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The queens perform on the stage with the band behind them.
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Cinema

SIX the Musical Live!

The long-awaited filmed performance featuring the six original West End queens of the multi award-winning musical is finally on the big screen for a one-off, showstopping cinematic experience!

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.

Image of a person's hand fixing a n old camera
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Art & design Cinema Talks & events

Film Club Animation Workshop

Join artist Nia Fekri for a week-long workshop exploring drawing and scratching techniques on 16mm film, where you'll create your own animation film from start to finish.

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
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Art & design Talks & events

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.

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 man and a woman stand in front of a large painting depicting people lounging on the grass next to a large body of water.
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Audio Described Tour

An Audio Described tour of the exhibition, for blind and partially sighted visitors, led by Lisa Squirrel, who will describe key works on display.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

The profile of Clint and Kyle Eastwood in an graphic style
Event
Contemporary music

Eastwood Symphonic

Cancelled

Unfortunately, this how has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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.

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
Event
Art & design Talks & events

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.

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.

The queens perform on the stage with the band behind them.
Event
Cinema

SIX the Musical Live!

The long-awaited filmed performance featuring the six original West End queens of the multi award-winning musical is finally on the big screen for a one-off, showstopping cinematic experience!

Prospect Cottage
Event
Classical music Contemporary music Theatre & dance

Derek Jarman: MODERN NATURE

Derek Jarman’s Modern Nature is adapted by Living Productions & Bold Tendencies in a unique tribute to the iconic artist, author & activist, combining readings, music & footage from his Super 8 Films.

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.

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
Event
Art & design Talks & events

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.

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.

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda holds a microphone and presents his pre-concert Half Six Fix talk
Event
Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Prokofiev 2

Kick-start your evening with a Half Six Fix concert. One piece in a 60-minute concert, introduced by the performers, with screens in the hall to bring you closer to the action.

A group of people sit beside each other on the floor, drawing, colouring and collaging.
Event
Art & design Talks & events

Home: Figure and Portrait Drawing Workshops

Express yourself freely and creatively at this figure and portrait drawing course that will encourage you to reflect on the themes of family and the home. 

A poet performs on stage, they hold onto a page and speaks into a microphone.
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Art & design Talks & events

Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Citra Sasmita

Free

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

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.

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
Event
Art & design Talks & events

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.

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.

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
Event
Art & design

Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Kitty Gurnos-Davies

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on this tour of the exhibition that charts Davis’s work as a painter, curator and community builder.

Two headshots: One person in a purple scarf sits in front of a tree and poses for the camera and another person in a suit stands in front of a red background.
Event
Talks & 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.