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We extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, recognising their resilience and ongoing connection to land, water and culture, despite ongoing colonial interruption and genocide.
Always was, always will be, sacred Indigenous land.
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ILBIJERRI is one of Australia’s leading theatre companies creating innovative works by First Peoples artists. The longest established First Peoples theatre company in Australia, ILBIJERRI creates, presents and tours powerful and engaging theatre by First Peoples artists that gives voice to our Cultures. ILBIJERRI is committed to growing a sustainable and vibrant First Peoples arts […]
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For thirty years, ILBIJERRI Theatre Company has been at the forefront of platforming First Nations’ voices and stories in the arts. Explore the multitude of blak theatre works, programs and the multilayers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories that interweave to create ILBIJERRI’s remarkable history. Join us for a vibrant collection of monologues, community […]
ILBIJERRI's much loved classic, JACK CHARLES V THE CROWN, will be featured as part of Arts Centre Melbourne's online Together With You program, streaming from Friday 10 July through to Friday 24 July. JACK CHARLES V THE CROWN premiered in 2010 and toured nationally and internationally for eight years, charming a generation of theatre goers into a deeper understanding of […]
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company, in association with Arts Centre Melbourne, presents ILBIJERRI Ensemble in Conversations with the Dead by Richard Frankland, as part of Future Echoes “Imagine that you’re a Koorie, that you’re in your mid-twenties, that your job is to look into the lives of the dead… Imagine. Walk in my shoes.” Jack, a young, ambitious Koorie […]
National Tour 28 March 2019 - 30 August 2019 Ghenoa Gela – little sister, daughter, granddaughter, comic, teacher, fighter, gold medallist, air guitarist, charmer, TV star, Torres Strait mainlander, walking political statement – has made a show. This is your invitation into the complex political, social, colonial and cultural expectations she navigates every day. Ghenoa is a […]
A deadly new show from the makers of CHOPPED LIVER Ally lives up in the flats. Things aren’t the best right now but she has big plans. She just wants a better life for her baby. Ally is ready to make a life changing decision. But does she have the strength to see it through? […]
Tash and her Dad are going on a road trip. Home to country, where the sky is higher and the world goes on forever. It’s a long way from the wide streets and big old houses of Tash’s childhood. Two Black faces in a very white suburb. Dad still thinks he’s the king of cool, […]
