Local Arabic and Jewish musicians came together to perform in Under the Olive Tree, a unique concert event presented by The Boîte at the Immigration Museum. The realisation of a long-held dream of Israeli born cellist Adi Sappir, the concert was developed through a two-year process of dedicated planning with Adi and a partnership with the Immigration Museum. As Therese Virtue of The Boîte described:
‘Under the Olive Tree enabled us to bring together performers separated by cultural, geographic and social factors in the vast spread of Melbourne, and to set up artistic collaborations which exploited commonalities in Arab and Jewish music older and more integral than current political divides.’