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/

Join us for a special book launch of C.A.S.A. Casablanca Art School Archives 1962–1987 presented by co-editor and publis...
29/05/2026

Join us for a special book launch of C.A.S.A. Casablanca Art School Archives 1962–1987 presented by co-editor and publisher Morad Montazami. C.A.S.A. is a landmark publication bringing together nearly ten years of research — archives, foundational texts, testimonials and contemporary essays — telling the story of the Casablanca Art School.

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We’re hiring!This is a rare opportunity to join Mosaic Rooms in a new senior leadership role. We’re looking for a Head o...
28/05/2026

We’re hiring!

This is a rare opportunity to join Mosaic Rooms in a new senior leadership role. We’re looking for a Head of Development to create an ambitious, ethical fundraising strategy, securing a resilient and healthy future for the organisation.

If you are a fundraising leader who is motivated by building sustainable support for the cultural, artistic, and community-rooted work that takes place at Mosaic Rooms, we’d love to hear from you

Deadline: 3rd July, midnight
Salary: £45,000-50,000
Full details can be found via link in bio

POETRY READINGSAl-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Byryar Bajalan and Ola Elhassan6 June 2026, 4pmJoin us for an afternoon of poetry rea...
25/05/2026

POETRY READINGS
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Byryar Bajalan and Ola Elhassan
6 June 2026, 4pm

Join us for an afternoon of poetry readings in Arabic and English.

Bringing together distinct poetic voices and practices that feautures Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi, Ola Elhassan and Bryar Bajalan.

Co presented with the poetry translation centre.

This event is part of our annual small press fest

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READING GROUP & PUBLICATION LAUNCH The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation 6 June 2026, 2pmJoin us for a collective rea...
24/05/2026

READING GROUP & PUBLICATION LAUNCH
The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation
6 June 2026, 2pm

Join us for a collective reading session and launch of Bouchra Khalili’s newly published book, The Circle: Timeline for a Constellation. The publication explores the enduring legacy of the Arab Workers Movement (MTA) and its theatre troupes Al Assifa and Al Halaka.

This gathering invites participants to read aloud selections from interviews, testimonies and conversations featured in the publication, including voices of surviving members who organised with the MTA.In reading these words aloud together, we honour and celebrate the stories that began with undocumented workers who dared to imagine belonging in their own terms – stories that continue to resonate today.

In collaboration with

This event is part of our annual Small Press Fest (6-7 June).

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Only 3 weeks left to experience our first exhibition of the year, Circles and Storytellers by Bouchra Khalili before it ...
23/05/2026

Only 3 weeks left to experience our first exhibition of the year, Circles and Storytellers by Bouchra Khalili before it closes on 14 June!

The first public UK solo exhibition by French-Moroccan multidisciplinary artist and educator, Bouchra Khalili at Mosaic Rooms.

In her practice, Khalili suggests new civic imaginations and alternative ways of belonging. The works on display mark the conclusion of Khalili’s decade-long exploration into the overlooked history of the Mouvement des Travailleurs Arabes (MTA) and its theatre groups, Al Assifa and Al Halaka, led by Maghrebi undocumented workers. Their advocacy for social justice and the freedom of artistic expression in the 1970s, foregrounds the power of storytelling and performance in forming communities. 

Photo credit: Andy Stagg () courtesy of Mosaic Rooms (images 1,3,5,6) and Mohamed Moharam (images 2 & 4)

The exhibition is generously supported by Al Qattan Charitable Trust, Arts Council England (), the Elephant Trust () and Fluxus Art Projects ().

With support from Gallo Acoustics ().

Running from 18th February till 14th June 2026

Opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 11am-6pm
Sunday - 12-5pm

Join us for the fourth iteration of Small Press Fest, an annual fair celebrating independent publications, bringing toge...
21/05/2026

Join us for the fourth iteration of Small Press Fest, an annual fair celebrating independent publications, bringing together artist, zine-makers and publishers .

Meet the makers and explore a variety of publications, practices and voices at the intersection of art, writing and radical publishing.

Participants include: Alaa Satir, The Feminist Library, Liblib Publishing, Majazz Project, Khabar Keslan, Khidr Collective, Maqam Books, Poetry Translation Centre, Rand Hamdallah, Samsara Music, yasamin, WANAWAL and more TBC.

This year’s fair will include a special section dedicated to The Funambulist magazine, in celebration of its 10 year anniversary. You can browse through our display of their entire archive which is finding a new home at Mosaic Rooms.

