Songs of solidarity
An interdisciplinary project uniting artists, researchers, and refugees to co-create a powerful music-theatre performance.
Songs of Solidarity is a bold, interdisciplinary project uniting artists, researchers, and refugees to co-create a powerful music-theatre performance. By weaving together ancient epics like Kalevala, Gilgamesh, and the Aeneid with modern stories and protest songs, the project explores solidarity, displacement, and friendship across time. At its heart, Songs of Solidarity seeks to craft a new epic - an origin story and uniting tale for the vast and growing global population of migrants, offering a transformative narrative that celebrates and redefines the migrant experience.
In 2025, supported by the Oxford Cultural Programme, we’re working with five incredible writers: Anna Sulan Masing, Inua Ellams, Leo Boix, Sabrina Mahfouz and Saili Katebe. The thrilling range of experiences this group of writers brings, both lived and artistic, will allow us to fully explore our ambition to create a polyphonic, multi-voiced and multicultural performance, inspired by practice and politics from across the globe.
Together with these writers, and a curated group of leading academics, we will focus on exploring epic narrative structure, problematic uses in colonial and imperialist contexts, cultural significance, and the role of storytelling in nation building and nationalist ideologies.
Songs of Solidarity will be a vibrant, immersive performance infused with live music, reflecting traditional storytelling formats and bringing audiences into the heart of the action.
We started working on Songs of Solidarity with our partner Projekt Europa in 2024 in a residency in Oxford with artists and academics. This R&D
was co-produced with the Cultural Programme at Oxford University, in partnership with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, and Asylum Welcome. We're particularly grateful to Fiona Macintosh for her support and encouragement.
Our gratitude goes to all the wonderful international artists, academics and participants who enriched our project.
You can see little more in our short film and watch this space for more news in 2025.
About PROJEKT EUROPA
Established in 2020, PROJEKT EUROPA is an international artist collective, an advocacy group and an arts organisation and we create migrant-focused, multi-lingual work at the intersection of performance, co-creation and participation. We work to internationalise the theatre industry by supporting the creativity of first generation migrants in the UK, amplifying marginalised voices and celebrating the multitude of international perspectives which already exist within our borders.
Podcast
Follow our journey as we create Songs of Solidarity by listening to our podcast.
Available on all streaming platforms.
