Songs of Solidarity: Migrant Imagination and the Courage to Tell Your Story

Songs of Solidarity is a developing music-theatre project exploring epic storytelling, belonging, and migrant imagination. This Refugee Week programme brings together artists, researchers, and the public for an afternoon of conversation, reflection, and live performance exploring how stories of migration are told, shared, and reclaimed.

The event will run from 13:00–17:00, beginning with a welcome and followed by an extended panel conversation featuring Songs of Solidarity writers, academics, and the directors of Dash Arts and Projekt Europa, with space for discussion, audience participation, and Q&A throughout. The programme will also include live readings from participating writers and a musical performance by Mohamed Najem.

At the heart of the afternoon is a conversation moving between the personal and the political, the ancient and the contemporary, asking:

What stories do migrants tell themselves? What stories does the world tell about them? And what happens when you write your own epic?

The panel conversation will be led by co-directors Maria Aberg and Josephine Burton and chaired by Siân Prime, Co-Academic Director (Interim) of the Migrant Futures Institute.

Featured contributors include migrant artists and writers on Songs of Solidarity, alongside Myriam Dalal, whose work explores collaborative storytelling with people seeking asylum, examining experiences of hypervisibility and invisibility within state systems, and musical explorations of migration and displacement, investigating how music carries personal and collective histories of movement, loss, and home-making.

The afternoon will conclude with an informal drinks reception at the Institute.

This event is free, but ticketed. Spaces must be reserved via the booking link.

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