Crow-Watching
On a recent walk through the city, I made an impromptu visit to Fortune Park. A recent discovery for me, I have fallen a little bit in love with this pocket-sized green space in the heart of London. I discovered it by accident. On a visit to the Barbican [...]
Flat Watch
Sales and rentals holding up despite Covid We keep on getting mixed messages from the media as to how property prices are holding up in the new lockdown, and in central London in particular with the ever increasing trend toward working from home. This has almost certainly led to [...]
Personal Finance
Use your allowances before 5 April 2021! The UK tax year ends on 5th April and so the remaining weeks can provide a last-minute chance to save some tax with a bit of careful end of year tax planning. Here are some ideas for maximising your tax efficiency. If [...]
Harmony, with History
A new partnership between the City Music Foundation and neighbouring Barts Heritage has produced a series of free concerts in the hospital’s Great Hall. Joanna Lyall reports. CMF musicians in the Great Hall Free lunchtime concerts in Barts Great Hall at 1pm Wednesday March 17th Saxophonist Alastair [...]
Planting Green
Advice on Planting Green and for Biodiversity, from Nic Guerra (Barbican Gardener) and the Barbican Wildlife Group Planting in Barbican troughs The trough should be lined with BEO black plastic refuse bags – three to a trough – with three1cm holes punched at intervals per sack. The holes will [...]
Bio-DO-versity
Some Dos (and Do Nots) to Protect Nature (and Yourself), by Julien Waite What is Biodiversity? What most of us think of as “a wasp” is one of two species. The classic “bee”, the honeybee, from which we obtain honey, is just one species. In actual fact, in the [...]
INSIGHT
Exhibition Preview :: Janet Wells’ takes us online for her quarterly review of the Arts, Gallery and Museum scene I can’t pretend that these ways of accessing art works is the same as being there: It doesn’t allow you ownership, the connectivity: Here is the picture but you can’t [...]
THE GREAT HALL CONCERTS
Classical saxophonist Alastair Penman, a 2013 CMF artist, performs at 1pm at The Great Hall, Barts Heritage with pianist Jonathan Pease. This concert has been changed to an online-only event and will be broadcast live from St Bart’s Great Hall. *BOOK NOW TO WATCH ONLINE BY CLICKING HERE* *PLEASE DONATE WITH [...]
Better Nature
Our March Barbican Life magazine is winging its way to you and for our first issue of 2021, things are looking hopeful. We would love to come and give every single one of you a big positive Happy New Year hug, but that will have to wait. Instead, we [...]
Barbican Centre Opens in May
NEW programme for the spring and summer 2021 The Barbican today announces an exciting programme of new live events and digital content for spring and summer. In line with the latest government guidance, the Barbican is preparing to reopen its Art Gallery, Cinemas, Shop and Cafes, and welcome back [...]
Filming on Aldersgate St
Thanks to Cath Urquhart for her photos of the filming at the weekend. Crew wetting the streets for a rain scene! I have it on Barbican Talk authority that the filming is for the Apple TV production of the Mick Herron 'Slow Horses' spy series
International Women’s Day 2021
On the 8th March we celebrate International Women's Day and the theme for 2021 is 'Choose to Challenge'. Here is a poem from nearby Islington resident, Natasha Anne Kelleher, to get us warmed up to the day! WOMANHOOD by Natasha Anne Kelleher (2018) WOMANHOOD, SISTERHOOD, MOTHERHOOD NATURE'S CONDUITS [...]