Autumn Highlights

IAMISIGO, clay-dyed barkcloth dress, Shadows, Spring/Summer 2024. Photograph by Fred Odede. Courtesy of IAMISIGO. Dirty Looks at the Barbican.
Join us for a season packed with music, theatre, art and film from around the world. See our top highlights below.
This autumn we’re taking a deep dive into fashion, sustainability and how artists are rethinking our relationship with the natural world. Watch out also for our new talk series where writers and filmmakers ask whether dystopia is really our future.
Art Gallery
Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion in a bold new exhibition, and see sculptures that forge new dialogues in our intimate new gallery space.


Encounters: Giacometti
Theatre
Our autumn theatre season kicks off with two monumental international productions from Caroline Guiela Nguyen and Łukasz Twarkowski, two of the most exciting directors working in the world right now.
Caroline Guiela Nguyen

Łukasz Twarkowski /Anka Herbut / Dailes Theatre
Fragile Earth
Explore our relationship with the natural world and enjoy events by artists who take inspiration from planet earth and the burning challenges of our time.

Sounds of a living planet
Dystopia is not the Future
Join us for a series of screenings and discussions that address the current change in world order, the rise of authoritarianism, and its resistance. More to be announced soon.

Dystopia is Not the Future
Music
Music theatre and spiritual jazz, and concerts with Sir Antonio Pappano – there's all this and more to look forward to in our autumn music programme.

UK Premiere of Bushra El-Turk's music theatre work

Daughter of a Temple
Concerts with the LSO's Chief Conductor


Screentalks
See screenings paired with discussions by leading filmmakers as the most important voices in the cinema industry unpack film.

Screenings and discussions with leading filmmakers
