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Queer 80s
A group of queer people hold each other joyously in the sun.
Queer 80s
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A dog and robot walk down the street in New York.
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Cinema

Family Film Club: Robot Dreams (PG) + Free pre-film workshop

A dog and a robot romp around New York in the 1980s in this animated comedy. 

A man stands in front of a fruit stall with his arms folded across his chest.
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Cinema

Cinema Restored: Xiao Wu (Pickpocket) + Conversation with...

A rare screening of Jia Zhangke’s debut feature Xiao Wu (Pickpocket), his realist drama, focusing on the shifting politics and attitudes of China at the cusp of a new century.

An illustration by Quentin Blake, depicting characters Jack and Nancy floating through a forest scene, using a red umbrella as a parachute.
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Cinema Classical music

Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures with the BBC SO

Quentin Blake’s Box of Treasures bursts open, as the BBC Symphony Orchestra plays a live accompaniment to two wonderful animated adventures. 

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Ben Palmer conductor
Stefano Cabrera composer
A person wearing a bandana nad large round glasses shouts next to a person wearing heavy makeup and hair curlers, grimacing.
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Cinema

Stewart Home's Occasional Film Club: City of Lost Souls +...

The latest iteration of Stewart Home’s Occasional Barbican Film Club took as its starting point Shakespeare Tower, bringing unlikely pairing of two very different examples of queer underground cinema.

Two children eat biscuits on a street in an old photography from mid-20th Century.
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Cinema

Francis Alÿs: Recreations: Three Films on Children's Play

A trio of films on childhood which form a dialogue with the documentary project Children’s Games, curated in response to our Francis Alÿs: Ricochets exhibition.