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Theatre. Music. Dance. Film. Art. Whatever you’re into you’ll find it here🤩 For any box office queries please email tickets @barbican .org.uk📧

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Joined March 2009
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@BarbicanCentre
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@lucyallan @PaulEmbery We try to be a welcoming and inclusive place for everyone. We have toilets for women, men, and gender neutral toilets, and toilets for people with disabilities.
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"Patience is a virtue" sounds like something Polonius would say but these photos were worth the wait! #HamletBarbican http://t.co/4vurptP0WK
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Call us Barbie from now on😂
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'The rest is silence...' Thank you to our audiences from around the world and the #hamletbarbican team @SFP_London
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Benedict Cumberbatch explores our Conservatory as he talks to @OutMagazine #hamletbarbican http://t.co/0BZxDObM9X http://t.co/zzI3z2C0kY
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Congratulations to the cast and company of #hamletbarbican ! @SFP_London http://t.co/YZJOMF4sQJ
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Soft, fragile, toxic - what is masculinity? Our photography exhibition #Masculinities : Liberation through Photography is now on sale - tickets must be booked in advance and the show will open on Mon 13 July 💪
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8 years
'Music was my gateway to dreams and hope...' – Mohammed Assaf
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6 years
#Longread : Tokyo-based journalist @ianfmartin looks back through the decades to see who was responsible for the genre-defining music emerging from the Japanese underground scenes over the past 40 years
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This time last year, the stage was set for the first performance of #hamletbarbican @SFP_London #onthisday
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Benedict Cumberbatch spotted in our Shop👀
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❄️❄️❄️ The day Brutalism met the #BeastFromTheEast
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Happy birthday to #BenedictCumberbatch , who played Hamlet in our Theatre last year!
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10 years
Best way to start a Friday? With a Cumber-batch of cupcakes #hamletbarbican http://t.co/rscucRn26M
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5 years
A few minutes ago - a Brutal #sunset 🌆
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10 years
Ready for Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet? Bookmark our dedicated page http://t.co/9VrGPsUiQ1 ahead of Members on-sale Fri #hamletbarbican
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Turkish pop music singer-songwriter @mabelmatiz brings his unique blend of maqam music, Anatolian folk melodies with synth, and urban pop 🎶💥
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This morning’s view❄️❄️❄️ #londonsnow #snowday
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To be or not to be… We can now reveal the official photo for #hamletbarbican http://t.co/9VrGPsUiQ1 http://t.co/iVfudh4Lvf
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🎈🎈🎈Happy birthday to us🎈🎈🎈 Did you know? We opened to the public #onthisday 38 years ago with 130,000 cubic metres of concrete (!) and a diverse programme covering art, theatre, music and cinema🎉🎂 Do you remember your first visit here?
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This Saturday, join Sir @IanMcKellen on this panel discussion with @TheRSC about film and tv
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🇩🇰 👨🏽❤️👸🏻💍👑 👻💬💀❌🐍👦🏽🔪👨🏽 🐝🐝🚫🐝🐝❓ 👦🏽❤️👧🏾😡➡️⛪️ 🎭👨🏽👸🏻😳💊➡️👂🏼 👸🏻👴🏼➡️🚪👦🏽🔪👴🏼💀 👧🏾💐🌊💀 👦🏽⛵➡️🇬🇧🏊🏼🇩🇰 🔪🔪🔄👦🏽💀💊🍷👸🏻💀🔪👨🏽💀🔪👦🏽💀 💔👼🏽 #HamletBarbican #WorldEmojiDay
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Thank you to everyone for all your kind wishes of luck & leg breaking to the cast, crew and Barbican team for #hamletbarbican opening night!
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Deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Alan Rickman, an exceptional actor whose legacy will be remembered
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It's our birthday🎂🎈🎉 We opened #OnThisDay in 1982 - in the first Barbican brochure, or Diary, as it was then called, we announced our opening celebrations, five days of events including a visit from Her Majesty The Queen👑
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Deeply saddened to hear about the passing of David Bowie, a true legend. The stars look very different today.
