Southbankcentre APIsouthbankcentre.co.uk ↗

Discover upcoming exhibitions, gigs, talks, and performances at London's Southbank Centre by accessing their complete events calendar. Plan your visits by retrieving detailed information about all available shows and cultural events happening at the venue.

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list_events

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Lists all upcoming events at the Southbank Centre from today through the next 180 days. Returns deduplicated events across all categories (art & exhibitions, classical music, comedy, courses & workshops, family, gigs, literature & poetry, online, performance & dance, talks & debates, tours & activities, young people). Each call fetches events from all category pages and deduplicates by URL. Typically returns 50-80 events depending on the current programme. No pagination — all events are returned in a single response.

Input

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Response

{
  "type": "object",
  "fields": {
    "total": "integer count of events returned",
    "events": "array of event objects"
  },
  "sample": {
    "data": {
      "total": 61,
      "events": [
        {
          "url": "https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gift-to-the-future/",
          "date": "Sat 22 Aug – Sun 27 Sep 2026",
          "slug": "gift-to-the-future",
          "title": "Gift to the Future",
          "category": "Art & exhibitions",
          "location": "Site wide",
          "image_url": "https://bynder.southbankcentre.co.uk/transform/e9eae3ae-ba56-4173-bf06-4fdafb1bcfbc/Gift-to-the-Future_Royal-Festival-Hall-1_Credit-Jo-Underhill?io=transform%3Afill%2Cwidth%3A640%2Cheight%3A400",
          "description": "See our brutalist buildings transformed with a giant poetry installation",
          "price_label": "Free"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/anish-kapoor/",
          "date": "Tue 16 Jun – Sun 18 Oct 2026",
          "slug": "anish-kapoor",
          "title": "Anish Kapoor",
          "category": "Art & exhibitions",
          "location": "Hayward Gallery",
          "image_url": "https://bynder.southbankcentre.co.uk/transform/ffca4788-f2b3-43c6-b71a-0b9139e71b08/Anish-Kapoor_Email-header?io=transform%3Afill%2Cwidth%3A640%2Cheight%3A400",
          "description": "Venture into a world of mystery through the artist's awe-inspiring works at our major exhibition",
          "price_label": null
        }
      ]
    },
    "status": "success"
  }
}

About the Southbankcentre API

The Southbankcentre API on Parse exposes 1 endpoint for the publicly available data on southbankcentre.co.uk. Calls return JSON over HTTPS and are billed per successful response.

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