Read, Watch & Listen

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.

For May’s Poem, Eleanor Penny reflects on the concept of home, exploring the political fractures within her heritage.

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.

We look back at our May 2018 Instagrammer, Tiny Kingdom to explore their Barbican shots.

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. 

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

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

This month, Bertil Nilsson presents ‘Finding your voice’, an artistic documentary featuring three of our Barbican Young Creatives as they share how the arts have helped them define their creativity and use their voice.

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.

Irish rock band Microdisney perform their song 'Dolly' in the Barbican Exhibition Halls.

Simon McBurney and Marcus du Sautoy discuss the role of consciousness in 'The Encounter', a theatrical retelling of the incredible true story of National Geographic photographer, Loren McIntyre and his journey into in a remote area of Brazil in 1969

We asked our Creative Citizens to talk about the work that led them to the programme and what they hope to get out of it