Southbank & Waterloo

30 November 2009

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

This classic film shows the famous Freedom Concert given in Berlin on Christmas Day 1989 as the Wall fell, including a glorious performance of Beethoven's Symphony No.9 conducted by Bernstein himself.

12 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

A film exploring why poverty still exists alongside so much wealth. Followed bvy a panel discussion chaired by Colin Prescod.

24 April 2010 to 8 May 2010

Young Vic Theatre SE1 8LZ[map]

Following Fiona Shaw's acclaimed 2008 ENO debut, she now directs another 20th Century masterpiece. Co-written by WH Auden and Chester Kallman, and set by composer Hans Werner Henze, Elegy for Young Lovers offers a savagely witty exposé of the creative ego and its insatiable need to feed off all around it. This is the third season of the South Bank Show Award-winning partnership between ENO and the Young Vic following sell-out stagings of Lost Highway and Punch & Judy in 08 and Katie Mitchell's After Dido in 09.

11 December 2009 to 22 December 2009

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

Ennio transforms into more than fifty of the world's most recognisable cultural icons. Set to a soundtrack of hits, this show includes a star-studded line up from the sublime to the ridiculous... everyone from Mona Lisa to Britney Spears, Celine Dion to Ozzy Osborne, Dolly Parton to Amy Winehouse and more.

23 December 2009 to 30 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

Documentary about the director Josef von Sternberg.

16 January 2010 to 19 January 2010

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

Eshet is the Old Testament story of Tamar, a young widow forced by convention to marry of her dead husband's brothers. Five life-sized puppets and their human doubles play out this powerful drama with its tragic consequences, denouncing male oppression and the harshness of laws concerning women.

2 December 2009

Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society SE1 7JN[map]

Dr Tony Williams are discuss public health and the plight of the poor in the 1800s, so vividly portrayed in the novels and journalism of Charles Dickens.

Open all year Mon - Fri 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society SE1 7JN[map]

An exhibition featuring objects that range from 18th-century seahorses to current painkillers, and from equipment used to make pills in the 1800s to jars used to hold 16th-century medicinal ingredients. There is also an opportunity to see the architect's model for the 11-storey building that was first planned to house the society when it moved to Lambeth in the 1970s.

4 October 2009 to 16 May 2010

Morley College SE1 7HT[map]

Morley welcomes families who love to share their pleasures, especially music and dance. The Family Concerts offer relaxed informality where young children can feel part of the excitement of performance. Babies tend to have a snooze, very small people are sometimes quite shy, parents soon settle down and grandparents, aunts and uncles would hate to be left at home.

18 December 2009 to 21 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

A documentary exploring fashion in Hollywood films featuring footage of Travis Banton doing costume tests for The Devil Is a Woman.

21 March 2010

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

Records show that orchestral works by Handel and Telemann featured at Zimmermann's coffeehouse, as did Bach's own orchestral suites. Here Telemann's virtuoso showpiece, Handel's elegant Water Music and Bach's own famous orchestral suite in B minor create a fascinating juxtaposition.

29 March 2010

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

The trio of Darragh Morgan, violin, Robin Michael, cello, and Mary Dullea, piano, perform works by Schumann: Trio No.2 in F major op. 80; and Ravel: Piano Trio.

14 January 2010

Purcell Room SE1 8XX[map]

Cheryl Frances-Hoad: String Quartet (My day in hell); Arthur Bliss: String Quartet No.2.

27 November 2009 to 3 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

A powerful love story about a teenage girl living on a bleak estate who has her life turned on it's head when her Mum brings home a charismatic new boyfriend. Andrea Arnold casts the same unflinching, unprejudiced gaze and touches on the themes of her Oscar-winning short Wasp to create an original and unsettling tale for our age.

18 December 2009 to 20 December 2009

BFI Southbank SE1 8XT[map]

The story of a man on a quest to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle.

1 February 2010 to 7 February 2010

BFI IMAX SE1 8XR[map]

Fly Me To The Moon combines the Apollo 11 mission with a whimsical twist involving three tween-aged files who go along on an incredible space adventure. Fly Me To The Moon introduces new generations to space exploration and the historic moment when the world was united for this awe-inspiring achievement. A G-rated family film, the story is voiced by talents, Kelly Ripa, Christopher Lioyd, Nicollette Sheridan, Tim Curry and a live action/animation cameo by real life Apollo 11 astronaut, Buzz Aldrin.

14 September 2009 to 7 June 2010

Morley College SE1 7HT[map]

Folk, Rock & Top 40 styles. It is suitable for players with some experience. Improve to Acoustic Guitar Graded Exam grade 2- 3. See the tutor Terrino Chan on the date shown at the beginning of the Music section for approval to enrol.