
06/11/2023
We remind and encourage you to continue to call for a ceasefire, write to your MP, donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians, continue to read, learn and share where you can, to continue in your solidarity for Palestine.
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
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We remind and encourage you to continue to call for a ceasefire, write to your MP, donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians, continue to read, learn and share where you can, to continue in your solidarity for Palestine.
Come and visit In the shade of the sun, open Tuesday to Sunday 11-6pm
👾🎥🍃 In the shade of the sun is a group exhibition by an exciting new generation of Palestinian artists that contemplates the relationship between politics and aesthetics.
Working across mediums that include film, installation, music and gaming, In the shade of the sun brings together artists that are forging a new language to think about and with Palestine.
The exhibition comprises new commissions by artists Mona Benyamin (.beniamyn), Xaytun Ennasr () and Dina Mimi (). Makimakkuk () has been denied a visa to enter the UK and will not be able to debut her commission for the exhibition In the shade of the sun. We are considering our next steps in light of this deeply disappointing development.
🌅This group of artists is brought together by Bilna'es (in the negative) (), an adisciplinary platform that seeks to find new models for artists to redistribute resources and support one another in the production and circulation of work. Independent researcher and curator Adam HajYahya () has been specially invited by Bilna'es to co-curate the exhibition's accompanying public programme.
The exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England (), Bagri Foundation () and Henry Moore Foundation ().
🔗Follow the link in bio for more details!
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Miniature painting workshop with Maha Ahmed at Leighton House, 11 & 12 November, 10-4pm
Join Maha Ahmed for a two-day artist-led workshop exploring her exhibition 'Where Worlds Meet' and learning the art of miniature painting.
Follow the link for more information and to RSVP: https://bit.ly/499XzTa
🪴Dream, design and create your own "Hoash" (Arabic for courtyard) with our fourth and final lesson plan!
Let Space Black guide you on a model-making journey to craft your very own mini dream courtyard.
Learn how to draw designs, choose materials and organise architectural space to bring your vision to life! Developed in response to Tools for Solidarity by RESOLVE Collective, the My Dream Hoash lesson plan will feed your imagination.
The Lesson Plan is presented as a beautiful zine, available as a free printout at The Mosaic Rooms or to download on our website. Don't forget to collect our other three lesson plans and visit the Tools for Solidarity Installation which closes tomorrow, Sunday 5 November at 6pm.
For more information and to download the Lesson Plan, visit the link below:
https://mosaicrooms.org/lesson-plans/
📣 Last few days to visit Tools for Solidarity by RESOLVE Collective!
Our outdoor play commission ends Sunday 5 November.
🌱 Children, families and all are welcome to play and create in our garden. Open 11-6pm until and including Sunday 5 November. Join us!
Join is for a performance of BASICTENSION by SERAFINE1369
🗓️ Thursday 9 November, 7pm - in gallery.
An ongoing and unresolved project by SERAFINE1369 (previously Last Yearz Interesting Negro), BASICTENSION is a collection of dances, writing, text and sounds forming a series of studies resonating in the tensions between social, professional, psychic, spiritual, physiological, healing and technological practices and processes.
SERAFINE1369 is a London born and based artist, dancer and body-focused researcher working with dancing as a philosophical undertaking, a political project with ethical psycho-spiritual ramifications for being-in-the-world; dancing as intimate technology.
📮 More info and RSVP via the link below:
https://mosaicrooms.org/event/basictension/
On Saturday a dear member of The Mosaic Rooms family, Dia Batal, left us too soon. Dia was a beloved friend, collaborator, and artist and will be deeply missed by all. She was an immensely talented, lyrical artist whose poetic work evoked the multitudes of loss, longing and belonging. Alongside her own practice she remained dedicated to encouraging all ages to experience the joy of creativity, the Arabic language, and the wonder of poetry. She contributed so much to our creative learning programme over the last decade, the traces of which remain and will grow on. Her artwork hangs in our bookshop, her benches offer spaces to gather and reflect in our garden and gallery, and we will carry her on proudly in our work and hearts.
An opportunity we recommend: Hotel Generation Open Call Now Live!
For UK-based digital artists between the age of 18 and 28. Deadline for submissions is Monday 20 November 2023.
Hotel Generation is a yearly, UK-wide development programme that provides vital mentoring and support for young digital artists. You’ll have the chance to build a network with other emerging digital artists and receive support from arebyte and their digital sector partners in preparing an exhibition proposal around arebyte's 23/26 theme ‘The Body, The Mind, The Soul’. The winning artist, selected by an esteemed panel of industry experts, will be guided and mentored by arebyte as they build up to a solo exhibition at arebyte Gallery.
