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Festival of the World
Around Town: Festivals
Also on at Southbank Centre
- Burton Bradstock, Fri Jun 8
- Silk And Bamboo Ensemble, Wed Jun 13
- Southbank Centre's Poetry Parnassus, Jun 26-Jul 1
- Baaba Maal -†Africa Utopia, Sun Jul 1
- London Literature Festival, Jul 3-15
- Shake the Dust, Jul 5-8
Events on today
- From Cradle to Crown: Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Walk,
- Guided Walk in Hampstead,
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- Radicals, Religion and Rivers,
- The Total London Experience,
- Oxford, Stratford, the Cotswolds and Warwick Castle,
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Time Out says
The Southbank Centre's summer-long Festival of the World is inspired by the educationalist Baron Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937), the founder of the Olympic movement, who believed that the arts, like sport, could raise the aspirations of young people. Highlights include 'Africa Utopia', a series of performances, talks, debates and films, 'Poetry Parnassus' (Jun 26-Jul 1) which features poets from each of the 204 competing Olympic nations, 'New Music 20x12 Weekend' (Jul 13-15) with contemporary classical, jazz and folk by Mark-Anthony Turnage, Julian Joseph, Sheema Mukherjee and others, 'U Dance' workshops and performances (Jul 13-16) and 'Unlimited' (Sep 1-9) art and culture commissions by disabled and deaf artists. Over the summer there will also be installations around the site, as well as the re-opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hall roof garden and an urban beach.
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