Contemporary Culture from the Arab World ABOUT the MOSAIC ROOMS

Contemporary Culture from the Arab World ABOUT THE MOSAIC ROOMS

The Mosaic Rooms are a vibrant non-profit cultural space and bookshop in West London dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary culture from and about the Arab world. We do this through our free access contemporary art exhibitions, our multidisciplinary events, artist residencies and learning and engagement programme. 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. Qattan Foundation, a registered charity number 1029450. www.mosaicrooms.org

…a succinct, intelligent focus on the Arab world has been unfolding at The Mosaic Rooms gallery in Earls Court since 2008… Rachel Spence, Art Critic, Financial Times OUR MISSION A leading London based non-profit cultural organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting contemporary culture from and about the Arab world by: Initiating dialogue and debate about the Arab world’s most pressing social, political and cultural issues. Celebrating excellence through a regular public programme including visual arts, design, architecture, literature, film, music, food and current affairs. Providing an international platform for the arts, particularly new work, away from the commercial pressures of the contemporary market. Creating opportunities for interaction, collaboration and professional development between artists, collectives and organisations from the Arab world and the UK. Delivering a high-quality learning and engagement programme particularly to marginalised communities and young people in London.

OUR VALUES Transparency, independence and freedom of expression We aim to create a transparent and independent democratic platform for intellectual and artistic exchange between the UK and the Arab world. Non-party political and non-religious We believe that public cultural organisations must remain both non-party political and non-religious in order to be as inclusive as possible. Culture as the source of a rich social conversation We believe that culture should be exciting yet demanding and thought- provoking, and bold and inspiring without being restrictive or alienating. As such, culture is vital for a truly rich social conversation to take place. Artistic excellence and originality We believe in presenting an innovative, progressive, high quality programme that aims to reveal and challenge, discover and support, innovate and provoke new ideas and new thinking! Hospitable and welcoming We aim to offer a warm and welcoming space for artists and members of the public to engage respectfully, critically and freely in new ideas and open debate. PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

Our programme of exhibitions ranges from solo presentations to group shows, with a focus on supporting emerging to established contemporary artists who would benefit from a London platform, and the opportunity to create new and ambitious work. The exhibitions seek to represent and critically reflect on a range of art forms and artistic interests. We showcase artists from the Middle East and North Africa, as well as international artists who create work that directly engages with the region. Our talks and events programme is conceived to expand on and engage in the issues and concepts raised in the exhibitions. It is topical as well as offering broader insight. Since opening to the public in 2008, we’ve presented an average of 6 exhibitions and 45 multidisciplinary events each year, including: — Showcasing the perspectives of artists from across the Arab world including Palestine, Iraq, Syria, Algeria, Morocco and Egypt. — Hosting a diverse range of multidisciplinary events, from book launches to music performances, film screenings to poetry readings and current affairs debates to supper clubs. — Launching the first UK solo exhibitions of over 20 visual artists so far, many of whom have gone on to exhibit at, or enter the collections of, major museums in the UK. — Publishing over 10 artist’s books to shed further light on the themes and issues explored in our exhibitions and promote our exhibiting artists. — Over 30 artists have benefited from our in-house residency. — Our exhibitions are free to the public as are the majority of our public talks and events to ensure access for all. Our online archive provides a resource for audiences to access audio and video recordings of our events, materials relating to our exhibitions, and a blog including interviews and posts from guest residents.

