CREATIVE LEARNING
Our Creative Learning programme is a vibrant space full of care, play, and collective discovery. Grounded in principles of accessibility, experimentation,and community connection, we invite participants of all ages to engage with art in meaningful, sensory and embodied ways.
Programmes include, Yalla Let’s Play – quarterly sensory-led art and play sessions for families seeking refuge living in local hotels, Play Lab – workshops for families to explore and create together, Young Collective – artist-led sessions and mentorship for young people from the Global Majority aged 18-25 including those who are seeking refuge and Assemblies – embedding artists in formal education settings to co-create with children and make space for liberation and inspiration.
Play Room
Play Room is a new creative workshop space, designed for playful, care-led, and poetic encounters.
Co-created with artists, families, and young people, Play Room offers an open, welcoming environment for gathering, making, resting, and exploring ideas together. Stocked with flexible, tactile materials and open-ended resources - the Play Room invites curiosity and connection.
The space holds room for resident projects, community-rooted initiatives, and artistic experiments as they emerge, evolving in response to the people who use it. It is a site for workshops, informal play, quiet reflection, and collective making, always shaped by the voices and hands of its visitors.
Play Lab: Lum’a
لُمعَة – Lum‘a – a glimmer, a glint, a flicker of light
Led by artist Chahine Fellahi, 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.
Each school holiday hosts an artist-led workshop, with additional sessions by invited artists exploring the theme.
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.
Materials encourage touch, slowness, and discovery, creating a space where light can be shaped and held. Lum’a is a place for noticing - small glimpses, quiet moments, and the wonder that lives in the spaces between.
Assemblies
Assemblies is Mosaic Rooms’ research strand exploring what learning might feel and sound like if designed by children themselves.
Grounded in child and community-led practice, Assemblies empowers students, sparks collaborative imagination, and connects schools, galleries, and communities.
Insights are shared through workshops, research outputs, and university collaborations, reimagining education as open, creative, and deeply connected to lived experience and collective curiosity.
Young Collective
Young Collective is a monthly youth-led programme for 18–25-year-olds at Mosaic Rooms which explores themes of authorship, seeding, nurture, play and co-creation.
We are responding to the lack of creative learning provision for young people who identify as part of the Global Majority, are seeking refuge and / or have faced marginalisation, by creating nurturing and energetic spaces to learn within. Alongside opportunity to create, we aim to contribute to more positive mental health and community for the collective.
Co-curating with a lead artist, the group explores non-Western mythologies, architecture, and embodied communal practice. Rooted in liberationist histories, the programme centres joy, confidence, and empowerment.
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Yalla Let’s Play
Yalla Let’s Play offers child-led, sensory-rich play and art sessions for families seeking refuge living in local hotels. This project is both a living practice, exploring how play creates safe, healing spaces for families navigating vulnerability.
In partnership with local support organisations, it weaves emotional well-being, family bonding, and social connection through creative expression and sensory discovery.
In 2026, four holiday sessions will welcome around nine families each, inviting empowerment, curiosity, and belonging through playful, loose parts and sensory art, fostering joy and resilience amid challenging circumstances.
Tiny Fridays
In these monthly open-ended play sessions for under-fives and their grown-ups, we pack the gallery full of squishy and crunchy materials, tubes, pipes, boxes, crates, dens and more.
Join experienced Playworker and Art Facilitator Zareen Islam, who will bring a range of different materials - often reclaimed or recycled - to create and facilitate sessions where children are the centre of their own play experiences and have control of their spaces.
Zareen is an experienced Playworker and Facilitator and advocate for the UN Convention on Rights of a child - particularly Article 31 the right to play for all children Her practice is rooted in community and activist work she promotes play for all and has a passion for inclusivity and working with marginalised communities.
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