2026
Friday 17 April
Evening: Faster than light, always
Mosaic Rooms
226 Cromwell Road, SW5 0SW
Doors 7pm
Faster than light, always is a collaboration between British-Palestinian movement artist Sasha Shadid, Palestinian dancer Adan Azzam عدن عزام and Ramallah-based interdisciplinary artist Julmud جُلموْد. Rooted in the threatened landscape of the Cremisan Valley in Palestine, one of the last remaining green spaces surrounding Bethlehem, the performance emerges from urgency and embodied connection to the land.
Saturday 18 April
Day: Film screening
Cafe Oto
With Hasan in Gaza مع حسن في غزة
By Kamal Aljafari كمال الجعفري
Doors 1pm
Film 1.30-3.30pm
Drawn from material filmed in 2001 during a search for a former prison mate, With Hasan in Gaza is a tribute to a people and a land, and in Aljafari’s words, “the catastrophe and the poetry that resists”.
Saturday 18 April
Day: Workshop
Dalston CLR James Library
Finding Your Seat at the Table
Navigating morality and compromise in the creative industries
Dalston Square E8 3BQ
Doors 1.30pm
Workshop 2-4pm
Participatory workshop led by filmmaker, archivist and sound artist Olivia Melkonian Օլիվի Մելքոնեան and publisher and writer Sherif Dhaimish الشريف دهيميش.
Saturday 18 April
Evening: Concert
Cafe Oto
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Ends 11.40pm
Fatima Lahham فاطمة اللحام
Recorder-playing vocalist whose songs are inspired by baroque and Arabic music and birdsong.Dania
Architect of textured, neo-ambient soundscapes; she explores sound and identity, in particular how the latter has fractured in a postcolonial world. Founder of experimental platform Paralaxe Editions.HUUUM هوم
Omid Darvish, Rojin Sharafi and Alvaro Collao León’s live project brings together Iranian vocals, atypical rhythms, electronic beats and microtonal sound.Julmud جُلموْد
Ramallah-based music producer, researcher and sound engineer/designer. Collaborators include Al Nather, Muqata’a, Haykal, Baraari, Makimakkuk and Walaa Sbait.Plus more to be announced.
Sunday 19 April
Day: Another Sky Market
Cafe Oto
12-3pm
Free
Independent label, publisher, craft & gift fair, co-presented with Mosaic Rooms Bookshop.
Plus installation:
Ambient Gaza Music & Soundmapping Project
Navigate Ambient Gaza’s sound map at an interactive listening station at our market – preserving survivors’ voices and testimonials, creating a living archive of experiences and places that refuse to be erased.
Sunday 19 April
Day: Reading & discussion group
Venue tbd
Sounding Survival
Fundamentals of wartime listening and acoustics of violence
Venue tbd, Dalston
Doors tbd (afternoon)
Conversation and reading session led by Mhamad Safa, for critical engagement with key aspects of wartime listening and the sonic perception of military violence in war zones.
Sunday 19 April
Evening: Concert
Cafe Oto
Doors 7.00pm
Music 7.45pm
Ends 10.45pm
The Museum of the Lowest Place
Sam Salem سالم أسامة presents the world premiere of this major commission for voice, piano, violin, double bass and microtonal guitar. Performed by Nina Guo, Daniel Brew, Linda Jankowska, Edward Kass, Mark Knoop. This work is supported by PRS Foundation’s Composers’ Fund.Bint Mbareh بنت مبارح
Sound researcher and organiser with Exist Festival, with a focus on water in Palestine. She challenges settler-colonial epistemology by taking seriously Palestinian ways of knowing, from rain-summoning music to shrine pilgrimage, as an instigator of political revolution.Khabat Abas عەباس خەبات & Hardi Kurda کوردە هەردی
Another Sky Artist in Residence Khabat Abas presents development work for an Another Sky commission for late 2026.YUNIS يونس
The Egyptian artist presents Ninety Nine Eyes, a new live ritual set and album weaving Afro-Arab rhythms, trance structures and electronic maximalism into a sonic pilgrimage.Buy tickets from Cafe Oto:
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Friday night - Faster than light, always (Mosaic Rooms) Free, RSVP essential
Saturday day - Film Screening (Cafe Oto) £3 advance; £5 door
Saturday day - Workshop (Dalston Clr James Library) £3 advance; £5 door
Saturday night - Concert (Cafe Oto) £17 advance; £20 door
Sunday day - Discussion group (venue tbd) £3 advance; £5 door
Sunday night - Concert (Cafe Oto) £17 advance; £20 door
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