhibition of artworks made by ex-offenders and people in secure settings.

THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER – SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER RE:FORM – ART BY OFFENDERS, THE KOESTLER EXHIBITION

An exhibition showcasing artworks produced in UK institutions and by ex-offenders. The works have been created by those in prisons, secure hospitals and immigration removal centres, and by ex-offenders in the community. They include traditional prison crafts such as matchstick modelling and soap carving, as well as ceramics, music, writing and painting. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 10am – 11pm FREE

Exhibition tours are led by exoffender hosts trained and employed by the Koestler Trust. Mon – Thurs 2.30pm and 6.30 pm; Fri – Sun 2.30pm, 4.30pm and 6.30pm FREE

MONDAY 12 VOICES FROM PRISONS

Re:form – Art by Offenders/ London Literature Festival The Koestler Trust presents an evening of art created in custodial settings and by ex-offenders.Hear music, poetry and prose entries submitted to the Koestler Awards. Festival Village under Queen Elizabeth Hall, 6.30pm £8*

THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER – SUNDAY 10 JANUARY FARADAY’S SYNAPTIC GAP: AN EXHIBITION BY RICK MYERS

HAYWARD PUBLISHING THE NEW CONCRETE

Pick up your copy of The New Concrete (£30), a survey of the rise of concrete poetry in the digital age. Illustrated, and featuring a new essay by American poet Kenneth Goldsmith, The New Concrete is an indispensable introduction to the breadth of concrete poetry being produced. southbankcentre.co.uk/shop

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EAT, DRINK & SHOP

FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS IN OCTOBER SOUTHBANK CENTRE MARKET

SOUTHBANK CENTRE SHOPS

ACROSS THE SITE RESTAURANTS AND CAFES

Southbank Centre Market is a food lover’s destination for exciting street food and fresh, quality produce to enjoy and buy. Check out our website for information on upcoming markets themed by some of our most iconic festivals, as well as special guest traders.

This month we are thrilled to welcome back Design Nation into our Festival Terrace shop for our annual showcase of leading products and design ideas. Working on the theme of ‘Light’, participants present a diverse range of products tying in with the seasonal changes afoot. ‘Shiftlight’ by Joy Merron pictured.

We have a huge variety of food and drink on offer at the cafés and restaurants dotted around Southbank Centre. From Italian and Mexican to Japanese, Belgian and beyond, you’re spoilt for choice with many options for every meal of the day. All of our cafés and restaurants are family-friendly too, so you can make a day of your visit. Southbank Centre also offers a range of cocktails, beers and wine across a range of bars open until late every day.

Southbank Centre Square, Fridays 12 noon – 8pm, Saturdays 11am – 8pm, Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 12 noon – 6pm

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MEMBERS’ & SUPPORTERS’ EVENTS

Image credits: Royal Festival Hall © Johnny Ladd

BOOK A TOUR OF SOUTHBANK CENTRE THROUGHOUT OCTOBER SOUTHBANK CENTRE: BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR What does Royal Festival Hall have in common with an eggbox? Our tours offer a unique insight into the history of the site and the people who have shaped it. Join us to follow in the footsteps of worldfamous orchestras and artists Meet at the Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office, Monday 5 at 6pm, Friday 16 at 6pm, Monday 19 at 4pm & Sunday 25 at 5.30pm £8.50*

ARCHITECTURE TOUR

WEDNESDAY 14 IN CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN OSBORNE

Weston Roof Pavilion at Royal Festival Hall, 6.30pm

Tour the whole Southbank Centre site, and explore 20th-century architecture. Each tour is unique and focuses on the creative design of our buildings. The route taken varies depending on the day’s activities and events. Ages 8+.

To find out about becoming a Member see southbankcentre.co.uk/Membership

Meet at the Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office, Thursdays at 6pm & Saturdays at 2pm £8.50*

Directors’ Circle Event Award-winning Scottish pianist Steven Osborne talks to Southbank Centre’s Director of Music, Gillian Moore MBE, ahead of his concert in February 2016, as part of the International Piano Series.

