The rise of archiving and electronic music production is reshaping cultural and protest movements from the SWANA region as it faces cultural ruptures through political destruction. Music practices serve as powerful interventions for preserving cultural memory, communicating resistance, celebrating heritage, empowering community voices, healing, and reimaging futures. Sounds of Resistance is an event series curated […]
How do we turn a theatre stage into a space for new civic imaginations? Circles and Storytellers is the first public UK solo exhibition by French-Moroccan artist and educator Bouchra Khalili. It presents interconnected works The Circle Project (2023) and The Public Storyteller (2024), marking the conclusion of Khalili’s decade-long exploration of the overlooked history […]
Join Ahmed Tobasi, Yasmin Shalaldeh and Zoe Lafferty for a day of collective exploration and play. Drawing on theatre’s tools, this workshop invites participants to explore how storytelling and collaboration can become liberating acts. Through practical exercises, dialogue and creation, the workshop will explore theatre as a space of cultural resistance to confront history, find […]
The Stafford Muslim Community Centre is developing a new mosque for Stafford’s growing Muslim community. Throughout 2025, residents explored Islamic ceramics and Staffordshire’s pottery heritage through collaborative workshops with artist Shahed Saleem, artist and engineer Mohammed Younes, and historian Dr Richard McClary, including a visit to the V&A Wedgwood Collection and Archives. The community’s creative […]
To mark the inauguration of Leighton House’s Centennial Commissions, join us on for a panel discussion bringing together multidisciplinary artist Ramzi Mallat, researcher and curator Nadine Nour El Din, art historian Dr Melanie Gibson, and scholar and curator Chiara De Nicolais. Moderated by Hannah Lund, curator of exhibitions and displays at Leighton House Museum, the […]
Leighton House presents the first major exploration of its extraordinary Arab Hall, one of London’s most iconic interiors, through a specially commissioned short film, three site-specific art installations and an exhibition and new publication containing extensive new research. This collaborative and interdisciplinary project examines the space’s remarkable history and its continued relevance today. The exhibition […]
A new screening event is coming to London, baba. Brought to you by NAFS x Salt & Sister Studio Cinema f’el Salon is a soft landing of a film night. A safe, non-judgemental, non-shaming space to be authentic; sitting at home, together. If, like us, your experience of the salon growing up was that it […]
OPENING RECEPTION: TUESDAY 10TH MARCH, 6–8PM Richard Saltoun Gallery presents Excursion Across Time, a historical overview of the career of British-Iraqi artist Dia AL-AZZAWI (b. Baghdad, 1939), curated by Louisa Macmillan. This exhibition marks half a century since Azzawi moved to London, although it is only his second solo show in the city he calls home […]
This partial retrospective brings together the multimedia work of interdisciplinary, Rabat-born, New-York based artist, Meriem Bennani. Spanning work from the past decade in which the human and non-human continuously interact and coalesce, the programme traces the trajectory of an artist in the lead up to their latest and most personal filmic work, Bouchra. Laced with […]
In this creative workshop, Reem Maghribi guides participants on an intuitive artistic journey through drawing, writing, design and construction to create ephemeral expressions of a perpetual Palestine. Crayons, pens, threads and wood are all tools on a playful curiosity-fuelled migration towards a collective expression of home and homeland. This public workshop is one of a […]