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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.

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

Sinners

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite in a heart-pounding thriller where brothers return home for a fresh start - only to confront a chilling secret that refuses to stay buried.

An American soldier stands in a room flooded with pink light, hiding in the corner next to the window.
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Cinema

Warfare

Alex Garland's latest thriller is a collaboration with veteran Ray Mendoza, telling the story of the Iraq War from a US troop's perspective, following on from his research on Civil War.

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.

Actor Stephen Rea sits in front of a tape machine.
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Theatre & dance

Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape

Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.

The same person three times, they move around and embrace each other.
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Theatre & dance

Passion Fruit

Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono sit at a piano, reading music in their New York apartment
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Cinema

One to One: John & Yoko

A captivating documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time in 1970s New York, and the Beatles star's final full-length performance.

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Cinema

Julie Keeps Quiet

Leonardo van Dijl’s first feature film is a gripping psychological drama told from the perspective of a young athlete in crisis.

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.

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.  

An American soldier stands in a room flooded with pink light, hiding in the corner next to the window.
Event
Cinema

Warfare

Alex Garland's latest thriller is a collaboration with veteran Ray Mendoza, telling the story of the Iraq War from a US troop's perspective, following on from his research on Civil War.

Event
Cinema

Sinners

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite in a heart-pounding thriller where brothers return home for a fresh start - only to confront a chilling secret that refuses to stay buried.

Event
Cinema

An Army of Women

A documentary from Julie Lunde Lillesæter following a group of women in Austin, Texas, who join forces to legally challenge the system that allowed their rapists to walk free.

Three teenagers ride on top of a red tractor, grinning
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Cinema

Holy Cow

In rural France, 18-year-old Totone must face reality and take responsibility for his younger sister. His solution, to make the best Comté cheese in the region and bag the prize money. 

Actor Stephen Rea sits in front of a tape machine.
Event
Theatre & dance

Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape

Stephen Rea gives a 'hauntingly good' (Guardian) performance in this triumphant production of Samuel Beckett's solo masterpiece about memory, loneliness and lost love.

The same person three times, they move around and embrace each other.
Event
Theatre & dance

Passion Fruit

Brimming with joyful movement, brutal honesty and tender insight, this coming-of-age comedy-drama follows the life of Romeo, a Black, Gay, British-Jamaican boy growing up in North London.

Event
Cinema

Swimming Home

A surreal and darkly comic journey into the unresolved traumas that lurk in the shadows of all our lives, based on the novel by Deborah Levy.

Event
Cinema

Julie Keeps Quiet

Leonardo van Dijl’s first feature film is a gripping psychological drama told from the perspective of a young athlete in crisis.

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.

Event
Cinema

Relaxed Screening: The Brutalist

An architect escapes Europe to start a new life in America but struggles to move on from his past and build a new future. 

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

Event
Cinema

Parthenope

A sweeping romantic tale from Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, starring Celeste Dalla Porta and Gary Oldman.

Event
Cinema

Sinners

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite in a heart-pounding thriller where brothers return home for a fresh start - only to confront a chilling secret that refuses to stay buried.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono sit at a piano, reading music in their New York apartment
Event
Cinema

One to One: John & Yoko

A captivating documentary about John Lennon and Yoko Ono's time in 1970s New York, and the Beatles star's final full-length performance.

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

Visit the Conservatory

Free

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