The LEMNOS-GALLIPOLI Project is inspired by the occasion of the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign (1915-2015), a significant common historical event for participating countries AU, CY, EL and TR . The key objective of the Project is to bring together artists and cultural operators from diverse cultural and artistic disciplines to create innovative and interdisciplinary artistic and cultural products on the theme of a woman's perspective on the impact of war on our societies. Utilizing the example of the strong bonds of friendship forged in the aftermath of this tragic event between opposing sides AU and TR, the Project aims to make a wider comment on the capacity of art and culture to serve as a bridging vehicle in the rehabilitation of fractured relationships resulting from historical conflict in general.The Project will consist of a number of works/activities that develop aspects of this theme. In particular: -a Contemporary Opera in three languages (EN, EL and TR), that uses the stories of three women (an AU nurse, a TR mother of a wounded soldier and an EL war widow) to present the women's perspective of an historic event that had a profound impact on their individual countries. Over 20 artists from the participant countries will collaborate in the Opera's creation, production and performance phases which will be staged in AU and EL during the Centenary Year 2015. The Opera will also be recorded and distributed on CD and digital media;- a digital multimedia Exhibition of historic material on 'Women in War', curated in AU and hosted in all participating countries;-an historic Book on the same theme, authored by an AU writer, translated in EL/TR for free dissemination to schools in all participating countries ; and- a Conference and school lectures in AU on the sidelines of the Exhibition. The Project promotes the collective EU identity through works that intertwine different cultural elements and artistic disciplines in distinct artistic works.