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From everyone at the Barbican - best of luck to the cast and crew for Opening Night of #hamletbarbican @SFP_London http://t.co/KyAEOQqzYR
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We can now announce Lyndsey Turner's Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch will be on sale in August #hamletbarbican http://t.co/9VrGPsUiQ1
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Me getting my dose of fresh air during my stupid little daily walks #BernieSanders
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We would like to wish our very own Hamlet, Benedict Cumberbatch, a very happy birthday! #hamletbarbican
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We're missing the tranquillity of our Conservatory🌴🌷 So we're starting a thread of houseplants, big and small -reply to this with a picture of your houseplants 🌵 #WellnessWednesday
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7 years
Happy birthday to us! Today we celebrate our 35th birthday with 35 years of Barbican Firsts #Barbican35
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This morning's Brutal reflections 🌞 📸by Katie Hession
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Time to welcome you back to (some of) the Barbican! Today we announce the reopening of our Art Gallery and Conservatory on Mon 13 July. To help you plan your visit, here's how we'll be keeping our staff and visitors safe and what to expect
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Let's take a look inside rehearsals for #hamletbarbican with Benedict Cumberbatch @SFP_London http://t.co/aRlXijP9O8 http://t.co/Zcrvp4qfIC
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london based photographers be like ‘i know a spot’...
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Staff will be placed throughout the auditorium & we reserve the right to remove anyone using a mobile device or camera #hamletbarbican
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Happy birthday David Bowie - you are missed ♥️ Which of his songs are you listening to today?
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The play's the thing. Tonight our Theatre is streamed live to 650 UK cinemas @NTLive How do we look? #hamletbarbican http://t.co/NeFwXV9gJJ
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For those of you joining us for tonight's Opening Night of #hamletbarbican , remember it starts at 7pm (not 7.15pm) http://t.co/MXbcwT9PcJ
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Congratulations Benedict Cumberbatch, Sian Brooke, Ciaran Hinds & Kobna Holdbrook-Smith #WOSAwards #hamletbarbican
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We'll announce ticket details for #hamletbarbican in May. Sign up to our Theatre newsletter to be the first to know http://t.co/BdhwdJr9WI
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7 years
'From a certain location in Hackney, the sun appears to drop between the Barbican Towers' - @London_Rooftops
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We’ve got lots of arty things going on this week✨🚨
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We can't wait to welcome you back - we've got lots of new events for you and we hope we'll be able to see you in person on Mon 17 May ☀️
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Happy #InternationalCatDay ! Unfortunately, we don't get many feline visitors here at the Barbican, so we'll leave you with this photo of a black cat audition from 1961, taken by photographer Ralph Crane
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A brutal day... #backtowork
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In spring 2019, Cillian Murphy stars in Enda Walsh's adaptation of @maxjohnporter 's 'Grief is the Thing with Feathers', a meditation on love, loss & living produced by @waywardprod in association with @Complicite & co-produced by the Barbican
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Polonius and his daughter Ophelia, Hamlet and the Ghost... @SFP_London #hamletbarbican http://t.co/pw4Qukaw9T
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We present @TheRoyalOpera 's world premiere of Coraline with @BrittenSinfonia , based on the story by @neilhimself
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Were you here in 2015 for #Hamlet ? It was our first @NTLive broadcast from the Barbican #Barbican35
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Mugs to magnets, jewellery to totes, notebooks to bookmarks: #hamletbarbican shop is now live http://t.co/S3mJDm1BI2 http://t.co/LOFSwqkTIW
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'There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.' –We're very saddened to hear that Leonard Cohen has passed away.
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Saddened to learn about the death of director Yukio Ninagawa. We're privileged to have staged several of his works
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✨New podcast✨ In our final episode with @stephenfry , exploring music, art and mental health, Stephen explores his own identity and answers the question ‘can art really be used to change the world?’ Listen & subscribe 👇
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Oh hai, @TimeOutLondon . What's this we see about you telling folks to say we have 'loads' of #hamletbarbican tickets? http://t.co/wjL07i2XBi
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An empty Barbican during lockdown, taken by our Centre Manager, Freda Pouflis, who is working with a small and dedicated team onsite to keep the building secure💛 #MondaysAreBrutal
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'Hamlet' with Benedict Cumberbatch will be broadcast by @NTLive on Thu 15 Oct #hamletbarbican http://t.co/Tpl950HtPG http://t.co/QmlrHm89js
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Today's view ☀️ #WarmestDayOfTheYear
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We're announcing our 2018 season, The Art of Change, which looks at how the arts respond to, reflect & potentially effect change
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It's our final screening and ScreenTalk of this feature tonight!✨
@queereast
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Tonight 18:10 at @BarbicanCentre , we will be showing Thai filmmaker Anucha Boonyawatana @Nuchyfilm 's 2015 feature, The Blue Hour, followed by an in-person Q&A with Anucha herself, hosted by @mayadadol . Only a few tickets left so get yours now at
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Happy birthday to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, born on this day in 1859. Who's your favourite #SherlockHolmes ?
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A reminder from the #hamletbarbican team, cast & crew to please completely switch off any mobile devices before entering the auditorium.
