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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.

Charlie Cunningham in blurred, black and white image looking to the right pensively
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Contemporary music

Charlie Cunningham

Acclaimed London singer-songwriter Charlie Cunningham makes his Hall debut, performing new music from his highly anticipated fourth album, In Light.

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.

An image of the conservatory
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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.

An overgrown graveyard with pink flowers in front of a block of flats.
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Take part Talks & 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?

Figures are dancing in a dark room lit by yellow, green and blue lights.
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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. 

Dessert for Constance
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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.

Acting
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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.

A person walks around a wooded area.
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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.

Seven members of the National Open Youth Orchestra holding instruments against a blue background surrounded by neon vectors
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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.

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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.

Silhouettes of people dancing in a room lit by a blue light.
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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.

Not Here, But Everywhere
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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.

An image of participants in a singing workshop.
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Take part Talks & events

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.

The silhouette of a person can be seen from inside a bubble, their hand is pressed against the material.
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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.

Seeking Mavis Beacon
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Cinema

CYFF: Preview: Seeking Mavis Beacon + Panel Discussion

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.

Two members of band Kaavish on stage
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Classical music Contemporary 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.

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.

conclave
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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). 

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Black Sound moving image display
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.

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
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Cinema_2025_Queer East_Some Nights I Feel Like Walking
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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.

The Carducci Quartet in a forest, standing in a row holding their instruments
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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.

Black Sound moving image display
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.

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.

Cinema_2025_Queer East_Incidental Journey
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Cinema

Where Is My Love? + Incidental Journey

A screening of two ground-breaking works from female filmmaking pioneer Jo-Fei Chen that take a close look at the lives of contemporary gay and lesbian communities.