- I will invite immigrants and local people to narrate their stories based on the sociopolitical condition that is at stake.
- I will encourage them to sing a song of grief and a song of happiness.
- This, I will stage to happen on the rooftops of a neighborhood.
Birds migrate from place to place to find food, shelter and breed. It is a process of survival. A similar process happens with the immigrants who move from their home country due to war, violence, social and economical factors in order to find a better future. What characterizes both, the immigrants and the birds, is their mobility. What keeps them distinct is the flight, which has as a result the immigrants to be stopped on the geopolitical borders which cut their routes.
In a period where the migration flows have overflow Athens and the whole country, the city’s landscape becomes the scenery of a riotous sea. As the waves rise and fall, clash and harmonize, so the local people and the immigrants behave. The rooftops become the rafts that float in the seaway. They are the places where the birds stand to rest for a while and then [perhaps] continue.
The chirpings of the birds, are the voices of the immigrants.
