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.
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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.
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Home: Family Drawing Workshops
Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.
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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.
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Cinema
Family Film Club: Paddington in Peru
Paddington Bear (voiced with gentle charm by Ben Whishaw) is back for this third instalment that sees him leave rainy England for a heart-warming family adventure in his homeland.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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Cinema
Parent & Baby Screening: Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
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Cinema
Holy Cow
In rural France, 18-year-old Totone must face reality and take responsibility for his younger sister. His solution, to make the best Comté cheese in the region and bag the prize money.
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Cinema
One to One: John & Yoko
A captivating documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time in 1970's New York, and the Beatle's stars final full-length performance.
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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
Santosh
Young widow Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural bad lands of India, in this thrilling tale of moral conflict from British-Indian director Sandhya Suri.
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Cinema
Flow
See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.
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Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
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Cinema
Last Swim
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
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Classical music
Sunwook Kim plays Beethoven
Pianist Sunwook Kim multi-tasks with the high octane Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a concert featuring Beethoven's Piano Concertos 3 and 4.
Anna ClyneStride
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 3
Ludwig van BeethovenRondino in Eb Major for wind octet
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 4
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sunwook Kimpiano/director
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Cinema
Restless
Jed Hart's debut psycho-thriller sees a withdrawn care worker who has her world turned upside down after a hard partying neighbour moves in next door.
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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.
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.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Cinema
Members' Screening: Last Swim
Members' event
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
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Tours & public spaces
Visit the Conservatory
Free
Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.
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Cinema
Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
Event
Cinema
One to One: John & Yoko
A captivating documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time in 1970's New York, and the Beatle's stars final full-length performance.
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
Santosh
Young widow Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural bad lands of India, in this thrilling tale of moral conflict from British-Indian director Sandhya Suri.
Event
Cinema
Flow
See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.
Event
Cinema
Holy Cow
In rural France, 18-year-old Totone must face reality and take responsibility for his younger sister. His solution, to make the best Comté cheese in the region and bag the prize money.
Event
Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestral fireworks with early Shostakovich and Schnittke, joined by the London Symphony Chorus for some stirring Brahms.
Alfred Schnittke Violin Concerto No 1 (Allegro non tanto; Andante; Allegro scherzando)
Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No 2, To October
Johannes Brahms Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor
Lisa Batiashviliviolin
London Symphony Chorus
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Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
Event
Cinema
Restless
Jed Hart's debut psycho-thriller sees a withdrawn care worker who has her world turned upside down after a hard partying neighbour moves in next door.
