Level G

Everyone's journey starts on Level G. Experience free installations, commissions and events in our public spaces, whatever time you visit.

Free events & performances

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Talks & events Tours & public spaces

S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Experience

Fri 15 Jul –Sun 4 Sep 2022

Kay Rufai's photographic exhibition, S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys Experience, opens across Level G this summer.

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Tours & public spaces

Squish Space

Free

Fri 22 Jul –Fri 19 Aug 2022

Discover, touch, play and learn in our reopened Squish Space.

Photo of concrete flytower surrounded by trees and plants in the Barbican Conservatory

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Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

Sat 6 –Sun 14 Aug 2022

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

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Creative Careers: Shaping the Direction Together

Past event

Thu 21 Jul 2022, 18:30

Creative Careers is coming back! Join us for an evening of conversation and discussion about the future of the Creative Careers Programme.

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Art & design Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Re: Repair

Past event

Sat 7 –Sun 8 May 2022

What could it take to repair ourselves, let alone the world?

A group of people standing under an arch in conservatory

Event

Art & design Contemporary music Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Young Barbican: The Takeover

Past event

Sat 30 Apr –Sun 1 May 2022

Young Barbican take over the Barbican Centre for a whole weekend!

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Classical music Contemporary music

Piano Day 2022

Past event

Tue 29 Mar 2022, 17:30

A selection of pianists take over Level G in celebration of Piano Day – a welcome return after a two-year break.

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Talks & events Tours & public spaces

YBN: The Archive is Permanently Under Construction

Past event

Thu 17 Mar 2022, 19:00

Join fellow Young Barbican members and Young Creatives for an evening of creative responses to the Out and About! exhibition.

Sarah Cahill standing in a garden in front of a bridge

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Classical music

Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female

Past event

Sat 5 Mar 2022, 12:00

Stroll through our serene Conservatory to the sounds of powerful women from across the centuries, as pianist Sarah Cahill debunks history to show that the past, present and future is female.

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Art & design Tours & public spaces

Outpost Studio

Past event

Thu 3 Mar –Sun 24 Apr 2022

As part of his Age of Many Posts project, Associate Artist, Abbas Zahedi, has created this open studio on Level G.

A pile of colourful badges celebrating LGBTQ+ individuals, collectives and organisations.

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Art & design Talks & events Tours & public spaces

Out and About!: Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate

Past event

Mon 28 Feb –Mon 21 Mar 2022

Bishopsgate Institute stage a take-over of The Curve with an archive installation of objects, ephemera and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history.

A caption box showing some orange captions from a Romeo and Juliet production

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Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Stagetext: Captions Speak Louder

Past event

Mon 15 Nov 2021 –Thu 6 Jan 2022

Come and explore this first of its kind exhibition, mapping the growth of theatre captioning through the work of deaf-led charity Stagetext.

An image of the Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night exhibition

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Art & design

Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night

Past event

Thu 7 Oct 2021 –Sun 6 Feb 2022

The first major London exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of one’s right to expression whilst raising urgent questions of censorship, confinement and resistance.