Things we're doing
A selection of projects that are currently live or in development:
Operation Soapbox
The interactive website for Operation Soapbox is now live - if you are a participating group or if you'd like to find out more about the project, you can logon at www.southbankcentre.co.uk/soapbox
What do young people from across Britain want to say to the world? As participants in a giant national conversation what questions would they ask? What messages would they send? And how could those ideas be explored and articulated other than through words?
Inspired by those questions, Southbank Centre is inviting schools and youth groups from around the UK to be part of Operation Soapbox, a national project to explore how we express ourselves and how new ideas form.
Using the medium of the soapbox - the traditional vehicle for independent expression - young people nationwide are asked to join a creative experiment with each other and with the public. Participating schools or classes receive a Soapbox Satellite - an ordinary looking box containing an extraordinary question or idea - as a catalyst for a year of exploration. What they do with the box and its cargo is up to them. All we ask is that they use it as a springboard for their own conversations, ideas and experiments. And that they send back their 'findings', in one form or another, by Summer 2008.
For more details about the project or to register your interest as a participating school or group, please call 020 7921 0871 or email soapbox@southbankcentre.co.uk
(A Southbank Centre project, in collaboration with AOC)
Love the Festival Hall
Memories Delivered Daily
Southbank Centre has launched a nationwide call for memories of the Royal Festival Hall, with the support of Age Exchange and BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Was it a musical event, a turn across the largest ballroom floor in London or a visit to the Festival of Britain that secured your affection for the Royal Festival Hall? Perhaps it was someone you met here, a childhood visit or simply the building itself. Do you have a memorable moment or special story of the Royal Festival Hall?
Why not share it and be part of our archive of memories, which will launch when we open our doors again in the summer of 2007. Share your story and be part of a living archive – a people’s history - a celebration of over 50 years of priceless memories and unforgettable moments.
Visit lovethefestivalhall.org.uk to learn more about the project and entrust your memory to the archive. Thank you.
Takacs Quartet
As part of their residency at Southbank Centre, the Takacs Quartet are engaged in a two year education project involving students from Stoke Newington School, Hackney, and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.
This project is linked into our commissioning of James MacMillan to write a quartet for the Takacs, to be premiered in May 2008. Students will have the opportunity to learn more about major works in the string quartet repertoire, as well as learning about the process of music composition.
To keep in touch with this and more Learning & Participation at Southbank Centre, register your details so that we can send you updates.