One of London’s hidden gems… a hub for exhibitions, literary events, supper clubs and much more. Roxane Zand, Deputy Chairman, Middle East and Gulf Region, Sotheby’s VISUAL ARTS I Spy With My Little Eye... Home Landscapes of Desire Caline Aoun, George Awde, Mirna Carvan John Halaka Bamieh, Nour Bishouty, Pascal Our contemporary art exhibitions cover a wide range of YAYA 2012 YAYA 2010 Hachem, Charbel-joseph H. Boutros, Jumana Manna, Mirna Bamieh, Ahmed and Mohammad Abu Nasser disciplines from photography, installation, video, painting, Aya Haidar, Geörgette Power, Joe Majd Abdel Hamid, Shada Safadi, (Tarzan & Arab), Majd Abdel Hamid, sculpture, design and architecture. We are proud to have Namy, Stéphanie Saadé, Siska, Lara OmarJoseph Nasser Khoury, Salman Nawati, Abdallah Al Ruzzi, worked on presenting, commissioning, and producing a wide Tabet, Tala Worrell Dirar Kalash Ayed Arafah, Jumana Manna, range of exhibitions. Our exhibitions and artists have included Garden State Dina Matar 40 Days the following: Corinne Silva Dor Guez Silk Thread Martyrs Imagined Futures OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury Last Of The Dictionary Men Hrair Sarkissian Tina Gharavi The Book of Destruction: Gaza – Mouths At The Invisible Event One Year After the 2009 War A Watchtower of Happiness and David Birkin Kai Wiedenhöfer Other Landscapes of Occupation The Future Rewound & Febrik Portraits from Sainsbury’s The Cabinet of Souls Shema Ladva Working From Life Nadia Kaabi-Linke Yamou Poetic Inspirations My Sister Who Travels Mona Saudi Cairo Year One Corinne Silva, Paola Yacoub, What Imagined Futures makes clear is that, to be deeply Nermine Hammam New Works Jananne Al-Ani, Noor Abed, Jawad al Malhi felt, the various narratives of the Arab world must be Halida Boughriet, Ursula Schulz- Home: Museum of Architecture considered in their specific strains, not as a monolith. Dornburg, Esther Van Deman Reflective Consciousness Iraq-How, Where, For Whom? Cassie Packard, Hyperallergic Bashar Hroub Intervening Space: Hanaa’ Malallah & kennardphillipps From The Intimate To The World Is This Your First Time in Gaza? A Tribute To Adonis aria (curated), Fayçal Baghriche, Hazem Harb Adonis Amina Menia, Atef Berredjem, Ordinary Lives Hanan Benammar, Massinissa From Palestine To Israel Rania Matar Selmani, Sadek Rahim Ariella Azoulay YAYA 2008: Fragile Bodies Mogadishu-Lost Moderns Che, Angel, It’s Me, Donkey Akram Halabi, Majd Abdel Hamid, Rashid Ali & Andrew Cross Fadi Yazigi Hazem Harb, Salama Safadi, Threads Of Light // The Passion Of Simplicity Shada Safadi, Layan Shawabkeh, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Nedda El-Asmar Wafaa Yasin Hanoos Hanoos/miscellaneous artists A Girl and Her Room Vivid Ruins Equinox, From Beirut to London Rania Matar Hanna Malallah Lawand Dreams in Black and White Occupied Space 2008 Mohammed Joha , 2014 Hrair Sarkissian, Homesick Clockwise from top left: Dor Guez, 40 Days exhibition, 2013; Fadi Yazigi, Che, Angel, It’s Me, Donkey exhibition, 2011; Various Artists, Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here exhibition, 2014; Jumana Manna, A Sketch of Manners, 2012; kennardphillipps, George Bush, A Portrait, 2007 & Hanaa’ Malallah, USA Modern Flag, 2012; Nadia Kaabi Linke, All Along the Watchtower, 2014

Clockwise from top left: Adonis, A Tribute to Adonis exhibition, 2012; Corinne Silva, Wounded, 2013; Youssef Nabil/Bridge + Tunnel, Last of the Dictionary Men exhibition, 2013; Yamou, Working From Life exhibition, 2012; Ariella Azoulay, From Palestine To Israel exhibition, 2011; Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Palmyra, 2010 TALKS LITERATURE Shadow Lives The Oil Road Syria Burning Victoria Brittain, Haifa Zangana James Marriott, Mika Minio-Paluello Charles Glass, Martin Woollacott We present panel discussions, lectures, talks and Q&As with Does the Arab Spring Need a The Iraqi Christ leading artists, academics, writers and thinkers in the field Return: A Palestinian Memoir Summer of Love? Hassan Blasim, Jo Glanville, of Arab culture and current affairs, including the high profile Ghada Karmi Shereen El Feki, Brian Whitaker, Jonathan Wright Daniel L. Newman, Malu Halasa annual Edward W. Said London Lecture. Our public talks Renaissance Emir Time of White Horses programme seeks to address and provide thought on the Ted Gorton, Michel S. Moushabeck, The Wall Ibrahim Nasrallah, Omar Al-Qattan Rachel Beckles Willson William Sutcliffe, Selma Dabbagh most pressing issues currently affecting the region, as well Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me as showcasing its emerging and established artistic voices. My House in Damascus Maxamed Ibraahin Warsame Ghassan Zaqtan, Fady Joudah Diana Darke, Zahed Tajeddin ‘Hadraawi’ Our events have included the following: In Ramallah, Running Language of War, Language of Peace Golan Haji Guy Mannes-Abbott, Jean Fisher, The Mosaic Rooms is an intellectual adventure, a point Raja Shehadeh Golan Haji, Ammar Haj Ahmad Jananne Al-Ani, Sheyma Buali of discovery, and always a richly rewarding experience… Time in the Shadows: Confinement New Writing From Kuwait Sudanese Poetry Evening Mashaal Gauhar, Blue Chip Magazine in Counterinsurgencies Georgina Van Welie, Sulayman Al Saddiq Al-Raddi, Sarah Maguire, Laleh Khalili, Ian Cobain Al-Bassam Joanna Oyediran