Apply now through the link below:
https://www.arebyte.com/hotel-generation-open-call
Let your creativity flow and learn about the power of storytelling with the third of our four Lesson Plans for the Tools for Solidarity project: Carving Other Ways
Rose Nordin invites you to reimagine and redesign the newspaper as a means to dream, hope and design your own story by carving other ways in stamps.
🎨 Learn how to design simple stamps for printing by hand and watch your adventure
come to life on paper! Inspired by Tools for Solidarity by RESOLVE Collective, Carving Other Ways will guide you on a collaborative storytelling journey
🗞️ The Lesson Plan is presented as a beautiful zine, available as a free printout at The Mosaic Rooms or to download on our website.
For more information and to download the Lesson Plan, visit the link below!
https://mosaicrooms.org/lesson-plans/
Last week to visit Tools for Solidarity by RESOLVE Collective!
A reminder that our outdoor play commission by RESOLVE Collective () ends Sunday 5 November.
🌱 There are four ‘tools’ in The Mosaic Rooms garden as part of RESOLVE Collective’s Tools For Solidarity: ‘PRESS!’, ‘CONNECT…’, ‘NURTURE?’, and ‘ ’. Together, they aim to help explore and question the solidarities that children express in their everyday lives, through tactile play and co-creation.
🔨 Each tool responds to moments from a series of workshops led by RESOLVE Collective at Earl’s Court Youth Club in London and with three school groups at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine.
Children, families and all are welcome to play and create in our garden! Open Tuesday - Sunday, 11-6pm until and including Sunday 5 November. Join us!
Join us for A Choreography of Infiltration
🗓️ Saturday 28 October, 4pm - in gallery
This panel discussion is moderated by Adam HajYahia and brings together Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Akil Scafe-Smith, and Zoé Samudzi to speak about institutional censorship.
🔍 Taking Germany, the UK, and the US as study cases, the conversation will lay out how large contemporary art institutions have been reproducing state politics of silencing, erasure, and illiberalism when it comes to anti-colonial Palestine organising, black radical traditions, and proletarian struggles, and propose thinking lines through which we can strategise as cultural workers in navigating these violent patterns.
📮 This event is currently booked out. To join the waiting list, email [email protected]
Please email [email protected] to join the waiting list for this event. In this panel discussion moderated by Adam HajYahia, Basel
With our co-curator and artists we decided to go ahead with our planned public programme - we feel it's important to continue providing spaces where we can gather, create, and learn together.
🪩 Join us for Solidarity Re:verb with Bint Mbareh 🪩
🗓️ Wednesday 25 October, 7pm - in gallery
How can we activate a moment of solidarity, so that it belongs to many and not to few? How can we use listening to tune in to the possibilities that sonic solidarity offers?
Solidarity Re:verb is part of the public programme curated by students from MACC collective highlighting sonic practices as tools for nurturing solidarities. Solidarity Re:verb echoes the traces of the summer party Solidarity FX through an open conversation and a participatory performance by Bint Mbareh. By exploring the question ‘How can we listen to the possibilities that sonic solidarity offers?’ participants are invited to interrogate how they listen to themselves and others in order to expand their understanding and capacity for solidarity.
For more info and to RSVP, please click the link in bio!
📍 As usual our events are free, however we encourage you to donate to Medical Aid for Palestine's emergency fundraiser for Gaza (www.map.org.uk)
For more info and to RSVP, please use the link below.
https://mosaicrooms.org/event/solidarity-reverb/
The Mosaic Rooms join the global strike for Palestine on Friday, 20 October. Together with artists and other organisations, we will be closed and use this time to learn and reflect together in order to work for a better future for everyone. We encourage you to join in solidarity.
We know that many folks in the UK are feeling isolated, paralysed, angry and overwhelmed as we witness the violence and genocide unfolding in Gaza. We need to find ways to bear witness, respond, resist, practice, grieve, heal and care for each other. We want to carve out a convivial space to be together and to remind our community that we are many.
We are opening our spaces in synchronicity across multiple locations: The Mosaic Rooms (West London), Cubitt (Central London), not/nowhere (East London) and Lux (North London).
Warm drinks and nourishment will be available in our bookshop from 6pm. From 7pm, we will screen Michel Khleifi’s ‘Tale of the Three Jewels’ in our Lower Grand Room.
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, their right to freedom, to land, to life, to dignity and empathy. Let action be the practice that organises and transforms our grief. We have updated our call for solidarity, please sign and circulate.
We encourage other groups to join us in opening up their spaces too.
