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Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

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Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

A group of dancers dressed in colourful clothing move on stage with their arms in the air.
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Contemporary music Theatre & dance

The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady

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Share the floor with outstanding artists as two leading companies transform the stage into a vibrant gig venue, with a live jazz orchestra and dynamic dancers. 

Actor Stephen Rea sits in front of a tape machine.
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Theatre & dance

Krapp’s Last Tape

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Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.

Wallace and Gromit sit on sofas with a gnome
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Cinema

Family Film Club: Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl + Q&A

Come along to see the latest from Aardman – the artistry of the models, the animation craft – up on the big screen in all their glory!

Citra Sasmita, Act One (detail), 2024, from Into Eternal Land, The Curve, Barbican, 2025 © Citra Sasmita
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Art & design Talks & events

Somatic Cosmologies

A conversation with poets and writers Nikita Gill, Daisy Hildyard and Ariana Reines on how mapping the body can help to understand and even change the world.

A red room with four tables and a chair. It looks like a seance.
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Art & design

Season Butler: Writing Worlds

What is it to make a world – and why is storytelling important? Discover more at this panel discussion featuring guest speakers Season Butler Chloe Aridjis, Sarah Shin and Sammy Lee.

Christmas in the Conservatory
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: Imagining Worlds

Free

Explore words and worlds at this day of pop-up readings, live events and workshops, nestled among the plants in our living, breathing conservatory. 

Two people wearing sunglasses ride through an American town with a blue sky overhead.
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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: A Complete Unknown

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At the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, a young Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet) shakes up his act on the folk music scene by going electric and siring rock as the voice of a generation.

A group of people holding hands in a circle in a light lit by yellow and green lights.
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: Experiments in Utopia

Free

Step inside our iconic conservatory for a day of talks, performances and workshops centred around intentional community building.

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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: May Day

Free

Come together and celebrate the traditional springtime festival in our iconic conservatory at a day of talks and workshops.