Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival

Overview

Celebrate 60,000 years of Indigenous art and culture at Melbourne's inaugural Yirramboi First Nations Arts Festival. Running from May 5-14 at more than two dozen venues around town, this multi-disciplinary festival will feature a mix of music, dance, theatre, film and visual art by First Nations people from all around Australia, as well as New Zealand, Canada, the United States, Scotland, Wales, Taiwan and the Pacific Islands.

The festival begins with a welcome ceremony at Meat Market in North Melbourne, followed by an opening night party described by organisers as "an evening of queer, gender-bending pop-up live arts". Other standout events include a full moon dance party in Federation Square featuring Kulin Stories by Uncle Larry Walsh, a large-scale sound and art installation at Birrarung Marr, and a panel discussion about the history of Aboriginal ballet dancers.

For the full Yirramboi program, visit yirramboi.net.au.