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illustration depicting young people taking photos and dancing in Barking
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Being a Change Maker

What does it mean to be a 'change maker'? We've been working with students and teachers from one of Britain’s largest secondary schools, Sydney Russell School in Barking & Dagenham to explore that question...

Harlem Hellfighters
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Music of conflict

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.

Man wiping his mouth
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Dorothea Lange: A Life in Pictures

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'.

she dances on Jackson
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Vanessa Winship: she dances on Jackson

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.

photo of dancers in a dark room
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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.

Barbican guide cover
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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. 

tuning into change
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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.