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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Italian Legacies

Swinging London meets Italian flair, 18th century style. AAM presents Georgian England in the company of Arne, Boyce, Geminiani and Bach. But not the Bach you’re expecting…

Basketball player and activist Katsiaryna Snytsina plays baketball between two pipes in an industrial setting.
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Theatre & dance

Belarus Free Theatre: KS6 Small Forward

A new production from the Olivier Award-nominated company, based on the extraordinary life story of Belarusian basketball player and activist Katsiaryna Snytsina.

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Cinema

A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet stars as a young Bob Dylan, navigating his early career in this biographical musical drama from James Mangold. 

Two middle-aged men stare skywards.
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Cinema

A Real Pain

Two cousins embark on a tour of Poland in honour of their beloved Jewish grandmother. 

I'm Not Okay (An Emo Retrospective) in black and pink colours
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Library

I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective

Free

A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.

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.

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 young woman and goblin pop their heads above a pipe.
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Cinema

Family Film Club: Labyrinth

Where everything seems possible and nothing is what it seems! Enter the world of Labyrinth, the cult classic from 1986 starring David Bowie and a pre-super stardom Jennifer Connelly.

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.

Three women look concerned inside an apartment.
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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: The Seed of the Sacred Fig

An Investigating Judge's appointment has serious consequences for his wife and daughters in this powerful drama. 

Two middle-aged men stare skywards.
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Cinema

A Real Pain

Two cousins embark on a tour of Poland in honour of their beloved Jewish grandmother. 

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. 

Basketball player and activist Katsiaryna Snytsina plays baketball between two pipes in an industrial setting.
Event
Theatre & dance

Belarus Free Theatre: KS6 Small Forward

A new production from the Olivier Award-nominated company, based on the extraordinary life story of Belarusian basketball player and activist Katsiaryna Snytsina.

Event
Cinema

Nickel Boys

RaMell Ross directs an adaption of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two friends attempting to survive the harshness of a segregated reform school in 1960s Jim Crow-era Florida.  

A black and white still from Brick and Mirror, showing a man and woman embracing in bed
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Cinema

Brick and Mirror + Introduction

Iranian cinema’s first true modern masterpiece, Brick and Mirror explores fear and responsibility in the wake of the 1953 coup orchestrated by the CIA and MI6.

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Cinema

A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet stars as a young Bob Dylan, navigating his early career in this biographical musical drama from James Mangold. 

In Conversation with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover
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Talks & events

In Conversation with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover

Join Jane Garvey and Fi Glover, the charismatic and dynamic duo behind the knockout Times Radio show, Off Air and BBC Radio 4 podcast, Fortunately as they take to the stage live.

Three women look concerned inside an apartment.
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Cinema

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

An Investigating Judge's appointment has serious consequences for his wife and daughters in this powerful drama from Iran.

Two women in a park - one resting her head on the shoulder of the other.
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Cinema

Hard Truths

A heartfelt portrait of family life, from prolific British filmmaker Mike Leigh.

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.

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
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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

Two women in a park - one resting her head on the shoulder of the other.
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Cinema

Members' Screening: Hard Truths

Members' event

A heartfelt portrait of family life, from prolific British filmmaker Mike Leigh.

Citra Sasmita, Act One (detail), 2024, from Into Eternal Land, The Curve, Barbican, 2025 © Citra Sasmita
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Art & design Talks & events

In-conversation: Somatic Cosmologies

A conversation with poets and writers Nikita Gill, Daisy Hildyard and Ariana Reines on how mapping the body can help to understand and even change the world.

Christmas in the Conservatory
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Talks & events

Concrete Garden: Imagining Worlds

Free

Explore words and worlds at this day of drop in readings, live events and workshops, nestled among the plants in our living, breathing conservatory. 

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. 

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Cinema

A Complete Unknown

Timothée Chalamet stars as a young Bob Dylan, navigating his early career in this biographical musical drama from James Mangold. 

A misty scene with a bright green tint, showing a woman standing next to a moored boat.
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Cinema

The Stranger and the Fog + Introduction

Impossible to see for decades, Bahram Beyzaie's dazzling film is a symbolic tale that pays tribute to the cinema of Akira Kurosawa in the most unexpected ways.

A red room with four tables and a chair. It looks like a seance.
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Art & design

In conversation: Writing Worlds

How do artists make worlds and imagine new possibilities? Discover more at this panel discussion featuring guest speakers Season Butler, Chloe Aridjis, Sarah Shin, Sammy Lee and Siri Rodnes.

A headshot of Season Butler.
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Talks & events

Season Butler Speculative Fiction Writing Workshop

Downfall: It's over. An empire falls, a tree is felled and spores disperse. Join Season Butler for this workshop about focus, tension, action and anticipation.