We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Elders, Ancestors and leaders of the Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands ILBIJERRI Theatre Company is based.
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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She ran away.He ran amuck.And one day they ran into each other… Meet Lynne & Jim. They’ve both been around the block – working, protesting, jail, partying, and kids. Now they’ve come home - but can they leave their past behind? A Blak Comedy about life, love and being more than “chopped liver”. CHOPPED LIVER […]
“What ILBIJERRI is able to take from this painful history is a story of resistance and of strength. ★★★★” - The Age CORANDERRK is about what might have been. In the neglected storehouse of Australian history, this is one of the definitive stories. At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881, the men and women of […]
“Always entertaining and so well done! The students always rave about you for a long time after. See you next year" - Teacher, Lakes Entrance Secondary College One ute, two teenagers and a long road ahead. No looking back now. Wyatt and Nella are 16 and from the middle of nowhere. Wyatt’s in love with a […]
“This is an exciting opportunity to get a taste of our repertoire and the exciting new works we have in development” - Rachael Maza, Artistic Director This is your chance to see short readings from six of our current and upcoming plays in just sixty minutes! WHICH WAY HOME | Writer Katie Beckett draws on her […]
BALIT NGULU (Strong Voice) is a ceremony to Welcome you to Country and open White Night 2016. The five language groups of the Eastern Kulin invite you to honour the generations of strong Aboriginal voices who have gathered on this site. While many people associate the Royal Exhibition Building with the first Parliament of Australia, the […]
“A vivid, poignant, political and often unexpectedly funny work… that demands our full attention, deserves it and rewards it” - Sun-Herald Palm Island, 2004. An Aboriginal man dies in police custody. Members of the Palm Island community make a direct challenge to police power and the police station is torched. Eight years later, the people of Palm […]
The VIPA Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and arts workers in the Indigenous performing arts across Victoria. ILBIJERRI has presented the Victorian Indigenous Performing Arts (VIPA) Awards for the last 16 years to celebrate the outstanding achievements in the Indigenous performing arts across Victoria. The awards are open […]
“Fired by an extraordinary history Little Black Bastard is more than a monologue. Tovey’s eloquent return to shocking ghosts and devastating hardship is a remarkable tale of survival, soul and spirit” - Sydney Morning Herald Melbourne 1930s. Noel Tovey is one of five children abandoned by his parents. A young Aboriginal boy living on the streets […]
“...only Ilbijerri, our oldest indigenous theatre company, could speak with such empathic attunement to marginalised groups.” - The Age Meet Dannii, Harley and Rose. Three teenagers. Three individuals. Three modern-day warriors on a quest for identity; fuelled with attitude and armed with ink and steel. When their paths cross unexpectedly, they realise that they might have found more […]
Since 2013 the first words of Melbourne International Arts Festival come from those who have carried this land’s stories the longest—the First Peoples of Melbourne. TANDERRUM is a ceremony bringing together the Wurundjeri/Woiwurrung, Boon Wurrung, Taungurung, Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung language groups of the Eastern Kulin Nation—a ceremony of celebration that reaches across Aboriginal […]
