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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: Urchin

Harris Dickinson’s directorial debut explores the turbulent life of a young addict, as relentless obstacles block his path to redemption.

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Cinema

Members' Screening: Plainclothes

Members' event

Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey serve up arresting chemistry as a cop and his target in this 90s New York psychodrama.

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Cinema

Parent and Baby Screening: Plainclothes

Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey serve up arresting chemistry as a cop and his target in this 90s New York psychodrama.

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Classical music

Alfred Brendel: a Musical Celebration

In this celebratory concert on what would have been Alfred Brendel’s 95th birthday, musician friends from several generations gather to honour his legacy.

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Contemporary music Classical music

Paraorchestra and The Breath present Symbiosis

Ríoghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum of folk duo The Breath, join forces with Paraorchestra for Symbiosis, a soulful fusion of folk and orchestral soundscapes.

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Cinema

The Mastermind + ScreenTalk x The Observer

Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind, her latest Cannes triumph.

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Tours & public spaces Theatre & dance

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60-minute Backstage Tour.

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Talks & events

Maria Alyokhina (Pussy Riot) in Conversation with James Ball

Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina joins award-winning investigative journalist James Ball to discuss her memoir Political Girl and her fight against authoritarianism.

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Talks & events

Cory Doctorow with Sarah Wynn-Williams

Is life online getting worse and worse? Leading tech critic and science fiction author, Cory Doctorow shares strategies for how we might reclaim the internet.

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Contemporary music

Guy Manoukian: Live in London

Experience a spellbinding evening of crossover Arabesque melodies fused with contemporary arrangements, performed by one of today's most acclaimed international composers and pianists.