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Noah Davis's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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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.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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Cinema

Flow

See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.  

Young people relax on the grass on a summer day.
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Cinema

Last Swim

Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.

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Cinema

La Cocina

Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.

Animated still of a woman and child in a winter landscape.
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Cinema

The Most Precious of Cargoes

An animated drama about a grieving woman discovers an abandoned baby and hopes to raise it with her reluctant woodcutter husband in a time of war.

Photo of concrete flytower surrounded by trees and plants in the Barbican Conservatory
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Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
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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.

Ryan Wigglesworth facing the camera, with blue circular swirls surrounding him
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Classical music

Wigglesworth conducts Debussy and Berg

Poetry unlocks the imagination, as Ryan Wigglesworth and soprano Sophie Bevan plunge into the wild, wondrous sonic universe of Claude Debussy and Alban Berg. 

Elaine Mitchener standing in front of washing machines in a laundrette, holding the open washing machine doors.
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Moving Eastman

Experience a new dance and sonic performance that takes inspiration from the intersectional life of the Black American composer Julius Eastman.

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Cinema

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

A middle aged man and his elderly mother smile in a crowd.
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Cinema

Four Mothers

An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family. 

Black Sound moving image display
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Library

Black Sound: The Story of British Black Music

Free

This spring, the Barbican Music Library hosts Black Sound London, a groundbreaking exhibition that demonstrates the outsized impact British Black music has had on the world stage.

Citra Sasmita in The Curve
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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's painting titled Pueblo del Rio: Arabesque, depicting six ballerinas dancing on the lawn outside a housing project.
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.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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Cinema

Family Film Club: Notebook Presents: Children’s Cinema

In partnership with MUBI’s Notebook magazine, a programme of experimental films for children and a free pre-film workshop in the cinema café from 10am!

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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

Animated still of a woman and child in a winter landscape.
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Cinema

The Most Precious of Cargoes

An animated drama about a grieving woman discovers an abandoned baby and hopes to raise it with her reluctant woodcutter husband in a time of war.

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Cinema

Flow

See the Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature following a lone cat who joins a ragtag group of animals after their home is destroyed by a flood in this lyrical-fantasy adventure.  

Cate Blanchett poses wearing silver sunglasses while standing in amongst flowers and lights.
Event
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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Cinema

Relaxed Screenings: The Stimming Pool

A unique look at daily life in this chaotic world from neurodiverse perspectives.

A middle aged man and his elderly mother smile in a crowd.
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Cinema

Four Mothers

An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family. 

Young people relax on the grass on a summer day.
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Cinema

Last Swim

Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.

Sad woman in the middle of a room.
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Cinema

I'm Still Here

In 1971 Brazil, Eunice Paiva (Fernanda Torres) is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers at the hands of government, from The Motorcycle Diaries director Walter Salles.

Hania Rani
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Contemporary music

Hania Rani & Ensemble present: Ghosts

The Polish pianist and composer, Hania Rani brings her ethereal album Ghosts, specially rearranged for a large ensemble. 

Santosh stares out of a train into a forest
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Cinema

Santosh

Young widow Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural bad lands of India, in this thrilling tale of moral conflict from British-Indian director Sandhya Suri

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Cinema

The End

Joshua Oppenheimer's post-apocalyptic musical about a family in denial at the end of the world, starring Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay and Moses Ingram.

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Cinema

La Cocina

Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.

Arvind Pal Singh Mandair talking into a microphone
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Classical music Contemporary music Talks & events

Talk: Exploring Guru Nanak's Philosophy of Oneness

Discover the universal aspects of Guru Nanak’s experiential philosophy of oneness, which underpins Nanak’s entire teaching about the nature of consciousness and reality.