The Hidden Light of Objects Writing Revolution 99 Words for Peace Mai Al-Nakib, Selma Dabbagh Matthew Cassel, Layla Al-Zubaidi, Fergal Keane, Elif Shafak, Helen Mohamed Mesrati, Ali Abdulemam Bamber, Inua Ellams, Liz Gray, 179° Joan Walker, Scilla Elworthy, Zoë Skoulding, Samira Negrouche Jerusalem, Palestine and Jordan Stéphane Cornicard Dr Hisham Khatib Syria: From the Great War Irregular Army And Bloody to Civil War Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield Nasty People John McHugo, Jonathan Fryer Jeremy Scahill Matt Kennard, Daniel Trilling, Saadi Youssef Gaza Kitchen Vron Ware Laila El-Haddad, Maggie Schmitt The Book of Gaza A Woman in the Crossfire Atef Abu Saif, Ra Page Sun Bread and Sticky Toffee Samar Yazbek, Omar Al-Qattan Sarah Al-Hamad Mail Box From The Ruins of Empire Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Elmi Ali Tales of a Severed Head Pankaj Mishra, Kamila Shamsie Rachida Madani The Idea of Israel The Liberal Defense of Murder Marilyn Hacker Ilan Pappe Richard Seymour, Anindya A Million Steps: Discovering Bhattacharyya Poetry From Iraq The Lebanon Mountain Trail Lauren Pyott, Roxana Vilk, Ammar Fathieh Saudi Hana El-Hibri Haj Ahmad, Adnan al-Sayegh, Writing A Path Through Stephen Watts Bottom of the Jar International Affairs Abdellatif Laâbi, André Naffis-Sahely The Storyteller of Jerusalem Anna Blundy, Rosie Garthwaite, Dr. Nada Elzeer, Michel Moushabeck, Anwar Hamed Nitasha Kaul, Bidisha Rachel Beckles Willson, Philip Arditti, 2013 The Saif Ghobash Prize for Walking Palestine Maria Lopez de Cunha, Ahmad Al Arabic Literary Translation Stefan Szepesi Salhi, Martin Stokes Roger Allen, Bensalem Himmich Judgment Day The Lady From Tel Aviv Writers from Palestine Rasha al-Ameer, Jonathan Wright Raba’i al-Madhoun, Elliott Colla, Asma’a Azaizeh, Marwan Makhoul Rosie Goldsmith The Arabian Nights Monastery of the Moon Wafa Tarnowska Keep Your Eye On The Wall Norbert Hirschhorn, Margaret Olivia Snaije, Mitchell Albert, Malu Caasha Luul Mohamud Yusuf Obank Halasa, Steve Sabella Persian Poets’ Evening Emerging Arab Voices Artist’s Talk: Dor Guez 10 Years On: Art and Everyday Life Artist’s Talk: Ayed Arafah Yemen Divided Partaw Naderi, Farzaneh Khojandi, Peter Clark, Maya Jaggi, Professor Simon Grant in Iraq and Iran Noel Brehony, Manuel Almeida Artist’s Talk: Kai Wiedenhöfer Reza Mohammadi, Azita Ghahreman, Paul Starkey Wafaa Bila, Rageh Omaar, Kathy Artist’s Talk: David Birkin New Baghdad Library Shakila Azizzada, Sarah Maguire Battista, Anthony Downey, Adel Abidin, On the Nation and the ‘Jewish People’ Michaela Crimmin TALKS Amir Mousawi, Marcos De Andres, Rijin Sahakian, Omar Kholeif, Jananne Reflections on the Role of the Shlomo Sand, Omar Al-Qattan Institutions and Emerging Artists Edwin Heathcote, Rashad Salim Culture Now: Nadia Kaabi-Linke Al-Ani, Slavs and Tatars Intellectual in Society A.M. Qattan Foundation The Atlas Of Palestine 1917–1966 Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Timo Kaabi-Linke, Goldsmiths Methods Lab Yang Lian, Adonis Artist’s Talk: Dor Guez Beirut Art Centre Dr. Salman Abu Sitta Lorenzo Fusi Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek, Samah Achim Borchardt-Hume Islam, Sufism & Arabic Literature Disappearing Cities of the Arab World Saleh, Mariam Motamedi-Fraser The Animals Versus Humans At The New Visual Languages: Landscape, Adonis, Omar Al-Qattan Art, War and Peace: Responses to Ziauddin Sardar, Eyal Weizman, Court Of The King Of Jinn Politics & the Lens Kurdish Prospects in Turbulent Times the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq Shadia Touqan, Sharon Rotbard Opening Evening: Adonis Hooda Qaddumi Eugenie Shinkle, Corinne Silva Charles Tripp, Nadim Shehadi, Gary Rashad Salim, Hanaa’ Malallah, Khaled Mattawa, Adonis Permaculture in Palestine Kent, Cengiz Gunes, David McDowall Beirut 39 Artists’ Round Table Satta Hashem, Yousif Naser, Alice Gray Cairo, My City Our Revolution Abdella Taia, Faiza Guene, Rebecca Heald, Martina Caruso, Nadje Al-Ali, Alan Ingram Revisiting State-Tribe Relations in Ahdaf Soueif Randa Jarrar, Youssef Rakha Jananne Al-Ani, Halida Boughriet, Photography, Colonialism and the Yemen Producer’s Talk: Tina Gharavi Ursula Schulz-Dornburg, Corinne Politics of Planting Dr. Khaled Fattah Out of it Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Venetia