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.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
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Cinema
Family Film Club: My Neighbour Totoro
The perfect half term finale – come along to Family Film Club for this animated classic from Studio Ghibli on the big screen.
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Cinema
The Lock-In
Our Cinema 1 transforms into a pub, screening Stanley Schtinter's archive EastEnders project, followed by a talk and a pub experience.
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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.
Event
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Classical musicContemporary musicTalks & events
Symphonic Electronics: Meet Steven Daverson
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Steven Daverson, creative sound engineers and others about symphonic electronics.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Iridescence
The UK premiere of Juste Janulyte’s Iridescence by the BBC Singers opens a portal into the expanding musical universe of symphonic electronics – 'symphonic' in the ancient Greek meaning 'harmonious'.
Programme to include:
Juste JanulyteIrridescene (UK premiere)
Guildhall School musicians
BBC Singers
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Continents, Computers and Electronic
Continents, computers and electric dreams: Tristan Murail’s non-electronic orchestral classic Gondwana charts a course to new worlds with electronics sound from Steven Daverson and Misato Mochizuki.
Steven DaversonFigures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background
Misato MochizukiIntrusions
Tristan MurailGondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkovconductor
Carl Faia live electronics
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Classical musicContemporary musicTalks & events
Symphonic Electronics: Meet Shiva Feshareki
BBC Radio 3’s Tom Service talks to composer Shiva Feshareki and sound systems designer Daniel Hulme about Feshareki’s new work Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Symphonic Electronics: Shiva Feshareki and Stockhausen
Vintage Stockhausen plus a new adventure from British-Iranian composer and sonic explorer Shiva Feshareki – the world premiere of her Barbican commission for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Shiva FesharekiBab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory
Karlheinz StockhausenCosmic Pulses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jack Sheenconductor
Shiva Fesharekiturntables, live spatial electronics, sound design
Daniel Hulme systems design
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Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Cinema
Chess of the Wind + The Crown Jewels of Iran + Intro
Two suppressed masterpieces, now restored to their true glory, not only showcase the use of colour in Iranian cinema but despite their visual splendour delve into the roots of decadence.
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Classical musicTheatre & dance
Guildhall School: Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove
Immerse yourself in the charm and wit of Mansfield Park, Jonathan Dove's enchanting opera based on Jane Austen’s novel, performed in the author's 250th anniversary year.
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Classical music
Martha Argerich with the Oxford Philharmonic
Following sensational concerts in Oxford and Germany last season, Martha Argerich returns to perform with the Oxford Philharmonic with concerts in both Oxford and London.
Samuel Coleridge-TaylorBallade
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 2
Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySymphony No 4
Martha Argerichpiano
Marios Papadopoulosconductor
Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra
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
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Cinema
The Sealed Soil & The House Is Black + Introduction
The two female-directed films that bookend Iranian New Wave, marking the beginning and final years of the movement, are now claimed as some of the greatest films of their time.
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Contemporary music
Brit Floyd: Wish You Were Here
Brit Floyd returns to the stage with their biggest and most spectacular production to date, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pink Floyd’s classic album Wish You Were Here.
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
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
Event
Classical musicTheatre & dance
Guildhall School: Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove
Immerse yourself in the charm and wit of Mansfield Park, Jonathan Dove's enchanting opera based on Jane Austen’s novel, performed in the author's 250th anniversary year.
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
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
Art & design
Citra Sasmita
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
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
