Vox Pacis sprung out of a wish to find cultural and spiritual meetings of understandning and dialogue. Following the heated conflicts after the Mohammed caricatures in Denmark the thoughts grew: Could cultural meetings build bridges into peoples hearts allowing us to reach behind the outer shell and find new openings that unite us?

Could the deepest holiness within each culture meet the holiness in “The Other”? We belive that music, theatre, dance – yes, all the different forms and expressions of culture – make it possible to find ways that open. If different voices can meet, collaborate and bring together seemingly incompatible expression and transform them into a common “third stage-language”, we´ve made the impossible possible and reached a little bit on the way.

Is it possible to artistically express peace in a dynamical, sincere and commited fashion?

Vox Pacis goals are peace work, conflict solving, musical and artistic inspiration. By listening to an participating in different traditions of music-cultural expression, participants and audiences have the possibility to discover for themselves that there is so much more uniting us than differs us apart. For exemple, there is a great similarity between the Sami jojk and Tibetan throst singing, just like there are lots of resemblances between the early Vedic and Greogorian songs and between the Arabic desert songs and some Jewish religious music. The most holy aspects with each culture have undoubtedly a sphere of connecting with other cultures and religions. By sharing this musical experience all at the same time, in the same place, we belive that fruitful conditions are created for a bigger understandning and better relationship between different cultures and religions. We belive that through singing, music and theatre it is possible to find new ways toward peace and harmony. This is Vox Pacis´ambition and belief.

Award ceremony -  House of Nobility, Stockholm 2017

Vox Pacis receives an award