BUMPING SPACES
How to get involved TACKLING ISOLATION: You should already have received a booklet through your letterbox. The Barbican Library are looking for people to share their thoughts and help develop ideas around sparking new connections in our community. Please either: • Call, text or whatsapp them on 07898 912131 [...]
BOOK UP FOR MARCH 10TH
Equilibrium perform string quartets by historical and contemporary women composers. Imogen Holst - Phantasy Quartet Bethan Morgan-Williams - Double Double Caroline Shaw - Entr'acte Elizabeth Maconchy - String Quartet no.3 Equilibrium is a new ensemble dedicated to performing works by women composers in an attempt to redress the gender imbalance [...]
SHORT EATS on the Radio!
We’re also going to be on Hoxton Radio this coming Thursday 25th Feb at 1030am, which is a bit surreal! Make sure to tune in on https://hoxtonradio.com/! Moving on to food. We’re going to start trialling a new Hero dish on our weekly menu going forward, starting this week with [...]
Competition for Designers
DIGITAL SERVICE POINT - OPEN CALL COMPETITION The competition seeks innovative and feasible design solutions for a modern, multifunctional Digital Service Point that will seamlessly blend existing street furniture and physical infrastructure.
Integrity Centre
New on the BA Discount Scheme: Boost your mental and physical health at our holistic wellbeing centre. We offer Group Yoga & Pilates Classes, Clinical Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy, Massage Therapy, Private Yoga, and Private Pilates. In person treatments and online sessions - home visits available. Located at 25 Finsbury [...]
Painting Rocks
Resident Juliana Lottmann shares her new mindfulness project for a greater sense of togetherness in times of isolation. I feel that this crazy period of the past 10+ months of lockdowns, face masks, alcohol gel, 2m rule... have taken a huge toll on our communities. When sneezing leads to [...]
Putting your belly on Lockdown
Barbican resident and owner of Short Eats gives her bitesize take on lockdown, life and food. There’s a lot going on right now, isn’t there? This Covid/lockdown/pandemic period has set into motion a whole cacophony of chaos; destruction of global trade, record-breaking moves in stock markets, and the doom-and-gloom [...]
New Neighbourhood Policing
The City of London Police recently launched a new policing model, which includes dedicated officers for certain areas of the City, one of which includes the Barbican. Tom Keating explains the improvements. As part of the City of London Police’s key ambition to ensure the Square Mile remains one [...]
Lockdown Landscaping
An Instagram discovery led us to Bruce (and Fi) Robertson in Willoughby House who finally had the time with lockdown to discover some impressively green fingers! Despite having lived in the Barbican for three years, we had never had the time to properly cultivate our top floor bedroom balcony. [...]
Swings and Roundabouts
No, I’m not referencing the Barbican’s children’s play areas in the two gardens – one of which I can view out of my apartment windows - but the effects of the coronavirus on Barbican property prices. Nationally, according to the data from those that collate it, property prices are [...]
Finance
Planning ideas for the pandemic: some new, some not so new! When many of the marketing gurus made great play of this year being the year of “20 20 vision”, they somewhat overestimated the optimism that would be associated with the 20 20 idea. With the benefit of hindsight, [...]
Angler PLUS
There can be no doubt that Angler is one of our best local restaurants. Merely a stagger away atop the South Place Hotel (a few steps along from HSBC Moorgate), Angler has dazzled with its Michelin star quality for over 7 years and we have been lucky enough to [...]