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Barbican architecture
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Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

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Cinema

Family Film Club: Listen with your eyes:

In a partnership with Open City Documentary Festival, a programme of experimental films specially curated for families! 

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
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Cinema

Parent and Baby Screening: Challengers

Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

sculptures hang from the ceiling of the Conservatory
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Art & design Tours & public spaces

The Conservatory x Ranjani Shettar

Free

Our Conservatory hosts a spectacular new site-specific commission by Indian sculptor Ranjani Shettar.

A man stands in front of a thatched roof mud hut, holding a clay pot, with a confused look on his face.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival: Zan Boko + Live Poetry Reading

Gaston Kaboré’s masterpiece is a celebration of ancestral traditions and searing commentary on rapid gentrification and state-controlled media.

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
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Cinema

Challengers

Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

A man in a dark room stares directly forward.
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Cinema

Stephen

A semi-fictional film-within-a-film on the lived experience of addiction and mental health, by visual artist Melanie Manchot.

Two women sitting in the front of a car talk to each other, in front of a moody landscape.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival: Gush + DJ & Collage Making

Embark on an electrifying journey through Fox Maxy’s visualised consciousness as they attempt to decipher the evolving digital zeitgeist through experimental film, followed by a DJ set and workshop.

Amy Winehouse stands about to perform
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Cinema

Back to Black

Marisa Abela brings to life the story of the one and only, London girl, Amy Winehouse, in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic.

A woman with heavy makeup takes a selfie in front of a burning building, surrounded by masked people.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival: Anhell69

Seamlessly blending fiction and reality, Theo Montoya’s intoxicating debut feature creates a ‘trans cinema’ that follows no rules. 

Photo of music artist Adrianne Lenker
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Contemporary music

Adrianne Lenker With Friends

American indie-folk singer, songwriter and musician Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) performs solo material from her forthcoming album and catalog.

A man looks down to the side with a smile, holding his necklace.
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Cinema

NT Live: Vanya

Andrew Scott (Fleabag) brings multiple characters to life in Simon Stephens’ radical new version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

A journalist in a bullet  proof vest looks out in the night, standing in front of yellow lights.
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Cinema

Civil War

In a near-distant future, a group of photo-journalists try to navigate American during the outbreak of Civil War, by Alex Garland (Ex-Machina).

Weaving workshop with Christabel Balfour
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Art & design Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Weaving Workshop with Christabel Balfour

Weave your way through our Brutalist architecture and get inspired as you learn the techniques of hand-weaving in Christabel Balfour's weaving workshops.

14. Soufiane Ababri installation view, 2024, The Curve © Eva Herzog and Barbican Art Gallery
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Art & design

Soufiane Ababri

Free

Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri’s new commission, Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated, explores questions of desire, queerness, and diaspora.

unravel install image
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Art & design

Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

Using textiles, fibre and thread, 50 international artists challenge power structures and reimagine the world in this major group exhibition.

sculptures hang from the ceiling of the Conservatory
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Art & design Tours & public spaces

The Conservatory x Ranjani Shettar

Free

Our Conservatory hosts a spectacular new site-specific commission by Indian sculptor Ranjani Shettar.

Two women in gym clothes sit on the floor of a boxing ring, holding hands.
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Cinema

Members' Screening: Preview: Love Lies Bleeding

Members' event

Rose Glass directs a steamy tale of love and revenge with Kristen Stewart, Katy O'Brian, Dave Franco and Ed Harris, in a preview screening exclusively for Barbican Members! 

Barbican architecture
Event
Tours & public spaces

Architecture Tours

Discover the vast, bold and brutal Barbican estate on our 90 minute Architecture Tours.

A man in a dark room stares directly forward.
Event
Cinema

Stephen

A semi-fictional film-within-a-film on the lived experience of addiction and mental health, by visual artist Melanie Manchot.

A dancer poses in Swan Lake
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Cinema

ROH Live: Swan Lake

Classical ballet's most powerful tale of love, treachery and forgiveness returns to the Royal Opera House stage.

Photo of music artist Adrianne Lenker
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Contemporary music

Adrianne Lenker With Friends

American indie-folk singer, songwriter and musician Adrianne Lenker (of Big Thief) performs solo material from her forthcoming album and catalog.

Two young men sit on either side of a young woman, on a bed, touching each other's legs and laughing.
Event
Cinema

Challengers

Tension builds on the courts in Luca Guadagnino's tennis menage-a-trois between Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. 

An oil spill interacts with a hand nad a seascape in a warped image.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival Shorts: Joyful Lands,... + Q&A

A collection of shorts exploring transgressive acts of reclamation, from land to gazes, followed by a live Q&A with Laisul Hoque and Maz Murray.

A journalist in a bullet  proof vest looks out in the night, standing in front of yellow lights.
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Cinema

Civil War

In a near-distant future, a group of photo-journalists try to navigate American during the outbreak of Civil War, by Alex Garland (Ex-Machina).

A man sits naked in a chair of a dark room flanked by two women. There are weapons on the wall behind them.
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Cinema

Chronic Youth Film Festival: Nowhere + Discussion

Follow Araki’s apathetic, eccentric, and sexually uninhibited teens as they traverse Los Angeles to get to the hottest party of the year!

Amy Winehouse stands about to perform
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Cinema

Back to Black

Marisa Abela brings to life the story of the one and only, London girl, Amy Winehouse, in Sam Taylor-Johnson's biopic.

A man and a girl sit on a bench in a park, looking up to the sky and smiling.
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Cinema

Perfect Days

Kôji Yakusho teaches the art of appreciating the everyday in this meditative drama from Wim Wenders.

From the Caribbean to Coventry
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Library

From the Caribbean to Coventry: Plotting the Rise of 2Tone

Free

An exhibition for the fans by the fans going some way to explain not just what 2Tone is but why and how we got there.

14. Soufiane Ababri installation view, 2024, The Curve © Eva Herzog and Barbican Art Gallery
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Art & design

Soufiane Ababri

Free

Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri’s new commission, Their mouths were full of bumblebees but it was me who was pollinated, explores questions of desire, queerness, and diaspora.