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Cinema

The Substance

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as a former A-lister suddenly fired from her fitness TV show and desperate to reclaim her youth.

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Cinema

Sugarcane

A documentary exposing the abuse and deaths of Indigenous children in Canadian schools, and a determined search for accountability by the survivors.

A group of people i =n traditional Yugoslavian dress pose together for a photograph.
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Cinema

Slike iz života udarnika (Life of a...) + ScreenTalk

This screening celebrates the release of Esther Kinsky's new book, with a screening of the once banned Yugoslavian film on workers and socialism. 

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Cinema

Girls Will Be Girls

A teenager in a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas has a sexual awakening as she navigates growing up with an unpredictable mother, in this Indian coming of age drama. 

An example of work by the group Phoenix Contemporary Textiles showing a cityscape
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London Lives

Phoenix Contemporary Textiles is a group of twelve artists living in and around London, each with their own diverse textile- inspired art practices which encompass a variety of media. 

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
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Art & design Tours & public spaces

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican

Free

This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum installation photography
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Art & design

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears

Free

In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.

Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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

Event
Cinema

The Substance

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as a former A-lister suddenly fired from her fitness TV show and desperate to reclaim her youth.

Event
Cinema

Sugarcane

A documentary exposing the abuse and deaths of Indigenous children in Canadian schools, and a determined search for accountability by the survivors.

A man stands in front of a new house in the desert.
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Cinema

House + ScreenTalk with Film Director Amos Gitai

The first film in Amos Gitai's trilogy follows the residents of a home in West-Jerusalem from Palestinians forced to leave after the 1948 war, to Jewish Algerian immigrants, to its new Israeli owners.

Big Band image of Guildhall School student playing saxophone
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Contemporary music

Guildhall Jazz Ensembles

Join us for a celebratory showcase of the talents of Guildhall Jazz department's sensational ensembles.

Event
Cinema

Girls Will Be Girls

A teenager in a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas has a sexual awakening as she navigates growing up with an unpredictable mother, in this Indian coming of age drama. 

A young woman is held by two men in a dark old room, as she looks forward with concern.
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Cinema

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Almost 40 years later, Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunite for the long-awaited sequel, with Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe.

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Event
Art & design Tours & public spaces

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican

Free

This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.

I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective
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Library

I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective

Free

A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

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

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum installation photography
Event
Art & design

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears

Free

In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.

Event
Cinema

Sugarcane

A documentary exposing the abuse and deaths of Indigenous children in Canadian schools, and a determined search for accountability by the survivors.

A young woman is held by two men in a dark old room, as she looks forward with concern.
Event
Cinema

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Almost 40 years later, Tim Burton and Michael Keaton reunite for the long-awaited sequel, with Winona Ryder, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe.

Event
Cinema

The Substance

Demi Moore gives a career-best performance as a former A-lister suddenly fired from her fitness TV show and desperate to reclaim her youth.

Barbican Shop
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Members' Shopping Event: Residents' Book Launch

Members' event

Join us for a special shopping event to celebrate the launch of the new Residents book, by photographer Anton Rodriguez, reprinted by Hoxton Mini Press.

A building site has building men standing on the top of a building.
Event
Cinema

House: A House in Jerusalem + Intro

Eighteen years after House, Amos Gitai returns to the setting of his first film to observe the changes in the new residents as well as in the neighbourhood.

Sakari Oramo conductor
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Classical music

Oramo conducts Mahler

Sakari Oramo conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s tragic Sixth Symphony: a powerful opening to our new concert season.

Two people stand on stage with a minimal set of furniture while tall scaffold towers line the edge of the stage.
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Cinema Theatre & dance

House:  La Colline – théâtre national (Paris)

La Colline – théâtre national in Paris presents a large-scale, international ensemble theatre production based on the historic documentary film trilogy by Amos Gitai.

Event
Cinema

Girls Will Be Girls

A teenager in a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas has a sexual awakening as she navigates growing up with an unpredictable mother, in this Indian coming of age drama. 

Event
Cinema

Kneecap

This hilarious comedy drama follows two young Irish speaking rappers in Belfast, as they link up with an Irish language teacher and form the titular hip-hop trio, beginning their rise to fame.

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican
Event
Art & design Tours & public spaces

Concrete and Clay: Archiving the Barbican

Free

This free installation invites visitors to orient themselves in the buildings and their complex, fascinating histories in an exciting new display at the heart of the Barbican’s Foyers.

I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective
Event
Library

I'm Not Okay: An Emo Retrospective

Free

A pilot exhibition exploring the rise of Britain’s Y2K lost subculture: Emo. Focusing on the first-generation Emo scene from 2004 to 2009.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum installation photography
Event
Art & design

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum: It will end in tears

Free

In her first solo exhibition at a major UK institution, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum fills The Curve with theatrical installations, building an imagined world in which to display her paintings.