CREATIVE LEARING
Our creative learning programme is a vibrant space where curiosity meets care, play, and collective discovery. Grounded in principles of accessibility, experimentation, somatics and community connection, it invites participants of all ages and backgrounds to engage with art in meaningful, sensory, and embodied ways.
Programmes include, Yalla Let’s Play – quarterly sensory-led play sessions for families seeking refuge living in local hotels, Play Lab – a project for children and carers to explore and create together, and Young Collective - monthly artist-led sessions for collective practice plus mentorship for young people from the global majority aged 18-25.
More programmes emerge through research led development and close collaboration with artists, our communities like The Loop – centring child - and community-led learning, embedding artists in informal and formal education settings. Together with our local and global colleagues we collaborate on more ways of creatively learning, together.
The Playroom
The Playroom is a new creative space at The Mosaic Rooms, designed for playful, care-led, and poetic encounters. Co-created with artists, families, and young people, it offers an open, welcoming environment for gathering, making, resting, and exploring ideas together.
Stocked with flexible, tactile materials and open-ended resources - from paper and drawing tools to sensory objects and provocations - the Playroom invites curiosity and connection. It is open during gallery hours for self-led exploration, as well as for facilitated sessions and spontaneous gatherings.
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 can be a site for workshops, informal play, quiet reflection, or collective making, always shaped by the voices and hands of its visitors.
More than a room, the Playroom is a shared resource: a living, adaptable place where intergenerational exchange and creative risk-taking can flourish. It grows through the contributions of artists, neighbours, and communities, offering a space that is never fixed, always unfolding.
Play Lab: Lum’a
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 playrooms, 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 monthly Saturday 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 playrooms that are iterative, evolving, and responsive to participants. Each playroom 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.
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The Loop
Several core projects including Young Collective, Yalla Let’s Play, and Play Lab, are woven into The Loop, Mosaic Rooms’ research strand exploring alternative education through artistic practice.
Grounded in improvisational, sensory, and somatic engagement, The Loop is open and emergent, inviting new voices and discoveries.
These initiatives focus on child- and community-led learning, embedding artists in schools and other education settings to reimagine learning rooted in lived experience, cultural identity, and collective creativity.
Alongside international collaborations like the Mouhit residency (Tunis) and artist residencies in secondary schools, The Loop envisions education as fluid, inclusive, and deeply connected to social and cultural worlds.
Young Collective
The Young Collective brings together creatively curious 18-25-year-olds, many seeking refuge or identifying as part of the Global Majority, with limited formal art education beyond GCSEs. Working alongside a lead artist and co-curating guest artists, the group explores themes like non-Western mythologies, architecture, and embodied communal practice. Rooted in liberationist histories, the programme centers joy, confidence, and empowerment.
Meeting monthly from March to October, this welcoming community nurtures experimentation, growth, and peer-led learning. Through mentorship and skill-building, participants are encouraged to pursue their creative futures in a space that embraces their stories and dreams.
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 research inquiry and 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.
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