An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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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Cinema
La Cocina
Alonso Ruizpalacios' latest drama where emotions boil and steam in the busy kitchen of a NYC restaurant.
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Cinema
Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
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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.
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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
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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
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
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
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 WilliamsSerenade to Music
Doreen CarwithenConcerto for Piano and Strings
Malcolm ArnoldSymphony No 5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramoconductor
Alexandra Dariescupiano
BBC Singers
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
Cinema
Family Film Club: Paddington in Peru
Paddington Bear (voiced with gentle charm by Ben Whishaw) is back for this third instalment that sees him leave rainy England for a heart-warming family adventure in his homeland.
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Cinema
Parent & Baby Screening: Four Mothers
An irresistible, feel-good comedy-drama from Ireland about generational relationships and found family.
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Classical music
Sunwook Kim plays Beethoven
Pianist Sunwook Kim multi-tasks with the high octane Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a concert featuring Beethoven's Piano Concertos 3 and 4.
Anna ClyneStride
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 3
Ludwig van BeethovenRondino in Eb Major for wind octet
Ludwig van BeethovenPiano Concerto No 4
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Sunwook Kimpiano/director
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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.