Porter Silva, Paola Yacoub Brenna Bhandar, Jennifer Gabrys, Selma Dabbagh, Maggie Gee Occupation Israel: What Comes Next? Making Art About The World We Live In Uriel Orlow, Shela Sheikh Saree Makdisi, Chris Doyle Jason Oddy: Concrete Spring Rachel Shabi, Karma Nabulsi, Married to another man: Israel’s Peter Kennard Jason Oddy, Dr Tania Sengupta Frozen Conflict Dimi Reider Dilemma in Palestine Raising Dust Art & Botany Andrew Jack, Marina Nagai, Hratch Ghada Karmi Nicholas Rowe Artist’s Talk: Massinissa Selmani The Least of All Possible Evils Yamou, Wolfgang Stuppy Tchilingirian, Dennis Sammut Eyal Weizman, Omar Al-Qattan Comedy of Divine Love From Coexistence to Conquest Artist’s Talk: Fayçal Baghriche Artist’s Talk: Nermine Hammam Arab Spring: Symphony Or Requiem? Luay Abdulilah, Amir Taheri Victor Kattan Yasmina Reggard A Convergence of Civilisations Rose Issa, Yasmine Allam Bushra El Turk, Abdalla El Masri, Youssef Courbage, Dr Ziad Bahaa- Sarmada A World I Loved Artist’s Talk: Sadek Rahim Houtaf Khoury, Toufic Succar, Peter Artist’s Talk: Hanaa’ Malallah, Eldin, Nadje Al-Ali & Laleh Khalili Fadi Azzam Wadad Maqdisi, Ahdaf Soueif, Nirmal Puwar Wiegold, Oliver Butterworth Peter Kennard, Cat Phillipps Mariam and Najla Said 20th century Baghdad: Architecture One Day In April As Seen From Here Dr Bernadette Buckley Banned Books of Guantánamo and Urban Space Jad El Hage Peaceful Resistance Andrew Cross, Michaela Crimmin, Andy Worthington, Ian Cobain, Artist’s Talk: Adonis Dr Caecilia Pieri Gabi Baramki Eugenie Dolberg Clare Algar, Jo Glanville Global Launch of Footnote to a Hans Ulrich Obrist Revolution 2.0 Project* A Discourse in Domination in Mogadishu – Making of a Modern Unmanned Photography & Power Wael Ghonim, Mehdi Hasan Omar Al-Qattan, Laura Egerton, Madate Palestine African City Chris Woods, Elspeth Van Veeren, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin Leyla Fakhr, Sharmini Pereira, Zeina B. Ghandour Rashid Ali David Rodin The Uses and Abuses of Archive Film Jananne Al-Ani, Jessica Morgan Artist’s Talk: Ariella Azoulay Michel Khleifi Celebrate Darwish Jonathan Watkins on Jamal Penjweny Politics of Exhibiting Scheharazade Tells Tales No More Margaret Obank, Ruth Padel, Artist’s Talk: Fadi Yazigi Henrietta Lidchi, Catherine Hahn, Out of the Archive: a case study from Al-Mutanabbi Street Project Anwar Hamed Fawzi Karim, Omar Al-Qattan Omar Al-Qattan Jonathan King Mandate Palestine Alan Ingram, Dr Safaa Sangour Dr Francis Gooding Plague Lands Invitation to a Secret Feast Al-Salih, Rashad Salim, Catherine Is there a difference in designing Exhibiting Africa Fawzi Karim Joumana Haddad Cartwright, Mona Kriegler objects for European and Middle Tim Rice What Future Syria? Schona Jolly Eastern living? Ammar Waqqa, Malik Al-Abdeh, Not the Enemy – Israel’s Jews from Artist’s Talk: Hanoos Hanoos Imre Kiralfy of Earl’s Court: Nedda El Asmar Professor Gilbert Achcar, Chris Doyle Arab Lands Palestinian Walks Omar Al-Qattan From Showman To Impresario Mehdi Hasan Rachel Shabi Raja Shehadeh Design & the Home Brendan Gregory Art & Poetry Nedda El Asmar Arab School Federation Anatomy of a Disappearance Lawand, Pascale Petit With A Seamstress Tape & A Smile VISUAL ARTS Ibtisam Auchi Hisham Matar Artist’s Talk: Rania Matar Dr Caroline Goodson Artist Talk: I Spy With My Little Eye... The Art of Contemporary Design Edward W. Said London Lectures A Rift in Time Joe Namy, Caline Aoun, Aya Haidar from Beirut Artist’s Talk: Mohammed Joha Perspectives on Algeria 2015 – Daniel Barenboim Raja Shehadeh Artist Talk: Corinne Silva Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, Dr Hamza Hamouchene, Dr James Artist’s Talk: John Halaka 2014 – Raja Shehadeh Julian Stallabrass Najla El Zein, Malu Halasa McDougall, Imad Mesdoua 2012 The Saif Ghobash-Banipal 2013 – Noam Chomsky Artist’s Talk: OmarJoseph Prize For Arabic Literary Translation Artist Talk: Hrair Sarkissian Otherwise Occupied Mogadishu – Heritage and 2012 – Ahdaf Soueif Nasser-Khoury Humphrey Davies, Elias Khoury, Shoair Mavlian Bashir Makhoul, Aissa Deebi, Preservation 2011 – Rashid Khalidi Shelagh Weir André Naffis-Sahely Rawan Sharaf Sada Mire 2010 – Marina Warner FILM Canticle of the Stones Kulajo: My Heart Is Darkened The Nightingale’s Prayer Directed by Michel Khleifi Directed by Helena Appio Directed by Henri Barakat

