Join us for a summer afternoon of live music, hands-on workshops, and family-friendly celebration of Southwest Asian and North African cultures. Expect vibrant sounds, delicious foods, creative making, storytelling, and plenty of activities at the Horniman’s beautiful Gardens. ‘Haflah’, حفلة, means celebration or a party in Arabic, and this is exactly that. Hekayyatna is taking […]
Dunya Films presents: Do You Love Me – a film by Lana Daher Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos, and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – […]
Hajar Press, Maqam Books and Mosaic Rooms are delighted to invite you to the first London launch of October, the debut collection by Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani. Nur will be joined in conversation by editor Farhaana Arefin. In these spare and soulful poems, Nur Turkmani reflects on transformation and loss over six Octobers in Lebanon […]
Participate in a creative writing workshop led by Palestinian author Heba Hayek and Lebanese poet Nur Turkmani. What does it mean to write from a place rather than merely about it? How have the places we come from shaped our ways of seeing? How do we shape a place in return through story, attention, witness? […]
Since October 2023, Gaza has been sealed from the world except for one group – international doctors. While global media are barred from reporting and governments look away, doctors breach the blockade and what they find is not just a humanitarian crisis, but a calculated dismantling of life itself. Their firsthand accounts and visceral footage […]
Join Moroccan artist Yacout Hamdouch for a lively discussion about her paintings with Eleri Fanshawe, Curator at October Gallery. The conversation examines her series Poetic Landscapes and Fertile Rainbows, which explores memory, emotion and human connection through layered compositions of colour and form. The event offers a unique opportunity to listen to Hamdouch discuss her […]
Mosaic Rooms invite you to sounding towards – –, a five-month project transforming the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. The project is composed of three elements: From–To, an installation by Gaza’s Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio and a rolling programme of artist takeovers. Over the […]
Mosaic Rooms presents sounding towards – –, a five-month project transforming the gallery into a site for listening, sonic experimentation and conviviality. The project is composed of three elements: From–To, an installation by Gaza’s Dahaleez Collective, Common Frequencies by El Warcha Collaborative Design Studio and a rolling programme of artist takeovers. El Warcha’s Common Frequencies […]
Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon’s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche – marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, […]
PalesTEENian is a solo, semi-autobiographical show about Joe growing up Palestinian in South London. It’s a play about identity, coming of age and Palestine but where humour and heart is at the centre of it. Joe grows up confused, goes back to Palestine, sees it change, sees himself change, and embarks on a journey to being […]