As one of our Artists in Residence, violinist Isabelle Faust features a Bach marathon and traces four centuries of the violin ...
Back for its fifth year, the Black British Book Festival is a landmark celebration of Black books, ideas and culture with ...
Few writers have paid a higher price for telling the truth. With Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano tore the mask off the Camorra and became one of Italy's most acclaimed, and most threatened, public ...
Step into the dazzling, defiant world of the iconic Joséphine Baker, as soprano Julia Bullock brings her voice, spirit and story vividly to life in this powerful, genre-crossing performance. Tracing ...
For the tenth anniversary of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s death, Robert Worby looks back at the composer's defining masterpieces - music that demands to be heard - and felt - live. Karlheinz Stockhausen is ...
Seductive, volatile and fiercely political, this staggering five-star production by Armando Babaioff is a raw and gripping confrontation with masculinity, homophobia and the patriarchy. Tom travels to ...
Join artist and poet Lynette Yiadom-Boakye for an illustrated poetry and history reading that entwines images from her personal archive with her artistic and poetic practice. This event closes a major ...
Browse concerts from the Barbican Contemporary Music programme, including artists from all forms of music, experimental collaborations and new talent.
In this poetic, critically acclaimed drama, director Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese explores what home and tradition mean when a village’s existence is threatened by the forces of progress. Selected by ...
Spike Lee documents the wildly popular Broadway show from legend David Byrne, blending music, dance and spoken word alongside classics from Talking Heads. Byrne is joined by an ensemble of musicians ...
For nearly forty years, Chris Packham has been the voice of nature in the UK. Through his groundbreaking work on The Really Wild Show, Springwatch, Inside Our Autistic Minds and Earth, Chris has ...