BSL Interpreter – TBC

Interpreter will be positioned on the accessible viewing platform W102 (not near the stage)

To book tickets:

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Live Nation have confirmed dates for the European leg of U2’s upcoming eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour.

Following last year’s acclaimed stadium run with The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour will see U2 return indoors, to pick up where 2015’s groundbreaking iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Tour left off.

The eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour follows the recent release of the band’s 14th studio album Songs of Experience. Just as Songs of Experience serves as a companion piece to 2014’s Songs of Innocence, the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour is a sequel to the 2015 tour which saw “U2 reinvent the arena show” (Rolling Stone) and was named #1 concert of 2015 by The New York Times.

As with every U2 tour, this new arena production will explore the latest in cutting-edge technology. Staged in the round, the eXPERIENCE + iNNOCENCE Tour is a development of the unique and innovative staging of the 2015 tour, featuring multiple performance areas, a state-of-the-art sound system, plus an all new super high-res LED screen nine-times the resolution of the 2015 screen.

BSL Interpreters: Paul Michaels and Adam Archer

The celebrated author of compulsive, daring and enduring fiction, Sir Salman Rushdie, on his life in writing and his latest novel, The Golden House.

In his first appearance at Southbank Centre in over a decade, Rushdie reflects on the full range of his writing, his remarkable life, the currents and characters in American politics that inspired his latest novel and the value of dark comedy in tumultuous times.

Rushdie established his reputation with award-winning novels Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses and Shame. Combining biting satire with bold inventiveness, Rushdie has chronicled the postcolonial world in fiction.

The Golden House, his 13th novel, is a satirical and incisive anatomy of contemporary American politics. A prescient reimagining of Trump’s America, the novel is bookended by the election of Barack Obama and the eve of an election eight years on in which the front-runner is known as ‘The Joker’.

The focus of the novel is Nero Golden, a man of enormous wealth with a Russian wife who arrives in Greenwich Village with his three adult sons. The novel charts Nero’s infidelities, family arguments and even his criminal activities, capturing the pressing debates of the present, from post-truth politics to gender identity.

His other novels include Haroun and the Sea of Stories, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, Shalimar the Clown, The Enchantress of Florence and Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, a reimagining of the Arabian Nights set in the future.

Rushdie has received many awards for his writing, including the European Union’s Aristeion Prize for Literature. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

In 1993 Midnight’s Children was judged to be the ‘Booker of Bookers’, the best novel to have won the Booker Prize in its first 25 years. In June 2007 he received a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. A longstanding champion of free speech, Rushdie is former president of PEN American Center.

Salman Rushdie is in conversation with Erica Wagner. Born in New York City, Wagner’s most recent book is Chief Engineer: Washington Roebling, the Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge. She is the author of Gravity: Stories, Ariel’s Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of Birthday Letters and Seizure; she is the editor of First Light: A Celebration of Alan Garner. Twice a judge of the Man Booker Prize, she was literary editor of The Times for 17 years and is now contributing literary editor for Harper’s Bazaar and a contributing writer for the New Statesman. She was the recipient of the Eccles British Library Writer’s Award in 2014, and she is a lecturer in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in London.

To join the free Access Scheme and book tickets so you can access the interpreter call the Ticket Office on 020 3879 9555 or email [email protected]

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/131039-salman-rushdie-midnights-children-trumps-america-2018

BSL Interpreter: Emma Istead

Exciting offer!
BSL interpreted performance of Guys & Dolls, for one night only with £10 off the normal ticket price!
For a £5 ticket (normal price £15), just contact me, Jo Levett, through Facebook messenger or email [email protected]

This offer is open to D/deaf BSL users. We have Emma Isted from Performance Interpreting interpreting the show on THURSDAY 25th OCTOBER ONLY

Interpreter: Clare Edwards

A major new musical adaptation of everyone’s favourite festive film, Nativity!is returning home to Coventry in October 2018!

Written and directed by Debbie Isitt, the creator of the films, Nativity! The Musical is the smash-hit, stage adaptation of the much-loved Christmas movie, famously filmed on location here in Coventry.

Every child in every school has one Christmas wish, to star in a Nativity, and at St Bernadette’s School they’re attempting to mount a musical version! Only trouble is teacher Mr Maddens has promised that a Hollywood producer is coming to see the show to turn it into a film. Join him, his teaching assistant the crazy Mr Poppy, hilarious children and a whole lot of sparkle and shine as they struggle to make everyone’s Christmas wish come true.

Feel–good, funny and full of yuletide joy, Nativity! The Musical features all of the favourite sing-a-long hits from the films including Sparkle and Shine, Nazareth, One Night One Moment, She’s the Brightest Star and a whole host of new songs filled with the spirit of Christmas!

It’s the perfect feel-good comedy for all the family, so join us ahead of next Christmas for some MAYHEM in Bethlehem!

Running time: approx 2 hours plus interval

http://www.belgrade.co.uk/event/nativity

BSL Interpreters: Vicki Lamb and Sharan Thind

Get angry at a discussion between US and UK feminist activists Soraya Chemaly and Laura Bates on the power of rage in the fight against misogyny.

The two influential feminists discuss the idea that, contrary to the barrage of self-help rhetoric about ‘letting go’, rage is one of the most important resources that women have – and they reveal how women can go about owning that rage.

Chemaly’s book Rage Becomes Her is a conversation-shifting book analysing female anger as it relates to topics like self-worth, objectification and silence. The writer illuminates how and why we repress our anger, revealing the harm that this causes, and helps us recognise the liberating power of marshalling our anger as a vital tool for positive change.

Chemaly is a prolific writer and cultural critic, nationally recognised as a feminist thinker, speaker, and activist.

As director of the Women’s Media Center and board member of Emerge America, Chemaly is involved in national and international campaigns, and her work on online harassment and misogyny has contributed to a coordinated global movement to address the effects of sexism.

Bates is the founder of the award-winning Everyday Sexism Project, an ever-increasing collection of over 100,000 testimonies of gender inequality, and writes for publications including The Guardian, The Independent and TIME.

Bates’ first book, Everyday Sexism, won and was shortlisted for several awards. Her book Misogynation: The True Scale of Sexism came out earlier this year.

To join the free Access Scheme and book tickets so you can access the interpreter call the Ticket Office on 020 3879 9555 or email [email protected]

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/129879-soraya-chemaly-and-laura-bates-feminism-trumps-america-2018