Read, Watch & Listen

Join us at 7.30pm (Tue 31 Mar) for the launch of It's True, It's True, It's True on Youtube. Streaming online for 30 days.

What does it mean to be a man?

Photographer and filmmaker Campbell Addy talks to us about gender, growing up as a Jehovah's witness, and coming out in this playful, pastel-hued short film produced in collaboration with NOWNESS as part of our exhibition, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

What does masculinity mean?

Creator, maker and storyteller Ivan Michael Blackstock talks to us about masculinity and embracing his feminine side in this playful, pastel-hued short film produced in collaboration with NOWNESS as part of our photography exhibition, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

What does it mean to be a man? 

Designer and stylist Harris Reed talks to us about gender and toxic masculinity in this playful, pastel-hued short film produced in collaboration with NOWNESS as part of our exhibition, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

To celebrate our 'Autism and Cinema' season, Luís Azevedo (aka Beyond the Frame) looks at the way cinema has depicted autistic characters, and considers how the language of cinema can be challenged and changed by autistic perspectives.

In the fifth workshop of our Life Rewired inspired Design Yourself project, our young creatives worked with New Movement Collective and Fenyce Workspace who led a practical workshop introducing the group to their prototype project XO.

12 ensemble perform ‘II. (Full like drips)’ from Oliver Leith’s Honey Siren in our Loading Bay.

In our latest Barbican Session, Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Brahms's Op 118, No 3 'Ballade' in our Fountain Room

Composer and multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha performs 'The Way Of Spiritual Breath' on live Yanggeum with recorded industrial soundscapes in our Members Lounge.

What does a ‘free world’ look like for humans? Exploring ideas around surveillance and freedom, animator Yanqi Liang presents 'Web Jungle', a surreal world where civilians are surveyed by a group of administrators who monitor the jungle. 

Curator Florence Ostende talks to us about the exhibition Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, and how these spaces became sites of collaboration and experimentation.

Barbican Young Creatives celebrate ten years of Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning by creating this new body of work, featuring spoken word, audio-visual projections and new footage.