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Canary Wharf celebrates Black History month with four new murals

Canary Wharf is marking Black History Month this October with a free public art trail celebrating Black creativity, achievement and identity through four striking new murals by interdisciplinary artist Jasmine Kahlia. Free to explore throughout the month, the temporary installations have been inspired by Kahlia’s Jamaican, Indian, Somali and Yemeni roots, alongside a series of interviews with Black entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and professionals who have built their careers or lives in Canary Wharf.

The trail begins with Folkloriq on North Colonnade, a colourful celebration of Caribbean and Central American art and intergenerational storytelling. Over on Upper Bank Street, Facin our Dreamz features portraits of accomplished individuals from fields including science, AI, sport and finance, with each subject’s personality reflected through Kahlia’s bold use of colour.

At Montgomery Square, Blaq Excellence explores liberation, belonging and the wider Black diaspora, blending a spectrum of skin tones into its central figure. Completing the trail on George Street is Heartest Truth, which follows the highs and lows of building a successful career through four themes: Downfall, Triumph, Connection and Freedom. The new works sit alongside Canary Wharf’s permanent public art collection, which includes more than 100 sculptures, murals and architectural pieces dotted throughout the neighbourhood.

Designed to be stumbled upon as much as deliberately sought out, the trail offers an easy way to combine art, culture and a wander around Canary Wharf this autumn. Jasmine Kahlia’s Black History Month trail is free to visit throughout October at North Colonnade, Upper Bank Street, Montgomery Square and George Street, Canary Wharf.

Dates: Throughout October 2026

Locations: North Colonnade, Upper Bank Street, Montgomery Square and George Street, Canary Wharf, London

For more information, click here.

Written by Enytha Peer

Mural titled Facin Our Dreamz by Jasmine Kahlia for Canary Wharf Black History Month. Photo credit Sean Pollock

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MOTH and Dishoom’s Permit Room gives the Mojito a Bombay-inspired twist

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There’s a rather good reason to make your way to Dishoom’s Permit Room this October. MOTH has joined forces with the Bombay-inspired bar-café to create the Rani Mojito, a limited-edition take on the classic cocktail and, rather surprisingly, the first time MOTH has ever allowed its canned Mojito to be given a twist. The collaboration takes MOTH’s award-winning Mojito, made with Duppy Share rum, lime and mint, and adds Dishoom's cardamom vermouth. The result promises to be juicy, bittersweet and gently fragrant, with cardamom, the so-called queen of spices, and the inspiration behind the name Rani adding a distinctly Bombay flourish.

It feels like a particularly natural meeting of the two brands. MOTH has built its following around properly made cocktails in its signature little black cans, while Permit Room brings the irreverent spirit and flavours of Bombay to its all-day bars. Here, something familiar has simply been nudged somewhere a little more interesting. Permit Room itself takes its inspiration from Bombay’s historic drinking culture. When liquor was prohibited in the city in 1949, ingenious ways of circumventing the rules inevitably followed. Later, liquor permits could be obtained ostensibly for the “preservation or maintenance of health” and by the 1970s the Permit Room had become part of the city’s social landscape.

Today, Dishoom’s version is rather more relaxed about the paperwork, serving breakfasts, curries, sharing plates, bar snacks and an extensive cocktail list throughout the day. For the Rani Mojito, MOTH’s zesty lime and mint base is lifted by the aromatic warmth of cardamom vermouth. It sounds refreshing enough to retain everything we want from a Mojito, while introducing just enough spice and bitterness to make it feel appropriate for the first days of autumn.

MOTH: Rani Mojito is available throughout October 2026, exclusively at Dishoom Permit Room, priced at £9.

You’ll find it at Permit Room locations in Brighton, Cambridge, Oxford, Portobello Road in London and the newly opened Liverpool outpost.

For locations, menus and bookings, click here.

Written by Claire Bloom

Photo courtesey of MOTH