Read, Watch & Listen

Postponed by Coronavirus, Chronic Youth returns to the Barbican, on-site and on-demand. 

In our latest Curators Picks, Kayza Rose shares some of her favourite Black British stories by Black UK directors. 

Destiny Adeyemi presents Fat, Black & Sad. a new poem and short film exploring fatphobia and the public's perception of fatness. 

Emmy The Great brought her guitar along to the Barbican Foyer, to perform ‘Mary’, the first single to be taken from her latest album April/Yuet Yam.

From post-punk to Stravinsky, listen to the music that inspired and moved the maverick spirit of Michael Clark.

Tarnation director, Jonathan Caouette, chats to our Inner States co-curator, Alice Lebow. 

Another visit to the archive – in this episode, we time travel to February 2017 to listen to a series of interviews with the team of collaborators who brought the three-dimensional Japanese vocaloid singer, Hatsune Miku, to the Barbican Hall. 

In this episode we step back to 2016 when John Adams celebrated his 70th Birthday. We spoke to the composer and conductor about the music, sounds and even dreams that have defined his life.

This week we're travelling back in our audio archives to May 2018 to Sounds and Visions, a series of 18 concerts and film screenings curated by composer Max Richter and artist Yulia Mahr.

This week's podcast explores the legacy of Leonard Bernstein, one of the most important conductors from 1958-1969, bringing the orchestra to the television screens of America and beyond.

 

Ines Weizman on the legacy of Luis Barragán

For our August Family Film Club workshop, artist and illustrator Ivonne Vargas shows us how to make an interactive and animal-inspired mobile and thaumatrope.