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.
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
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
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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
The End
Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.
Event
Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
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
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
Art & designCinema
Delusions of Grandeur: A response to Noah Davis
A series of films that explore the monumental within the everyday, confronting memory, community, and identity with intimacy and innovation taking inspiration from Noah Davis's Delusions of Grandeur.
Event
Take partTalks & 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.
Event
Art & designTalks & events
Architecture on Stage: New Architects
A talk from some of the most exciting, emerging architects working in Britain today: Artefact, Brisco Loran, Izat Arundell and Nebbia Works.
Event
Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda
Shostakovich in both revolutionary and festive mood alongside a MacMillan Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti.
Dmitri ShostakovichFestive Overture
Sir James MacMillanViolin Concerto No 2
Dmitri ShostakovichSymphony No 12, The Year 1917
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Nicola Benedetti violin
Event
Classical musicTheatre & dance
Moving Eastman
Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.
Elaine Mitchenervocals, movement and music direction
Dam Van Huynhconcept, choreography and direction
The Rolling Calf:
Jason Yardesaxophone, electronics
Neil Charlesbass, electronics
Xhosa Colesaxophone, percussion
Event
Cinema
Sister Midnight
An arranged marriage traps this oddball couple in domestic hell, solved only through delving into the darkness of dreams, in Karan Kandhari's debut feature comedy.
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.
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
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
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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
Last Swim
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
Event
Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
Event
Cinema
The Most Precious of Cargoes
An animated drama about a grieving woman discovers an abandoned baby and hopes to raise it with her reluctant woodcutter husband in a time of war.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Visit the Conservatory
Free
Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.
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
Classical music
Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg
Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg.
Alban BergThree Pieces from the Lyric Suite
Claude Debussy (arr Adams)Le livre de Baudelaire
Alban BergThe Wine
Claude Debussy Nocturnes
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworthconductor
Sophie Bevansoprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
Event
Cinema
The End
Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.
Event
Classical musicTheatre & dance
Moving Eastman
Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.
Elaine Mitchenervocals, movement and music direction
Dam Van Huynhconcept, choreography and direction
The Rolling Calf:
Jason Yardesaxophone, electronics
Neil Charlesbass, electronics
Xhosa Colesaxophone, percussion
Event
Cinema
Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
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.
