Concert: Common Space (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 presents newly developed arrangements and collaborations that move between tradition and contemporary expression.

Artists

• Zainab Lax
• Burçin Keskin
• Şeyda Aktaş
• Eylem Külahçı
• Sara Hasti
• Imen El Amouri
• Avin Ahmadi
• Farinaaz
• Mitra Behpoori
• Lilit Tonoyan

Artistic Directors

Zainab Lax & Burçin Keskin

Concert 

08 August 2026 | 20:00
Alte Pfandhaus, Cologne

In collaboration with Korsi Collective

For more info visit Korsi Online / Instagram 

Poster by Salma Abdo

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COMMON GROUND | فضای مشترک

„Musik bewahrt, was Grenzen nicht fassen können.“

COMMON GROUND bringt Künstler:innen mit Wurzeln in der SWANA-Region (Südwestasien und Nordafrika) für eine Woche des künstlerischen Austauschs, gemeinsamen Schaffens und musikalischen Dialogs zusammen.