Workshop/Performance
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). At the end of the residency on Friday 13 December, at 4.30pm, there will be a filmed public sharing of work-in-progress in the JdP, followed by a drinks reception at 5.30pm. All are welcome to attend this opportunity to share your thoughts about epic in performance with the artists and to think about how the different epic traditions (however complicated) still have resonances in the contemporary world.
Accessibility
The JdP Music Building has step free access; please see the Online Access Guide for further details about the venue. Please email St Hilda's College at: with any accessibility requirements or queries about the JdP.