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
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.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
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.
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
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
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
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.
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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.
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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.
Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savallconductor
Assaad Bouabnarrator
Lingling Yupipa
Minh Trang Nguyenzheng
Yurdal Tokcanoud
Hakan Güngörkanun
Daud Sadozairebab & sarod
Prabhu Edouardtablas & zir baghali
Pierre Hamoncornamuse & flutes
Effren Lópezmedieval lute & vielle a rue
Guillermo Pérezorganetto
David Mayoralpercussion
Dimitris Psonissantur
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Talks & eventsTheatre & 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.
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
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
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.
Event
Talks & eventsTheatre & 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.
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.
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
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
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.
