Resonance FM is a pioneering, non-profit community radio station, with a studio at 7 Risborough Street, Southwark, London. Broadcasting 24/7 on 104.4 FM, DAB, and online, it offers over 100 weekly shows created by volunteer engineers and programme-makers. The station champions free expression and artistic diversity, providing a platform for local and international voices across arts & culture.

James Pooley Architecture, 2025

Allies and Morrison opens its studios, offering a chance to see inside of one of the UK's largest architecture and urbanism practices. Two buildings - one concrete, one timber - have been designed and adapted by Allies and Morrison to create the compact, integrated campus of studio space that the practice calls home. Guided tours will include the workplaces, terraces and modelshop.

Allies and Morrison, 2003

Built in 1907, The Ragged School SE1 has been part of the community for nearly 120 years. starting off as a poor school in the worst and first borough of London, the school aimed to transform lives of the ragged children that lined the streets. The church then took over the school to form a club, pass through developers into the hands of an artist. The White room will open for creative delight.

Proudly carved over the door are the words ‘Facts not Opinions’. Inside, the authentic sight - and smell - of Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works is a unique and direct link with an ingenious age of engineering.

Thomas Roger Smith, 1873

This tour explores three centuries of working-class life in the Bankside and South Bank areas of Southwark. Through themes of work, leisure, housing, religion, migration, and debt.

Bankside was once a secluded powerhouse of Victorian London, a place that kept industry in and casual visitors out. Today, it boasts a network of arches and alleyways repurposed for public use. Led by a Bankside insider, this tour explores the history and reclamation of the arch as a usable space through an emerging urban trail – including the brand-new America Street redevelopment.

Borough Yards is a vibrant cultural and retail quarter at the heart of London Bridge’s culinary and creative scenes. Set within historic railway arches and revived Victorian streets, Borough Yards is a neighbourhood designed to bring people together through shops, restaurants, pop-ups and year-round cultural programming.

An architectural talk exploring the story of the historic Bankside Yards railway arches and their transformation into a new cultural destination on London’s Bankside. Now reopening after 150 years hidden from the public, the talk will offer an opportunity to discover how historic infrastructure can be reimagined to create vibrant new spaces while preserving the character and stories of the past.

PLP Architecture, 1864

In 1949, American actor Sam Wanamaker came looking for Shakespeare in London and could not find much, so decided to re-build the Globe Theatre. Join Lisa who holds a MA in Shakespeare Studies from the Globe Theatre and King's College London and walk in steps of Shakespeare -- and Wanamaker nearly 400 years later.

This rarely opened space began in 1902 as Guy's Hospital Medical School Library. In 2009 part of it became the Museum of Life Sciences which houses some rare specimens and part of an historic dental teaching collection.. The building is red brick with additional stonework and is partially covered in creeper. Internally are original carved oak cabinets and ornate columns.

Unknown, 1826

Housed in the Old Vic Theatre’s grade II former annex (built 1958) in the Brutalist style, the Studio exists to develop new work for the National Theatre. The Studio is also home to the National Theatre Archive. Tours will include the rehearsal spaces, writers’ rooms and script library alongside the Archive strongroom where the National Theatre’s collections are housed.

Lyons Israel Ellis Partnership, 1958