Our screenings showcase shorts, feature films, documentaries Route 181: Fragments of a Journey The Lebanese Rocket Society A Beginning and an End and artist films by both exciting emerging filmmakers, and in Palestine-Israel Directed by Joana Hadjithomas & Directed by Salah Abu Seif Directed by Michel Khleifi Khalil Joreige established directors and producers. In addition to curating our Over the Wall: Football Beyond Borders own series of specially selected screenings, we also collaborate The Wanted 18 Yol Directed by Jasper Kain and with key film festivals to bring the best of Arab cinema to Directed by Amer Shomali and Directed by Yilmaz Guney Matthew Kay Paul Cowan London audiences. Our programme has included the following: Though I Know The River is Dry Wonderland – A True Story Haunted (Maksoon) Directed by Omar Robert Hamilton Directed by Dana Al Mojil Directed by Liwaa Yazji Ismail Chased by the Dogs Concerning Violence Directed by Nora Alsharif Directed by Kamal El Sheikh Directed by Göran Hugo Olsson Maqloubeh Al Madak Alley War at a Distance Directed by Nicolas Damouni Directed by Hassan Al Imam Directed by Harun Farocki Sound Man Chitchat on the Nile Drone Directed by Khalil Al-Mozain Directed by Hussein Kamal Directed by Tonje Hessen Schei The Well Opium Brides (Q&A with director Tonje Hessen Schei) The films appeal to all generations and nationalities… Directed by Ahmad Habash (Q&A with film makers and journalist very well received. Ceila Topping, Brown Book The Orchard Keepers Najibullah Quraishi) Flower Seller Directed by Bryony Dunne Directed by Ihab Jadallah Jaffa The Orange’s Clockwork (Q&A with director Bryony Dunne) Directed by Eyal Sivan Haneen Electro Chaabi Directed by Ossama Bawardi Flower Seller Directed by Hind Meddeb (Q&A Directed by Ihab Jadallah with Hind Meddeb) On the Edge Directed by Leila Kilani Damascus Roof and Tales of Paradise More Out of Curiosity Directed by Soudade Kaadan Directed by Ronnie Close The Great Book Robbery (Q&A with Ali MacGilp and Ronnie Directed by Benny Brummer This Is My Picture When I Was Dead Close) (Q&A with director Benny Brummer) Directed by Mahmoud Al Massad

