SONGS OF SOLIDARITY is a bold, interdisciplinary project uniting artists, researchers, and refugees to co-create a powerful music-theatre performance.

Inspired by ancient epics like Kalevala, Gilgamesh and the Aeneid, SONGS OF SOLIDARITY explores nationhood, displacement, and friendship to craft a new epic for the contemporary migrant experience.

In December 2024, co-directors Maria Aberg and Josephine Burton spent a week at Oxford University, exploring ideas together with composer Marouf Majidi, writer and poet Sabrina Mahfouz, migrant performers and local groups of asylum seekers and refugees. This first phase of R&D was generously supported by the Cultural Incubation Fund at Oxford University.

SONGS OF SOLIDARITY is currently in development and is being co-produced with Dash Arts.

photos by Jason Warner