To find out about joining the Supporters Circles email circles@southbankcentre.co.uk, phone 020 7921 0937 or see southbankcentre.co.uk/supporters-circles

SUPPORTERS CIRCLES

Name a Seat and help refurbish Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room

Get closer to the arts and help to support our artistic vision by joining the Supporters Circles. From £250 a year you will be invited to rehearsals, ‘in conversations’, musical demonstrations and private performances. You will also enjoy use of the Royal Festival Hall Members Bar for up to four people with a reserved seat on request. For more details of how to get involved call 020 7921 0937, email circles@southbankcentre.co.uk or see southbankcentre.co.uk/supporters-circles

LET THE LIGHT IN

To get involved and name your seat please visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk/letthelightin or call 020 7921 0984

Marin Alsop

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BOOKING & ACCESS

FORTHCOMING HIGHLIGHTS

HOW TO BOOK

ACCESS

southbankcentre.co.uk* Tickets 0844 847 9911* 9am – 8pm (daily). *Transaction fees applicable. No transaction fees for Members and Supporters Circles. Southbank Centre always welcomes MasterCard, and exclusive cardholder offers are available around the site. Visit southbankcentre.co.uk/priceless for more information. We also accept Maestro, Visa, Visa Delta, Visa Electron, Solo, Amex.

Join our access list to book companion tickets, arrange seating requirements and receive info on accessible performances. Also request accessible publications and ask any questions you may have about your access needs. Relaxed performances are designed to give people on the autistic spectrum or with learning difficulties a calmer environment to enjoy a show. accesslist@southbankcentre.co.uk Phone: 0844 847 9910 Fax: 020 7921 0607 Visit: southbankcentre.co.uk

FRIDAY 27 – SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER BEING A MAN

IN PERSON

PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office 10am – 8pm (daily).

CONCESSIONS

A limited allocation of half-price tickets is available for recipients of Universal or Pension Credit, full-time students and ages 16 and under. Tickets are sold on first-come-first-served basis, and once sold, no further tickets are available by any method of booking. Appropriate cards to be shown. Please note discounts cannot be combined.

GROUPS

Southbank Centre is located on the Thames Riverside between the Golden Jubilee and Waterloo Bridges. Underground: Waterloo & Embankment Buses: Waterloo Bridge, York Road, Belvedere Road & Stamford Street Mainline rail: Waterloo, Waterloo East & Charing Cross

STARTING IN NOVEMBER WINTER WITH NATWEST

Southbank Centre car parks use a Pay by Phone system. Southbank Centre Car Park – Belvedere Road (7am – 1am).

VISITING WITH CHILDREN

JOIN THE CONVERSATION

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Being A Man addresses the challenges and pressures of masculine identity in the 21st century. Join in the conversation, tell your stories – serious, challenging and light-hearted – and discuss anything and everything about being a man today.

PARKING

Groups of ten or more may be eligible for discounted tickets, although the saving varies according to the performance booked and the size of the group. Groups are also eligible for up to 20% off coach hire with 1st 4 Coaches Ltd. Phone the group booking line on 0844 875 0070 for details. Children of all ages are welcome at Southbank Centre and babychanging facilities are available at Royal Festival Hall. Some performances may be unsuitable for children or disallow babes in arms, please check when booking.

MAN A G N BEI

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK Email customer@ southbankcentre.co.uk, Tweet us @SCFeedback or ask at a Southbank Centre Ticket Office for a feedback form.

Winter with NatWest returns once more, transforming Southbank Centre into a seasonal wonderland. Browse festive markets, enjoy live music or see a performance, including the award-winning Slava’s Snowshow and La Soirée.

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER – THURSDAY 3 DECEMBER SALONEN/LANG LANG

Join in, share and win prizes. facebook.com/southbankcentre twitter.com/southbankcentre youtube.com/southbankcentre flickr.com/southbankcentre Add your photos of Southbank Centre to our Flickr group: flickr.com/groups/ mysouthbankcentre China’s superstar pianist Lang Lang teams up with the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen for three not-to-bemissed concerts. They perform works by Grieg, Bartók and Prokofiev.

OCTOBER 2015 AT A GLANCE

THROUGHOUT THE MONTH

SUNDAY 4

FRIDAY 9

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

WOW: WOMEN OF THE WORLD

24 Sep – 4 Oct Memory Point(s)

5pm & 7pm Borderlands

p.19

Free p.19

VISUAL ARTS

CLASSICAL MUSIC

1 Oct – 29 Nov Re:form

7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra

Free p.20

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

8 Oct – 10 Jan Faraday’s Synaptic Gap

Free p.12

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

10.30am Moby-Dick Unabridged Free p.10 1pm – 6pm Young Adult Literature Weekender p.11 3pm Alternate Worlds p.11 5pm Bicycles, Trains and Being on Time p.11

THURSDAY 1

MONDAY 5

CLASSICAL MUSIC

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra

p.7

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

7pm Moby-Dick Unabridged Free p.10 7.30pm StorySLAM:Live p.10 8pm Shared Reading: Edward Thomas p.10 SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

