Level G

Everyone's journey starts on Level G. Experience free installations, commissions and events in our public spaces, whatever time you visit.

Free events & performances

Event

Art & design Tours & public spaces

Outpost Studio

Thu 3 Mar –Sun 24 Apr 2022

As part of his Age of Many Posts project, Associate Artist, Abbas Zahedi, has created this open studio on Level G.

Event

Tours & public spaces

Squish Space

Free

Wed 30 Mar –Tue 12 Apr 2022

Discover, touch, play and learn in our reopened Squish Space.

Photo of concrete flytower surrounded by trees and plants in the Barbican Conservatory

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Tours & public spaces

Visit the Conservatory

Free

Sun 3 –Wed 6 Apr 2022

Visit the second biggest Conservatory in London and explore our hidden tropical oasis.

A group of people standing under an arch in conservatory

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Art & design Contemporary music Talks & workshops Tours & public spaces

Young Barbican: The Takeover

Young Barbican

Sat 30 Apr –Sun 1 May 2022

Young Barbican take over the Barbican Centre for a whole weekend!

Event

Classical music Contemporary music

Piano Day 2022

Past event

Tue 29 Mar 2022, 17:30

A selection of pianists take over Level G in celebration of Piano Day – a welcome return after a two-year break.

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Talks & workshops Tours & public spaces

YBN: The Archive is Permanently Under Construction

Past event

Thu 17 Mar 2022, 19:00

Join fellow Young Barbican members and Young Creatives for an evening of creative responses to the Out and About! exhibition.

Sarah Cahill standing in a garden in front of a bridge

Event

Classical music

Sarah Cahill: The Future is Female

Past event

Sat 5 Mar 2022, 12:00

Stroll through our serene Conservatory to the sounds of powerful women from across the centuries, as pianist Sarah Cahill debunks history to show that the past, present and future is female.

A pile of colourful badges celebrating LGBTQ+ individuals, collectives and organisations.

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Art & design Talks & workshops Tours & public spaces

Out and About!: Archiving LGBTQ+ history at Bishopsgate

Past event

Mon 28 Feb –Mon 21 Mar 2022

Bishopsgate Institute stage a take-over of The Curve with an archive installation of objects, ephemera and media highlighting 40 moments and stories in London’s LGBTQ+ history.

A caption box showing some orange captions from a Romeo and Juliet production

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Theatre & dance Tours & public spaces

Stagetext: Captions Speak Louder

Past event

Mon 15 Nov 2021 –Thu 6 Jan 2022

Come and explore this first of its kind exhibition, mapping the growth of theatre captioning through the work of deaf-led charity Stagetext.

An image of the Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night exhibition

Event

Art & design

Shilpa Gupta: Sun at Night

Past event

Thu 7 Oct 2021 –Sun 6 Feb 2022

The first major London exhibition by Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of one’s right to expression whilst raising urgent questions of censorship, confinement and resistance.

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Tours & public spaces

Welcome Tour

Past event

Mon 20 Sep –Sun 31 Oct 2021

Discover the Barbican Centre on one of our free 20 minute tours.

Tangerine Dream Exhibition at the Barbican

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Library

Tangerine Dream: Zeitraffer

Past event

Mon 19 Jul –Wed 15 Dec 2021

Join us on an analogue journey through unseen footage, unpublished articles and original synthesizers with one of electronic music's pioneering groups.

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Art & design Talks & workshops Tours & public spaces

How We Live Now

Past event

Mon 17 May 2021 –Sun 30 Jan 2022

A multi-layered project comprising an installation, publication and events programme exploring a series of important questions about our public spaces and designed environments.

Audiences enjoying a socially distanced performance by the Mithras Trio on Barbican Level G

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Classical music

Live at Lunchtime

Past event

Fri 2 Oct –Wed 4 Nov 2020

Live music returns to Level G with a series of twice-weekly, free lunchtime concerts given by outstanding musicians from Guildhall School of Music & Drama.