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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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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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.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

A group of people sit beside each other on the floor, drawing, colouring and collaging.
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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. 

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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

A black and white photograph of a black woman in a floral dress and white hat
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Classical music

Women of the Windrush

Abigail Kelly stars in Shirley J. Thompson’s one-woman, one-act opera which weaves together filmic documentary and song in a heart-warming love letter to the resilience of the Windrush settlers. 

Shirley J Thompson Women of the Windrush
Abigail Kelly soprano *
Melissa Morris piano *
Callie Nestleroth staging director
Shirley J Thompson artistic director
A man in 1800s clothes sits in a bright pink square.
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Cinema

NT Live: The Importance of Being Earnest

Three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated comedy.

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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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.

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

A person stands outside a newsstand, reading a newspaper. Signs and various magazines are visible in the background.
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Contemporary music

Barbican ClubStage: Wu-Lu, Denzel Himself & SHEIVA

The Barbican ClubStage showcasing the best of London's DIY music scene, with live performances from Denzel Himself and SHEIVA and a special genre-spanning DJ set from Wu-Lu.

Barbican Reimagined
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Adventure Day at the Barbican

Join us for a free adventure day of challenges, creative activities, and fun. Help us reimagine the Barbican’s future while enjoying hands-on experiences designed for families and children under 16.

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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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.

little girl and totoro screaming in to the air
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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.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

Two people chat over the Queen Vic bar.
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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. 

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. 

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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.

Wavy pink and white lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.
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Classical music Contemporary music Talks & 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.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

Wavy black lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.
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Classical music Contemporary 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 Janulyte Irridescene (UK premiere)
Guildhall School musicians
BBC Singers
Wavy white lines across spanning the length of the image, suggestive of sound waves. In the centre of the image is the outline of a quaver. Around it are blue circular swirls.
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Classical music Contemporary 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 Daverson Figures outside a Dacha, with Snowfall, and an Abbey in the Background
Misato Mochizuki Intrusions
Tristan Murail Gondwana
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ilan Volkov conductor
Carl Faia live electronics
A headshot of Shiva Feshareki, with circular blue swirls around her. In the background are black, wavy shapes suggestive of soundwaves.
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Classical music Contemporary music Talks & 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.

A headshot of Shiva Feshareki, with circular blue swirls around her. In the background are pink and white wavy shapes suggestive of soundwaves.
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Classical music Contemporary 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 Feshareki Bab-Khaneh: Gatehouse of Memory
Karlheinz Stockhausen Cosmic Pulses
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jack Sheen conductor
Shiva Feshareki turntables, live spatial electronics, sound design
Daniel Hulme systems design
Amir Feshareki costume design
Christopher Williams lighting design
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. 

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

A still from Chess of the Wind, showing a misty, orange-hued scene of a woman in a bath.
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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.