We call our friends – writers, poets, word warriors, photographers, illustrators , or whatever your creative medium – to join @sos.songsofsolidarity (instagram) virtually, share your work and connect in resistance and solidarity. deadline to submit your work: 5th January, 2026
what can we submit and how many? what to submit : poems – 1 to 3, essay : 1, poster: 1-3, photo: 1-3, illustration: 1-3 (please include title, date created, your name and a brief about work)
which language? whatever you are comfortable with. however, we would like to know a bit about your work. as long as you can provide us a brief description about your work in English, that will be sufficient.
what should your work speak about ?songs of solidarity (SOS) is about celebrating, acknowledging, and sharing stories of resistance and resilience. we seek to connect intersectional voices from aotearoa with those from global south/third world/other world – voices dreaming of a just and liberated world for all. through this collaboration, we want to reach across borders – push the boundary of transnational solidarity and imagining a world where we are truly connected, despite the piece of state issued papers that define us, and unshaken by the fractured lines that claim to divide us.
ancestral land *
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 (where/who you and your ancestors come from)
what does solidarity mean to you? *
the festival sits on the core idea of building transnational solidarity, the liberation of every oppressed and marginalised communities are together!
a brief intro about you and your creative practice *
what does it mean to write, create, speak in this world of genocide, fascism, racism and all ism?
