Join us for a 20 minutes solo oud performance and a Q&A session about our school and the courses we teach. For free tickets register here: https://bit.ly/3bhHfAL About the Event: We are hosting our termly Open Day online! Thinking about picking up a new instrument? Now is as good a time as any. We are […]
Join us on Thursday May 7, 2020 at 7pm (UK time) for Bedtime Stories – an online reading of stories with music by artists from the Middle East and South Asia. FREE – SIGN UP REQUIRED (Limited Capacity) Stories: Abbas Zahedi I Alaa Kassim I Andrew Awad I Homegrown I Riyam Salim I Shani Dhanda […]
Meet the winners of this year’s Sheikh Zayed Book Awards, at a live streamed ceremomy. Here the winners talk about their work in English and Arabic. Speakers include: • Banipal wins the publishing and technology category in recognition of their decades of work championing Arab writing. • Palestinian-American author Ibtisam Barakat for her children’s book […]
Join us for our second Living Room Session with Islam Elbeiti. Live from Khartoum, she will introduce and play contemporary Sudanese jazz drawing on the country’s rich musical heritage. Looking at important figures, Elbeiti will explore the potential of jazz as a tool for democracy, playing songs that connect to Sudan’s struggle for democratic freedom. […]
Tune in for our third Living Room Session and an inspiring selection of music. Live from Ontario, Sufyvn will play a new set, Loops in Solitude, a mesmerising mix of some of his released and unreleased tracks. Listen to distinctively sampled rhythms and new electronic music rooted in Sudanese beats and melodies. Link to livestream: […]
Join The Mosaic Rooms for our third Sofa Cinema event, a rare screening of Hussein Shariffe‘s experimental short films The Dislocation of Amber and Tigers are Better Looking. The Dislocation of Amber was filmed in the city of Suakin, a formerly flourishing port in Sudan, now in ruins. Its history is one of famine and […]
Graffiti artist Assil Diab aka Sudalove takes over The Mosaic Rooms’ Instagram. Sudalove will highlight her practice as a graffiti artist in Khartoum, discuss her work on the Sudanese idols from the cultural scene and also talk about her murals during the revolution. She will share her experience and challenges of working as a graffiti […]
Enjoy a special hour of tunes live from Jenin with Mo’min Swaitat aka DJ Ab Jenin. Join the event live on The Mosaic Rooms Facebook page. Mormon Swaitat will be playing an eclectic selection of vintage and modern Bedouin psychedelic tapes and vinyls, in dialogue with Asian and African electronic tunes. Mo’min Swaitat is a […]
Join us online to meet Director Shehab Satti in The Mosaic Rooms’ first event of our digital live programme. He’ll be in conversation with film maker Weam Sawgi. He’ll discuss his film Serotonin which is screened at The Mosaic Rooms vimeo for free on the weekend of the 21 and 22 March. We’ll also be […]
One of Palestine’s most exciting contemporary artists, Riham Isaac, is asking the world to think differently about love. During this participatory virtual workshop you will use different mediums, the body, music, text and objects, to explore what love means to you. Share your own perspectives on love in a safe and inclusive online space from […]