SoS creates the space for listening, learning and unlearning.

songs of solidarity (sos) began in 2025 as a three-day interdisciplinary festival dedicated to celebrating, acknowledging, and sharing stories of resistance and resilience centred on intersectional critical voices across Aotearoa and the Global South.

the theme of our pilot festival in 2025, intersectional solidarity, was rooted in the idea of emancipation and liberation for all. It brought together writers, artists, organisers, and communities to engage in critical conversations and imagine new possibilities for justice.

now evolving beyond a single event, sos is becoming an ongoing space for dialogue, organising, and imagination—building alliances with local and transnational working-class communities and cultural workers to resist, challenge dominant narratives, and imagine new possibilities for liberation.

it is a space to imagine, to challenge, to learn/unlearn, and to radicalise ideas—grounded in intersectional solidarity.