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Songs of Solidarity Writers' Room
Songs of Solidarity is a bold interdisciplinary performance project that reimagines ancient epics through the voices of migrant communities today. Following on from the APGRD’s highly successful Cultural Programme-funded workshop in December 2024, Fiona Macintosh (Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception and Senior Research Fellow, St Hilda’s) and Tom Nelson (Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek, St Hilda’s) have received further funding from the University’s Cultural Programme to continue their collaboration and to support the development of a new epic narrative through devised performance, drawing on Gilgamesh, Iliad, Kalevala, and Ramayana.
Led by Dash Arts and PROJEKT EUROPA, in partnership with APGRD, this phase will involve a Writers’ Room with a number of emergent and seasoned writers, together with academics from Classics, Ancient and Near Eastern Studies, and the University’s Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS). Hosted at St Hilda’s from Monday 15 to Wednesday 17 December, the Writers’ Room will lay the foundation for a full-scale production in 2027.
On Wednesday 17 December at 5pm, there will be a public discussion about the project. For further information, email fiona.macintosh@classics.ox.ac.uk”
Date:
17 December 2025, 17:00
Venue:
St Hilda's College, Cowley Place OX4 1DY
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department:
Faculty of Classics
Organiser:
APGRD (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
apgrd@classics.ox.ac.uk
Booking required?:
Not required
Booking email:
fiona.macintosh@classics.ox.ac.uk
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Maria Nelli
