We are delighted to welcome you to the Barbican Theatre for The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady. This exquisite jazz-club staging of Charles Mingus’ legendary album is delivered by award-winning ...

Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works. Luminescent and shimmering, Fool’s Paradise marked the first of Wheeldon’s many collaborations with ...

Echoing the soundscape of Happyend, be transported to a world of hypnotic techno futurism in the Barbican's concrete garden. Sarra Wild is a Glasgow raised cultural curator/ producer, sound designer ...

Family Film Club is delighted to welcome the Fashion in Film Festival for their first ever family screening at the Barbican! With both archive short films and contemporary animation, this exciting ...

Mehazabien Chowdhury provides a striking performance in this fierce drama about an expectant mother whose life spins out of control. Followed by a ScreenTalk with director Shankha Das Gupta Despite ...

Mobility Spaces for wheelchair users in row U at the rear of the stalls (up to sixteen, depth of row 180cm) and the back row of the circle (four), both with fold-down companion seats. Some seats in ...

Three contemporary artist films explore how textiles and dress are directly implicated in histories of land, colonialism, migration and trade. Historically, colonial systems have commodified both ...

A programme of archival gems that explore the interesting and sometimes unusual connections between women, flowers, and insects, from 20th Century filmmakers. The experimental choir group Musarc will ...

Fashion in Film Festival 2025 presents GROUNDED, a major UK-wide season exploring the relationship between fashion and nature through the lens of cinema. Spanning the late 19th century to present day, ...

Following the life of silkworms, from when they hatch in spring and feast on mulberry leaves to when they build their cocoons in autumn this film takes you to deep into the mountains of northern Japan ...

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Join Solfi for this sound workshop and create a collective song about utopia in the here and now. What does togetherness sound like in a broken world? Guided by an ensemble of creative ...