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07.12.2023 – 01.01.2024

Christmas at the Barbican Centre

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It's the most wonderful time of the year with fun festive events at the Barbican Centre this Christmas season. Here are just a selection of events happening at the Barbican Centre. For more information and to book tickets visit the Barbican website.

Raymond Gubbay Christmas Festival

Date: 7 December to 1 January

Get in the Christmas Spirit as the Raymond Gubbay Christmas Festival returns to the Barbican Hall. Whether you enjoy Christmas films, classic carols, festive hits, or spine-tingling choirs, this festival promises to be the perfect addition to your holiday calendar.

Christmas with King's College Choir

20 December / 7:30pm

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge joined on stage by the superb Crouch End Festival Chorus. A glorious programme of festive classics includes a sublime selection of carols performed by the angelic voices of the chapel choristers as well as Carols for all.

Candlelit Carols

Date: 21 December at 2:30pm

A sublime concert of carols and seasonal classics, staged in an evocative candle-lit style setting.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Date: 3 Dec 2024 to 18 Jan 2025

Experience a ‘ravishing fusion of flamboyancy and fun’ (Guardian) as this smash-hit sell-out production transfers to London to brighten up your winter.

With Mathew Baynton (Ghosts, Horrible Histories) as Bottom, this hilarious production of Shakespeare’s captivating comedy will transport you from deepest midwinter to the most magical of midsummer nights. As four young lovers are faced with the prospect of unhappy marriage or worse, they flee the court of Athens and stumble into an enchanted forest, where the real and fairy worlds collide.

Director Eleanor Rhode returns to the Royal Shakespeare Company with a ‘joyous’ (Times) Dream that is magical, mischievous and full of wonder.

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