YIRRAMBOI Festival is a 10-day feast of mediums spanning the breadth of artistic expressions with a collective voice of resilience and evolutionary practices. Emerging, mid-career and established First Nations creatives taking back space to crack open the heart of Melbourne, revealing the hum of country beneath.
YIRRAMBOI Festival will return 1-11 May 2025, when we will once again invite audiences to immerse themselves in our stories, our truth, our way.
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Highlights from the 2023 program
- Five world premiere commissions – including Alluvium by Stone Motherless Cold, a biopunk drag cabaret show, and MEERTA-Rise Up! The Ballad of James Arden, a powerful piece of theatre led by Gunditjmara/Kokatha singer-songwriter, David Arden.
- The DJ PGZ Live Experience, which saw Gunai/Kurnai & Yorta Yorta DJ and Producer, DJ PGZ, bring his dark, underground club sound to Melbourne Town Hall’s iconic Grand Organ.
- A one-night-only extravaganza at the State Theatre with Meanjin’s pioneering ballroom house, House of Alexander.
- A runway show redefining First Nations fashion, titled TOMORROW: The Experience.
- BUBUP Fest for children and families, with workshops, story time, soft play, crafts and a deadly performance from one of the most incredible Aboriginal youth bands MULGA BORE HARD ROCK!
- A unique collaboration with the Dark Mofo festival, connecting Victoria’s Koorie and Tasmania’s palawa people to highlight cross-cultural connections and kinship.
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