In collaboration with Dash Arts, Projekt Europa, and Asylum Welcome, Songs of Solidarity (working title) brings together a coalition of creative and migrant artists, researchers from the University of Oxford, and locally-based refugees to co-create a powerful music-theatre performance, Songs of Solidarity. 

By weaving together ancient epics such as 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 one that unites the vast and growing global population of migrants, offering a transformative narrative that celebrates and redefines the migrant experience.

Songs of Solidarity builds on both the APGRD’s All-Night Epic event themed around Gilgamesh (2023) and Dash Arts’ Dido’s Bar (2022). Towards the end of the residency on Friday 13 December, there will be a filmed public sharing of work-in-progress. Please check back here closer to the date for further details.