Read, Watch & Listen

For July’s poem, Annie Hayter reflects on the relationship between sexual abuse and denial, in the wake of recent revelations.

Music has a unique role to play in war time. Dr Kate Kennedy looks at a number of solider-composers from World War I, from different backgrounds and nations, exploring the vital importance of music for survival.

This month, Richard Dixon Wheatley’s film, DYSTOPIA, uses spoken word to reflect on what ‘community’ means in today’s society.

We look back through the life and work of pioneering documentary photographer and visual activist, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) to coincide with the first UK retrospective of her work, 'Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing'.

In an extract from 'Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds' exhibition catalogue, photography historian David Chandler reflects on Winship’s Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation award-winning body of work: she dances on Jackson.

For our latest Barbican Session, English folk rock musician Keaton Henson performs an Impromptu on a theme from 'Six Lethargies' in the Barbican Library.

Tokyo-based journalist Ian F Martin looks back through the decades to see who was responsible for the genre-defining music emerging from the Japanese underground scenes over the past 40 years.

We look back at our June 2018 Instagrammer, Anna Heath to explore her Barbican shots.

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.

We talk to alt.barbican artist, Jasmine Johnson about her creative process ahead of her Level G residency. 

Experimental musician and composer Laura Cannell performs an improvised piece in our Car Park 5.

This month, Sois de Traca’s animated film imagines an alternative reality scenario and tackles the frightening themes of animal extinction, pollution, and climate change.