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Black Sound moving image display
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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. 

A woman stands in a blue, dark corridor, bathed in red light.
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Emilia Pérez 

Passion has a new name. Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez star in Jacques Audiard's audacious fever dream. 

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

Parent & Baby Screening: Mickey 17

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

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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.

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Cinema

La Cocina

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

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Cinema

Mickey 17

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

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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 actors in wigs sit at a table covered in food.
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Cinema

Relaxed Screening: Inside My Heart + ScreenTalk

The UK premiere of an extraordinary documentary following the rehearsal of movement and speech amongst an ensemble of neurodivergent and disabled actors staging a strange and beautiful fairy tale.

Barbican Conservatory
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Talks & events

Community meeting: Question time with the Barbican Renewal

Barbican Estate residents are invited to learn more about the history of eco-Brutalism and the plans for future planting of the Conservatory as part of Barbican Renewal.

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
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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.

Composite image of Japanese folk musician Ichiko Aoba
Event
Contemporary music

Ichiko Aoba

Japanese folk singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba performs her latest album, Luminescent Creatures alongside 12 Ensemble.

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.

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.

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
Event
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.

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.  

A person lies down on the beach in a blue dress. Two white walls stand behind them, one with a window. The sea can be seen in the background along with the sky.
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Art & design Contemporary music Talks & events

Listening Session: George Riley and Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura

Join us for a special late opening of the Noah Davis exhibition in the art gallery, the first major institutional exhibition of this groundbreaking LA painter.

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.

An illustration from the Demon Slayer anime
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

Demon Slayer in Concert

Step into the epic universe of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba with a breathtaking blend of animation and live music.

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

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
Event
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

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.