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Cinema

LPFF 2025: Passing Dreams

A 12-year-old boy embarks on a journey across Palestine with his uncle and cousin to find his lost pigeon, navigating checkpoints and memories in a tender story of hope, resilience and discovery.

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

A woman looks at a collection of outfits by a range of designers.
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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.

Skyline
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Cinema

Land Cinema: Ana Vaz + ScreenTalk (via video)

Two experimental films by the contemporary Brazilian director Ana Vaz explore land as a site of encounter between different species, peoples, and ways of seeing the world.

12 Ensemble performing on stage
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Classical music

12 Ensemble / GBSR Duo: Pärt Refracted

For the final Barbican concert in celebration of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday, the London based 12 Ensemble bring a contemporary slant to the 20th century titan’s compositions.

Arvo Pärt Fur Lennart im memoriam
Sasha Scott Night Owl
Arvo Pärt Fur alina
Koreless Track from Agor (arr. Chatterjee)
Floating Points Requiem for CS70 and strings
Arvo Pärt Mein Weg
Koreless new* (arr. Chatterjee)
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
Jasmine Morris new work*
Arvo Pärt Pari Intervallo
Oliver Coates One Without
Arvo Pärt Fratres
12 Ensemble
Sasha Scott electronics
GBSR Duo
Image for Hania Rani NON FICTION
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Contemporary music Classical music

Hania Rani: Non Fiction: A Piano Concerto In Four Movements

Hania Rani performs the world premiere of Non Fiction alongside Manchester Collective assembled as a 45-piece Orchestra, conductor Hugh Tieppo-Brunt, Jack Wyllie & Valentina Magaletti. 

Hania Rani piano
Manchester Collective
Hugh Tieppo-Brunt conductor
Jack Wyllie saxophone
Valentina Magaletti drums
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

A woman looks at a collection of outfits by a range of designers.
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.

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.

Fifth Step
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Cinema

NT Live: The Fifth Step

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman starring in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.

Pianist Alice Sara Ott leaning on the piano, her reflection is visible on the instrument.
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Classical music

London Symphony Orchestra/Alexandre Bloch & Alice Sara Ott

Debussy’s impressionistic colours give way to Ravel’s dazzling concerto and wild, untamed waltz; Lutosławski exhilarates in his Concerto for Orchestra. 

Claude Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
Maurice Ravel Piano Concerto in G
Witold Lutosławski Concerto for Orchestra
Maurice Ravel La valse
London Symphony Orchestra
Alexandre Bloch conductor
Alice Sara Ott piano
Opera singer dressed in white ruffled outfit and roman crown holding bow and arrow
Event
Classical music Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Autumn Opera Scenes

Outstanding first-year singers from Guildhall School’s Opera department perform a captivating selection of classical and contemporary operatic excerpts.

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Ceci Calf designer
Ashok Gupta music director
Ligeti Quartet
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Classical music

Ligeti Quartet: Sunrise Missions

The remarkable Ligeti Quartet traces the shifting contours of memory, nature, and change, through music by Kaija Saariaho, Cassandra Miller, John Luther Adams and many more.

Kaija Saariaho Terra Memoria
Wadada Leo Smith String Quartet No 5 ‘In the Diaspora: Earthquakes and Sunrise Missions'
Ayanna Witter-Johnson Earth
Cassandra Miller Warbleworks 1-4
Blasio Kavuma New work (co-commissioned by the Barbican and SHM Foundation)
John Luther Adams The Wind in High Places
Ligeti Quartet
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

A woman looks at a collection of outfits by a range of designers.
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.

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.

Silhouette of a musician playing a double bass under blue stage lights, with large text reading “50 years of Bohemian Rhapsody” in bold red and white lettering.
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Contemporary music Classical music

50 Years of Bohemian Rhapsody: Guildhall Session Orchestra

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?  

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in this exhilarating concert with the professional musicians of Guildhall Session Orchestra.

Animated dolls
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Cinema

LIAF 2025: Opening Night: Tribute to Emma Calder (15*)

The London International Animation Festival returns for its 22nd edition with an opening night dedicated to the late Emma Calder, a trailblazing force in independent animation.

A set of tables and chairs, all burnt out and their charred remains revealing their chicken wire frames.
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Art & design Talks & events

Mona Hatoum: Artist Talk

Join us for a talk by leading contemporary artist Mona Hatoum.

Opera singer dressed in white ruffled outfit and roman crown holding bow and arrow
Event
Classical music Theatre & dance

Guildhall School: Autumn Opera Scenes

Outstanding first-year singers from Guildhall School’s Opera department perform a captivating selection of classical and contemporary operatic excerpts.

Martin Lloyd-Evans director
Ceci Calf designer
Ashok Gupta music director
Guitarist Carlos Alomar on stage next to David Bowie
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Contemporary music

The D.A.M Trilogy

David Bowie’s right-hand-musicians during his late-1970’s Berlin period mark the legacy of the albums they made together with the faster songs from Low, Heroes and Lodger as the focus of the evening.

An animated person eating an orange
Event
Cinema

LIAF 2025: British Showcase + filmmaker introduction

Independent British animated films have carved out a unique niche in the cinematic landscape, characterised by their distinct artistic styles and innovative storytelling.

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