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Take part Theatre & dance

Autumn Drama Camp

Join theatre director and sound artist Brigitte Adela for a fun and imaginative drama camp, where you'll create a play in just one week!

A group of people and a young child look on. A film projector emits light
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Take part Cinema

Autumn Film Camp

Join artist Nia Fekri for a week-long workshop exploring film-making processes to make a collaborative 16mm direct animation film from start to finish.

A school girl and a young boy falling from the sky
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Cinema

Senior Community Screening: Mirai

Animator Mamoru Hosoda (Summer Wars, Wolf Children) returns with a fantastical comedy of love passed down through generations. 

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.

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Cinema

Parent & Baby Screening: Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro pieces together Mary Shelley's classic tale, with Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.

A young girl wearing a yellow puffer coat has a fantastical creature on her shoulder
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Cinema

Family Film Week: The Legend of Ochi

A dazzling fantasy adventure set in a remote village that charts a young girl's encounter with the mysterious animal, the Ochi. 

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Cinema

The Mastermind

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

A woman sits at her kitchen table, playing scrabble, looking at her fluffy cat
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Cinema

Relaxed Screenings: Wild Women

This programme of shorts will take you on a wild ride; incredible, joyful and unexpected. 

An older woman sits on the grass with a younger woman at her feet.
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Cinema

Imitation of Life (12) with Introduction + Reception

Douglas Sirk’s 1959 masterpiece centers on the relationship between two single mothers, Lora (Lana Turner) and Annie (Juanita Moore), whose lives become deeply intertwined after a chance encounter. 

A person starts to fly in the air, levitating above their bed
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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.

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Cinema

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro pieces together Mary Shelley's classic tale, with Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.

A man sitting on a bus
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Cinema

After the Hunt

An accusation tears through a college philosophy department in Luca Guadagnino's tense new thriller, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edibiri and Andrew Garfield.

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

Installation shot of Creative Voice Exhibition
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Talks & events Take part Art & design

Voiced: The Creative Voice Exhibition

Free

Discover how leading poets, artists and writers express what matters most through endangered texts, new poems and striking visual scripts in this foyer exhibition.

Headshot of an Asian man against a dim colourful background
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Talks & events Take part

Voiced: Endangered Voices Listening Trail

Explore a sound trail of endangered languages in hidden spaces across the Barbican, created by sonic artist Jamie Perera.

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. 

Two animated bees fly in the air
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Cinema

Family Film Week: Animated Adventure Shorts + Music

Get your groove on in our cinema with a fun music play session and a specially curated toddler-friendly selection of short films.

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.

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Cinema

Family Film Week: Kpop Demon Hunters

If you’ve not experienced the phenomenon that is KPDH, or even if you’ve viewed it 100 times already - now is your chance to live it out on the big screen! 

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.

A man driving
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Cinema

One Battle After Another

Leonardo DiCaprio joins forces with master filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson in a much-anticipated action thriller that confronts the world’s polarities.

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Cinema

The Mastermind

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

A man sitting on a bus
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Cinema

After the Hunt

An accusation tears through a college philosophy department in Luca Guadagnino's tense new thriller, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edibiri and Andrew Garfield.

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Cinema

Preview Screenings: Bugonia [35mm]

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

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Cinema

Souleymane's Story

Abou Sangaré provides a stand out performance in Boris Lojkine's emotional drama about an asylum-seeking food delivery rider in Paris.

A person starts to fly in the air, levitating above their bed
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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.

Two dancers
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Classical music Theatre & dance

Julius Eastman: A Power Greater Than

Grammy-nominated Barbican artist-in-residence Davóne Tines performs a multidisciplinary all-Julius Eastman program curated by Seth Parker Woods, alongside AMOC* & Kyle Marshall Choreography.

Julius Eastman Touch Him When
Prelude & Holy Presence of Joan D'Arc
Piano 2
Gay Guerilla
Davóne Tines baritone
JIJI guitar
Seth Parker Woods cello
Adam Tendler piano
Richard Valitutto piano
Conor Hanick piano
Kyle Marshall Choreography
AMOC* American Modern Opera Company
Kyle Marshall choreographer
Khalid Dunton dancer
José Lapaz-Rodriguez dancer
Edo Tastic creative director, Gay Guerilla
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Cinema

Frankenstein

Guillermo del Toro pieces together Mary Shelley's classic tale, with Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein, Jacob Elordi as his monster, and Mia Goth as Elizabeth.