SouthBank Centre

The SouthBank Centre's wide-ranging programme - classical & world music, rock & pop, jazz, dance, literature and the visual arts - attracts the most diverse audience of any UK venue. The Centre consists of the Royal Festival Hall (closed to the public due to its current transformation), Hayward Gallery, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Purcell Room and the Saison Poetry Library. It also manages the Arts Council Collection and organises the National Touring Exhibition programme to venues throughout the UK. Situated on the south bank of the River Thames next to the popular BA London Eye, the South Bank Centre is at the heart of an arts quarter stretching from the Royal National Theatre and National Film Theatre to Tate Modern and Shakespeare's Globe.