About

Common Strangers is a collective that aims to foster social connections and empower relationships between people through creative practices, political awareness and self-organized action.

Today, we engage with each other, get the news and present ourselves online mainly through corporate platforms, which use algorithms to censor content and keep people plugged in. The Common Strangers website was born out of an urgent and growing need: to create an alternative media source that bypasses these algorithms; slows the pace of information by filtering out the noise; and acts as a platform where people can share more purposefully and freely what they wouldn’t share elsewhere. Free from corporate interests, the collective is entirely community-organized and funded by the people who take part in it.

Many people live with social, political and climate anxiety, as well as a restless creative drive. They want to share their art, their inspiration transformed into something they created, and their thoughts and concerns about the absurdity and tenderness of being alive right now, and to connect with others who feel the same. We wish to offer this opportunity and to host an online community where those voices realize their mutual existence.

The collective was envisioned as an online space, but, driven by the desire to engage face to face, it soon went further by finding a roof: a physical space in the Metaxourgeio area of Athens, Greece, which we co-host with our twin collective, Parea Radio. The online and physical spaces are meant to complement each other, first by bringing into view what distance prevents, and then by turning it into something more tangible through physical interaction. In late August 2026, we held the 1st Common Strangers Festival, born above all from our wish to meet and connect with other common strangers.

The website hosts everything from political articles and science pieces to poetry, music, photography and podcasts, and it keeps you up to date with the events and actions happening in our space. We encourage participation from readers and contributors with different mindsets, and we bet on a multicultural ensemble that captures different realities. That said, we do not allow homophobia, transphobia, religious racism or any other form of discrimination against people for who they are, and we will intervene when necessary.

For more information, write to us at find@commonstrangers.gr.