Barbican Centre Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation, the third-largest arts funder in the United Kingdom. It was built as The City's gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million (equivalent to £480 million in 2014) and was officially opened to the public by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982. The Barbican Centre is also known for its brutalist architecture. The second-floor library is one of the five City of London libraries. It is one of the largest public libraries in London and has a separate arts library, a large music library
Jose Thomas Performing Arts Centre Shankar Mahadevan, Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia, Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, and Naseeruddin Shah have performed at the theatre. In 2009, Mohanlal played Prospero in a Malayalam-language version of "The Tempest" , and Bhima in a play titled "Chayamukhi". In 2012, the arts centre organised a four-day dance festival titled, "Parampara" in which Padma Shri recipient Madhavi Mudgal and Bharati Shivaji, Saswati Sen and Rama Vaidyanathan among others performed at the centre. In 2016, the President of the arts center, Josh Thomas said that the centre is incurring a loss of one-crore per year. Jose Thomas Performing Arts Centre The Jose