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 […]
Mauritania’s Noura Mint Seymali is a griot, singer, and composer, carrying centuries of Moorish tradition into the present. Her music blends desert blues, Saharan psych-rock, and West African call-and-response, anchored by the harp-like ardine, electric guitar, bass, and percussion. An evening where ancient soundscapes meets contemporary flair through trance-like cycles, poetic storytelling, and improvisation.
A two-day exhibition on cultural belonging. For the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) 2026, The Palestine Collective is organising a two-day exhibition on cultural belonging, in collaboration with the P21 Gallery. ‘Belonging(s) Beyond Borders’ engages architects and artists who confront diaspora and displacement in their homelands through versatile expressions of cultural identity and belonging. Emerging […]
For one night only Seenaryo is staging new monologues from Lebanon, performed by acclaimed actors by acclaimed actors Juliet Stevenson, Khalid Abdalla, Denise Gough, and more… with a recorded reading by Oscar-winning Hamnet star Jessie Buckley. Audiences will have the chance to hear first hand stories of living through the latest war on Lebanon, written […]
The Arab Film Club returns to the Southbank Centre for a special Refugee Week screening. The films selected showcase the inventive ways filmmakers use the power of cinema and storytelling to humanise struggle and raise awareness through art. The screening is followed by a live Q&A hosted by Sarah Agha with the directors on stage. […]
Artist Mandy El-Sayegh and writer-curator Shumon Basar come together to discuss El-Sayegh’s practice and her mural commission at The Showroom – This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly – which employs a cut-up methodology, layering materials with poetic fragments, to explore the textures of commonality, social justice, and modes of resistance. They will consider the […]