Festival of the Greater South

27, 28 and 29 June

Peoples in Motion, Living Cultures

2nd Edition – Addis Ababa

Launched by the Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC), the Festival of the Greater South: Peoples in Motion, Living Cultures is an annual event firmly grounded in the boundless richness of the heritage of peoples, communities, and nations of the Greater South, with cultures that, far from being mere folklore, are alive, constantly in motion, evolving, and transforming.

In this new edition, the Festival of the Greater South will be held on 27, 28 and 29 June 2025 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, featuring theatre, dance and music performances, with free entrance.

27 and 28: Dance and Theatre

Ethiopian National Theatre

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Friday 27 June, from 17:30

Saturday 28 June, from 13:30

Free Entrance

Serge Aime Coulibaly and Faso Dance Theatre (Burkina Faso/Mali/Belgium), and the Artists from the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (Cambodia)will perform all the power of theatre and dance from the South in two free presentations.

28 and 29: Music

OSC Headquarters

Mekanisa, opposite Vatican Embassy

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Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June, from 16:00

Free Entrance

Musicians from Uruguay, Cuba, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Tunisia, and Cameroon gather for two days to share and experience the cultures of our South.

Line-Up

Saturday 28

YEMa (Ethiopia), Raúl Paz (Cuba), Somos NAí (Uruguay).

Sunday 29

Asma Othmani (Tunisia), Blick Bassy Music Band (Cameroon), Sydney Salmon (Jamaica).

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Registration for the event is now closed.

In collaboration with

Airlines Partner

Ethiopian Airlines is the festival’s partner and has provided a 20% discount on all travel tickets, including three complimentary air tickets.

In 2024, at the 1st edition of Festival of the Greater South, artists from across the Greater South came together to share their music, poetry, painting, and fashion for the first edition of the Festival of the Greater South: Peoples in Motion, Living Cultures.

Get a taste of the 1st edition of Festival of the Greater South

The Festival looks forward to the following points

To provide a vibrant meeting and exchange space for artists, creators, and the Peoples in motion of the Greater South. The Festival presents an opportunity for all artists arriving from diverse artistic forms and genres to express, through voices and bodies, the various and multiple narratives that shape the realities of the majority and silenced world, offering a glimpse of the future that the South, and humanity as a whole, deserves.
To assert the living nature of the cultures of the Greater South, neither ousted from their past, nor stagnant within it, but in perpetual transformation and constant balance between the settlements of the past and the uprisings of the future.
To democratize culture, not as a mere object of observation, but as a vital force both shaped by and shaping, remaining true to itself concerning its past, authentic to its essence in dialogue with and within the world.
To unveil the continuity that extends across the three continents of the Greater South, with contemporary cultures that preserve the memory of ancient exchanges and foster the vitality of their Peoples' integrative aspirations towards an authentic future.
To awaken the multiple forms of cultural expression of the Peoples of the Greater South, offering new readings and interpretations, through the diversity of artistic expression, and reality, and inviting to forge roads by walking.