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.

Together with composer Marouf Majidi, writer and poet Sabrina Mahfouz, and local groups of asylum seekers and refugees, co-directors Maria Aberg and Josephine Burton will collaborate with migrant performers and musicians to create this brand new piece of music theatre.

Songs of Solidarity is being developed in collaboration with Dash Arts, supported by the Cultural Incubation Fund at Oxford University