Please check with each organisation for a site-specific opening times, schedule and to RSVP. Link to The Mosaic Rooms here: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/gathering-we-are-many/
Design by: Marwan Kaabour
Artwork: Peter Doig for Artists Against Apartheid UK
Films courtesy of Palestine Film Institute
As we watch the ongoing bombing and killing of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the indiscriminate destruction of its buildings and infrastructure by the Israeli army, we cannot stand by in silence. The violence on the Palestinians in Gaza is unconscionable, inhumane, and illegal. We therefore urge you to consider the shared values of justice, equality and peace which we all cherish, as colleagues and partner cultural institutions in the UK and abroad, and to translate them into meaningful action.
In 2021, we put out a call for solidarity with Palestine to cultural organisations, artists, and writers. As part of this, we proposed a set of actions in support of the Palestinian struggle for life, freedom and dignity. We have now updated these and once again urge you to use your platforms, networks, influence, and expertise to raise awareness and contribute to the cause of justice and peace in Palestine. Silence is complicity and decolonisation is only possble through political, economic and cultural action. As we bear witness to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, we implore you to use your collective power to advocate for an immediate cessation of violence and to support the cause of freedom and self-determination for the Palestinian people.
– Learn: read and share resources on Palestine. For example: Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Gaza (PCHR Gaza), Al Haq Palestinian human rights organisation based in Ramallah, Adalah legal centre for Arab minority rights in Israel, Diakonia International Humanitarian Law Centre.
– Refuse: funding from the Israeli government and from private funders who support its illegal occupation.
– Language: use terms which make visible the Palestinian experience, including Palestine, occupation, dispossession, ethnic cleansing, genocide, settler colonialism, and apartheid.
– Lobby your MP or local representatives to pressure and end their military and political support with Israel until it adheres to international law. Here is a format letter from MAP.
– Open: your programme and your collection to artists, collectives, initiatives, and galleries who are led by non-mainstream or radical voices, including artists from Palestine, and fund and support their participation.
– Solidarity: share this letter and your public statement (personal and institutional) with your networks; if you are an artist, ask the institutions who hold your work or with whom you work to support it, and share it with your institution’s audiences as widely as possible.
– Write: cover work by marginalised or radical voices, including Palestinian ones.
-Donate: support Medical Aid for Palestinian’s Emergency Appeal for Gaza
Support this call: email [email protected], confirming your name, title and organisation if applicable
Posted • أكثر من 2.3 مليون فلسطيني يواجهون الآن حرب إبادة جماعية وتطهير عرقي. لأولئك الذين لا يزالون يؤمنون بالإنسانية والعدالة: قفوا مع فلسطين. صوتكم يصنع فرقا. صوتكم قد ينقذ حياة.
More than 2.3 million Palestinians are facing genocide and ethnic cleansing now. To all those who still believe in humanity and justice: stand with Palestine. Your voice counts; your voice may still save lives.
London friends,
Today marks the opening of PalArt Festival 2023
Between October 13-15 the festival will bring together artists and performers across theatre, music and the spoken word to showcase artistic creation about Palestine or by Palestinians.
This year the line up includes spoken word and experimental artist Farah Chamma, Palestinian writer and director Ahmed Masoud, spoken word artist Tasneim Zyada, actor movement specialist Miceala Miranda, Hawiyya Dance Company, Palestine Comedy Club, Weapons of Mass Hilarity and others.
Follow the link below for tickets and more information:
https://richmix.org.uk/events/palart-festival-2023/
Get your free copy of STUART issue 2: The openness of the horizon to that which I am not from The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop!
The issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. STUART is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications, designed by Rose Nordin. Initiated by Rose Nordin with Sepake Angiama, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu at Iniva — the project centres the process of ‘live archiving’, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. The approach to publishing takes modes of thinking from the legacy of Stuart Hall. Previous issues include issue 0 (2021) and issue 1 Drift (2023), edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama.
Featuring contributions by: Al Wahat Collective (Areej Ashhab, Gabriella Demczuk, Ailo Ribas), Dina Mimi, Disarming Design (Disarming Design from Palestine), Elias Wakeem, Fana’ Collective, Karmel Sabri, Hajra Waheed, Islam Shabana, Ismail Nashef, Jumana Emil Abboud, KURS (Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović), Mohammad Sabaneh, Mo’min Swaitat / Majazz, Mothanna Hussein, Nika Autor, Qusai al Saify, Radio AlHara, RESOLVE Collective, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Shayma Nader, Tai Shani, The School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro), and Xaytun Ennasr. 🌱
🎥 🎞️ Join us for Poetry belongs to none, an afternoon of short films by Dina Mimi, Onyeka Igwe, Mona Benyamin, and New Red Order
🗓️ Saturday 14 October, 4:30 pm - in gallery.
