The Mosaic Rooms

The Mosaic Rooms Non-profit art gallery and bookshop dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary culture from Qattan Foundation, a registered charity number 1029450.

We believe in the importance of creating a cultural space that presents new thinking and daring creativity, illuminates ideas, inspires understanding, and interrogates contemporary issues. Our vision is for a London audience with a more informed, engaged and critical understanding of Arab culture and society. We are a non-party political, non-religious organisation, and we are a project of the A.M

. Visit The Mosaic Rooms bookshop here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/category/shop/

Find out about hiring The Mosaic Rooms for your event here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/venue-hire-details/

Find out more about the A M Qattan Foundation here: http://www.mosaicrooms.org/a-m-qattan-foundation/

📆 Wednesday 9 September, 7pmSession 4: Return to the one with Byron Wallen “a true jazz spirit”In this session we will b...
28/08/2026

📆 Wednesday 9 September, 7pm

Session 4: Return to the one with Byron Wallen 

“a true jazz spirit”

In this session we will be joined and guided by the beautiful spirit and profound musical energy of Byron Wallen. A magnetic educator and truly brilliant artist, Byron will help us to trace the rhythmic foundations of musical culture(s). He will compel us to see the ways in which rhythm functions as technology.

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Saturday 26 September, 4pm-6pmWhat is the relationship between extractivism and visuality? What can reflecting on this r...
26/08/2026

Saturday 26 September, 4pm-6pm

What is the relationship between extractivism and visuality? What can reflecting on this relationship tell us about the politics of extractivism especially in colonial contexts whose coloniality has remained underrecognised?

Join us for a conversation around Eray Çaylı’s new book Earthmoving (University of Texas Press, 2025), which explores the politics of extractivism and visuality in Northern Kurdistan. Bringing together perspectives from geography, architecture, sociology and anthropology, The conversation will span topics ranging from the transformation of land and water to the politics of memory and place and from regimes of visibility to local and embodied forms of knowledge.

With respondents Nishat Awan, Yeşim Yaprak Yıldız and Austin Zeiderman. Moderated by Siegrun Bahar Salmanian.

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1000 Pounds to Survive Us culminate their takeover in this special performance staged in the sun dappled garden. The per...
17/08/2026

1000 Pounds to Survive Us culminate their takeover in this special performance staged in the sun dappled garden. The performance will reflect the weeks spent inviting other musicians and thinkers into the space to collaborate and respond, and a month spent listening, building and improvising together.

Since coming together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café OTO, the band has brought together poetry, electronics, acoustic instruments and the resonances of the oud, exploring questions of memory, geographies and fractured histories which they’ve brought forth into their residency at Mosaic Rooms.

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1000 Pounds to Survive Us culminate their takeover in this special performance staged in the sun dappled garden. The per...
17/08/2026

1000 Pounds to Survive Us culminate their takeover in this special performance staged in the sun dappled garden. The performance will reflect the weeks spent inviting other musicians and thinkers into the space to collaborate and respond, and a month spent listening, building and improvising together.

Since coming together as part of a fundraiser for the Gaza Sunbirds at Café OTO, the band has brought together poetry, electronics, acoustic instruments and the resonances of the oud, exploring questions of memory, geographies and fractured histories which they’ve brought forth into their residency at Mosaic Rooms.

🎟️🔗 Book your free tickets via the link in bio

Seasons of Return25 August 2026, 7pmThis lecture performance speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys ...
15/08/2026

Seasons of Return
25 August 2026, 7pm

This lecture performance speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys since halted by the ongoing Israeli occupation and destruction of over fifty villages.

Artist and architect Batoul Faour will consider how occupation fractures temporal experience, producing parallel presents: one in which the South remains inaccessible yet insistently lived through memory, anticipation and political imagination, and another in which life continues elsewhere while destruction and erasure persist across the occupied landscape. Return is understood not as a moment of arrival, but as an ongoing negotiation with and against these forces, inherited across generations.

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🎴Play Lab: Lum'a - Shadows of Another World: Sculpting Light With Paper 📅 27 June 2026 | 3-5pm | FREE Drop inJoin filmma...
10/08/2026

🎴Play Lab: Lum'a - Shadows of Another World: Sculpting Light With Paper

📅 27 June 2026 | 3-5pm | FREE Drop in

Join filmmaker and art facilitator Nia Fekri Nia Fekri in creating imaginary worlds using paper collage, experimenting with shape, layering and cut-outs to manipulate light and shadow. By exploring how light passes through and around paper forms, we will transform simple materials into magical landscapes.

✨ Open to all ages (0-11 may enjoy most)

Join us for an open-ended play session for under-fives and their grown-ups where the Play Room transforms into a world o...
06/08/2026

Join us for an open-ended play session for under-fives and their grown-ups where the Play Room transforms into a world of squishy, crunchy, buildable fun.

Led by play worker and artist Zareen Islam, these sessions use reclaimed and recycled materials to create playful environments where children can take the lead, shape their own experiences and explore freely.

Zareen’s practice is rooted in community, inclusivity and children's rights, championing every child's right to play.

📅7 August
⏰12–4pm
🎟️No need to book - Free drop-in activity
Designed for ages 0-5
Older siblings are welcome

PLAY LAB: LUM‘A - MOTION TRAILSThursday 23 July 202611am-1pm | 2-4pmFree, drop-inلُمعَة – Lum‘a – a glimmer, a glint, a ...
17/07/2026

PLAY LAB: LUM‘A - MOTION TRAILS
Thursday 23 July 2026
11am-1pm | 2-4pm
Free, drop-in

لُمعَة – Lum‘a – a glimmer, a glint, a flicker of light
Join us for the next session of Play Lab: Lum’a, where drawings, objects and gestures come alive through movement and play. Inspired by early forms of film and animation, this playroom invites children to explore how marks, materials, and movements can become images in motion.
In this playroom, led by artist Chahine Fellahi, children will experiment with rhythm, repetition, and transformation, discovering how motion can create colourful patterns and playful animations. Through making and playing, they will explore the magic of moving images and the wonder of transforming simple actions into moving worlds.
What’s inside: Moving pictures, kinetic drawing, interactive video projections, and open-ended materials for drawing, building, and experimenting with motion.

Suitable for ages 0-11
No need to book
Free drop-in activity

29 July, 7pmSession 2: Organic Music Society: A cosmos of being otherwiseUsing the life and practice of Don Cherry, we w...
17/07/2026

29 July, 7pm
Session 2: Organic Music Society: A cosmos of being otherwise

Using the life and practice of Don Cherry, we will move with the ways in which he created a mirror, for life to reflect the radical impulse of music. Through improvisation and a deep study of global music, we will witness the power of his learnings through the music he wove with others.

In these spare and soulful poems, Nur Turkmani reflects on transformation and loss over six Octobers in Lebanon since 20...
16/07/2026

In these spare and soulful poems, Nur Turkmani reflects on transformation and loss over six Octobers in Lebanon since 2019. Moving between love and grief for home and its people, October holds the ordinary and the extraordinary in the same breath, asking how we hold what’s disappearing, or changing too quickly to make sense of.

Join us for the book launch of October by Nur Turkmani (Hajar Press, 2026), a poetry collection meditating on rupture, memory, transformation, and the quiet undoing and remaking of relationships during collective catastrophe.

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This event is in collaboration with Hajar Press and Maqam Books

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