Stories of home, and having to leave it
Bridging Cultures, Celebrating Humanity.
- Help us do more
- Bukjeh of Hope
Stories of home, and having to leave it
Bridging Cultures, Celebrating Humanity.
- Help us do more
- Bukjeh of Hope
Stories of home, and having to leave it
Bridging Cultures, Celebrating Humanity.
- Help us do more
- Bukjeh of Hope

Whats On

July 5, 2024

The Connie Benn Centre, 160 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

Dayma

July 1, 2024

Darebin Intercultural Centre, 350 High St Preston, VIC 3072

Storytelling & Music by Aseel Tayah | Arabic-English School Holiday Program

June 22, 2024

Multicultural hub, 506 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Dayma

June 14, 2024

Town Hall Broadmeadows Gallery10 Dimboola Rd, Broadmeadows 3047

Hakima – Exhibition Opening & Performance

May 18, 2024

Narrm Ngarrgu Library & Family Services Next to queen Vic market

Hakaya of Eid 2024

March 3, 2024

Jack’s magazine, Magazine Way, Maribyrnong VIC 3032

A night of hope “Postponed”

March 2, 2024

5 Main St, Point Cook VIC 3030

Ahlan Ramadan

January 31, 2024

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Untold Palestine

January 25, 2024

Riverside Theatres, Lennox Theatre Corner Church and Market Streets Parramatta NSW 2150

Tahlila – Lullabies Under the Stars

June 27, 2023

La Mama HQ 205 Faraday St, Carlton VIC 3053

Aseel Tayah: Ardna

June 19, 2023

Autumn Place Community Hub 28 Autumn Place, Doveton

Tahlila: Lullabies under the stars

May 13, 2023

Bunjil Place Narre Warren

Hakaya (Stories) Of Eid – Bukjeh Annual Eid Celebration

December 11, 2022

La Mama HQ

Bukjeh Shares the Love of the Prophet

June 18, 2022

shepparton art museum level 4

MAKLOUBA, THE QUEEN OF THE TABLE

May 13, 2022

Queen Victoria Market

Book our work now

Our selection of performance and cultural experiences are available for touring and presentation.

Ardna (Our Land)

A family experience of first nations stories around climate change and displacement.

Bukjeh

Stories of home and having to leave it, refugees and Asylum seekers memories shared in the most touching experiences.

Tahlila

A neighbourhood that invites children and their families to explore First Nations treasures while celebrating their own cultures.

Maklouba

Indulge in a food storytelling, musical experience that will delight all your senses.

Explore Shows

Bukjeh on ABC

Each year around the world thousands of people migrate in the hope of securing a better future for themselves. Many families do not have a choice or are forced to leave their homes because of war, conflict or natural disasters. On arrival, faced with the enormous task of adapting into a new community, memories can fade and customs can be forgotten..

Stories of Home

Bukjeh roughly translates to ‘a small pack of belongings carried by travellers and refugees’. Our mission is to empower people to share their art and stories which have the magic to connect themselves and communities to a piece of home

Diversity

We cherish diversity in everything Bukjeh is and does, in all our people, in all their rich identities, in all their stories. We embrace and respect diversity of background, experience, ideas, thought and feelings.

Empowerment and equality

Through our stories, art and all other endeavours, Bukjeh works to build social cohesion and harmony. We empower our artists to share their diversity of experience. We work to build visibility, engagement, and inclusion of those who have been displaced.

A thousand forms of storytelling

We embrace and support the diverse range of storytelling forms, which can include any variety of diverse elements from a person’s culture, including spoken word, music, songs, visual arts and language.

Artists as story leaders

Bukjeh empowers the artists to be leaders of their own story. They will choose which story to tell and why, and express it in the manner of their choosing. Artists may wish to share their stories widely, or not publicly at all.

Testimonial

It has been my pleasure to attend your Bukjeh performance which I found modern, interesting, emotional and confronting in certain moments. It took me into a journey of the life of different people who share a similar past! It reminded me how we are all humans and how we all can get through tough times with the support of those other humans around us. Your beautiful voice filled the tent with love and warmth and made me teary. The team was amazing and their enthusiasm came through all the way so please pass my congratulations to every single one of the team members.

Bukjeh’ is a unique work of participatory art, creating a space for reflection and empathy, with the audience/participants allowed and encouraged to experience a sense of the shared humanity of all people, whether refugees or fortunate Westerners. ‘Bukjeh’ is a work of extraordinary generosity, offering both a glimpse of the diversity of human experience and an opportunity for understanding. The glimpse is a gift; the opportunity for understanding is a blessing.

Aseel began to sing and our audience held their breath; it was such a resonant and moving song. She is a vital and passionate artist whose approach to her art, with its message of building bridges between new and established communities, is inspiring and never more important than in Australia today.

Bukjeh is a special project, not just an installation and performance, but an event focused on the community it’s being presented in. The teams approach to host workshops in the community before presenting the tent begins an authentic relationship with the local people, the beginning of a richer discussion to continue after each performance. Most importantly the Bukjeh team are working with some of our most vulnerable people, the silenced voices in our community, stories that are not being told, and with gentle generosity they support these local people to tell their stories in the beautiful space they’ve created. The world needs projects like this to bring us all together.