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Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

In a dark gallery, metal bleacher-style seating is positioned in front of a large, vertical, curved screen showing a river coursing through a lush, forested valley.
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Art & design

Lucy Raven: Rounds

Free

Journey through landscapes reshaped by extreme force in a new exhibition that brings together film and sculpture by North American artist Lucy Raven.

Two man looking at each other through a mirror
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Cinema

Parent and Baby Screening: Plainclothes

Tom Blyth and Russell Tovey serve up arresting chemistry as a cop and his target in this 90s New York psychodrama.

Close up of the back of head of a girl or woman with dark hair, tied with a blue bow
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Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: The Welkin

Rural Suffolk, 1759. A woman’s life hangs in the balance – and twelve others must decide her fate.

Lucy Kirkwood playwright
Mumba Dodwell director
Stella-Jane Odoemelam designer
Rohan Green lighting designer*
Finn Irving  sound designer* 
Poppy Inglis video designer*
Rebecca Piersanti associate video designer* 
Man in smart clothing in glasses and with gold ring looks worried, covering his mouth with his arm
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Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Enron

Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history.

Lucy Prebble playwright
Paul Foster director
Cory Shipp designer
Debbie Wiseman composer
Toby Ison lighting designer*
Alissa Crew sound designer*
Merlin Sheldrake - The Secret Lives of Fungi Live
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Talks & events

Merlin Sheldrake - The Secret Lives of Fungi LIVE

Join renowned biologist and bestselling author Merlin Sheldrake for a mind-expanding journey into the extraordinary world of fungi.

Blondie in Camera 1978
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Library Tours & public spaces Art & design

Blondie in Camera 1978

Free

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Installation shot of Creative Voice Exhibition
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Talks & events Take part Art & design

Voiced: The Creative Voice Exhibition

Free

Discover how leading poets, artists and writers express what matters most through endangered texts, new poems and striking visual scripts in this foyer exhibition.

Headshot of an Asian man against a dim colourful background
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Talks & events Take part

Voiced: Endangered Voices Listening Trail

Explore a sound trail of endangered languages in hidden spaces across the Barbican, created by sonic artist Jamie Perera.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

In a dark gallery, metal bleacher-style seating is positioned in front of a large, vertical, curved screen showing a river coursing through a lush, forested valley.
Event
Art & design

Lucy Raven: Rounds

Free

Journey through landscapes reshaped by extreme force in a new exhibition that brings together film and sculpture by North American artist Lucy Raven.

A woman looks at a sculpture of a globe, the outlines of the countries lit in neon orange strip lights.
Event
Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.

Event
Cinema

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro pieces together Mary Shelley's classic tale, with Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.

Close up of the back of head of a girl or woman with dark hair, tied with a blue bow
Event
Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: The Welkin

Rural Suffolk, 1759. A woman’s life hangs in the balance – and twelve others must decide her fate.

Lucy Kirkwood playwright
Mumba Dodwell director
Stella-Jane Odoemelam designer
Rohan Green lighting designer*
Finn Irving  sound designer* 
Poppy Inglis video designer*
Rebecca Piersanti associate video designer* 
Man in smart clothing in glasses and with gold ring looks worried, covering his mouth with his arm
Event
Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Enron

Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history.

Lucy Prebble playwright
Paul Foster director
Cory Shipp designer
Debbie Wiseman composer
Toby Ison lighting designer*
Alissa Crew sound designer*
A person starts to fly in the air, levitating above their bed
Event
Theatre & dance

RSC: Wendy & Peter Pan

An exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – and pirates.

Blondie in Camera 1978
Event
Library Tours & public spaces Art & design

Blondie in Camera 1978

Free

An exhibition celebrating Martyn Goddard’s most famous images of Blondie taken during their breakthrough year

Installation shot of Creative Voice Exhibition
Event
Talks & events Take part Art & design

Voiced: The Creative Voice Exhibition

Free

Discover how leading poets, artists and writers express what matters most through endangered texts, new poems and striking visual scripts in this foyer exhibition.

Headshot of an Asian man against a dim colourful background
Event
Talks & events Take part

Voiced: Endangered Voices Listening Trail

Explore a sound trail of endangered languages in hidden spaces across the Barbican, created by sonic artist Jamie Perera.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

In a dark gallery, metal bleacher-style seating is positioned in front of a large, vertical, curved screen showing a river coursing through a lush, forested valley.
Event
Art & design

Lucy Raven: Rounds

Free

Journey through landscapes reshaped by extreme force in a new exhibition that brings together film and sculpture by North American artist Lucy Raven.

A woman looks at a sculpture of a globe, the outlines of the countries lit in neon orange strip lights.
Event
Art & design

Encounters: Giacometti x Mona Hatoum

Works by contemporary artist Mona Hatoum and 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti are seen together for the first time in this ground-breaking exhibition, part of Encounters: Giacometti.

Close up of the back of head of a girl or woman with dark hair, tied with a blue bow
Event
Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: The Welkin

Rural Suffolk, 1759. A woman’s life hangs in the balance – and twelve others must decide her fate.

Lucy Kirkwood playwright
Mumba Dodwell director
Stella-Jane Odoemelam designer
Rohan Green lighting designer*
Finn Irving  sound designer* 
Poppy Inglis video designer*
Rebecca Piersanti associate video designer* 
Event
Cinema

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro pieces together Mary Shelley's classic tale, with Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.

Image of Debasmita Bhattacharya playing the sitar
Event
Classical music Contemporary music

Darbar: Debasmita Bhattacharya + Mallick Dharbanga Dhrupad

Two traditions, one soul: where strings speak and voices transcend. 

Debasmita Bhattacharya sarod
Satyajit Talwalkar tabla
Pandit Premkumar Mallick and Prashant Mallick darbhanga dhrupad
Surdarshan Chana jori
A forlorn looking king stares out the window of a castle
Event
Cinema

Animation at War: Heroic Times

József Gémes’s painted masterpiece of Hungarian animation brings to vivid life a brutal and bloody period of Central European medieval history.

a person in a spacesuit in a cave near a spaceship
Event
Cinema

Dystopia is Not the Future: Panel Discussion

A panel debate exploring innovative and radically optimistic visions of the future.

Man in smart clothing in glasses and with gold ring looks worried, covering his mouth with his arm
Event
Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Enron

Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron explores one of the most infamous scandals in financial history.

Lucy Prebble playwright
Paul Foster director
Cory Shipp designer
Debbie Wiseman composer
Toby Ison lighting designer*
Alissa Crew sound designer*
A person starts to fly in the air, levitating above their bed
Event
Theatre & dance

RSC: Wendy & Peter Pan

An exhilarating new take on a beloved classic myth of love, loss, redemption – and pirates.

Sinfonia of London
Event
Classical music

Sinfonia of London: Serenade

The barnstorming Sinfonia of London have garnered rave reviews since their relaunch in 2018, and this concert presents a rare opportunity to hear them in a smaller, more intimate arrangement.

Ralph Vaughan-Williams Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Benjamin Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horns and Strings
Arthur Bliss Music for Strings
Frederic Delius Late Swallows
Edward Elgar Introduction and Allegro
Sinfonia of London
John Wilson conductor
Laurence Kilsby tenor
Christopher Parkes horn