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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.

Citra Sasmita's Curve exhibition with hanging tapestries
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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. 

A person looks at an African artifact.
Event
Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Dahomey

Poetic documentary addressing self-determination and restitution as royal treasures are returned to the Republic of Benin (formerly Kingdom of Dahomey) from a Paris museum.

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

Parent & Baby Screening: 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.

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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

An Indian woman stares into the camera, a bandage on her nose, holding her hair up with one hand
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.

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
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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.

A young couple, the man wearing sunglasses and the woman sitting on his lap, smile and look into each others eyes.
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Cinema

Anora

Back on our screens after sweeping at the Oscars see Anora, a high-priced Brooklyn stripper become involved in a troubled romance by Sean Baker.

Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
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Talks & events

Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2025

Join us for an evening of readings and discussion with the shortlisted authors of The Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award chaired by acclaimed writer and judge Claire Adam.

Jordi Savall holding a treble viol, directing with his bow
Event
Classical music

Ibn Battuta: The Traveller of Time with Jordi Savall

Journey into the unknown with musical pioneer Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI in a concert inspired by the 14th-century Islamic scholar Ibn Battuta, and narrated by Peaky Blinders actor Assaad Bouab.

A person moves through a dark space, they are lit by a red light so that you can't see them as much as just a red figure moving through the space.
Event
Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: Joint by Jay Bernard

Weaving together personal experience, social history and real-life cases, Joint is a powerful, multi-media account of Joint Enterprise law by one of Britain's most exciting poets.

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.

Citra Sasmita's Curve exhibition with hanging tapestries
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. 

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.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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

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

The Last Showgirl

Shelly (Pamela Anderson) deals with the closing of her Las Vegas revue and reconciles with the life she has built in this joyous tribute to time gone by - and all the women who made it glitter. 

A person moves through a dark space, they are lit by a red light so that you can't see them as much as just a red figure moving through the space.
Event
Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: Joint by Jay Bernard

Weaving together personal experience, social history and real-life cases, Joint is a powerful, multi-media account of Joint Enterprise law by one of Britain's most exciting poets.

Lizz Wright
Event
Contemporary music

Lizz Wright

Performing her new album, Shadow, the sensational singer Lizz Wright brings us her soaring jazz, gospel, blues & folk infused sound. 

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.

An Indian woman stares into the camera, a bandage on her nose, holding her hair up with one hand
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.

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.

Citra Sasmita's Curve exhibition with hanging tapestries
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. 

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.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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

An Indian woman stares into the camera, a bandage on her nose, holding her hair up with one hand
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.