Poetry belongs to none celebrates the newly commissioned video works by Dina Mimi and Mona Benyamin, and positions them in conversation with films by artists Onyeka Igwe, and the New Red Order.
✊ 🎬 By viewing these works side by side, and sometimes dialectically, the program seeks to examine the various political strategies and aesthetic mechanisms contemporary artists have been using to subvert colonial power structures from within. Selected for their singular approach in creating a unique visual language, we journey the films questioning the way images are deployed and the power of film as a medium.
The event will conclude with a conversation between Adam HajYahia and Onyeka Igwe.
📮 More information and RSVP via the link below:
https://mosaicrooms.org/event/poetry-belongs-to-none/
📣 We are pleased to announce our new public programme!
Independent researcher and curator Adam HajYahia has been specially invited by Bilna’es to co-curate the public programme running in tandem with the exhibition In the shade of the sun. 🌅
He writes:
"The public programming for 'In the shade of the sun' builds on what Bilna’es’ exhibition conception already proposes. Methodologically, we need to radically rethink the formulations within which cultural and artistic work is produced, circulated, and consumed. ..
Bilna’es is the Arabic word for ‘in the negative’. The term evokes a politics of being and producing from within the moment of catastrophe, forging from beyond it, the multitude of possibilities across the impossible. This public programme borrows from this methodology to consider the potentialities that could materialise in the cracks of the crises of the present."
To browse the full programme programme:🔗https://mosaicrooms.org/public-programme-in-the-shade-of-the-sun/
Visual identity by Studio Mnjnk
🌿🏡 Join Space Black to re-imagine The Mosaic Rooms' garden as your dream ‘Hoash’' (The ‘Hoash’ is Arabic for courtyard space, it’s commonly implemented into residential Sudanese architecture) 🪴✨ The workshop will incorporate model-making skills to help participants create a small-scale model of their own dream courtyard.
🗓 Date: Saturday 14 October, 2-4pm
Age: 4-11 (Parents or carers, join in on the fun!)
All materials provided. 🖍️✂️
Baby changing facilities are available ✅
RSVP via the link:
https://mosaicrooms.org/event/my-dream-hoash/
👉🏼This session activates Tools for Solidarity; an interactive play space co-designed by RESOLVE Collective and children from Earl's Court Youth Club and three school groups at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine.
Image Credit: Space Black
We are proud to be a part of Another Sky Festival 2023 💫
This Sunday, join us at Cafe Oto in Dalston for the Another Sky Festival Independent Label and Publishing Fair in association with The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop. 📚
⏰ 12-3pm. Please note, this is a free event.
Another Sky is a new London-based festival celebrating experimental music from the SWANA region and diaspora. Over two two days and three nights Another Sky will present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; six new commissions; a film workshop and our independent label & publisher fair.
👀 Check out their website to browse the full programme!
https://anotherskyfestival.com/programme
Book your ticket now for the Edward W. Said London Lecture 2023 with Francesca Albanese and Nadia Abu El-Haj on Tuesday 3rd October at the Royal Geographical Society.
‘Israel's Settler Colonialism: Law, Humanity, Empire’
🔗 For more info and to RSVP 👉 http://bit.ly/3s7HrAS
📍 Venue: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AR.
🗓️ Tuesday, 3rd October at 7pm
On the twentieth anniversary of his passing, Francesca Albanese explores Said’s profound legacy by delving into Israel’s settler colonial rule in the occupied Palestinian territory. Through a rigorous examination of international law within the context of global empire, Albanese confronts Israel’s colonial injustice and charts a course of action for legal and humanist resistance. Embracing Said’s work within the legal discipline entails upholding the principles of human rights and dignity, challenging oppressive systems and advocating for justice.
This autumn you can visit two exhibitions at The Mosaic Rooms 🍂
🌅 In the shade of the sun is a new exhibition contemplating the relationship between politics and aesthetics by an exciting new generation of Palestinian artists - Mona Benyamin, Dina Mimi, Xaytun Ennasr and Makimakkuk. Moving between mediums that include film, installation, music and gaming, In the shade of the sun brings together artists that are forging a new language to think about and with Palestine.
🗓️ Visit in our London gallery, Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm, open and free until 14 January 2024.
🌱 Tools for Solidarity is a collaborative project by RESOLVE Collective () that draws on workshops with participants of Earl’s Court Youth Club, local families in the Earl’s Court area, and several schools in Ramallah, Palestine. The outdoor play installation has been shaped through these participatory workshops, learning from the young peoples’ local experiences of place and belonging, solidarity, and togetherness. Tools for Solidarity animates and activates children’s creative language through play and presents a fun, interactive and evolving play structure in The Mosaic Rooms’ Garden.
🗓️ Visit in our London garden, Tue-Sun, 11am-6pm, open and free until 5 November 2023.
