Join us on Saturday mornings to start your cinematic journey as a family! Welcome to Family Film Club, where your little ones can embark on their cinematic journey with carefully curated screenings ...

LIAF dug deep into their archives and have selected 16 of the best short animated films full of visually dazzling joy from all around the world, for kids of all ages and the whole family. There’ll be ...

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 ...

The stage transforms into a vibrant gig venue with live music and dancing as the ★★★★★ 'joyful celebration of movement' (Guardian) returns following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run here in 2024.

Laurence Cummings and AAM bring an Easter tradition to life: a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion. Faith, betrayal, tragedy and redemption: all of human emotion pulses through the ...

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Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s playful Fourth Symphony – and plays the violin too, as Kurt Weill retells the myth of Orpheus in his own, utterly original style. A jingle of sleighbells, a flurry of ...

Join Poet Laureate Simon Armitage for an intimate reading of selected works to celebrate his receipt of the Freedom of the City Award, the first ever to be conducted in our iconic conservatory. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

A meditation on social isolation and stillness, no other film depicts the painful repetitiveness of an immigrant's life with such candid detail. The film features many elements characteristic of ...