6pm Architecture Tour

p.22

FRIDAY 2

p.7 Free p.13

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

1pm Royal College of Music Free p.11 7pm Sunspots p.11 7.45pm The Heart of the Matter p.11 8pm Moby-Dick Unabridged Free p.10 SATURDAY 3

5pm & 7pm Borderlands

Free p.19

CLASSICAL MUSIC

7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra

p.7

8pm

p.17 p.17

Harmonic Series

p.16

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

2pm Architecture Tour

SATURDAY 10

p.10

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

p.22

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

p.7

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

6pm Les Murray 7.30pm New Experimentalists: The Writers 7.45pm First Look Book Club 8pm Everything in a Moment 8pm Literary Death Match

2pm Architecture Tour SUNDAY 11

CLASSICAL MUSIC

p.11 p.11 p.11 p.11 p.11

2pm Matt Parker 2.30pm & 4pm The Pursuit of Happiness 3pm The Groundnut Experience 3.30pm Unspoken Stories

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

CLASSICAL MUSIC

6.30pm Voices From Prisons 7.30pm 2015 Man Booker Prize Readings

p.17 p.17 p.13 p.13

TUESDAY 13

7.30pm Denis Kozhukhin, piano

THURSDAY 8

WEDNESDAY 14

CLASSICAL MUSIC

p.22

p.13 p.13 p.13

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

7pm Intercity Flow Anthology Launch p.11 7.30pm Inside the Head of Terry Gilliam p.12 7.45pm Exit, pursued by a Zombie p.12 8pm What Is She Saying? Free p.12 p.13

p.13

MONDAY 12

11am Dragon Babies 7pm Gamelan Novice Course

WEDNESDAY 7

6pm Architecture Tour p.22

5.30pm Karama Free p.12 7pm Telling the Untellable p.12 7.30pm The Hollow of the Hand p.12 8pm Global City p.12 8pm Data and Desire p.12

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra p.8 10.30am Moby-Dick Unabridged Free p.10 1pm – 6pm LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL Young Adult Literature Weekender p.11 1pm National Poetry Day Live Free p.12 2pm & 7.45pm 7.30pm Beginning to See the Light p.12 Island Sounds p.11 7.30pm Faraday’s Synaptic Gap opening Free p.12 3pm Bellow and Beyond p.11 8pm Arrivals p.12 3.30pm Selfie Conciousness p.11 4.30pm Agents of Discovery p.11 SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

Free p.13

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

6.30pm Poetry Library Book Club Free p.11 7.30pm Polari p.11 7.45pm War on the Doorstep p.11 8pm Comedy Couplets p.11

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

6.30pm Creative Writing Course 2015

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

10.30am Rug Rhymes

7.30pm London Sinfonietta

LONDON LITERATURE FESTIVAL

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

11am The Poetry Butcher Free p.12 1.30pm Revolutionaries and Runaways p.12 2pm Ali Smith introduces Tom Morris p.12 3pm The Irish New Wave p.13 4pm Apex Predators p.13 6pm Paul Muldoon p.13 7.30pm The Hollow of the Hand p.12

7.30pm Angela Hewitt, piano

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

Free p.15

CLASSICAL MUSIC

TUESDAY 6

7.30pm Wozzeck with Christian Gerhaher & Zurich Opera 10.30am Rug Rhymes

11am Dragon Babies 7pm Gamelan Novice Course

6pm Behind the Scenes Tour

CLASSICAL MUSIC

p.7

7am International Day of the Girl

p.7

7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra p.7 7pm Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment p.7 MEMBERS’ & SUPPORTERS’ EVENTS

6.30pm In Conversation with Steven Osborne p.22 THURSDAY 15 CLASSICAL MUSIC

7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra

p.7

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

6pm Architecture Tour

p.22

FRIDAY 16

SATURDAY 24

SATURDAY 31

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

WHY: WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG?

CLASSICAL MUSIC

1pm Goerge Boomsma + Kieran Towers 5.30pm Mads Mathias Quartet

2pm Beyond the Bassline Free p.14 6.30pm Under the Covers p.15

7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

2pm Architecture Tour

Free p.16 Free p.16

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

10.30am Rug Rhymes

Free p.13

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

2pm Architecture Tour SUNDAY 25

p.22

SATURDAY 17

12 noon What You Need to Know 7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra

CLASSICAL MUSIC

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

12 noon Guided Listening: French Classical Organ Music Free p.7 7.30pm Jonas Kaufmann p.7 SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

