Festival of Love, Southbank Centre 2016
Fill sunny days with free events and warm 'n' fuzzy feelings: Love really is all you need at Southbank Centre's 2016 Festival of Love.
Acrobuffos' Air Play at the Southbank Festival of Love
Romance is in the air at the Southbank Centre Festival of Love 2016. And we're not just talking candlelight and marriage proposals, this Southbank Centre Festival celebrates all kinds of affection. Confused about which Southbank Centre tickets to book? With so many performances, art installations and events happening throughout the summer, we've rounded up our favourites for your personal guide to the Festival of Love.
Southbank Centre events
This year's festivities swing into action in June, though there are related installations from May, and are heavily inspired by the current refugee crisis, encouraging Londoners to engage with the biggest issue of our day, with poetry from exiled writers, discussions of female refugees, and opportunities to meet refugees new and old.
The festival is divided into a series of themed weekends including the Opening Weekend (28th - 29th June) and those named for the seven Ancient Greek definitions of love.
Big Wedding Weekend
Saturday 27th August
The most sure to please of the Festival of Love theatre must be Acruboffo's warm-hearted, whimsical circus. Acrubuffo is the collaboration between two circus performers who met in Afghanistan, got engaged while street performing in Scotland and married in China. Watch flying umbrellas, giant balloons, kites that float over the audience and the biggest snow globe you’ve ever seen at this show for all the family.
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Southbank Centre talks
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie on Love and War
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is the Nigerian writer who has stolen the hearts of the English-speaking world with some of the best writing of the last decade. Her books are full of hard-edged heroines, often caught between continents, navigating issues of race and gender prejudice, and is best known for Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.
Ngozie Adichie will be in conversation with a special guest, unnamed as yet. (Watch this space!) She lives between Nigeria and the US and rarely speaks in the UK, but when she does she is spellbindingly brilliant, so this really is an unmissable opportunity. Tickets will fly.
Read more on talks
So kick back in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden or the cool kids' favourite, copaCABANA beach, and enjoy this summer of love highlight on the Southbank Centre calendar. Click here to see the Southbank Centre's full list of events.
Southbank Centre events
This year's festivities swing into action in June, though there are related installations from May, and are heavily inspired by the current refugee crisis, encouraging Londoners to engage with the biggest issue of our day, with poetry from exiled writers, discussions of female refugees, and opportunities to meet refugees new and old.
The festival is divided into a series of themed weekends including the Opening Weekend (28th - 29th June) and those named for the seven Ancient Greek definitions of love.
Big Wedding Weekend
Saturday 27th August
The most sure to please of the Festival of Love theatre must be Acruboffo's warm-hearted, whimsical circus. Acrubuffo is the collaboration between two circus performers who met in Afghanistan, got engaged while street performing in Scotland and married in China. Watch flying umbrellas, giant balloons, kites that float over the audience and the biggest snow globe you’ve ever seen at this show for all the family.
Read more on theatre
Southbank Centre talks
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie on Love and War
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie is the Nigerian writer who has stolen the hearts of the English-speaking world with some of the best writing of the last decade. Her books are full of hard-edged heroines, often caught between continents, navigating issues of race and gender prejudice, and is best known for Half of a Yellow Sun and Americanah.
Ngozie Adichie will be in conversation with a special guest, unnamed as yet. (Watch this space!) She lives between Nigeria and the US and rarely speaks in the UK, but when she does she is spellbindingly brilliant, so this really is an unmissable opportunity. Tickets will fly.
Read more on talks
So kick back in the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden or the cool kids' favourite, copaCABANA beach, and enjoy this summer of love highlight on the Southbank Centre calendar. Click here to see the Southbank Centre's full list of events.
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| What | Festival of Love, Southbank Centre 2016 |
| Where | Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX | MAP |
| Nearest tube | Waterloo (underground) |
| When |
30 May 16 – 30 Sep 16, 12:00 AM |
| Price | £Prices vary |
| Website | Click here for more details and to book via Southbank Centre |