CELEBRATE EASTER 2016 AT SOUTHBANK CENTRE WITH URBAN, THE WONDERCRUMP WORLD OF ROALD DAHL AND EVENTS FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Southbank Centre s packed Easter programme kicks off the spring season with a celebration of community and city culture in Urban from Friday 25 March Sunday 10 April. With family events spanning theatre, dance, music, readings and workshops over half of the activities available for free Southbank Centre is the top London destination for family fun during the bank holiday weekend and school holiday. From Southbank Carnival and the opening of Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden to dance workshops, celebrate creativity and community in the heart of London. Also throughout the Easter, let imaginations run wild in The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl, the critically-acclaimed immersive interactive experience, continuing until July 3 2016. Easter highlights include: Grass - a quirky dance show for young children explores the world beneath their feet and all of its wriggling inhabitants. Featuring worms, slugs, snails, spontaneous outbreaks of ant dancing and plenty of obscure insect-related facts, Grass uses performance, puppetry and projection to inspire children to look closely at the world around them, to get mucky and play! For ages 2 5. Presented by Second Hand Dance (Friday 8 Sunday 10 April) The Wondercrump World of Roald Dahl - an interactive experience that takes visitors on a magical journey through Roald Dahl s imagination, (open until Sunday 3 July, for ages 7+) Southbank Carnival - a day of events and workshops celebrating the carnival spirit including dancehall and Soca classes, carnival costume and decor workshops before the Southbank Carnival parade (Saturday 26 March) b.supreme Workshops - free, hour long dance workshops in break-dance, popping and locking for beginners and enthusiasts alike (Sunday 27 March) Urban Gardening - the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden opens for the spring and summer. Visitors can join in planting workshops and meet Southbank Centre s team of gardeners (Monday 28 March) and take part in some Guerilla Gardening with green expert Richard Reynolds (Saturday 2 April) Strive Monthly Mixer - Southbank Centre s talented Youth Ambassadors, all aged 16 to 25 help create festivals and events year long - join them as they put on a creative workshop (Saturday 2 April) Community dance workshops and showcases including residencies from BirdGang and Uchenna Dance Companies. Plus Pineapple Studio's community dance programme presents an afternoon of dance, performance and workshops led by local dance champions (Tuesday 29 Thursday 31 March)
Mylittleboarders a fun skateboarding club for children. Highly trained tutors teach the basics of skateboarding along with skilful tricks to impress (Saturday 2 April) ZooNation Watch the acclaimed hip hop youth dance company in training on the ballroom floor and then join the dancers for a hip hop taster session (Saturday 9 April) Additional events throughout Easter include Southbank Centre Food Market, Southbank Centre Behind the Scenes and Architecture Tours More information and full listings for Urban here and below Images can be found here. For further press information or images please contact: press@southbankcentre.co.uk or call 020 7921 0888. THE WONDERCRUMP WORLD OF ROALD DAHL Southbank Centre Until Sunday 3 July 2016 Commissioned by Southbank Centre in partnership with Wales Millennium Centre. The interactive experience takes visitors on a magical journey through seven different immersive worlds that explore Roald Dahl s life and the world of his iconic books. Featuring exclusive archival material from the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, including original manuscripts, personal letters, drawings, photographs and cherished objects, the exhibition offers a unique insight into the inspiration behind some of Dahl s best loved characters and stories. The exhibition will launched for Imagine in February and continues at Southbank Centre daily throughout spring until 3 July, before travelling to the Wales Millennium Centre. URBAN FULL LISTINGS Southbank Centre Friday 25 March - Sunday 10 April 2016 FRIDAY 25 MARCH Tango Join this popular Argentine tango social dance, with host and DJ Tony Walker (of Tango on the Thames), live music, a taster dance class, and a chance to dress to impress! The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 12 noon 4pm SATURDAY 26 MARCH Southbank Carnival Southbank Centre presents a day of events and workshops to get you into the carnival spirit. Take part in dance hall and Soca classes, carnival costume and decor workshops before the Southbank Carnival parade and club night. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 11am 10.30pm SUNDAY 27 MARCH b.supreme Workshops Pull on some comfortable clothes and footwear and join one of our free, hour-long dance workshops. There are classes in break dance, popping and locking. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 11am 2pm b.supreme Battles March b.supreme programme an afternoon of top level battles where breakers from across the UK compete for the title. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 3pm 6pm