Click the link below to find out what else is on 👇
https://mosaicrooms.org/events/
📸 1: Revolution is a forest. Xaytun Ennasr (2023). Installation view at The Mosaic Rooms. Photograph by Andy Stagg.
📸 2: Tools for Solidarity. Resolve Collective (2023). Launch party at The Mosaic Rooms. Photograph by Nicola Tree
📣 A reminder to join us for the Edward W. Said London Lecture 2023 with Francesca Albanese and Nadia Abu El-Haj on Tuesday 3rd October at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
‘Israel's Settler Colonialism: Law, Humanity, Empire’
🔗 For more info and to RSVP 👉 http://bit.ly/3s7HrAS
📍 Venue: Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AR.
🗓️ Tuesday, 3rd October at 7pm
On the twentieth anniversary of his passing, Francesca Albanese explores Said’s profound legacy by delving into Israel’s settler colonial rule in the occupied Palestinian territory. Through a rigorous examination of international law within the context of global empire, Albanese confronts Israel’s colonial injustice and charts a course of action for legal and humanist resistance. Embracing Said’s work within the legal discipline entails upholding the principles of human rights and dignity, challenging oppressive systems and advocating for justice.
Join us Sunday, 1 October at Cafe Oto for Another Sky Festival's Independent Label and Publisher Fair in association with The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop 📚 🪩
⏰ Cafe Oto, 12-3 pm. This is a free event
🌅 Another Sky is a new London-based festival celebrating experimental music from the SWANA (South West Asia & North Africa) region and diaspora. From Friday 29 September - Sunday 1 October Another Sky will present composed, improvised and electronic music; short films and moving-image works; six new commissions; a film workshop and an independent label & publisher fair in association with The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop.
Join us for the launch of STUART's issue 2: The openness of the horizon to that which I am not ✨
🗓️ Saturday, 16 September at 4pm.
This issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes.
📣 We will be joined by London-based contributors and the event will also function as a distribution point for the new free issue.
The issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. The event will also function as a distribution point for the new free issue.
Featuring contributions by: Al Wahat Collective (Areej Ashhab, Gabriella Demczuk, Ailo Ribas), Dina Mimi, Disarming Design (Disarming Design from Palestine), Elias Wakeem, Fana’ Collective, Karmel Sabri, Hajra Waheed, Islam Shabana, Ismail Nashef, Jumana Emil Abboud, KURS (Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović), Mohammad Sabaneh, Mo’min Swaitat / Majazz, Mothanna Hussein, Nika Autor, Qusai al Saify, Radio AlHara, RESOLVE Collective, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Shayma Nader, Tai Shani, The School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro), and Xaytun Ennasr. 🌱
STUART is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications, designed by Rose Nordin . Initiated by Rose Nordin with Sepake Angiama, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu at Iniva — the project centres the process of ‘live archiving’, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. The approach to publishing takes modes of thinking from the legacy of Stuart Hall. Previous issues include issue 0 (2021) and issue 1 Drift (2023), edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama.
📮 RSVP: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/stuart-the-openness-of-the-horizon-to-that-which-i-am-not/
✨ Join us for the launch of STUART‘s Issue 2: The openness of the horizon to that which I am not, with London-based contributors.
🗓️ Saturday, 16 September, 4pm - in gallery.
The issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. The event will also function as a distribution point for the new free issue.
Featuring contributions by: Al Wahat Collective (Areej Ashhab, Gabriella Demczuk, Ailo Ribas), Dina Mimi, Disarming Design, Elias Wakeem, Fana’ Collective, Karmel Sabri, Hajra Waheed, Islam Shabana, Ismail Nashef, Jumana Emil Abboud, KURS (Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović), Mohammad Sabaneh, Mo’min Swaitat / Majazz, Mothanna Hussein, Nika Autor, Qusai al Saify, Radio AlHara, RESOLVE Collective, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Shayma Nader, Tai Shani, The School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro), and Xaytun Ennasr. 🌱
STUART is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications, designed by Rose Nordin. Initiated by Rose Nordin with Sepake Angiama, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu at Iniva — the project centres the process of ‘live archiving’, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. The approach to publishing takes modes of thinking from the legacy of Stuart Hall. Previous issues include issue 0 (2021) and issue 1 Drift (2023), edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama.
📮 RSVP via the link below:
https://bit.ly/484ClFO
Join us for our next Family Workshop 'Carving other ways' ✨
🗓️ Saturday, 16 September, 2pm - in gallery.
RSVP via the link below👇
https://bit.ly/3EoOeIZ
Join STUART artist and publisher Rose Nordin to explore the possibilities of collective play and imagination to identify obstacles and imagine other ways to around them.