📍Mosaic Rooms, SW5 0SW
📅Saturday 6 June, 11am to 6pm
Sunday 7 June, 12 to 5pm

Check out more details and full programme with link in bio!

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Play Lab: Lum’a - Stories in Motion with Chahine Fellahi Join us on Thursday 28th May for a session of play through imme...
18/05/2026

Play Lab: Lum’a - Stories in Motion with Chahine Fellahi

Join us on Thursday 28th May for a session of play through immersive storytelling! Children are invited to build worlds, create characters and bring to life their collective imaginings through material, light and performance.

What’s inside:
Shadow theatre
Puppet-making
Projected backdrops
Materials for building sets and shaping stories

This is a space for curiosity, creativity, and experimentation, where children can step into their stories, change its forms, encounter and shape narratives.

No need to book!
Drop in 1-4pm
Suited best for ages 0-11

WORKSHOP | Hands across the sea: restaging workers’ theatre 28 May, 7pmFreeJoin artist and writer Joey Simons for a work...
17/05/2026

WORKSHOP | Hands across the sea: restaging workers’ theatre
28 May, 7pm
Free

Join artist and writer Joey Simons for a workshop around Meerut, a short agitprop sketch produced in 1933 by the Hammer and Sickle theatre troupe of North-West London. Meerut was written as an act of solidarity with trade unionists and railway workers in India imprisoned by the British colonial regime. Together, we will read, imagine and perform the sketch, exploring how it might be translated both politically and linguistically, as an act of solidarity with anti-imperialist prisoners today.

Republished in 1985, the sketch involves drilled choreography, choral voices and a makeshift prison (made out of broomsticks). It was performed by workers’ theatre groups at dockyards and factory gates across the country, culminating with a call to ‘Break the chains, break the bars!’

The piece is embedded in the rich but largely overlooked workers’ theatre movements which emerged from the maelstrom of war and revolution in the 1920s and 1930s in the UK and across Europe. Theatre became a tool for the working class to demand a radical transformation in the relationship between politics and culture, actors and audiences, language and technique, the individual and the collective.

Nakba Day 78Pre-march drop inOn Saturday, 16 May, the starting point for the Nakba 78 March will be on Exhibition Road, ...
15/05/2026

Nakba Day 78
Pre-march drop in

On Saturday, 16 May, the starting point for the Nakba 78 March will be on Exhibition Road, a short distance from Mosaic Rooms. We will be opening our doors from 10am for those who would like to use the gallery as a meeting point. Refreshments and snacks will be available, a small gesture of opening our doors for everyone marching in commemoration of the Nakba and in solidarity with the continued struggle for Palestinian liberation.

15 May marks the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, the violent displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their ancestral lands in 1948, a catastrophe that continues today through occupation, annexation, military domination, siege and genocide.

Our reading list and additional resources for those wishing to expand their knowledge are available via the link in our bio.

All are welcome to stop by before or after the march. Our doors will be open until 6pm.

Photo credit: The Palestinian Museum Digital Archive: A photograph of the Western Central Gate and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, by Yousef Albina, the 1920s-30s

Introducing Sound Capsule: an evolving, radio-led project at Mosaic Rooms. We’ve taken over the tower and with it, we’re...
07/05/2026

Introducing Sound Capsule: an evolving, radio-led project at Mosaic Rooms. We’ve taken over the tower and with it, we’re tuning our ideas to broadcasting. The Satellite is becoming an experimental transmission space: a site for rogue signals and shared airwaves.

Developed in collaboration with the students from the MA Curating & Collections at Chelsea College of Arts, Sound Capsule is currently unfurling through a Curatorial Research Lab. Together, we’ve been thinking through sonic practice in relation to memory and belonging.

So far, the off-air programme has traced diverse approaches to working with sound and radio: from DIY broadcasting infrastructures and setting up an ecological radio station with Soundcamp, to cassette culture and archival memory with Mark Gergis (Syrian Cassette Archives) and field recordings, soundscapes and situated listening practices with Olivia Melkonian.

This is just the beginning. As the tower warms up, Sound Capsule will continue to grow into a platform for experimental broadcasts and new sonic encounters. Our long-term vision is for Sound Capsule to become a community radio and shared resource for sound recording and editing.

Transmissions from The Satellite in collaboration with Radio AlHara are coming soon!

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226 Cromwell Road, Tower House
London
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Opening Hours

Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 9am - 6pm

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