MONDAY 28 MARCH Urban Spring Join us in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden as it opens for the spring and summer. Take part in planting workshops and meet our team of gardeners. Roof Garden at Queen Elizabeth Hall, 12 noon 5pm TUESDAY 29 MARCH Pineapple Community Dance Showcase Pineapple Studio's community dance programme gets more of the wider London communities up and dancing. Come and enjoy an afternoon of dance, performance and workshops led by local dance champions. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm 6pm WEDNESDAY 30 THURSDAY 31 MARCH Uchenna Dance Residency Vicki Igbokwe, Creative Director, Choreographer & Empowerment Specialist, takes over The Clore Ballroom with her company Uchenna Dance. Join a workshop, and observe her in creative labs as the company rehearses and devises new work. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm 6pm THURSDAY 31 MARCH How to make a Dance Video on your Phone Join dance film maker Simeon Qsyea from BirdGang Dance Company for a workshop on how to get the best angles, edits and how to inspire and collaborate with dancers. Bring your smart phone or camera for the session. Ages 12+. Level 3 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall, 10.30am 1pm 6* FRIDAY 1 APRIL Hip Hop Karaoke London London s like a jungle sometimes but nights like this will keep you from going under! Time Out Putting a fresh twist on the ancient art of karaoke, HHK Lets you get on the mic and act out your rap fantasies to the fullest, whether that includes teaming up with friends to rock through a Wu-Tang jam, living the lyrical highlife like Jay-Z or Drake, bawsin it like Rick Ross, celebrating summertime with The Fresh Prince or acting all crazy like Nicki Minaj or Ol Dirty Bastard. You can find HHK every Thursday at The Social. It s no exaggeration to say that this is a legendary night out and you d be crazy not to get there early. Ages 18+ Blue Room at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm 9pm 6 Funk Club Night Get ready and bring your sharpest moves for a night of live music, DJs and non-stop dancing to classic funk tunes old and new. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 7pm - 10.30pm SATURDAY 2 APRIL Mylittleboarders Skate Workshop Join Mylittleboarders highly trained tutors for this fun skateboarding club for children. Learn the basics of skateboarding along with skilful tricks to impress. Boards, ramps and pads provided. Ages 4-10. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 10am- 1pm Guerilla Gardening in the City With Richard Reynolds Make the grey city green in this walking tour and talk of the Southbank Centre. You ll be lead around the 21-acre site by an expert and learn all about the ways people are making the capital colourful. All ages
Meet at Royal Festival Hall Box Office, 12 2pm 5 Strive Monthly Mixer Join us for our workshop programmed by Southbank Centre s Youth Ambassadors, our talented group of young people aged 16 to 25 who help us to create festivals and events. Join us at our workshop where you can get creative and try something new. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm - 4pm SUNDAY 3 APRIL Parkour Generations Parkour Workshops The world's largest professional parkour organisation, Parkour Generations, presents training on the ballroom. Marvel at the physical dexterity of parkour professionals and take part in training to improve your movement. Working globally for over a decade, Parkour Generations spans the fields of education, performance and training. For all Ages. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 10am - 1.00pm Shootstraight Film Screening, Live Reading and Q&A Shootstraight is a community interest company that engages hard to reach young people in screen acting workshops that lead to the production and screening of short films based on the young people s own improvisations and stories. Come and find out more about their projects, see work in progress in a live script read-through and watch the finished product in a screening of film shorts followed by a Q&A with the actors. For all Ages. