Sounding out the hidden depths of a human voice, this new show creates a beautifully unsettling world where string instruments are played with swords.
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Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/ Half Six Fix – Beethoven
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adèsconductor & presenter
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Theatre & dance
RSC/Wise Children: The Buddha of Suburbia
This ‘glorious and intoxicating five-star’ (Times) production based on Hanif Kureishi’s award-winning novel transfers for a limited 4-week season only.
Event
Theatre & dance
Finn Beames & Company: Quiet Songs
Sounding out the hidden depths of a human voice, this new show creates a beautifully unsettling world where string instruments are played with swords.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
Event
Cinema
Cinema Restored: Der Kampf um den heiligen Baum
Traditional African beliefs conflict with missionary domination in a rural Kenyan village in Wanjiru Kinyanjui's powerful drama, centring around a supernatural tree.
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Classical music
London Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Adès
Composers being playful: early Beethoven's wit and jokes pair with a cat-and-mouse chase around the orchestra from Ondřej Adámek.
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 1
Ondřej AdámekFollow Me (Concerto for Violin and Orchestra)
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No 4
London Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adèsconductor
Isabelle Faustviolin
Event
Theatre & dance
RSC/Wise Children: The Buddha of Suburbia
This ‘glorious and intoxicating five-star’ (Times) production based on Hanif Kureishi’s award-winning novel transfers for a limited 4-week season only.
Event
Theatre & dance
Finn Beames & Company: Quiet Songs
Sounding out the hidden depths of a human voice, this new show creates a beautifully unsettling world where string instruments are played with swords.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
Event
Theatre & dance
RSC/Wise Children: The Buddha of Suburbia
This ‘glorious and intoxicating five-star’ (Times) production based on Hanif Kureishi’s award-winning novel transfers for a limited 4-week season only.
Event
Classical music
Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto
Expect epic visions and piano playing that’s out of this world when Kirill Gerstein and Sakari Oramo champion Ferruccio Busoni’s stupendous Piano Concerto, as well as music by Grazyna Bacewicz.
Grazyna BacewiczSymphony No 2
Ferrucio BusoniPiano Concerto
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramoconductor
Kirill Gersteinpiano
BBC Symphony Chorus (lower voices)
Event
Theatre & dance
Finn Beames & Company: Quiet Songs
Sounding out the hidden depths of a human voice, this new show creates a beautifully unsettling world where string instruments are played with swords.
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.
Event
Theatre & dance
RSC/Wise Children: The Buddha of Suburbia
This ‘glorious and intoxicating five-star’ (Times) production based on Hanif Kureishi’s award-winning novel transfers for a limited 4-week season only.
Event
Theatre & dance
Finn Beames & Company: Quiet Songs
Sounding out the hidden depths of a human voice, this new show creates a beautifully unsettling world where string instruments are played with swords.
Event
Art & designCinema
Rewriting the Rules: The Circus Tent
A visually stunning and poetic exploration of the inner lives of a travelling circus trope in which old age, loneliness and regret becomes magnified through Govindan Aravindan’s salient observation.
Event
Classical music
Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma reunites with long-time duo partner Kathryn Stott in two masterly sonatas and sublimely unruffled Arvo Pärt.
Gabriel FauréBerceuse
Antonín DvořákSongs My Mother Taught Me
Sérgio AssadMenino
Nadia BoulangerCantique
Gabriel FauréPapillon
Dmitri ShostakovichSonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Arvo PärtSpiegel im Spiegel
César FranckSonata in A Major for Violin and Piano
Yo-Yo Macello
Kathryn Stottpiano
Event
Art & designTours & public spaces
Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Free
This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Art & design
Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears
Free
In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.