Cate Blanchett and Tom Burke make their return to the stage in Thomas Ostermeier's new production of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL.
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Talks & events
Barbican Community Choir
Do you enjoy singing? Would you like to share the joy and enrichment of singing with others? Join our new community choir that comes together every week on a Thursday evening.
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Cinema
NT Live: Dr Strangelove
BAFTA Award winner Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge, The Trip) plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.
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Art & designTalks & events
Claudia Rankine: New Approaches to Autobiography
Join American poet and playwright Claudia Rankine as she examines the shifting terms of autobiography in contemporary Black artmaking.
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Classical music
Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 3
The multinational young Kyan Quartet joins the Carduccis as Gubaidulina’s compact Quartet No 2 is stitched into a Shostakovich sequence including the penultimate quartet, with its focus on the cello.
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 14
Quartet No 11
Sofia GubaidulinaQuartet No 2
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 2
Carducci Quartet
Kyan Quartet
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Contemporary music
Spiritualized: Pure Phase
The orchestral space rockers play their seminal 1995 album Pure Phase in its entirety for a rare performance.
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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.
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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.
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Cinema
Relaxed Screening: Inside My Heart + ScreenTalk
The UK premiere of an extraordinary documentary following the rehearsal of movement and speech amongst an ensemble of neurodivergent and disabled actors staging a strange and beautiful fairy tale.
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Art & designTalks & events
Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Noah Davis
Young Barbican
Join Barbican Young Poets alumni at this special performance inspired by the work of Noah Davis, in collaboration with poet Claudia Rankine.
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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.
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Talks & events
How to Fail Live with Elizabeth Day
Join creator and host of the How to Fail podcast,Elizabeth Day, for an uplifting, hilarious, moving and unforgettable evening.
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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.
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.
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Cinema
Family Film Club: Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang + Intro
We’re super excited to welcome Susanna White to introduce the screening and tell us a bit about what a film director’s job is!
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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.
Event
Classical music
Junior Guildhall Symphony Orchestra
Julian Clayton conducts the outstanding young musicians of Junior Guildhall in a programme of 20th-century America-inspired works.
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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.
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
CinemaClassical music
Pierre Boulez - Boulez at the BBC (film)
Two classic BBC Television Boulez documentaries - a compilation fronted by Tom Service, and one of Barrie Gavin's many celebrated films.
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Classical musicTalks & events
Pierre Boulez - The Man and the Music
Musicologist Professor Jonathan Cross talks to former members of the BBC SO as well as former Radio 3 Controller Sir Nicholas Kenyon – about their personal experience of working with Pierre Boulez.
Professor Jonathan Cross
Sir Nicholas Kenyon
Daniel Meyer
Caroline Harrison
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Classical music
Pierre Boulez – The Second Piano Sonata
Boulez’s shattering Second Piano Sonata, and two extraordinary works for solo clarinet, performed by the talented musicians of the Guildhall School and introduced by BBC Radio 3’s Kate Molleson.
Pierre BoulezDomaines for solo clarinet
Piano Sonata No 2
Dialogue de l’ombre double for clarinet and tape
Guildhall School musicians
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Classical musicTalks & events
Pierre Boulez – The Legacy
Musicologist Professor Jonathan Cross talks to Dame Gillian Moore – a lifelong advocate for Boulez’s music – about his creative and cultural legacy.
Professor Jonathan Cross
Gillian Moore
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Classical music
Pierre Boulez – Pli selon pli
An evening-long tribute to the limitless creative mind of Pierre Boulez, culminating in a rare performance of his five-movement epic masterpiece Pli selon Pli.
Pierre BoulezDeux Études, musique concrète for tape
12 Notations
Incises
Cummings ist der Dichter
Pli selon pli
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbinsconductor
Tamara Stefanovichpiano
Anna Dennissoprano
BBC Singers
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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.
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Cinema
Senior Community Screening: Emilia Pérez
Passion has a new name. Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldaña and Selena Gomez star in Jacques Audiard's audacious fever dream.
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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.
Event
Contemporary music
Ichiko Aoba
Japanese folk singer-songwriter Ichiko Aoba performs her latest album, Luminescent Creatures alongside 12 Ensemble.
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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.
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.
