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Black Sound moving image display
Event
Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Citra Sasmita in The Curve
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Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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Cinema

La Cocina

Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.

Santosh stares out of a train into a forest
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Cinema

Santosh

Young widow Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural bad lands of India, in this thrilling tale of moral conflict from British-Indian director Sandhya Suri

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Cinema

Flow

See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.  

A group of people sit beside each other on the floor, drawing, colouring and collaging.
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Art & design Take part Talks & events

Home: Figure and Portrait Drawing Workshops

Express yourself freely and creatively at this figure and portrait drawing course that will encourage you to reflect on the themes of family and the home. 

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
Event
Theatre & dance

THE SEAGULL

Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.

Khatia and Gvantsa
Event
Classical music

Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili

Cancelled

Unfortunately due to illness, this Wednesday’s performance with Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili is cancelled.

Event
Cinema

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

Event
Cinema

Mickey 17

Robert Pattinson is willing to die over and over again to save humankind, from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
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Cinema

I'm Still Here

In 1971 Brazil, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers at the hands of government, from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles.

Black Sound moving image display
Event
Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Citra Sasmita in The Curve
Event
Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
Event
Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
Event
Theatre & dance

THE SEAGULL

Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.

Event
Cinema

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

Event
Cinema

La Cocina

Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.

Event
Cinema

Mickey 17

Robert Pattinson is willing to die over and over again to save humankind, from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho

Event
Cinema

Flow

See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.  

ND on sunday
Event
Art & design Cinema

Delusions of Grandeur: A response to Noah Davis

A series of films that explore the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.

Two headshots: One person in a purple scarf sits in front of a tree and poses for the camera and another person in a suit stands in front of a red background.
Event
Take part Talks & events

Barbican Community Choir

Share the joy of singing with others and make new friends at this new community choir that comes together weekly on Thursdays led by Rachel Huggins and Abdul Shyllon. 

Babylon, Coachella by Nebbia Works (photo Lance Gerber)
Event
Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: New Architects

A talk from some of the most exciting, emerging architects working in Britain today: Artefact, Brisco Loran, Izat Arundell and Nebbia Works.

Nicola Benedetti holding a violin
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Shostakovich in both revolutionary and festive mood alongside a MacMillan Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti.

Elaine Mitchener standing in front of washing machines in a laundrette, holding the open washing machine doors.
Event
Classical music Theatre & dance

Moving Eastman

Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.

An Indian woman stares into the camera, a bandage on her nose, holding her hair up with one hand
Event
Cinema

Sister Midnight

An arranged marriage traps this oddball couple in domestic hell, solved only through delving into the darkness of dreams, in Karan Kandhari's debut feature comedy.

Black Sound moving image display
Event
Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Citra Sasmita in The Curve
Event
Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration.