A public programme of talks, debates, concerts and screenings has been announced to coincide with the Barbican’s major summer exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, which runs 3 June to 1 September.

This unprecedented show takes place all over the Centre, encompassing literature, contemporary art, film, music, comic books and video games to present a genre-defining exploration of one of popular culture’s most celebrated realms.

Alongside the main display in the Curve Gallery, the exhibition continues all over the building, in the foyers and in the Pit Theatre. There will be a pop up outdoor cinema on the Barbican’s sculpture court, SciFi Sundays in the Cinema, music performances in the Barbican Hall, as well as a public programme of talks in partnership with New Scientist and Penguin Classics, around the exhibition’s four chapters: Extraordinary Voyages, Space Odysseys, Brave New Worlds and Final Frontiers in partnership with New Scientist and Penguin Classics.

The outdoor screenings include 2001: A Space Odyssey (August 25); Tron ((August 26) and Gravity + A Trip to the Moon (August 27). The SciFi Sundays include the Czech film Ikarie XB-1 (June 18), Lucas’s THX 1138 (July 2), the Russian Letters from a Dead Man (July 16); Soylent Green (July 30); the Polish O-bi, O-ba: The End of Civilization (August 6), and the Japanese Warning from Space (August 20).

Full details at www.barbican.org.uk/intotheunknown

 

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