Please join us through Zoom for this immersive storytelling experience about how it feels to leave your whole life behind.

Led by Palestinian artist Aseel Tayah, in collaboration with diaspora artists from Australia and around the world, Bukjeh is an installation in a disaster relief tent, with a series of short performances created with people who have been forced to leave their homes.

History & Background of BukjehIn Arabic, Bukjeh is a small pack of belongings carried by travellers and refugees. By inviting an audience into our suitcases, we are sharing our feelings, memories and experiences of home – and of having to leave it. Our stories define us and make us unique. The testimonies of those displaced in this ever-changing world are worth documenting and sharing with future generations.

We are authors of our own stories, choosing which stories to tell and how to tell them – song, dance, poetry/spoken word, visual art, and more.

Bukjeh is a performance by the community, for the community.

“When you have limited time left to leave your home, you grab the most valuable things you have in one sack, a bukjeh, and walk. When you are leaving a whole life behind and starting a new one, what do we decide to keep?”

Meet the artists on zoom, view the performance in a tent, with a Q& A session with the artists after the event.

Bukjeh founder, Aseel Tayah

Poetry by Rania Ahmed and Meena Shamaly

Dance Choreography: José Luis Alejandro Inostroza Aqueveque

Music: Camile Feghali & Oz Malik

Date: Thursday October 28th 2021Time: 7.00pm to 8.00pm

Location: On Zoom- details to follow prior event

Darebin City Council acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the Traditional Owners and custodians of the land we now call Darebin and pays respect to their Elders past, present and future. We also acknowledge the diverse Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, from across Australia, who have come to live, work and study within our municipality