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Make your Southbank Centre experience even better with our membership scheme

Membership Benefits

• Use our exclusive Members Bar, overlooking the Thames (you can bring a friend at any time as well)
• Attend Members Events throughout the year
• Book ahead of the general public for many of our key events
• Read exclusive interviews and content, including some of the most exciting artists and performers of today in our publication, For Members
• Save money every time you book – Members never pay transaction fees

We think it’s the best membership scheme in London (and we’re not the only ones) so become a member now or read below for more reasons to join.

LLF Members Event

Join us for an exclusive introduction to the Festival on Saturday 5 July. Enjoy a talk about the highlights of the festival and enjoy some live poetry as well as tea or coffee and a pastry. Once you’ve joined, let us know if you wish to attend this event by emailing membership@southbankcentre.co.uk by Monday 30 June. Please note that as capacity is limited, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Full and Dual Members only.

Members enjoy music from a string quartet in the Members Bar during a Members event for the launch of the 2008/09 Classical Season.

Upcoming Members Events:

• Designing Oz. Be among the first to see the stage model for this summer’s hottest musical as Michael Vale, Costume and Set Designer, reveals how it’s done (1 July)
• The Hayward Turns 40 – Members evening in mid/late July
• Festival of Food Members’ Event in September
• Dance Members Event with The Ballet Boyz (5 November)

This year’s Meltdown Members Event featured dj sets from Massive Attack’s Daddy G with Bristol Hi Fi and live performances from Bristol bands Malakai and Babyhead.

BOOK GROUPS AND BOOKCROSSING

Become a Full or Dual Member and hold a Book Group in the Members Bar during the Festival or pop in and take part in the Members Bookcrossing.

MEMBERS BAR - Filled with designer furniture, our exclusive Members Bar is the perfect place to relax while enjoying one of the best views over the River Thames. A selection of books and newspapers is available, as well as a food and drinks ordering service, so that you never have to queue during intervals.

Members Competition

Win a selection of signed books...

We have a selection of signed books for Members to win, written by authors appearing in the London Literature Festival 2008, including Sebastian Barry, Simon Armitage, Rebecca Miller, George Monbiot and Wendy Cope. More details on how to enter can be found in your copy of Summer For Members, our exclusive Members’ publication.

Rachel Holmes, Head of Literature & Spoken Word, describes what we can expect at the London Literature Festival in this excerpt from Summer for Members:

‘The London Literature Festival is a festival of fun – of words, books and music. It’s very much focused on being a live literature festival; and for two weeks, day and night, inside and outside, we’re going to be having something like a Glastonbury for books in the city. In the way that Glastonbury is very diverse and eclectic, we’ll create that same sort of sense there’s something for everyone – from debates on free speech and environmentalism, right through to comedy (with comedian Josie Long, pictured left), beatbox and spoken word. It will be a combination of tent-filling names, new writers and new voices.’

‘The London Literature Festival is a festival of words, books and music... it’s like a Glastonbury for all forms of literature and spoken word in the city’

‘Major literary awards play a big part in this year’s Festival as well, says Holmes.‘The Caine Prize for African Writing, which Jude Kelly is chairing, is happening here and we’re also hosting Booker 40, where the public will choose their favourite Booker of Bookers to celebrate 40 years of the Booker Prize. We’re also not only announcing the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and Biography here, but we are also doing a series of events in conjunction with the Samuel Johnson Prize – and this is the first time they’ve done any public events.’

Members Publication

For Members is an exclusive members’ publication featuring behind-the-scene articles and interviews, as well as members-only offers and programme highlights. It’s sent quarterly and each issue covers the following four months. Previous articles have included extracts from Will Self and interviews with poets Francesca Beard and Brian Patten.

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