Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha explores the connections within works by contemporary artist Huma Bhabha and 20th ...

Join us for a lineup of thought-provoking events that bring together artists, thinkers, and collectives to imagine liberated ...

Experience the sound of resistance and reinvention across this month-long celebration of pirate radio and its lasting impact ...

Join us at this Experiments in Utopia talk to consider how contemporary technology can catalyse collectivity and hack the system of individuality. Taking in how we acknowledge and attend to the ...

Welcome to the Barbican Theatre and the captivating show created by director Chela De Ferrari and her ground-breaking company, Teatro La Plaza. This is Hamlet as we have never seen it before, in a ...

Step inside a calming, sensory pop-up bubble on our sculpture court for a workshop session about expanding states of embodied perception, led by Michele Occelli, Ben Khan, and Lewis Walker. Presented ...

A documentary from Julie Lunde Lillesæter following a group of women in Austin, Texas, who join forces to legally challenge the system that allowed their rapists to walk free. When Amy, Marina and ...

Welcome to The Pit for the UK premiere of When the cloud catches colours. We are delighted this year marks an exciting new chapter, as the Barbican collaborates with Queer East Festival on a live ...

Michael B. Jordan and Ryan Coogler reunite in a heart-pounding thriller where brothers return home for a fresh start - only to confront a chilling secret that refuses to stay buried. Set in the Deep ...

A cross-disciplinary festival showcasing boundary-pushing queer cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and Southeast Asia and its diaspora communities. A screening of two ground-breaking ...

Acclaimed London singer-songwriter Charlie Cunningham makes his Hall debut, performing new music from his highly anticipated fourth album, In Light. An under-the-radar success story, Cunningham blends ...

Sophie Fiennes’ immersive film offers privileged access to the experience of making theatre with pioneering practitioners, Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod of Cheek By Jowl. In a derelict Gothic ...