Bechstein Hall launches template 2
Today, we received a £10.9m loan from the Cultural Recovery Fund
Hundreds of thousands of people depend on the Southbank Centre for their creative livelihoods, including freelance performers and artists. We’re home to eight world-class orchestras and to the National Poetry Library. Our live events programme, futuretense, gives young musicians a platform and we house many community ensembles, like the fantastic Tomorrow’s Warriors. Our Hayward Gallery touring programmes support 126 arts galleries around the UK. If we’re not presenting work, then we’re not helping all these brilliant creatives to work
With this loan, we’ll be able to develop and extend the reach of our learning programmes—including for example our Art Explorers programme, which has introduced hundreds of schoolchildren to the arts for the first time—and our Art By Post programme, which offers creative access for the 22% of the population who cannot travel and don’t have access to a computer, many of them shielding or in care homes across the UK.
Our 11-acre site is currently lit up with a spectacular (free) Winter Light show, with amazing work from artists around the world and we were able to stream or broadcast over 40 concerts and literature events this autumn—but it’s not the same as filling our venues every day with visitors and audiences for that unmissable, live, collective, experience.
Covid put paid to that – and it’s had a devastating effect on our community. The generosity of the Government and the British taxpayer allows us to reopen, but the impact of Covid will be with us for some time to come, as we wait for audiences to return and to rebuild our commercial income. But with this loan we can now face our future with real creative optimism. And we can’t wait to welcome you back.
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E-tickets are the quickest way to receive your tickets. If you choose this option, your tickets will be sent to you immediately via email. You may print them out or present them on your mobile device. Each ticket is only valid for admission once and should not be duplicated. Keep your e-tickets in a safe place and with you until the end of the performance.We don’t require e-tickets to be returned.
We don’t require e-tickets to be returned. If you notify us by email 24 hours before your performance date then we’ll be able to swap your tickets to another available performance or credit your account.
Covid put paid to that - and it’s had a devastating effect on our community. The generosity of the Government and the British taxpayer allows us to reopen, but the impact of Covid will be with us for some time to come, as we wait for audiences to return and to rebuild our commercial income. But with this loan we can now face our future with real creative optimism. And we can’t wait to welcome you back.
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