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Scales of Justice, one side with an axe and one side with a red rose dropping petals on table
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Opera Double Bill: Smyth's Der Wald & Respighi's Lucrezia

Two powerful stories. Two rarely heard operas. One unforgettable evening.

Stephen Barlow director
Dominic Wheeler conductor
Jon Morrell designer
An Evening with Margaret Atwood
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Talks & events

An Evening with Margaret Atwood

Join us for a very special evening as we welcome back our dear friend, one of literature's most fearless voices, Margaret Atwood, celebrating her long-awaited memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts.

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Cinema

The Mastermind

Kelly Reichardt's stylish and comedic art-heist drama starring Josh O'Connor.

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

Install shot of Dirty Looks
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Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

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.

Architecture Tour
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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

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Cinema

Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in Lynne Ramsay’s black-comedy thriller, in which a couple's life shifts dramatically after the birth of their child.

A woman is abducted into a black van
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Cinema

Bugonia [35mm]

Yorgos Lanthimos' black comedy, in which a high-flying capitalist (Emma Stone) and a low-stakes conspiracist (Jesse Plemons) clash morally, mentally and physically.

Men ride on horses
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Cinema

Palestine 36

A gripping historical drama from Palestine's foremost filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, tracing the escalating unrest as a unified country rises against British rule.

Wendy and Peter holding hands, flying
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Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Wendy & Peter Pan

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

Gabriela Montero wearing a colourful dress sitting by a piano
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Classical music

Gabriela Montero with the Calidore Quartet: Canaima

Celebrated Venezuelan pianist and composer Gabriela Montero is joined by the Calidore Quartet for a programme of chamber music including a new work, Canaima, by Montero herself. 

Joseph Haydn String Quartet Op 76 No 5
Gabriela Montero Canaima
Antonin Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 Op 81
Gabriela Montero piano
Calidore Quartet
A man and a woman dressed in wedding attire with people standing behind them.
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Cinema

Olivia Laing: The Silver Book–Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Fifty years on, Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final masterpiece endures, shock value intact.

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

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

Image of Barbican Backstage Tours
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Tours & public spaces Theatre & dance

Backstage Tours

Step behind the scenes and see the Barbican Theatre from a new perspective on our 60-minute Backstage Tour.

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.

Architecture Tour
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Step into the heart of London’s Brutalist legacy.

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

Die My Love

Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson star in Lynne Ramsay’s black-comedy thriller, in which a couple's life shifts dramatically after the birth of their child.

A woman is abducted into a black van
Event
Cinema

Bugonia [35mm]

Yorgos Lanthimos' black comedy, in which a high-flying capitalist (Emma Stone) and a low-stakes conspiracist (Jesse Plemons) clash morally, mentally and physically.

women picking red persimmons
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Cinema

Land Cinema: Red Persimmons + Intro

Carefully chronicling the growing, drying, peeling and packaging of persimmons, this unusual documentary is an ode to rural Japan.

Wendy and Peter holding hands, flying
Event
Theatre & dance

Royal Shakespeare Company: Wendy & Peter Pan

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

The creative team of Transpose pose alongside each other against an iconic Barbican backdrop with a red swirling light around them.
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Theatre & dance

Transpose Pit Party: Subverse

The latest edition of Transpose, a powerful evening of music and performance from some of the UK's most exciting trans artists, is directed by Jamie Hale and curated by ILĀ. 

Simon Rattle/BRSO
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Classical music

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in an exhilarating programme of Janáček and Bruckner. 

Leos Janáček Taras Bulba
Anton Bruckner Symphony No 7 in E Major
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
Men ride on horses
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Cinema

Palestine 36

A gripping historical drama from Palestine's foremost filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, tracing the escalating unrest as a unified country rises against British rule.

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

Install shot of Dirty Looks
Event
Art & design

Dirty Looks

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion. 

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.