The performance Songs and Resonances of the Black Sea offers a stage encounter centered on the Black Sea’s plural heritage. The repertoire brings together works in Turkish, Laz, Hemshin, Pontic Greek, and Georgian. Laments, lullabies, horons (traditional dances), and stories of migration and exile emerge from women’s lives, from memories long silenced, and from the Black Sea’s rugged yet poetic landscape, taking shape on stage.

Ayşenur Kolivar’s luminous voice, woven with the stories she has collected over many years, invites audiences on a journey through the rivers, highlands, and multicultural geography of the Black Sea. Music becomes both a space of interpretation and a vehicle for memory, narrative, and collective experience. On stage, the storytelling connects past and present, local and universal, tradition and contemporary interpretation.