🖍️ Learn how to design simple stamps for printing by hand, and embark on a storytelling journey together. Collectively, we will make our own newspaper which will be placed in The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop to inspire others.
This workshop takes inspiration from Jara van Teeffelen’s How to Regain Freedom (Durable Discussions, 2022), to learn how we can create ‘design tools’ from everyday life and limitations that spark playful dreaming and offer alternative perspectives. These prompts invite us to think with imagination about our surroundings and to find new ways to express our ideas.
🌱 Rose Nordin activates Tools for Solidarity; an interactive play space co-designed by RESOLVE Collective and children from Earl’s Court Youth Club and three school groups at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine.
🎨 This workshop will be developed into a lesson plan, a self-guided activity for children and families to use in The Mosaic Rooms garden and beyond.
All materials will be provided. Suitable for age 4-11. Parents or carers must accompany their children.
Image ID: Two kneeling young children draw on a white scroll of paper, unrolled across the floor. Both children hold maker pens and one is in the process of drawing a design.
In light of the devastating flooding in Libya and earthquake in Morocco, its thousands of victims and still unfolding implications on the lives of our friends and everyone in the affected regions, we are organising a small fundraiser.
We will donate all the proceeds of our online and in gallery sales of 🥀Flowers of Palestine books 📚 and prints 📜 as well as the 🖋Advice for Writers poster to disaster relief charities.
🙏If you can, please consider supporting the fundraiser; running from 13 September to 13 October 2023. Sending solidarity!
The bookshop is open Tue-Sun 11-6. You can also browse online on
In light of the devastating flooding in Libya and earthquake in Morocco, its thousands of victims and still
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We have made STUART Paper Issue 2: The Openness of the horizon to which I am not open access and downloadable. The issue is a live archive of artists’ thoughts and visual notes on the subject of solidarity with Palestine. We encourage you to download and share it, so as to amplify the voices that are coming from Palestine during this critical moment in its people’s struggle for justice and peace. We have also linked in our bio reading resources collated by our community of friends, artists and academics.
Get your free copy of STUART issue 2: The openness of the horizon to that which I am not from The Mosaic Rooms Bookshop! The issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. STUART is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications, designed by Rose Nordin. Initiated by Rose Nordin with Sepake Angiama, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu at Iniva — the project centres the process of ‘live archiving’, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. The approach to publishing takes modes of thinking from the legacy of Stuart Hall. Previous issues include issue 0 (2021) and issue 1 Drift (2023), edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama. Featuring contributions by: Al Wahat Collective (Areej Ashhab, Gabriella Demczuk, Ailo Ribas), Dina Mimi, Disarming Design (Disarming Design from Palestine), Elias Wakeem, Fana’ Collective, Karmel Sabri, Hajra Waheed, Islam Shabana, Ismail Nashef, Jumana Emil Abboud, KURS (Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović), Mohammad Sabaneh, Mo’min Swaitat / Majazz, Mothanna Hussein, Nika Autor, Qusai al Saify, Radio AlHara, RESOLVE Collective, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Shayma Nader, Tai Shani, The School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro), and Xaytun Ennasr. 🌱
Join us for the launch of STUART's issue 2: The openness of the horizon to that which I am not ✨ 🗓️ Saturday, 16 September at 4pm. This issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. 📣 We will be joined by London-based contributors and the event will also function as a distribution point for the new free issue. The issue is a visual pull-out poster newspaper, bringing together poetic reflections, excerpts of works and visual notes. The event will also function as a distribution point for the new free issue. Featuring contributions by: Al Wahat Collective (Areej Ashhab, Gabriella Demczuk, Ailo Ribas), Dina Mimi, Disarming Design (Disarming Design from Palestine), Elias Wakeem, Fana’ Collective, Karmel Sabri, Hajra Waheed, Islam Shabana, Ismail Nashef, Jumana Emil Abboud, KURS (Miloš Miletić and Mirjana Radovanović), Mohammad Sabaneh, Mo’min Swaitat / Majazz, Mothanna Hussein, Nika Autor, Qusai al Saify, Radio AlHara, RESOLVE Collective, Rouzbeh Shadpey, Shayma Nader, Tai Shani, The School of Mutants (Hamedine Kane and Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro), and Xaytun Ennasr. 🌱 STUART is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed is an art publishing practice and collective producing printed matter and publications, designed by Rose Nordin . Initiated by Rose Nordin with Sepake Angiama, Priya Jay and Amrita Dhallu at Iniva — the project centres the process of ‘live archiving’, conversation as marginalia and the book as a site of collaboration. The approach to publishing takes modes of thinking from the legacy of Stuart Hall. Previous issues include issue 0 (2021) and issue 1 Drift (2023), edited by Tavian Hunter and Sepake Angiama. 📮 RSVP: https://mosaicrooms.org/event/stuart-the-openness-of-the-horizon-to-that-which-i-am-not/
✨How can joy be a tool for reflection and solidarity? 👉🏼Meet the brilliant RESOLVE Collective (@resolvecollective) and some of the young people in London and Ramallah who made Tools for Solidarity possible, in this wonderful short film by Ashley Alcaide which shows us the project from co-design workshops with children, to the final installation itself in the garden of The Mosaic Rooms. 🌟Akil Scafe-Smith gives us an insight into how emotion sits central in the design process: “We were keen for the installation to reflect not only the experiences of the young people we worked with but also the joy and excitement that came with every process and every workshop.” 🎬We hope that this short film brings you some joy today. It certainly makes us smile :) 🗓Tools for Solidarity is open Tuesday - Sunday, 11-6 at The Mosaic Rooms. Co-designed with children, suitable for everyone. 👀Link to watch full film on our website. Film is approximately 4 minutes long and includes captions.
