Southbank & Waterloo

20 November 2009 to 23 November 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

On Christmas Eve, 1993, a nineteen-year-old university student entered a Viennese bank and killed three people before turning the gun on himself. Haneke's film depicts the random, or fateful, convergence of strangers that day at the bank as a puzzle that will remain unresolved, mysterious, and deeply disturbing.

24 December 2009

Southbank Centre SE1 8XX[map]

Featuring members of The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra.

13 December 2009

Southbank Centre SE1 8XX[map]

Accendo Singers are a new choir from Kingston Upon Thames, conducted by Adam Assen. Formed in May, the choir sing a variety of styles including modern classical, African and gospel music. The Accendo Singers have both new and experienced members who enjoy the social aspects of this choir as much as the singing, with rehearsals held in pub music venue the Grey Horse. Singers arrive with a drink in hand but concentrate on their rehearsals, accompanied by pianist Stuart Thompson.

28 December 2009 to 3 January 2010

BFI IMAX SE1 8XR[map]

Jim Carrey stars as the voice of Scrooge, who is subjected to the torments of the three Christmas ghosts, and is shown that a selfish heart and contempt for those less fortunate than himself will not lead to anything good. The Christmas spirit lends Ebenezer Scrooge the opportunity for redemption.

14 September 2009 to 7 June 2010

Morley College SE1 7HT[map]

The first term of this course is for absolute beginners focusing on basic folk and pop styles and working towards the requirements of the Acoustic Guitar graded exam, preliminary to grade 1. Tutor Terrino Chan.

16 September 2009 to 26 May 2010

Morley College SE1 7HT[map]

This course is for experienced players who need tuition and experience in jazz improvisation at an advanced level, possibly with a view to entering higher level courses. See the tutor Paul Westwood on date shown at the beginning of the Music section for approval to enrol on this course.

24 November 2009 to 25 November 2009

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

Daredevas is a showcase for up and coming dancers around London and the United Kingdom, featuring the brightest young talents in contemporary Indian dance.

27 November 2009 to 29 November 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

Opting out of military conscription, a young man instead does civilian service and is posted to Auschwitz. Two generations after the atrocities of WWII, his task is to look after a former inmate who now gives lectures on his time in the camp. The film poses the question of how to reconcile the past with the present to a new generation and is based on director, Robert Thalheim's, past experiences.

13 December 2009

Southbank Centre SE1 8XX[map]

Amici is a relatively new a cappella chamber choir from Suffolk making big waves. Formed in 2006 by director Adrian Knott, the choir have performed across East Anglia as well as South West France. Their repertoire is very broad - everything from 19th-century part songs to spirituals and jazz - but with a particular focus on Renaissance madrigals and religious music, including composers such as Byrd, Tomkins, Padilla, Lassus, Gibbons, Josquin and Monteverdi.

23 December 2009 to 28 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

Perhaps the greatest dance musical, An American in Paris stars Gene Kelly as a young artist who finds love on the Left Bank. As well as the George Gershwin songs and score, including the blissful S'Wonderful, the film is memorable for its climactic ballet sequence inspired by the work of Henri Rousseau, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Raoul Dufy, Maurice Utrillo, Vincent Van Gogh, Edouard Manet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. An American in Paris won six Academy Awards including Best Film.

8 December 2009 to 13 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

Josef von Sternberg's film adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's novel.

4 December 2009 to 9 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

Ana takes a trip back to her seaside hometown. But it soon begins to seem that finding an ex-boyfriend is the main reason for her return.

15 January 2010

Royal Festival Hall SE1 8XX[map]

Best known to some as the frenetic frontman for punk rock legends Black Flag and later the Rollins Band, Henry Rollins gives a special spoken word performance.

31 May 2010

Queen Elizabeth Hall SE1 8XX[map]

Vocalist Anna Maria Jopek's music blends jazz, Polish folk and pop music.

20 October 2009 to 6 December 2009

Southbank Centre SE1 8XX[map]

From paintings and photographs to matchstick models and soap sculptures, this exhibition features extraordinary new creations by prisoners, high security patients and immigration detainees from across the UK. The work is from the 6,000 entries to the annual Koestler Awards, founded in 1962 by writer Arthur Koestler. This year's exhibition is the second year of a partnership with Southbank Centre and is curated through a special educational project by current inmates of two women's prisons.

20 October 2009 to 6 December 2009

Royal Festival Hall SE1 8XX[map]

From paintings and photographs to matchstick models and soap sculptures, this exhibition features extraordinary new creations by prisoners, high security patients and immigration detainees from across the UK. The work is from the 6,000 entries to the annual Koestler Awards, founded in 1962 by writer Arthur Koestler. This year's exhibition is the second year of a partnership with Southbank Centre and is curated through a special educational project by current inmates of two women's prisons.