Throughout July and August: Summer at Mosaic Rooms – Tiny Fridays and Play Lab Lum’a

Free, drop-in activities for children and their grown-ups in our gallery’s Play Room.

Tiny Fridays with Zareen Islam – recommended age 0-5

In these open-ended play session for under-fives and their grown-ups, the Play room is packed full of squishy and crunchy materials, tubes, pipes, boxes, crates, dens and more.

10 July, 17 July, 7 August, 21 August – 12-4pm

Play Lab Lum’a – recommended age 0 to 11

Play Lab: Lum’a invites children and families into a series of gently unfolding workshops, where light moves across surfaces, filters through colour, and takes shape through open-ended, sensory-led play. Children take part in multicoloured shadow play, invent their own languages using gestures and shapes, and make objects such as lanterns to take home.

Inspired by the spirit and legacy of artist and curator Dia Batal, the programme draws on Arabic calligraphy, poetry, and storytelling to create multi-sensory play labs that are iterative, evolving, and responsive to participants. Each play lab invites new ways of sensing through shadow and light, gesture and symbol, texture, movement, and sound. In these spaces, light becomes a playful language, shifting, layered, and open to interpretation.

Saturday 11 July, 3-5pm – with Niki Kohandel

Thursday 23 July, 11am-1pm/2-4pm – with Christine Fellahi

Saturday 15 August, 3-5pm – with Nia Fekri

Find out more: mosaicrooms.org/what’s-on