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.
Event
Tours & public spaces
Architecture Tours
Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.
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
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
Cinema
Relaxed Screening: Kensuke's Kingdom
A young boy finds himself washed ashore on an island in the Pacific, in this animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s novel.
Event
Classical music
The Golden Stool, or the story of Nana Yaa Asantewaa
Interweaving singing, dance, and cutting-edge theatre, Gorges Ocloo’s ground-breaking AfrOpera re-examines Nana Yaa Asantewaa’s defiant stance against colonialism and cultural appropriation.
Gorges OclooThe Golden Stool
LOD muziektheater
Nobulumko Mngxekeza-Nziramasangasoprano
Nonkululeko Nkwintimezzo-soprano
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
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
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
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
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
Classical music
Sinfonia of London/John Wilson with Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Embedding the intricacies of the patter song, Kenneth Hesketh’s orchestral show-stopper prefaces two compelling master works as John Wilson and his Sinfonia of London return.
Kenneth HeskethPatterSongs
Dmitri ShostakovichCello Concerto No 2
Sergei RachmaninovSymphony No 1
Sinfonia of London
John Wilsonconductor
Sheku Kanneh-Masoncello
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
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.
