Festival of the World @ The South Bank Centre

Festival of the World @ The South Bank Centre

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Posted 2012-06-12 by Sandra Lawsonfollow

Fri 01 Jun 2012 - Sun 09 Sep 2012



Last year the South Bank Centre celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Festival of Britain. This summer's Festival of the World focuses on how the arts change lives and examples will be drawn from the worlds of music, poetry, art and comedy. There will be many free events, as well as paid ones, and all ages are catered for. The Festival is up and running and will continue until 9 September.

A huge range of events is planned, often several on any given day. To give you a flavour of what to expect Poetry Parnassus will be home to poets from 204 different nations, headed by Simon Armitage.



Sounds Venezuela will concentrate on El Sistema, the system of music education in Venezuela, and will coincide with a visit by the Simón Bolivar Orchestra. Wide Open School will take place at the Hayward Gallery and will offer an eclectic programme of events devised by artists from more than 40 different countries.





Africa Utopia will be led by the Senegalese singer, Baaba Maal.



The London Literature Festival will include writers from all around the world, including Will Self, and Michael Morpurgo (the Children's Laureate) from Britain. The Udderbelly Festival continues with a host of comedians until it departs for the Edinburgh Festival in July, but the Priceless London Wonderground will remain until the end of September where some of the acts will include:



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In addition to the above events, there will be the usual concerts in the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, some of which will be free. Meltdown will be celebrating its nineteenth year at the South Bank. This year Antony (of Antony and the Johnsons) will be curating twelve days of music, debate and performance.



There will also be surprises for all including aMAZEme in the Clore Ballroom and Unlimited – a celebration of work by deaf and disabled artists. Under the Baobob is a reconstruction of an African Baobob tree – a traditional meeting place.



Festival of the World Museum where you can learn how art has changed lives around the world, and where children can produce their own World Passport complete with a photograph and various rubber stamps; Rainbow Park – a multi-coloured sandpit, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden is again open. Here you can learn about wild flowers and vegetables around the world, chat to the resident gardeners, and see some stupendous views along and across the Thames.

The Carousel is in place again as usual



and there is a brand new playground on Jubilee Gardens, where adults cannot enter unless accompanied by a child.



There are bars and cafés within the Royal Festival and Queen Elizabeth Halls, as well as many others on the Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Festival Terrace and Festival Riverside, pop up restaurants for the duration of the Festival and weekly Real Food Markets in Southbank Centre Square every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.



I hope I've given you enough reasons for visiting the Festival of the World.

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