Join Barbican Young Poets for an evening of performances and readings inspired by Julia Phillips’s exhibition, Inside, Before They Speak.

Elegance, exuberance, and one remarkable woman: Academy of Ancient Music travels to Georgian London and the lost world of musical innovator Elisabetta da Gambarini. Think you knew 18th century London?

Explore the impact of Pan-Africanism on artistic and cultural production from the 1920s to the present, through over 300 works – from paintings and installations to posters, journals, and film. The ...

Academy Award–winning composer Hildur Guðnadóttir, known for Chernobyl, Tár and The Joker, brings her album Where to From to life on stage in a performance with immersive sound and light. Marking the ...

New music by Laura Bowler preludes Ligeti’s ethereal, dreamlike soundworld and Richard Strauss’s colossal, awe-inspiring homage to Nietzsche. Laura Bowler is a composer of rare imagination and ...

Get creative at our collage drop-in session as a chance to relax and express yourself creatively with fellow festival attendees. Throughout the festival, unwind and reflect by dropping by our free ...

The Madrid Philharmonic Orchestra and DJ Symphonic perform an eclectic musical repertoire blending pop with a symphonic flair. With a successful 2-year tour with multiple sold-out venues in Madrid, ...

A British Sign Language tour, exclusively for D/deaf and hard of hearing people led by Martin Glover. Did you know the Barbican’s theatre and concert hall go deeper underground than the nearest Tube ...

Nguyễn Trinh Thi interrogates the impact of official histories and international viewpoints on Vietnam, offering a powerful new vision of film form that confronts the limits of filmic representation.

Uncover the joys of silent film with spectacular live musical accompaniments. Dive deep into the weird and wonderful history of cinema with these silent films, brought to life with live musical ...

Inspired by the festival’s theme of self-documentation, make your own film in this hands-on, analogue animation workshop, where you’ll learn how to tell your unique story as a short animation! In the ...

González founded the Escuela de guías (Guides School) at Bogotá’s Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO) in the 1970s. Join participants from our own Guides School as they lead tours of the exhibition.