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To bid or not to bid? Win the signed #HamletBarbican skull in our #Halloween silent auction
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Ambassador for @mndassoc Benedict Cumberbatch graciously accepts his (numerous) #IceBucketChallenge (s) for #MND #ALS http://t.co/jMX1OrugJ7
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To sleep, perchance to dream…Benedict Cumberbatch will star in Lyndsey Turner’s #Hamlet for 12 weeks from August 2015 http://t.co/NoIjhHQUzd
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Our Conservatory back in March 1980 #MondaysAreBrutal
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We love this photo series that reveal the interior of the Barbican Estate & its residents
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So...did everyone have a great opening night? A huge thank you to the cast, crew & audience of Lyndsey Turner's #hamletbarbican @SFP_London
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All good things must come to an end 😢 Best of luck to the incredible @totoro_show team on their final show tonight 💚☔
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Live from our Theatre...Will you be watching @NTLive #hamletbarbican on Thursday? http://t.co/nHrrXR404U http://t.co/m00dW5epHx
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We're deeply saddened to hear about the passing of Zaha Hadid -it's a sad day for architecture.
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Cancel all your plans! Today is #NationalCinemaDay 😍 All film screenings are £3 (+ booking fee) all day🍿🙌
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Benedict Cumberbatch talks about his role in Lyndsey Turner's #hamletbarbican @Comic_Con #SDCC (via @LATherocomplex ) http://t.co/qoycZwdkRs
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The Barbican towers were the tallest residential towers in Europe when they were completed between 1973 and 1976 #MondaysAreBrutal
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Happy birthday to Vincent Van Gogh, born on this day in 1853! What's your favourite painting of his?
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We're announcing our 2017 season today, featuring #BoomForReal by Jean-Michel Basquiat & a new dance season. Stay tuned!
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Fancy winning a chair from @oldvictheatre 's The Crucible, signed by @RCArmitage ?
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A villanous Cumberbatch is legendary baddie Khan- Star Trek Into Darkness, 6pm #hamletbarbican http://t.co/HqiJOyWgL5 http://t.co/6PARRQoAPZ
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Watch out London, Paddington is on tour. Meet Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Bear @MuseumofLondon #PaddingtonTrail http://t.co/Qbg1Dm4CKA
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Did you know? The word 'Brutalism' derives from the French 'béton brut', meaning raw concrete #MondaysAreBrutal
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Did you know? There are 119 ways to access the Barbican Centre #MondaysAreBrutal
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✨NOW OPEN✨ Prepare to meet the future - our AI: #MorethanHuman exhibition is now open in the Centre, featuring an interactive installation by Teamlab, a video game by Lawrence Lek and a poetry-writing AI installation ✨🤖 Until 26 Aug - tickets 👉
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Did you know? The word 'Brutalism' derives from the French 'béton brut', meaning raw concrete #MondaysAreBrutal
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A photo of the Barbican flats from a 1971 booklet advertising the Barbican to prospective residents 🏘️
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We’re deeply saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty The Queen. In 1982, The Queen opened the Barbican and visited on a number of occasions in the last 40 years. We remain very grateful for Her Majesty’s support. Our thoughts are with The Royal Family at this time💜
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We want to try something this week... While we're closed, we'd like to curate a weekly programme for you to dive (or dip) into. So if you find yourself in need of some inspiration - or distraction - we'll always have something for you to Read, Watch or Listen.
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Did you know? There are 119 ways to access the Barbican Centre #MondaysAreBrutal
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Based on Alexander Master’s biography, unlikely friendships unfold in Stuart A Life Backwards http://t.co/31WRj5yPJ1 http://t.co/CJt5SD6Ajt
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We're very saddened to hear that Agnès Varda has died 'For cinephiles everywhere, Agnès Varda has been an inspiration – both as a director, and as a person, for her boundless curiosity, generosity of spirit and vision. We will treasure her films & legacy' - Barbican Cinema team
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Photography & filming is strictly prohibited throughout – it is distracting to the cast & your fellow audience members! #hamletbarbican
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Excited to announce new collaborators to our upcoming exhibition, #MorethanHuman , including @DeepMindAI , @googlearts , @IBM and more AI: More than Human opens Thu 16 May
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'Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven, or ever I had seen that day' -last Autumn we were showing #Hamlet #LoveTheatreDay
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Our Lake Terrace in the early 80s #MondaysAreBrutal
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Very saddened to hear the news that Howard Hodgkin, one of Britain’s greatest artists, has died aged 84 - this is 'Swimming' from 2011
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Our Conservatory is open again – a perfect way to enjoy a lazy day out with friends and family🌴
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