Saoirse Ronan sails the waves of addiction and recovery in this gripping story about the healing powers of the ocean, set between Scotland and London.
Event
Cinema
Joker: Folie à Deux
Two years on from the rise of the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix cackles his way back onto the big screen as infamous villain Arthur Fleck.
Event
Cinema
The Teacher
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to balance his political stance, his students, and the chance of love, from Farah Nabulsi.
Event
Cinema
Timestalker
Agnes (Alice Lowe) is fated to make the same romantic mistakes over and over whenever she's reincarnated in different eras of history.
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
Classical musicContemporary music
The Expanded Violin/Anselm McDonnell
A deep dive into the potential of the violin, expanding and enhancing the instrument through microtonality, electronics, and the sound of multiple violins.
Event
Theatre & dance
Dance Umbrella: Mathroo Basha
Acclaimed visual artist and filmmaker Hetain Patel presents this preview of his latest work which uses movement and audio interviews to explore generational change across his Brit-Gujarati family.
Event
Classical music
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sousa
Channel waves, folk rhythms and the heartbeat of the cosmos, as conductor Dinis Souza, pianist Bertrand Chamayou and the BBC Symphony Orchestra play Debussy, Bartók and Unsuk Chin.
Unsuk Chin Alaraph: Ritual of the Heartbeat
Béla Bartók Piano Concerto No 3
Claude Debussy La mer
Maurice RavelBoléro
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Dinis Sousaconductor
Bertrand Chamayoupiano
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Theatre & dance
Dance Umbrella: HATCHED ENSEMBLE
Urgent and subtly spectacular work from choreographer Mamela Nyamza featuring ten dancers, an opera singer and an African traditional multi-instrumentalist.
Event
Art & designTours & 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.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
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
Members' Screening: Timestalker
Members' event
Agnes (Alice Lowe) is fated to make the same romantic mistakes over and over whenever she's reincarnated in different eras of history.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Visit the Conservatory
Free
Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.
Event
Cinema
In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon (12)
Chronicling the musical life of the icon Paul Simon making his new album Seven Psalms and looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from Sounds of Silence to Graceland.
Event
Cinema
Joker: Folie à Deux
Two years on from the rise of the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix cackles his way back onto the big screen as infamous villain Arthur Fleck.
Event
Cinema
The Teacher
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to balance his political stance, his students, and the chance of love, from Farah Nabulsi.
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
Timestalker
Agnes (Alice Lowe) is fated to make the same romantic mistakes over and over whenever she's reincarnated in different eras of history.
Event
Contemporary music
Sweet Honey in the Rock
Ever vibrant, versatile and relevant, the African American vocal ensemble mark their 50th anniversary with a celebration that honours its storied past.
Event
Cinema
The Outrun
Saoirse Ronan sails the waves of addiction and recovery in this gripping story about the healing powers of the ocean, set between Scotland and London.
Event
Library
Mudproof London by Olayanju Dada
Free
The exhibition is a series of curated narrative collages that highlights the paradoxical essence and influence of London in unlikely places, as an ideal, a dream, a barrier or even a destination.
Event
Art & designTours & 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.
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.
Event
Art & design
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
A landmark group exhibition of art made in response to India’s changing cultural-political landscape during pivotal years.
Event
Cinema
Senior Community Screening: Evil Does Not Exist
Ryusuke Hamaguchi's (Drive My Car) tense drama questions whether rural peace can fight against urban gain, when an upscale camping site threatens a small village near Tokyo.
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
Parent and Baby Screening: My Old Ass
A teenager on the verge of leaving home has a surreal encounter with her future self.
Event
Cinema
The Teacher
A Palestinian school teacher struggles to balance his political stance, his students, and the chance of love, from Farah Nabulsi.
