Your gestures, voice, movement and gaze can now control how you use and interact with a smart device - how do you feel about your phone reading your body language? Learn how artificial intelligence, mixed reality and the Internet of Things (IoT) will influence the way we interact with our devices through a series of talks with the University of Melbourne’s Computing and Information Systems team. The systems of the [...]
Making its Melbourne debut, the world-famous Miss First Nation is a talent-based pageant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drag entertainers. Now in its third year, the competition has received huge accolades for its originality and authenticity and was documented in the multi-award-winning film Black Divaz. Only one queen will be crowned in the grand final spectacular at YIRRAMBOI’s Closing Night Party. Joining us all the way from Taiwan as [...]
Behind the boutiques, restaurants and cafes, there’s a powerful Aboriginal presence still around the streets of Fitzroy and Collingwood – the ‘dirty mile’. From its Woiwurrung beginnings right up to the here and now, this is a precious community, not just somewhere to get a good latte. Despite the gentrification, this iconic place is a testimony to survival. On any given day, you’d find Mutti Mutti songman Kutcha Edwards cutting [...]
Making its Melbourne debut, the world-famous Miss First Nation is a talent-based pageant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drag entertainers. In the second heat, queens battle it out in the Best National Costume and Miss Talent categories to get a stiletto-clad foot in the Grand Final at YIRRAMBOI’s Closing Night. With a display of fabulous frocks from the queens’ cultures and heritage, and performances of non-conventional talent from singing, dancing, [...]
Put on your glad rags, dust off your dancing shoes, channel Whitney, Mariah, Cher and Bey and warm up those vocal chords by our fire for YIRRAMBOI Koorie-oke hosted by Garret Lyon at YIRRAMBOI Weelam. Camp and choreographed dance routines warmly welcomed.
Making its Melbourne debut, the world-famous Miss First Nation is a talent-based pageant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drag entertainers. Drag Queen Bingo ain’t your granny’s bingo. This fabulous airline themed extravaganza is hosted by the hilarious Miss Elleanous & Marzi Panne – strap on your seatbelts for Legs 11 and prizes galore.
Blak Sound: Emerging First Nations Voices of Now presents five incredible new First Nations artists across an evening of music. The power of First Nations peoples carrying song in the now is a story of resilience. It is a story of Blak survival. It is a story of sound that has always been expressed through this land. It is a story of sound that has in one form or another [...]
Learn Taiwanese First Nations thread weaving techniques in a workshop with Truku artist Labay Eyong. Bring an old object with you from home, and transform it into an artwork. Labay is a Truku woman from Ihownang village in Hualien, Taiwan. She inherited knowledge of traditional Truku weaving culture and pays respect through her art to the female Elders who taught her these practices. Labay’s practice is intuitive and sensuous, and [...]
Please note: this workshop is designed for First Nations participants. Discover the art of weaving with artist Glenda Nicholls (Waddi Waddi/Yorta Yorta/Ngarrindjeri) to make your own decorative nets using techniques passed on by Glenda’s ancestors. Weaving references the cultural knowledge of the water and waterways, local plants and habitat passed on to Glenda by Elders throughout her childhood, camping and fishing along the Murray River close to Swan Hill. Glenda’s [...]
Ahead of their theatre performances later in the week, meet the exceptional Wiradjuri Elders of A Little Piece of Heaven for an intimate storytelling experience. A Little Piece of Heaven is the extraordinary story of Uncle Dick and Aunty Ruth Carney, from their blossoming teenage love to the loss, triumph, learning and growing of their 55 years of marriage. Hear the Elders tell their story around the campfire.
