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Ann Van den Broek: Loops of Behaviour

Choreographer Ann Van den Broek joins curator Leila Hasham in conversation ahead of her ten-day performance installation in The Curve, a ‘total experience’ of live performance, spoken word, sound and video with Dutch-Flemish dance company WArd/waRD.

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From the Archive: Barbican Guides

As we start to build a Barbican Archive, we uncovered every edition of the Barbican Guide. Documenting the range of events we've hosted since we first opened in March 1982, browse the first year of our monthly guide.

A scene from Jean Rouch's Petit à petit
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Screen Notes: Returning the Colonial Gaze

Discover a less well known world of cinema in these bold and ground-breaking films from French agitators and directors from newly independent countries in Francophone Africa from the 1950s to the 1970s. 

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Tuning Into Change

Written for young people by young people, read a youth manifesto for the arts in 'Tuning into Change'

Gazing directly into the camera, Paz Errazuriz’s arresting photograph of Pilar, a cross-dresser working in an underground brothel in Chile during the 1980s.
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Another Kind of Life Story

We look closer at some of the stories behind the photographers and their subjects of 'Another Kind of Life' in our podcast series.

Roderick Williams standing against wall
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Guest Picks: Roderick Williams

Ahead of his 2019 concerts, we invite our Milton Court Artist-in-Residence to share some of his favourite tracks in our latest Guest Picks.