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
Members' Screening: Santosh
Members' event
Young widow Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural bad lands of India, in this thrilling tale of moral conflict from British-Indian director, Sandhya Suri.
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Talks & events
Hackney Herbal Workshop
Join Nat from Hackney Herbal as she shares her top tips for gardening in a way that is earth friendly.
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Talks & events
Fertile Ground
Free
Bed into our Conservatory for a day of talks, workshops and performances on ecology and fertile ground.
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Talks & events
Wild Alchemy: Shared Horizons Workshop
Join us for a guided visualisation through a biotherapeutic soundscape followed by a discussion and response session that investigates our relationship to ecological consciousness.
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Cinema
RBO Live 24-25: Romeo & Juliet
The greatest love story ever told – through ballet. An ancient family feud casts a long shadow over Verona. In this hothouse of tension, and both sides get caught in the crossfire.
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Talks & events
10 years of Hackney Herbal
Join Hackney Herbal at this panel talk to discuss community herbalism and how it can help to nurture our communities.
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Talks & events
Slime Workshop
Explore the art of making eco-friendly slime from natural ingredients at this workshop in our Garden Room.
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
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Cinema
Parent & Baby Screening: 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.
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Theatre & dance
Guildhall School: Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale
Enter the world of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, a spellbinding journey through jealousy, loss, and forgiveness.
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CinemaClassical musicTalks & events
Music in Prime Time: A History of TV Themes and Scoring
Jon Burlingame, one of the most respected writers on film and TV music, discusses his book ‘Music in Prime Time’ with London Soundtrack Festival Artistic Director, Tommy Pearson.
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Classical music
Guildhall School: Spring Opera Scenes
Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment.
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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
CinemaClassical musicTalks & events
The Silence of the Lambs In Concert + Q&A with Howard Shore
The classic, multi-Oscar-winning film screened in synchronisation with Howard Shore's score for the first time, as part of the London Soundtrack Festival.
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
Classical music
Britten Sinfonia: Magnum Opus Composer Scheme 2025
Enjoy three short premieres from the composers embarking on this year’s edition of Britten Sinfonia’s composer development scheme.
Errollyn WallenNnenna
Michael BetteridgeNew work
Leoni KingNew work
George StevensonNew work
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Cinema
New East Cinema: Under The Grey Sky
After a Belarusian journalist is arrested for livestreaming the government’s crackdown on peaceful demonstrations, she and her husband are forced into a fight against an inhumane regime.
Event
Classical music
Guildhall School: Spring Opera Scenes
Outstanding performers from the first year of Guildhall School’s Opera Course present classical and contemporary operatic excerpts with piano accompaniment.
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
Berliner Barock Solisten: Bach's Complete Keyboard Concertos
The Berliner Barock Solisten and pianist Alexandros Kapelis come together for Bach’s six concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra: a tour-de-force not seen on the concert stage in recent memory.
Johann Sebastian BachConcerto for keyboard and orchestra in D major, BWV 1054
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in A major, BWV 1055
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in D minor, BWV 1052
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in E major, BWV 1053
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in F minor, BWV 1056
Concerto for keyboard and orchestra in G minor, BWV 1058
Berliner Barock Solisten Baroque Ensemble of the Berlin Philharmonic
Alexandros Kapelispiano
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Classical music
Britten Sinfonia: 1945 – A Kind of Haunting
80 years after the end of WWII, we hear musical responses from then and now.
Bohuslav MartinůDouble Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani
Richard StraussMetamorphosen
Michael Zev GordonA Kind of Haunting (world premiere)
