People of Song

Aniros wants to share her music with the whole world, but the distrust her father and grandmother feel toward strangers blocks her path. When a mysterious visitor arrives in her village, long-hidden truths are revealed, shaking both family and community. The encounter forces her to confront the past and discover new paths for the future. In a gripping tale, past, loss, and forgiveness collide.

People of Song is a collaborative project by a Namibian-German artist collective that fuses music, theatre, and choral singing into a captivating total work of art. Developed through research with Namibian cultures and the Phonogram Archive of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin, this music theatre piece tells the story of an intense transnational collaboration that transcends borders and unleashes creative energy.

At its heart lies a shared vision: to use art as a powerful tool to illuminate socially relevant themes such as memory, identity, and transformation. People of Song is far more than a music theatre project – it is a polyphonic cultural dialogue that touches, moves, and inspires reflection: multifaceted, emotional, and highly topical.

A project within the framework of the city partnerships Windhoek–Berlin and Windhoek–Bremen.
In cooperation with Kulturprojekte Berlin and with support from the Lotto Stiftung Berlin.