🎥✨ Immerse yourself in a powerful project that delves into power structures, student reflections, and alternative visions. Watch this inspiring video, on our website or in our bookshop, showcasing the students' incredible work and thought-provoking interviews! 🎬🗣️ 🏫💡 Interdisciplinary artist Nia Fekri collaborated with the talented students at Kensington Aldridge Academy to explore the power structures that shape their lives and to envision new possibilities. Together with Year 12 students, Fekri delved into experimental approaches to filmmaking, using this medium as a platform for introspection and self-expression. 🎥🌟 Discover more about "School Studio: Structure, Restructure" and witness the inspiring work of these remarkable students by visiting: mosaicrooms.org/school-studio-structure-restructure-school-project-2023-2/ 🌐📲 #SchoolStudio #StructureRestructure #KensingtonAldridgeAcademy #StudentArtwork #PowerStructures #AlternativeVisions #TransformativeJourney #ArtisticExpressions #SocialConsciousness #CreativeExploration
Look out for the collective works that children from Kensington Aldridge Academy and Harold Offeh created during the Between Here and There project recently. We will share these as soon as we can! Thank you to the group for a really inspiring collaboration so far. #participatoryart #collaborativeresidency #londonart #artinschools #mosaicreates
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti of DAAR talk us through Stateless Heritage at The Mosaic Rooms. In Stateless Heritage artist and architectural collective DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – challenge mainstream narratives of refugee experience and of heritage. They propose exile as a radical perspective which can take us beyond the limitations of the nation state. Learn more about the exhibition here: https://bit.ly/statelessheritageexhib
Coming up in The Living Room (Al-Madafeh) events programme this December: ⠀ 📌Join Architecture of Disappearance to find out how Jameel prize nominated artist Sofia Karim uses architectural models and drawings to illustrate the cases of political prisoners she campaigns for. 🍽️In a food focused live event renowned Palestinian chef Fadi F. Kattan, community organiser Omar Hmidat and writer Nayrouz Qarmout discuss heritage and Palestinian cuisine. 💿Join Mo'min Swaitat for the pre-launch of The Intifada EP, a reissue of the first album recorded after the outbreak of the First Intifada in 1987. 〰️Attend Correspondance (Belonging), a one to one performance live in gallery by Murat Adash exploring boundaries and negative space.⠀ ⠀ 📚 نيروز قرموط " nayrouz Qarmout “ continues her writing residency in December. ☕️Omar Hmidat hosts weekly Sunday drop-ins just as he used to gather people when he lived in Dheshieh refugee camp. 📻In the Living Room you can play Palestinian -Bedouin songs, focused on 'Hadda' - traditional improvised spoken word 'battles' recited to music - selected by Mo'min Swaitat. 🎥Watch films co-presented by Temporary Art Platform by Minia Biabiany, Carolina Caycedo, Mustapha Jundi, Randa Mirza, Fadi Mansour, Giorgio Borbi in Art, Ecology and the Commons. 📺You can also see Ikhtiar / Choice, two new shorts by young people from IntoUniversity and New Citizens' Gateway collaborating with artists Nia Fekri and Zahra Haji Fath Ali Tehrani at The Mosaic Rooms. ⠀ ⠀ 👁 Full list of events https://bit.ly/MR-Events
📌 12 October 4pm Join us for the preview of our upcoming exhibition Stateless Heritage by DAAR Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. Stateless Heritage is an exhibition that sets out to challenge the familiar narratives of refugee experience; of humanitarian crises, victim-hood and suffering. DAAR (Decolonize Architecture Art Research)- Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, are an art and architecture collective. They view exile as a radical perspective from which we can learn and and which can take us beyond the limitations of the nation state. For more information and to RSVP: https://bit.ly/statelessheritage
Discover how America used publishing for political agitation in the Cold War through the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF) and Franklin Book Programs, and how anti colonial cultural networks including the Afro-Asian Writers Association were formed. This event brings together three speakers, Nida Ghouse, Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Elizabeth M. Holt who are researching archives and figures of the CCF, the Franklin Book Programs and Lotus magazine. They will reflect on the influence and decline of these transnational networks of publishing and translating. The discussion is moderated by Fehras Publishing Practices.
