The Queen Elizabeth Hall is a leading London venue showcasing world-class talks, gigs, dance, performance and classical music. Originally opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1967, our Queen ...

Nu Civilisation Orchestra honours the life and music of Nina Simone with special guests including Corinne Bailey Rae, led by conductor Peter Edwards. The line-up also features neo-jazz singer Ni ...

Over the dark winter nights, our site is illuminated by outdoor artworks that play with light and colour – explore to discover them all. Each artist uses light and colour in playful ways, at the same ...

The Passionfruit Review is now open for submissions for their next competition on the theme of Love and Loss. Entrants are welcome to submit previously unpublished poems written in the English ...

The fifth annual Latin Programme Poetry Prize is now open for entries on the theme ‘textura’ (‘texture, web, structure’). All shortlisted poems will be included in the poetry prize anthology, and ...

The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s Young Romantics Poetry Prize is open to anyone aged 16-18yrs. The theme of 2024’s Young Romantics Poetry Prize is “Exile”. This has been chosen to mark the ...

Cheshire Prize for Literature is now open for submissions. This round of the prize has no theme, and entrants can write about anything they choose. Work has to be original, unpublished and no more ...

Open for entries of poems in English, on any subject, in any style and no longer than 40 lines. Poems should not have been published elsewhere by 15th April, 2025; nor entered in other competitions ...

The London Philharmonic Orchestra brings Sibelius’ En Saga poem to life, and Benjamin Grosvenor joins for Mozart’s 21st Piano Concerto. Conductor Andrey Boreyko opens with Sibelius’ gripping tone poem ...

Enter an endless world of play and invention in a limitless recycled playground for children and their grown-ups to tap into their imaginations. Part installation, part adventure playground, REPLAY is ...

It’s fair to say that Nabihah’s Iqbal route into life as a professional musician is somewhat atypical. After studying an M.Phil in History at Cambridge she pursued a career in law and passed the bar, ...

An opportunity to experience the music of an orchestra, completely reimagined. That’s the premise of Multitudes, which comes to the Southbank Centre in April and May 2025. Bringing together ...