This joyous and defiant ★★★★★ (The Stage) reimagining breathes new life into Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.
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Contemporary music
Charlie Cunningham
Acclaimed London singer-songwriterCharlie Cunningham makes his Hall debut, performing new music from his highly anticipated fourth album, In Light.
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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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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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Talks & events
Experiments in Utopia: Conservatory Takeover
Free
Step inside our iconic conservatory for a day of talks, interventions, and workshops exploring practices of intentionality and experimentation in the interplay of community and creativity.
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Take partTalks & events
Experiments in Utopia: Solfi Sound – Noise from Nowhere
Join Solfi for this sound workshop and create a collective song about utopia in the here and now. What does togetherness sound like in a broken world?
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Talks & events
Experiments in Utopia: Keynote Talk
In a climate of fear and division, how do we forge communities of hope to enable experimentation and imagine better futures? Discover more at this keynote talk.
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Cinema
CYFF: Dessert for Constance
This archival film centres on two Senegalese street sweepers who stumble into the world of French cuisine, raising questions of migration and belonging in 70s Paris.
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Cinema
Acting + ScreenTalk
Sophie Fiennes’ immersive film offers privileged access to the experience of making theatre with pioneering practitioners, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of Cheek By Jowl.
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Talks & events
Experiments in Utopia: Embodied Care Workshop
Join Yello Yaad for this immersive workshop on embodied care and the practices of connection and reciprocity, led by Josh Woolford and Sippin' T.
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Classical music
National Open Youth Orchestra: Ring Out! No more barriers
Experience the emotionally charged performances of one of the most exciting youth orchestras in the world.
Liam Taylor-WestRing Out! (world premiere)
Yfat Soul ZissoFragile (world premiere)
Lucky ChopsBehroozi
Meredith MonkParlour Games
Kate WhitleyFalling
Oliver CrossBarriers
National Open Youth Orchestra
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Theatre & dance
Hamlet: Teatro La Plaza
This joyous and defiant ★★★★★ (The Stage) reimagining breathes new life into Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy.
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Talks & events
Experiments in Utopia: More Than Human Togetherness
Join us at this Experiments in Utopia talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality.
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Cinema
CYFF: Shorts Programme: Not Here, But Everywhere + Q&A
A collection of shorts exploring how absence lingers through rest, censorship, loss, miscommunication, and erasure–followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers.
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Experiments in Utopia: The Singing Village Workshop
Join this workshop and be part of a timeless space where people come together to create and receive sound.
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Talks & events
Experiments in Utopia: Perceptual Drift
Step inside a calming, sensory pop-up bubble on our sculpture court—an installation offering space to regulate your nervous system and explore alternative states of togetherness.
Hey Siri, have you heard of Mavis Beacon? Jazmin Jones’ debut feature follows two chronically online investigators as they search for the Black woman behind the iconic 80s typing game.
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Classical musicContemporary music
Kaavish Live in Concert
Experience the soulful melodies of acclaimed Pakistani contemporary classical band, Kaavish, as they bring their signature sound to the stage.
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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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Cinema
Senior Community Screening: Conclave
Director Edward Berger's (All Quiet on the Western Front) thriller follows one of the world's most secretive events - selecting the new Pope, tasked to Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes).
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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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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
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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Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
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Cinema
Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
A teenage runaway meets a group of street hustlers at a Manila bus terminal one night.
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Classical music
Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 4
Four quartets unite to perform the Chamber Symphony enlargement of Shostakovich’s 8th quartet, crowning a programme including Firsova’s ardent, deftly-plotted Quartet No 4.
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 4
Quartet No 13
Elena FirsovaQuartet No 4
Dmitri ShostakovichQuartet No 8
Carducci Quartet
Elmore Quartet
Kyan Quartet
Oculus Quartet
Chris Westdouble bass
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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
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
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.
Event
Cinema
Where Is My Love? + Incidental Journey
A screening of two ground-breaking works from female filmmaking pioneer Jo-Fei Chenthat take a close look at the lives of contemporary gay and lesbian communities.