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Writer William Adamsdale poses with his arms crossed against a blue background. There is a pink effect around him that blurs.
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Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: AI, AI, Oh… by Will Adamsdale

Perrier Comedy and Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale presents a new autobiographical show about escape, creativity and technology.

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.

Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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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.

Into Eternal Land exhibition photograph. Long painted scrolls line concrete walls.
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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 group of animals stand in a house around a birthday cake.
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Cinema

Family Film Club: Fox and Hare Save the Forest

A stunning stop motion animation about Fox and Hare and their friends.

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: Mickey 17

Robert Pattinson is willing to die over and over again to save humankind, from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho

Photo of concrete flytower surrounded by trees and plants in the Barbican Conservatory
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Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

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.

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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.

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
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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.

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

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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. 

An ensemble cast stands together
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Cinema

MET Opera Live: Fidelio

To free her husband from his unjust incarceration, Leonore disguises herself as 'Fidelio' the prison guard, to set her love free.

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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

Photograph of a section of the Jazz at Lincoln Centre Orchestra
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Classical music Contemporary music

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, LSO & Sir Antonio Pappano

Wynton Marsalis and Sir Antonio Pappano blend jazz, blues and classical music in the crossover collaboration with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 

Writer William Adamsdale poses with his arms crossed against a blue background. There is a pink effect around him that blurs.
Event
Talks & events Theatre & dance

FuelFest: AI, AI, Oh… by Will Adamsdale

Perrier Comedy and Fringe First winner Will Adamsdale presents a new autobiographical show about escape, creativity and technology.

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.

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.

Into Eternal Land exhibition photograph. Long painted scrolls line concrete walls.
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

Members' Screening: Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Members' event

Raoul Peck's touching film-documentary of Ernest Cole, the photographer who exposed the horrors of South Africa's apartheid to the world.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Photo of concrete flytower surrounded by trees and plants in the Barbican Conservatory
Event
Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

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.

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

Guildhall School flute, viola and harp trio
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Classical music

Guildhall Chamber Music Festival: Sunday Afternoon Concert

This Sunday afternoon concert offers the chance to enjoy a delightful programme of Brahms, Dohnányi and Sally Beamish as part of the Guildhall Chamber Music Festival.

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

Adrien Brody stares down into camera, smoking
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Cinema

The Brutalist

An architect escapes Europe to start a new life in America but struggles to move on from his past and build a new future. 

Levon Chilingirian rehearsing with Guildhall string players
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Classical music

Guildhall School Chamber Music Festival: Finale

For the finale of Guildhall School’s 2025 Chamber Music Festival, Guildhall performers and professors present a rich programme of music by Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Stamitz and Fauré.