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🚨 Upcoming exhibition 🚨 Harold Offeh - ‘Trustful Strangers Induce Fearless Aliens’ ‘s first solo exhibition in London -...
12/06/2026

🚨 Upcoming exhibition 🚨 Harold Offeh - ‘Trustful Strangers Induce Fearless Aliens’

‘s first solo exhibition in London - opening Thursday 25 June.

Celebrating one of the UK’s leading socially-engaged performance artists, the exhibition brings together a selection of works from Offeh’s 25-year practice.

Guided by curiosity, wit and humour, the artist confronts dominant histories and present-day cultural norms, positioning imagination as a powerful tool in the creation of more hopeful futures.

Join us for the preview on 25 June 6.30–8.30pm - all welcome!

The exhibition runs until 15 August
Open Wed- Sat, 12-6pm

Special artist talk with Mandy El-Sayegh and Shumon Basar this Thursday 11 June. Join us as they discuss El-Sayegh’s yea...
08/06/2026

Special artist talk with Mandy El-Sayegh and Shumon Basar this Thursday 11 June.

Join us as they discuss El-Sayegh’s year-long mural commission – ‘This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly’ at The Showroom which closes 15 August 2026.

The Showroom’s location, situated off Edgware Road close to Church Street Market, holds personal significance for the artist, who partially grew up and spent her young adulthood in the area.

This will be a unique opportunity to hear from El-Sayegh about her methodologies and approach to the commission and her work more widely.

Artist talk
Mandy El-Sayegh in conversation with Shumon Basar
Thursday 11 June
6.30–8.30pm
Tickets £6, concessions available

To book go to link in bio ⬆️

Join us for a lunchtime tour of Ângela Ferreira: ‘Slits are Girls’ with Andrew Renton and Mandy El-Sayegh’s mural ‘This...
27/05/2026

Join us for a lunchtime tour of Ângela Ferreira: ‘Slits are Girls’ with Andrew Renton and Mandy El-Sayegh’s mural ‘This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly’ with Director Gabriela Salgado.

Friday 5 June
1pm

Organised as part of the launch programme for Lisson Grove Galleries - full details in bio

EVENT 4 🍿Church St Arab Film Nights: Ifriqiya Cinema ShortsA programme of short films exploring alienation, exile and co...
21/05/2026

EVENT 4 🍿Church St Arab Film Nights: Ifriqiya Cinema Shorts

A programme of short films exploring alienation, exile and concentric layers of kinship. Spanning Khartoum, Tunis, Havana, Gaza, and N’Djamena – these films trace transnational solidarities shaped by experiences of displacement and political rupture. Followed by a Q&A with Rida Jawad (Co-founder of Thawra Archive) and

📅 Thursday 4 June, 7pm
🎟 £6 / concessions available
🔗 More info + booking at the link in bio

Image: Leena Habiballa: Do Not Dream of a Wonderful World, 2022 (film still)

Join us for a special artist talk with Mandy El-Sayegh and writer-curator Shumon Basar as they discuss El-Sayegh’s pract...
20/05/2026

Join us for a special artist talk with Mandy El-Sayegh and writer-curator Shumon Basar as they discuss El-Sayegh’s practice and her mural commission – ‘This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly’ – which employs a cut-up methodology, layering materials with poetic fragments, to explore the textures of commonality, social justice, and modes of resistance. They will consider the references and approaches that shape El-Sayegh’s work, from questions of translation and legitimacy to the ways histories are continually remapped through images and material culture.


Artist talk
Mandy El-Sayegh in conversation with Shumon Basar
Thursday 11 June
6.30–8.30pm
Tickets £6, concessions available

Go to link in bio

EVENT 3 🎥 Church St Arab Film Nights: Waiting for HappinessAbderrahmane Sissako’s Waiting for Happiness is a contemplati...
19/05/2026

EVENT 3 🎥 Church St Arab Film Nights: Waiting for Happiness

Abderrahmane Sissako’s Waiting for Happiness is a contemplative and poetic collage of the changing lives and varied destinies of the residents of Nouadhibou. Followed by a Q&A with Damilola Lemomu, Archivist and Film Curator and

📅 Tuesday 2 June, 7pm
🎟 £6 / concessions available
🔗 More info + booking at the link in bio

Image: Abderrahmane Sissako: Waiting for Happiness 2002. (film still)

Join us for an evening with Bruno Verner of punk-funk duo Tetine , exploring ‘Tropical Punk ‘as a living, shifting sens...
18/05/2026

Join us for an evening with Bruno Verner of punk-funk duo Tetine , exploring ‘Tropical Punk ‘as a living, shifting sensibility emerging from Brazil’s post-punk and underground music histories.

Listening Session
Tropical Mutant Punk Funk Tapes with Bruno Verner
Wednesday 3 June 2026
6.30–8.30pm
Tickets £6, concessions available
To book go to link in The Showroom’s bio

The session approaches punk as an attitudinal force – something mutant that moves across time, geography and media. Through listening and conversation, Bruno Verner traces how DIY cultures, experimental sound practices, and countercultural aesthetics in Brazil have shaped a wider understanding of punk/post-punk as a way of thinking and acting through sound, politics, and performance.

Programmed as part of Angela Ferreira’s exhibition’Slits are Girls’. Supported by Paul Hamlyn Foundation

EVENT 2 🍿 Church St Arab Film Nights: Basil KhalilAcademy Award & Palme d’Or nominated writer and director Basil Khalil ...
15/05/2026

EVENT 2 🍿 Church St Arab Film Nights: Basil Khalil

Academy Award & Palme d’Or nominated writer and director Basil Khalil will present his debut feature ‘A Gaza Weekend’ (2022) and his earlier work – ‘Ave Maria’ (2015). Followed by a conversation with Khalil about the role of comedy in Palestinian filmmaking and storytelling at a time of cultural erasure. Moderated by

📅 Thursday 28 May, 7pm
🎟 £6 / concessions available
🔗 More info + booking at the link in bio

Image: Basil Khalil: Ave Maria, 2015 (Film still)

FilmScreening ChurchStreetNW8

📣 We are honoured to announce that Sumayya Vally is joining The Showroom’s Board of Trustees.Sumayya Vally (b. 1990, Sou...
13/05/2026

📣 We are honoured to announce that Sumayya Vally is joining The Showroom’s Board of Trustees.

Sumayya Vally (b. 1990, South Africa) is the principal of architecture and research practice, Counterspace. Vally is dedicated to articulating expressions of hybrid identities and spaces, with a particular interest in the complex relationships between territories and places. She is the youngest architect ever commissioned for the Serpentine Pavilion, completed in 2021 and lauded as one of the most radical pavilion designs to shape the commission. She was Artistic Director of the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale in Jeddah, which marked a pivotal moment in reimagining the definition of Islamic art. A TIME100 Next list honouree, World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and Dezeen’s Emerging Architect of the Year 2023, Vally has been identified as someone who will shape the future of architectural practice and pedagogy. She is Honorary Professor of Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Sumayya has recently been awarded the Cross Disciplinary Creator medal in the Art Basel Awards 2026, recognising her work as a visionary – shaping the future of art – an important recognition of Sumayya as an architect, artistic director, curator and artist.

We are thrilled to have Sumayya join our board bringing her pioneering creativity and innovative approach, centred around other imaginaries, to help shape and support the future of The Showroom.



Photo by Lou Jasmine, courtesy Counterspace

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