Read, Watch & Listen

Watch Jarvis Cocker's band JARV IS… perform an exclusive set inside our exhibition Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer. 

Learn more about the history and significance of Chinese lanterns, used to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in Hong Kong - and make your own in a workshop by Rebecca Strickson and Alex Whittaker. 

Part of Chronic Youth Film Festival, Barbican Young Programmer Ademola Bello speaks to Q's Barbershop star Qasim Ahmen and London barbershop owner, Peter Atakpo about this captivating insight into black masculinity from a Danish barbershop.

How do you create a soundscape for an exhibition? Peter Adjaye joins Ekow Eshun in conversation to discuss his composition for Toyin Ojih Odutola's 'A Countervailing Theory' in The Curve.

Filmmakers Brett Story, Shahzaib Naik & SM Seraj Ali, and Carol Mansour join us for a live ScreenTalk to discuss 'Lockdown States' series of shorts. 

Emmy The Great brought her guitar along to the Barbican Foyer, to perform ‘Mary’, the first single to be taken from her latest album April/Yuet Yam.

Tarnation director, Jonathan Caouette, chats to our Inner States co-curator, Alice Lebow. 

For our August Family Film Club workshop, artist and illustrator Ivonne Vargas shows us how to make an interactive and animal-inspired mobile and thaumatrope.

'The Proposal' director Jill Magid joins us for a live ScreenTalk.Hosted by Ines Weizman, Director of the Bauhaus Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture and Planning.

'José' director, Li Cheng and actor Enrique Salanic, join us for a live ScreenTalk, hosted by Barbican curator, Alex Davidson.

Director Alvaro Delgado Aparicio joins Barbican curator Alex Davidson to discuss his BAFTA-nominated film, Retablo

Learn how to make fabric wolf feet and paper wolf ears, inspired by Where the Wild Things Are.