Yirramboi Festival

The Yirramboi Festival, styled YIRRAMBOI, is a cultural festival celebrating the First Nations of Australia held biennially in the odd-numbered years in May in Melbourne, Australia.[1] It is also subtitled or described as the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival and YIRRAMBOI: First Nations Arts Festival.[2][3]

Yirramboi means "tomorrow" in the language of the Boon wurrung and Woi wurrung peoples of the Kulin nation.[4] The first festival was held in the Metropolitan Meat Market in 2017.

It is hosted by the City of Melbourne, in partnership with First Nations People and Creative Victoria.[3] The festival runs for 10 days, and attended and performed by First Peoples from across Victoria and the rest of the world.[1]

In 2018, the festival collaborated with the Pulima Art Festival, an Indigenous arts festival in Taiwan, with a "Festival in Festival" program.[5]

The most recent festival was held from Thursday 6 May to Sunday 16 May 2021,[3] with the next festival scheduled for 4–14 May 2023.[6]

  1. ^ a b "YIRRAMBOI - A Powerful First Peoples Biennial Celebration". Arts House. 31 May 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ City of Melbourne (September 2017). City of Melbourne Annual Report 2016–2017 (PDF) (Report). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c "YIRRAMBOI: First Nations Festival". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Yirramboi Festival". Time Out. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  5. ^ "MICAWOR - 2018 PULIMA Art Festival". Medianet. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  6. ^ "[Home] 6-16 May 2021". YIRRAMBOI Festival. Archived from the original on 17 March 2021. Retrieved 28 March 2021.