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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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Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Citra Sasmita

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Join Barbican Young Poets for an evening of performances and readings inspired by Citra Sasmita's exhibition, Into Eternal Land

Slavoj Žižek
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Slavoj Žižek at 75 – A Celebration

Join the rockstar philosopher and revolutionary Slavoj Žižek for a celebration of his life and thought. Expect dialectics, psychoanalysis, and jokes.

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Concrete Garden: Experiments in Utopia

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Step inside our iconic conservatory for a day of talks, performances and workshops centred around intentional community building.

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Concrete Garden: May Day

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Come together and celebrate the traditional springtime festival in our iconic conservatory at a day of talks and workshops. 

Jason Moran
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Talk: Jason Moran on Noah Davis and music making

Join American jazz pianist and composer Jason Moran in the Art Gallery as he explores different contexts for music making, taking inspiration from the paintings of Noah Davis.

Barbican Conservatory
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Concrete Garden: Listening to Images

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Join us for a day of pop up readings, discussions, performances and workshops centred around Tina Campt's idea of 'listening to images'. 
 

A painting of two teenage girls asleep on a sofa. One has her head leant against the arm of the sofa, the other is laying beside her. On the left, the legs of another figure can be seen sitting in an adjacent seat. There are a pair of black shoes on the floor.
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In conversation: Black Worlding

Join artist and director Jenn Nkiru alongside other artists, musicians and cultural mavericks for a talk about intersectional creativity and "Black Worlding". 

An Evening with Guenther Steiner
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Guenther Steiner: Unfiltered LIVE

Fasten your seatbelts for a hugely entertaining conversation spanning a decade inside Formula 1, with former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner, star of Netflix’s smash hit Drive to Survive

Miriam Margolyes: From A-Z
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Miriam Margolyes: From A to Z

What do arseholes, America, apostrophes, and ageing all have in common? In Miriam Margolyes’ world, they’re the perfect material for wit, wisdom, and unfiltered stories.

An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
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An Evening with Fran Lebowitz

In a cultural landscape filled with endless pundits and talking heads, Fran Lebowitz stands out as one of our most insightful social commentators.

David Olusoga: A Gun Through Time
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David Olusoga: A Gun Through Time

Known for his acclaimed documentaries Black and British: A Forgotten History and A House Through Time, David Olusoga offers remarkable storytelling in this powerful and enlightening social narrative.