Songs of my Neighbours is a collaborative initiative aiming to use the arts, and theatre in particular, to encourage dialogue and social justice between communities that share conflict. The program is partly funded by the Culture Program of the European Union and takes place in Poland, Italy and Cyprus between Autumn 2013 and Summer 2015.

Listening to each other’s songs and stories, through a process of artistic research, is at the core of the project’s activities. Traditional songs – songs of conventional but also invented traditions – contain cultural information about our Others. We are interested in the songs and stories of communities with which we share a critical issue: Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots, Poles and Jews, Italians and Roma.

Project Leader: Center of Performing Arts MITOS (Cyprus). Partners: Astràgali Teatro (Italy) , NetTheatre and Grotowski Institute (Poland).

For further information you can visit the project website: http://songsofmyneighbours.eu/