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 2pm - 4pm Photography in the City Come and sharpen your photography skills with Photographer Othello De Souza-Hartley. Explore the Southbank Centre site, observing how different communities occupy urban spaces and how architecture, people and nature coexist and interact. Learn how to make the most out of your environment and get the best out of your photographs. Bring own camera. Ages 15+ Various Locations, meet at Royal Festival Hall Box office, 12pm - 2pm 6 MONDAY 4 FRIDAY 8 APRIL Urban Boot Camp Join Mimi, ex-dancer and calisthenics fitness instructor, for a fun, five-day intense fitness training in and around the Southbank Centre site, using the city and its furniture as your playground. First come, first served, 20 capacity. All Fitness levels, please come dressed ready to workout. Meet at Southbank Centre shop on the terrace, 7.30am 8.30am MONDAY 4 WEDNESDAY 6 APRIL BirdGang Company in Residence Over three days BirdGang Dance will work towards the creation of a short dance video. During the residency you are invited to observe their creative process, join in company warm ups and choreographic tasks and feature in the film itself. See website for full schedule. All ages. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm - 6pm MONDAY 4 THURSDAY 7 APRIL Urban Dance School with Wilkie Branson Join Choreographer Wilkie Branson in a four day intensive workshop to develop a piece for performance based on the bboying (breakdance) dance style. Using theatrical and contemporary dance processes you will get the opportunity to devise a work which explores the meaning of home. What it is to have, lose and find a place in the world, drawing on issues of migration throughout time. Ages 7 12 Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 9am - 3pm
65 for 4 days THURSDAY 7 APRIL Southbank Centre Poetry Tour With Chris McCabe Led by Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe this tour invites you to explore centuries of poetic activity in this area of London. Beginning at The Poetry Library, where an overview of the collections will be given, you will then be shown the hidden poems written into the pavements in front of The Royal Festival Hall and given a sense of the building as major site of poetic activity. You will find out about the notorious French poet Arthur Rimbaud, who lived on nearby Stamford Street in the 1870s and then experience an intoxicating poetic audio by poet Tom Chivers whilst walking to the site of William Blake s house on Hercules Road. The tour will end through showing a film of the Rain of Poems on Jubilee Gardens before returning to the library for a chance to see some of the rare gems from the collection. Saison Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 6pm - 8pm 5 FRIDAY 8 SUNDAY 10 APRIL Second Hand Dance presents: Grass Explore the World Beneath Your Feet. Look down. What are you standing on? Explore the ground and all of its wriggling inhabitants in this quirky dance show for young children. Featuring worms, slugs, snails, spontaneous outbreaks of ant dancing and plenty of obscure insect-related facts, Grass uses performance, puppetry and projection to inspire children to look closely at The world around them, to get mucky and play! Ages 2-5. Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall, 11am & 2pm 12/ 6 conc SATURDAY 9 APRIL ZooNation Youth Company in Training Come and watch the acclaimed hip hop youth dance company in training on the ballroom floor. All ages. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 10am - 1pm Hip Hop Taster with ZooNation Join company dancers to learn some of their signature moves. All ages. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 1pm - 1.30pm London s Finest - Spoken Word Showcase London is home to some of the most exciting poetry Collectives and spoken word artists. Let the city come to life through some of its best wordsmiths, you ll find new voices, innovators and established talents, and see your streets in a whole different way. The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, 4pm 6pm Southbank Centre is the UK s largest arts centre, occupying a 21-acre site that sits in the midst of London s most vibrant cultural quarter on the South Bank of the Thames. The site has an extraordinary creative and architectural history stretching back to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Southbank Centre is home to the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and the Hayward Gallery as well as The Saison Poetry Library and the Arts Council Collection. For further information please visit www.southbankcentre.co.uk. We are carrying out vital restoration work on the Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room to make the buildings fit for future generations to enjoy, more information can be found here: letthelightin.southbankcentre.co.uk.