Common Ground فضای مشترک

Common Ground فضای‌ مشترک‌ Music remembers what borders cannot contain.” COMMON GROUND brings together artists with roots across the SWANA region (South West Asia and North Africa) for a week of artistic exchange, collective creation, and musical dialogue. The project begins with songs, songs carried across generations, shaped by migration, and preserved through memory. Each artist brings music from their own cultural background, creating a starting point for a collaborative process of arrangement, improvisation, and exploration. Throughout the residency, different musical traditions enter into dialogue with one another. Distinct artistic voices and perspectives come together not to merge into a single narrative, but to create a shared space where differences can be heard, respected, and transformed into something new. COMMON GROUND explores themes of belonging, displacement, memory, resistance, and hope. Through collective creation and mutual listening, the project reflects the realities of living between cultures, languages, and places. The concert presented newly developed arrangements and collaborations that move between tradition and contemporary expression. Common ground consists of following great musicians: Zainab Lax @zainab.lax.music Burçin Keskin @burcinkeskin__ Şeyda Aktaş @seydakts_ Eylem Külahçı @eylemkulahci Sara Hasti @sarahastii Imen Al Amouri @imenofretete Avin Ahmadi @avinahmadi Farinaz @farinaaz.singer Mitra Behpoori @mityholloween Lilit Tonoyan @lilit_tonoyan_music In collaboration with korsi collective Video by Salma Abdo , Fadi Elias Edit by Salma Abdo