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Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
MOHAMMED HANIF
Thursday, 10 July
Mohammed Hanif reads from A Case of Exploding Mangoes, his darkly comic account of the plane crash which killed General Zia.
£7(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
TORONTO STORIES
Thursday, 10 July
Toronto Stories features authors Rawi Hage, Priscilla Uppal, Vincent Lam, and cult electro-breakbeat artists LAL, whose words evoke the urban landscape through the eyes the city’s diverse population.
£9(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
GRANTA: NEW NATURE WRITING
Friday, 11 July
A diverse selection of writers illustrate the vibrancy and topicality of New Nature Writing in readings that mark the latest issue of Granta magazine.
£7(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
FRESH OFF THE PAGE PRESENTS: THESE STREETS SOUND LIKE LDN CITY
Friday, 11 July
Put together by a team of young curators mentored by Southbank Centre Emerging Artist in Residence Yemisi Blake.
Amission Free
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
ANDREW MAWSON: THE FUTURE OF LONDON DEBATE
Saturday, 12 July
Andrew Mawson’s book The Social Entrepreneur is the starting point for this event which debates the future of London.
£7(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
The Hayward at Southbank Centre
LEMN SISSAY: FROM THE ROOFTOPS
Saturday, 12 July
Poet and Southbank Centre Artist in Residence Lemn Sissay appears on top of The Hayward to tell it from the rooftops.
Admission Free
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
ANDRZEJ KLIMOWSKI & DANUSIA SCHEJBAL
Saturday, 12 July
Artist Andrzej Klimowski has adapted Bulgakov’s surreal masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, as a graphic book. Join him and his collaborator Danusia Schejbal for this visual presentation of the work.
£9(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Queen Elizabeth Hall
THE SUN AND THE MOON
Saturday, 12 July
Performance poet, Slam champion, writer, musician and Southbank Centre Emerging Artist in Residence, Maxwell Golden concocts a theatrical late night.
Admission Free
Level 5 Function Room at Royal Festival Hall
JAMES HOPKIN, MAREK KRAJEWSKI & JOANNA PAWLUSKIEWICZ
Saturday, 12 July
James Hopkin, Marek Krajewski and Joanna Pawluskiewicz discuss Poland as a setting for their fiction, and the cultural journeys that writers make between different countries.
£7(Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
ALAN MOORE & MELINDA GEBBIE
Saturday, 12 July
Alan Moore is a seminal figure in the graphic novel genre, and together with wife and collaborator Melinda Gebbie they discuss Lost Girls.
£9 (Concessions: 50% off, limited availability)
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