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Cinema

RBO Live 24-25: Turandot

Puccini’s captivating opera of a cold-hearted princess and her mysterious suitor. Featuring the ever-popular ‘Nessun dorma’, this opera of love and revenge is brought to life in a dazzling production.

Kirpal Panesar
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Classical music Contemporary music

Guru Nanak and Indian Classical Music

Kirpal Panesar takes us on a musical journey that is both meditative and profound, exploring Guru Nanak's connection between spiritual verses and music.

Kirpal Panesar esraj
Painting of Guru Nanak
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Classical music Contemporary music

Guru Nanak’s Message of Peace through Music 

Immerse yourself in inspired spiritual music as we mark Guru Nanak’s 555th birth celebration, paying homage through kirtan, qawaali and bhajans performed together for the first time under one roof.

Anantvir Singh gurbani kirtan
Amrita Kaur gurbani kirtan
Aruna Sairam abang/bhajan
Zeeshan Ali sufi singer
Momin Khan sarangi
Gurdain Rayatt tabla
Surdarshan Chana jori/tabla
Patri Satish Kumar mridangam
Giridhar Udupa ghatam
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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. 

The profile of Clint and Kyle Eastwood in an graphic style
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Contemporary music

Eastwood Symphonic

Eastwood Symphonic is a tribute from a son to his father the actor, director, musician and animal rights activist Clint Eastwood.

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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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.

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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.

Conductor Gianandrea Noseda holds a microphone and presents his pre-concert Half Six Fix talk
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Prokofiev 2

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.

Franz Schubert Die Zauberharfe – Overture, ‘Rosamunde’
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor & presenter
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. 

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Art & design Talks & events

Barbican Young Poets: In Response to Citra Sasmita

Free

Join Barbican Young Poets for an evening of performances and readings inspired by Citra Sasmita's exhibition, Into Eternal Land. 

A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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
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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.

Noah Davis Pueblo del Rio
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Art & design

Noah Davis: Curator Tour with Kitty Gurnos-Davies

Join curatorial assistant Kitty Gurnos-Davies on this tour of the exhibition that charts Davis’s work as a painter, curator and community builder.

Two headshots: One person in a purple scarf sits in front of a tree and poses for the camera and another person in a suit stands in front of a red background.
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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. 

Pianist Alice Sara Ott performing on the Barbican Hall stage. She has short black hair and is wearing a sleevless black top.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda

Prokofiev’s mind-blowing second Symphony, plus early Beethoven and a charming opener from Schubert.

Franz Schubert Die Zauberharfe – Overture, ‘Rosamunde’
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
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Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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.

Sakari Oramo conducting, with pink orange swirls around him
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra: Oramo conducts Vaughan Williams

England’s dreaming: Sakari Oramo rediscovers rare and wonderful British masterpieces by Vaughan Williams, Doreen Carwithen and Malcolm Arnold. 

Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Doreen Carwithen Concerto for Piano and Strings
Malcolm Arnold Symphony No 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo conductor
Alexandra Dariescu piano
BBC Singers
A person lies on the floor on a large piece of white paper. A group of people draw around them using a range of pens and pencils.
Event
Art & design Talks & events

Home: Family Drawing Workshops

Draw, paint and collage at these fun family workshop sessions that explore what home and family means to you and your loved ones.

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.

Sunwook Kim sitting at a grand piano
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Classical music

Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Sunwook Kim

Pianist Sunwook Kim multi-tasks with the high octane Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a concert featuring a Beethoven double.  

Anna Clyne Stride
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 3
Ludwig van Beethoven Rondino in Eb Major for wind octet
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sunwook Kim piano/director
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.