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Black Sound moving image display
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Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Into Eternal Land exhibition photograph. Long painted scrolls line concrete walls.
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Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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Cinema

Mickey 17

Robert Pattinson is willing to die over and over again to save humankind, from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho. 

Purple Rain close-up
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Cinema

Noah Davis Film Programme: Purple Rain

Prince’s 1984 cultural touchstone blending music, drama, and bold visual storytelling.

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Cinema

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck's touching film-documentary of Ernest Cole, the photographer to expose the horrors of South Africa's apartheid to the world.

A group of people sit beside each other on the floor, drawing, colouring and collaging.
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Figure and Portrait Drawing Workshops

Express yourself freely and creatively at this figure and portrait drawing course that will encourage you to reflect on the themes of family and the home. 

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
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Theatre & dance

THE SEAGULL

Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.

Dalia Stasevska sitting down, resting her arm on a wooden block. There are blue circular swirls around her.
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Stasevska conducts Ravel

For sheer sonic splendour, it’s hard to top Janáček’s Sinfonietta – but when Dalia Stasevska and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet perform Bartók and Ravel with the BBC SO, they’ll give it their best shot. 

Béla Bartók Cantata Profana
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto for the Left Hand
Leoš Janáček Sinfonietta
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dalia Stasevska conductor
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet piano
Robin Tritschler tenor
Miklos Sebestyen bass-baritone
Writer Racheal Ofori poses, leaning against a concrete pillar while holding onto her heeled black shoe.
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Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: Beauty is the Beast by Racheal Ofori

Get a first look at this brand new satire, written and performed by Racheal Ofori, that explores the harsh costs of beauty – from scalp-burning perms to injectables, from detox teas to fat injections.

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
Event
Cinema

I'm Still Here

In 1971 Brazil, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers at the hands of government, from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles.

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Cinema

On Falling

A lonely Portuguese migrant working as a picker in a Scottish warehouse struggles to forge connections in an immersive character study that also shines light on the precarity of modern employment.

Black Sound moving image display
Event
Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
Event
Art & design

Noah Davis

Celebrating the late artist’s expansive creativity, this debut retrospective showcases Noah Davis as one of the most original and uncanny painters emerging in recent years.

Into Eternal Land exhibition photograph. Long painted scrolls line concrete walls.
Event
Art & design

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

Free

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition. Via painting, installation, embroidery and scent, take a sensory journey exploring ancestral memory, ritual and migration. 

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

A man stands with his back to a woman on a dark stage.
Event
Cinema

Macbeth: David Tennant and Cush Jumbo

David Tennant and Cush Jumbo star in this new adaptation of Shakespeare's tale of ambition, dedication, and unearthly riddles.

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
Event
Theatre & dance

THE SEAGULL

Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.

Event
Cinema

Mickey 17

Robert Pattinson is willing to die over and over again to save humankind, from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho. 

Event
Cinema

On Falling

A lonely Portuguese migrant working as a picker in a Scottish warehouse struggles to forge connections in an immersive character study that also shines light on the precarity of modern employment.

Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray
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Cinema

Cinema Restored: There’s Always Tomorrow [35mm]

Join us for this rare screening and opportunity to delve into Douglas Sirk's masterful melodrama There's Always Tomorrow that explores the suffocating confines of middle-class domesticity. 

Two headshots: One person in a purple scarf sits in front of a tree and poses for the camera and another person in a suit stands in front of a red background.
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Talks & events

Barbican Community Choir

Share the joy of singing with others and make new friends at this new community choir that comes together weekly on Thursdays led by Rachel Huggins and Abdul Shyllon. 

Barbara Hannigan conducting the LSO, lunging forwards
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Barbara Hannigan

Albert Roussel and Maurice Ravel paint vivid portraits of the animal kingdom, Benjamin Britten conjures up a savage parade, and Joseph Haydn takes a trip to London for his final symphony.

Albert Roussel Le festin de l’araignée
Maurice Ravel arr Anthony Girard Histoires naturelles
Benjamin Britten Les illuminations
Joseph Haydn Symphony No 104, London
Barbara Hannigan conductor & soprano
Stéphane Degout baritone
Learning from Colombia
Event
Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Learning from Colombia

Watch leading Colombian architects and educators in conversation with one another, discussing contemporary issues in their field.

Alec Dankworth holding double bass against black background
Event
Contemporary music

Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Dankworth Seven

Immerse yourself in the golden era of jazz as the nucleus of the Guildhall Jazz Orchestra brings the vibrant spirit of the legendary Dankworth Seven to life.

A photo of a sunset over the ocean
Event
Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music – Transatlantic: Classical Masters

AAM rediscovers the glorious music of Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia – in the company of his heroes Mozart and Haydn.

José Maurício Nunes Garcia Overture in D major
Dilexisti justitiam
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A major
José Maurício Nunes Garcia Tantum ergo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ave verum corpus
Joseph Haydn Divertimento in G major
José Maurício Nunes Garcia Litany of the Sorrows of Our Lady
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director and harpsichord
Katherine Spencer clarinet
Writer William Adamsdale poses with his arms crossed against a blue background. There is a pink effect around him that blurs.
Event
Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: AI, AI, Oh… by Will Adamsdale

Perrier Comedy and Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale presents a new autobiographical show about escape, creativity and technology.

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
Event
Cinema

I'm Still Here

In 1971 Brazil, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers at the hands of government, from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles.

Event
Cinema

Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Raoul Peck's touching film-documentary of Ernest Cole, the photographer to expose the horrors of South Africa's apartheid to the world.