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
Last Swim
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
Event
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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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.
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.
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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.
Event
Art & designTake partTalks & 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.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
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.
Event
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.
Event
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.
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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 SchubertDie Zauberharfe – Overture, ‘Rosamunde’
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor & presenter
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Art & designTake partTalks & 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 & designTalks & 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.
Event
Cinema
Last Swim
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
Event
Cinema
Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
Event
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.
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.
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
Art & designTake partTalks & 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.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Cinema
Last Swim
Look forward to summer in the city with this British coming-of-age drama about friendship and an uncertain future.
Event
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.
Event
Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
Event
Cinema
Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
Event
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.
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Take partTalks & events
Barbican Community Choir
Share the joy of singing with others and make new friends at this new community choir that comes together weekly on Thursdays led by Rachel Huggins and Abdul Shyllon.
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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 SchubertDie Zauberharfe – Overture, ‘Rosamunde’
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1
Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra
Gianandrea Nosedaconductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimardpiano
Event
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.
Event
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.