Pépé le Moko In The Shadow of a Man Salata Baladi Directed by Julien Duvivier Directed by Hanan Abdalla Directed by Nadia Kamel

Notes for an African Oresteia El Gusto Malal (Bored) Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini Directed by Safinez Bousbia Directed by Nujoom Al-Ghanem

Sea Shell/Tree of Life Yema Transit Cities Directed by Abdulkadir Ahmed Said Directed by Djamila Sahraoui Directed by Mohammad Hushki (Q&A with Kinsi Abdulleh & Abdulkadir Forbidden Marriages in the Holy The Kingdom of Women Ahmed Said) Land Directed by Dahna Abourahme A World Not Ours Directed by Michel Khleifi Aisheen (Still Alive in Gaza) Directed by Mahdi Fleifel A New Day In Old Sanaa Directed by: Nicolas Wadimoff (Q&A with Mahdi Fleifel) Directed by Bader Ben Hirsi 12 Angry Lebanese Dirty Wars The Reluctant Revolutionary Directed by Zeina Dacacche Directed by Jeremy Scahill Directed by Sean McAllister The One-Man Village Travelling (Q&A with director Sean McAllister) Directed by Simon El Habre Directed by Mashallah Mohammadi A Man In Our House Shou Sar? Children of Plain Directed by Henri Barakat Directed by De Gaulle Eid Directed by Saadat Rahimzadeh LIVE EVENTS MUSIC PERFORMANCE SUPPER CLUBS Illuminated Gardens A Third Half Step A Taste of Lebanon We present a wide range of live events from play readings and Toby Wiltshire Joe Namy Anissa Helou music performances to workshops and lecture performances, Renaissance Emir Gardens of Illusion Palestinian Supper Club as well as our popular supper club series which celebrates Yara Salahiddeen, Merit Ariane Toby Wiltshire Hana Haj Ahmad of Tatreez Café Stephanos, Ahmad AlSalhi, Stavroula the cooking and stories that surround food from the diverse From Above and Below Flavours of the Levant Constanti, Nilufar Habibian, Rachel Eyal Weizman, Jesse Connuck, Anissa Helou Arab cultures found in London. Past events have included Beckles Willson, Michel Moushabeck Daniel Mann, Helene Kazan, the following: Algerian Supper Club The Storyteller of Jerusalem Susan Schuppli & Tom Tlalim Chris Benarab (Azou restaurant) Philip Arditti, Maria Lopez da Cunha, Unmade Film: The Proposal Ahmad AlSalhi, Rachel Beckles Valentine’s Day Iraqi Supper Club Uriel Orlow Willson, Martin Stokes, Michel Lamees Ibrahim Moushabeck (percussion) Dirar Khalash Syrian Supper Club Sound Performance Choir of London 2012, 2014, 2015 Nada Saleh

