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Art & design

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

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Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

Bertrand Chamayou
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

A playful concerto offers a boost to your mood, and a symphony reaches for hope in the midst of war.

David Raksin The Bad and the Beautiful – Suite
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G major
Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Antonio Pappano conductor
Bertrand Chamayou piano
15th century costume design illustration by Daniel Rabel, created for the court ballets of Louis XIII. This illustration depicts the Fairy of Music and her entourage of musicians.
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Classical music

Academy of Ancient Music: Le Roi Soleil

The Sun King dances: Academy of Ancient Music and baroque dance experts Mary Collins and Steve Player recreate the sounds and sights of the court of Louis XIV of France.

Jean-Baptiste Lully Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs
Jean-Féry Rebel Les Caractères de la Danse
Marin Marais Les Folies d’Espagne
Michel-Richard Delalande Excerpts from Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Suite from Céphale et Procris
André Campra Suite from L’Europe Galante
Jean-Baptiste Lully 'Chaconne for Harlequin' from Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Academy of Ancient Music
Laurence Cummings director and harpsichord
Mary Collins dancer
Steven Player dancer
Jader Bignamini turning his head to look at the camera, with orange swirls surrounding him
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Classical music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bignamini: Fantastic Symphony

Severed heads, demonic orgies and obsessive love. Jader Bignamini pairs Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with the equally colourful imaginations of Poulenc and Camile Pépin. 

Camille Pepin Les Eaux Célestes (UK premiere)
Francis Poulenc Gloria
Hector Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Jader Bignamini* conductor
Elizabeth Watts* soprano
BBC Symphony Chorus
Anthony McGill standing in front of a wooden barn holding his clarinet
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Classical music

Anthony McGill and Kaleidoscope Collective

Delve into the depths of the human experience with deeply personal chamber music by Brahms and Messiaen, performed by clarinettist Anthony McGill and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective.

Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Olivier Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Kaleidoscope Collective
Anthony McGill clarinet
Mausebunker by B+, Georg Fischer
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Art & design Talks & events

Architecture on Stage: Habitats

Architects, artists, authors, ecologists, and activists will discuss the complex relationships between animals and urban space and ask how cities might better accommodate nonhuman life.

Colin Stetson
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Contemporary music

Colin Stetson: Hereditary + London Contemporary Orchestra

Canadian-American Saxophonist Colin Stetson is joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra to perform live selections from his soundtrack to the A24 horror film masterpiece, Hereditary.

Anthony McGill smiling at the camera while holding his clarinet
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Classical music

Anthony McGill: Gran Partita

Clarinettist Anthony McGill collaborates with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective and stars of the next generation from Guildhall School, as he closes his Milton Court residency.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet (with Kaleidoscope Collective)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Gran Partita (with Guildhall musicians)
Kaleidoscope Collective
Anthony McGill clarinet
Guildhall School musicians
Kate Atkinson looking at the camera, with circular purple and red swirls around her
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Classical music

Kate Atkinson and the BBC Symphony Orchestra

The author of Life After Life, Case Histories and Behind the Scenes at the Museum, joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra to read from her own work, and share the music that has moved and inspired her.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Kate Atkinson author & speaker
Photo of music artist Adrianne Lenker
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Contemporary music

Adrianne Lenker With Friends

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American indie-folk singer, songwriter and musician Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) performs solo material from her forthcoming album and catalog.

Leonidas Kavakos looking at the camera while holding his violin
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Classical music

Masterclass with Leonidas Kavakos

'A great violinist at the top of his game' (Gramophone), Leonidas Kavakos shares his expertise with burgeoning young musicians from Guildhall School.

Leonidas Kavakos violin
Guildhall School musicians
Two hands reach towards each other towards a swirling black circle with the word 'cycles' in the middle
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Theatre & dance

Boy Blue: Cycles

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The Olivier award-winning dance theatre company returns with a world premiere that celebrates change and the beauty of perpetual motion.

Gold Medal winner Alexandra Achillea Pouta receiving prize from Roberta Alexander
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Classical music

The Gold Medal 2024

The final of Guildhall School's most prestigious music prize returns with a concert at Barbican Hall, offering the chance to enjoy three concertos by outstanding Guildhall instrumentalists.

Lucinda Chua & Gayla Bisengalieva stand in landscape and black and white
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Contemporary music

Lucinda Chua & Galya Bisengalieva with LCO

Singer & musician Lucinda Chua performs music from her debut album YIAN and new EP Reclaiming The Rose with Kazakh composer & violinist Galya Bisengalieva performing her latest album Polygon.