Celebrate Pan-Africanism through rhythm, lineage and sound with artists responding to the visual arts exhibition, co-hosted ...

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Wheelchair spaces and free companion seats may now be booked online. Please select the relevant preferences on the access registration page during your booking so we can provide you with the correct ...

Wagner plunges the depths and rises to ecstatic heights in one of the greatest and most intense of operatic love stories. Based on a medieval tale, Tristan and Isolde is told through music that seems ...

A talk examining Tove Jansson’s lifelong relationship with music and its influence on her creative world. This talk is free and accessible to ticket holders for the evening concert. Priority for those ...

What are the albums that have shaped our understanding of moments in history? What do their album covers represent? This listening session dissects some of the albums featured in the exhibition. From ...

In a talk entitled In Two Minds, the practice's director Neil Gillespie turns his attention to a curated handful of Reiach and Hall's projects that carry particular personal meaning for him. The ...

Opening in May 2022, the Barbican presents Our Time on Earth – a major exhibition celebrating the power of global creativity to transform the conversation around the climate emergency. Through art, ...

Composed in the midst of global conflict, Britten’s 1940 Sinfonia da Requiem is a grief-stricken cry, its turbulent music finally giving way to Mahlerian tenderness – and hope. Bernstein’s post-war ...

This talk is free and accessible to ticket holders with a Total Immersion Day Pass. The Barbican is widely accessible by bus, tube, train and by foot or bicycle. Plan your journey and find more route ...

This one-day history festival brings London’s medieval Jewish community back to life, just steps away from the City’s original Jewish quarter. The Jewish Museum will be running a series of children’s ...

Francesco Piemontesi plays Brahms’s mighty First Piano Concerto, and conductor Tabita Berglund retells the colourful tale of Grieg’s Peer Gynt. Peer Gynt is a prankster and a rogue – a man who lives ...