Callout for performers now open!
We are seeking performers based in or near Oxford from a range of backgrounds, musical skills and specialities for an upcoming R&D in December 2024. This R&D will involve working collaboratively with artists, academics and refugee participants to explore performance material and dramaturgical structures for a new kind of epic story, rooted in themes of transnational identity, migration and solidarity.
Who can apply?
Musicians with performing experience, actor musicians, and performers who play an instrument
Any musical genre, voice or instrumental skill
First generation migrants
Musicians based in or near Oxford
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 contemporary 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.
Songs of Solidarity is co-directed by Maria Aberg and Josephine Burton and is being developed in collaboration with Dash Arts