Qat, Coffee & Qambus PLAY READINGS Iraqi Supper Club series Food draws people together, it is a universal language Chris Menist Bitterenders Lamees Ibrahim which transcends national boundaries, cultures and even Hannah Khalil (playwright) divisions — Sara al-Hamad knows this… Funoon Zanubia Arabian High Chai series Merit Ariane Stephanos, Father The Cost Of Eggs Sarah Al-Hamad Shafiq Abouzayd, Jon Banks Yamina Bakiri (playwright) WORKSHOPS Live Iranian Hyperelectrosonix Sabra Falling Upcycling & Permaculture Hassan K Ismail Khalidi (playwright) SmallWorld Urbanism Duo Sabil Keffiyeh/Made in China Poetry from Art: Writing the Body Youssef Hbeisch & Ahmad Al Khatib, Dalia Taha (playwright) Pascale Petit John Williams Mawlana Fiction from Art Tara Jaff in concert Alfares Alzahabi (playwright) Dr Fadia Faqir Tara Jaff, Arya Zakri, Khyam Allami Crime of Honour Oral Histories Workshop Etel Adnan (playwright) Tina Gharavi

The Built World of Home Dia Batal

The Basics Of Composition From Reportage To Poetry Bidisha LEARNING & ENGAGEMENT Three Percent Home Oral Histories Presented in collaboration with Artist duo kennardphillipps worked Bridge + Tunnel worked with the We deliver a programme of creative learning projects, inspired Phakama, working with young with young people to express Yemeni community in London to women aged 16–25 through their ideas on home using collage, capture a range of oral histories of by our exhibition programme and annual themes. multi-art form workshops exploring scanning, photoshop and printing first and second generation Yemenis Our programme aims to develop an on-going dialogue with power and freedom and what these techniques. In collaboration with: during a weekend workshop. mean to young people today. The Making Communities Work and Grow, the local community, schools, youth groups and art colleges, project culminated in a site-specific Chelsea Youth Club, Earl’s Court Survival Kit for the 21st Century encouraging active participation in a range of creative projects performance in the gallery. Youth Club, and RBKC. Project devised by Dia Batal and Reem and the exchange of ideas relating to issues of culture and Charif, with workshops led by Dia at ‘Captivating, moving and very ‘I enjoyed the fact that I was able to society. Projects and workshops are led by London-based two secondary schools encouraging powerful. Thank you!’ create an art piece based on what I young people to consider what is artists and visiting artists from across the MENA region. ‘Outstanding show. Terribly moving.’ believe in.’ important to their lives through a ‘The performance was really good, it Kauthar, participant We welcome enquiries from local community groups and variety of different mediums resulting inspired me a lot to rethink about all ‘I enjoyed being creative and thinking in the creation of a survival kit. schools. Email us at [email protected]. the opportunities I have and do outside the box and using all the not appreciate.’ different materials.’ Visitor comments Charlotte, participant

Mogadishu: Lost Moderns ‘I enjoyed most exploring all the Photography and Poetry Workshops types of work Peter and Kat came Photojournalist Kate Holt of Arete and explained their meanings.’ Stories led a series of photography Mohammed, participant workshops with young people aged 14–17 from Baraka Youth and Memento: Exploring ideas of Home Making Communities Work and Grow. A project with students on the FdA Somali poet Warsan Shire, Young Interior Design course at Chelsea Poet Laureate for London 2014, led College of Art who worked with family a workshop with a group of young members to uncover memories of Somalis at Baraka Youth. domestic practice. Project led by Fernando Rihl and Reem Charif. ‘I learned how to use a professional camera for the first time… it’s opened an option in my career.’ Yusuf, age 17, participant

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