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03/08/2026

Last two weeks to see Mandy El-Sayegh’s mural – ‘This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly’. Thank you to Mandy, her amazing team and all those who collaborated with us through workshops, talks, screenings, listening sessions and other events.

We are hugely grateful to foundation for generously funding the year-long project

The Showroom Mural Commission
Mandy El-Sayegh: This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly
26 September 2025 – 15 August 2026

El-Sayegh employs a cut-up methodology, layering materials with poetic fragments to explore the textures of commonality, social justice, and modes of resistance. 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. Working with communities based in the neighbourhood, the artist collected slogans, imagery and poetry. Assembling scraps of forgotten histories, the artist questions whether aesthetics can be used as a bridge for communication. Key to her investigation has been the question: how can aesthetic freedom exist without political freedom? And who has the right to abstraction?

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You are invited to The Showroom Summer PartySaturday 15 August 2026, 1.30–5pmFree event- all welcome!To book go to link ...
31/07/2026

You are invited to The Showroom Summer Party
Saturday 15 August 2026, 1.30–5pm
Free event- all welcome!
To book go to link in bio

Join us as we roll up the shutter doors and celebrate summer ‘inside and out’ with our local community at The Showroom.

This collective celebration with food, music and performance, is the culmination of Harold Offeh’s performance tour FEARLESS WALKERS WELCOME STRANGERS.

We are also marking the conclusion of Offeh’s exhibition, and Mandy El-Sayegh’s mural commission This is a Sign: Notes on Assembly, which has been a site of community celebration and solidarity for the past year.

This event is organised as part of Westminster’s Inside Out Festival 2026 and is generously supported by Westminster City Council Westminster City Council | London

Harold Offeh: Snap Like a Diva 2012-2020, video stil

Book now to join Harold Offeh’s performance tour with a group of young participants through Paddington Basin to Church S...
30/07/2026

Book now to join Harold Offeh’s performance tour with a group of young participants through Paddington Basin to Church Street. Through spoken word, song, movement and conversation, audiences are invited to explore the local area in new ways and reflect on ideas of trust, belonging and public space.

Harold Offeh: FEARLESS WALKERS WELCOME STRANGERS
15 August 2026, 12pm
The tour will start at Offeh’s new billboard at Paddington Square and will follow an accessible, step-free route.
The event includes a guided walk with live performances and creative interventions at sites across the neighbourhood, culminating in a collective celebration - The Showroom Summer Party - starting at 1.30m. All welcome!
To book go to links in bio

These events are organised as part of the Inside Out Festival 2026, Westminster City Council | London and generously funded by Westminster City Council.


Image: Harold Offeh, Walk the Talk, 2022. Commissioned by Milton Keynes Arts Centre, UK.

Harold Offeh in conversation
27/07/2026

Harold Offeh in conversation

Join artist Harold Offeh and curator Jarelle Francis for a conversation exploring the conceptual frameworks that under...
15/07/2026

Join artist Harold Offeh and curator Jarelle Francis for a conversation exploring the conceptual frameworks that underpin Offeh’s exhibition TRUSTFUL STRANGERS INDUCE FEARLESS ALIENS.

Taking African-American writer James Baldwin’s 1953 essay ‘Stranger in the Village’ as a point of departure, alongside other key influences on Offeh’s practice, the discussion will consider how the figure of the “stranger” continues to shape experiences of race, belonging, memory and public life.

‘Stranger in the Village’
Harold Offeh in conversation with Jarelle Francis
Wednesday 29 July
6.30-8.30pm
To book go to link in bio

10/07/2026

Last chance to see Long Distance Press: ‘Hand Over Hand’ - the second iteration of the Paddington Square x The Showroom annual billboard commission.

Final week: 10–17 July 2026
Paddington Square - on the corner of Praed St and Tanner Lane

Drawing on the history of the Paddington Square site as a former postal sorting office and the neighbouring St Mary’s Hospital, artists Adam Shield and Thomas Whittle aka Long Distance Press (LDP) examine the role of mail art, exchange, and community collaboration.

Focusing on drawing as a means to investigate, develop, and communicate, LDP came together with participants from The Showroom’s neighbourhood in a series of workshops exploring the idea of care, to create the work.

Thank you to all the collaborators from 60 Penfold Hub, Sunflower Coop, Abdul Magid Educational Trust Group, Paddington Development Trust, MEWSo and those who worked with Kay Abude on her Showroom mural commission.

The billboard was commissioned by Great Western Developments and curated by The Showroom in partnership with LACUNA.

Reading session with Lola OlufemiTuesday 14 July, 7.00–8.30 pmBook now!Join writer, researcher and Black feminist thinke...
08/07/2026

Reading session with Lola Olufemi
Tuesday 14 July, 7.00–8.30 pm
Book now!

Join writer, researcher and Black feminist thinker Lola Olufemi for a collective reading session which takes as its starting point African-American writer James Baldwin’s 1953 essay ‘Stranger in the Village’, which documented his experience as an outsider or ‘alien’ in Switzerland.

For the session Olufemi brings Baldwin’s work into conversation with a selection of writers who have extended and reimagined his legacy, inviting participants to read together and discuss how questions of race, gender and political imagination continue to resonate today.

Join by artist Harold Offeh

Tickets £6, to book go to link in bio
Concessions available

The event is organised as part of the public programme for Harold Offeh’s exhibition ‘TRUSTFUL STRANGERS INDUCE FEARLESS ALIENS’.

Join us for ‘Embody’ - a day of poetry, spoken word and dance in response to Harold Offeh’s exhibition, ‘Trustful Strang...
06/07/2026

Join us for ‘Embody’ - a day of poetry, spoken word and dance in response to Harold Offeh’s exhibition, ‘Trustful Strangers induce Fearless Aliens.’

Can I Hold the Mic?
Poetry and MC Workshop
12-2pm
(16-25 Year olds)
In this workshop learn about the importance of the London Ballroom Scene in cultivating community and providing a space for uninhibited self-expression, with a focus on the role of the MC by way of poetry and spoken word with Ellis George and Ella Osho.

Voguing Workshop
3-5pm
(18+)
Join Karteer Mugler to learn and master the five elements of Vogue Fem - Catwalk, Duckwalk, Spins and Dip, Hands Performance and Floor with a feminine touch.

For more info and to book go to links in bio ⬆️

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