Writers and poets Quinn Latimer and Sophie Collins join curators Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot to discuss the politics of language in poetry and the visual arts. They take Lisa Robertson’s provocation that our speech is “always already political”, taken from her untitled essay of 2012, in NILLING: Prose essays on noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias as a starting point to consider poetry as a means of resistance to social and political domination in our current moment. The conversation and readings will consider ideas of the vernacular and translation in relation to poetry, distribution, publishing and exhibition practices.
📌Thu 22 July, 7pm, live | dyi translation party 2.1 The collective mother tongues will use the 'Borrowed Faces: Future Recall' exhibition’s archives in this translation workshop. They explore multi-lingual solidarities and speculative approaches to translate literature together with participants. Participants will receive a special risograph manual designed by the collective. This event will be hosted in our garden. ✏️ only a few tickets remain, RSVP here - https://bit.ly/2V3JdCd
A disastrous war has again just passed over a besieged Gaza – the fourth since 2008-9. As Jewish Israeli settlers expropriate more Palestinian land in the West Bank, Palestinian families are threatened with expulsion in East Jerusalem. From settler intimidation in Hebron and Sheikh Jarrah to lynch mobs in Lydd and Haifa, the signs of Israel’s violent occupation are visible everywhere. But there are also signs of hope. Voices of protest and global acts of solidarity abound. Alongside calls to block weapons sales to Israel, there are ongoing international legal investigations into Israel’s crimes. Will global public opinion finally tip the balance against Israel’s apartheid regime? Is justice possible? Veteran Haaretz reporter Amira Hass and Director of Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights in Gaza Issam Younis join Bashir Abu-Manneh to discuss Israel’s apartheid wars, settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and the re-emergence of Palestinian popular resistance. More details on www.mosaicrooms.org
Join us for the final part of the symposium When I see the future… Artists Heba Y. Amin, Michael Rakowitz, Larissa Sansour, and exhibition curator Anthony Downey share a round-table conversation on research based practice to mark the end of Amin’s exhibition When I see the future, I close my eyes. They will be joined by invited guests from the digital programme that accompanied the show. The artists will explore how recent historical incidents alter how we perceive their practices and discuss the impact of geopolitical events on the future development of their respective projects. More details on www.mosaicrooms.org and www.wheniseethefuture.com
RSVP below to receive the ZOOM link or watch the livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/themosaicrooms/live/ Join us for the third part of the symposium When I see the future… Jerusalem Quarterly guest editors Yazid Anani, Salim Tamari and contributors share this round table discussion dedicated to aerial surveillance of Palestine. The event marks Jerusalem Quarterly‘s special issue Palestine from Above: Surveillance Cartography and Control (Spring and Summer, 2020. Jerusalem Quarterly is the leading journal on the past, present, and future of Jerusalem. It documents the current status of the city and its predicament. It is also dedicated to publishing new lines of inquiry by emerging scholars on Palestinian society and culture. More details on www.mosaicrooms.org and www.wheniseethefuture.com
Join us for part two of our symposium When I see the future… How does the often unremarked purging of images from online platforms impact our understanding of historical events? The panel Archiving Future Knowledge Systems will address the predictive function of the digital archive. Focusing on the degree to which research practices contribute to the development of interdisciplinary methodologies, the panelists will analyse the future of epistemological debates in a post-digital age. The event brings together three speakers who work with digital archives. Donatella Della Ratta, writer and curator, who is co-editor of The Arab Archive and co-founder of the online platform SyriaUntold. Jeff Deutch is a researcher with Syrian Archive, an organisation which facilitates open-source investigations. Nishant Shah works at the intersections of body, identity, digital technologies, his new book Really Fake will be published in May 2021. This panel discussion is moderated by Heba Y. Amin and Anthony Downey and part of the public programme of Heba Y. Amin‘s exhibition When I see the future, I close my eyes. More details on www.mosaicrooms.org & www.wheniseethefuture.com You can also watch the livestream here: RSVP below to receive the ZOOM link or watch the livestream here: https://www.facebook.com/themosaicrooms/live/
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