2pm Architecture Tour

p.22

SUNDAY 18 GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

7.30pm Zappa Plays Zappa

p.16

MONDAY 19

4pm SLAMbassadors UK

p.22

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

p.8 p.8

Free p.13

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

5.30pm Behind the Scenes Tour

p.22

MONDAY 26 GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

11am Dragon Babies 2pm Family Gamelan Taster Session 8pm Randy Newman

p.17 p.17 p.17

TUESDAY 27

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

CLASSICAL MUSIC

11am Dragon Babies 7pm Gamelan Novice Course

p.17 p.17

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

4pm Behind the Scenes Tour

p.22

WEDNESDAY 21

7.30pm A Night Under The Stars

p.8

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

8pm La Soirée

p.18

WEDNESDAY 28 CLASSICAL MUSIC

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

7.30pm Steve Earle & The Dukes

p.16

THURSDAY 22

7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra

p.8

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

6.30pm Novel Writing Course 2015

CLASSICAL MUSIC

7.30pm Philharmonia Orchestra

p.8

WHY: WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG?

1.30pm Voicelab: Sing For Your Rights Free p.15 2.15pm WHY? Protest Parade Free p.15 3.15pm WHY? Day Pass events p.14 7.30pm Score p.14

p.13

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

8pm La Soirée

p.18

THURSDAY 29 GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

11am Family Gamelan Taster Session 2pm Noisy Notes

p.17 p.19

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

6pm Architecture Tour

p.22

6pm Architecture Tour

FRIDAY 23

CLASSICAL MUSIC

5.30pm Southwark Youth Orchestra

7.30pm London Philharmonic Orchestra

p.8

Free p.17 Free p.17

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

p.22

Free p.8

LITERATURE & SPOKEN WORD

7pm Elvis Costello in Conversation

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

10.30am Rug Rhymes

SOUTHBANK CENTRE TOURS

7pm & 10pm La Soirée p.18

CLASSICAL MUSIC

6pm Behind the Scenes Tour

1pm Songs of Change 5.30pm Elliott Gaston-Ross

p.22

p.8

p.13

PERFORMANCE & DANCE

8pm La Soirée

p.18

FRIDAY 30 Free p.13

WHY: WHAT’S HAPPENING FOR THE YOUNG?

3.15pm WHY? Day Pass events 7.30pm Score

p.14 p.14

GIGS & CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

11am Family Gamelan Taster Session p.17 5.30pm Cecilia Stalin + Khari Cabral Simmon Free p.17 PERFORMANCE & DANCE

8pm La Soirée

p.18

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HUNGERFORD BRIDGE queen elizabeth hall

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QUEEN'S WALK

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CHARING CROSS EMBANKMENT

FESTIVAL RIVERSIDE

AMENITIES SKATE SPACE

Cafes & restaurants Toilets

SOUTHBANK CENTRE BOOK MARKET

Baby change Information Wheelchair access (lift)

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We also curate the outdoor spaces along the river front and around our venues providing free art for millions of people every year. On our site there are also restaurants, cafes, bars and shops to enjoy – but everyone is welcome to bring their own food and soft drinks onto our site.

OUR VENUES ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL Spirit Level The Mercers’ Company Gamelan Room St Paul’s Roof Pavilion Weston Roof Pavilion Sunley Pavilion Level 3 Function Room Saison Poetry Library Central Bar Level 5 Function Room The Clore Ballroom Members Bar

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL (CLOSED UNTIL 2017)* Purcell Room The Front Room Festival Village HAYWARD GALLERY (CLOSED UNTIL 2017) Hayward Gallery Project Space *Festival Village in the undercroft of Queen Elizabeth Hall will be open on occasion.

ADDRESS Southbank Centre Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery close for refurbishment on 21 September 2015 and will reopen in 2017. We continue to present a packed programme of festivals and shows across our site while these buildings are closed.

JUBILEE GARDENS London Wonderground

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Canteen 0845 686 1122 Central Bar Central Bar Terrace EAT. 020 7401 2989 Feng Sushi 020 7261 0001 Giraffe 020 7928 2004 Las Iguanas 020 7620 1328 La Soirée’s Spiegeltent Le Pain Quotidien 020 3657 6925 ping pong 020 7960 4160 Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden Bar/Cafe Riverside Terrace Cafe Skylon 020 7654 7800 Southbank Centre Market See page 21

Strada 020 7401 9126 Topolski 020 7620 0627 wagamama 020 7021 0877 Wahaca 020 7928 1876 YO! Sushi 020 3130 1997

SHOP Royal Festival Hall Vintage gifts, homeware, jewellery and toys. Festival Terrace Shop Designer concessions, unusual gifts, furniture, jewellery and more. Foyles Extensive selection of books and gifts. Southbank Centre Book Market Iconic second-hand bookstall under Waterloo Bridge.