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.

Songs of Solidarity is a multi-year, international collaboration bringing together artists, researchers, and migrant communities to create a new epic for our time. Rooted in the traditions of classical and non-Western epics, this project will evolve through deep research, interviews with migrants, and collaborative storytelling with writers through a theatrical version of a Writers’ Room. By integrating devised performance with actors and musicians in a series of workshops and involving local participants at each step of the way, we will shape a multi-voiced international narrative that both honours and reimagines the epic form.