Yirra Yaakin
The Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company is an Australian Aboriginal theatre company, based in Perth, Western Australia in the heart of the Noongar Nation, a cultural group from the South West of Western Australia.
Formed in 1993, Yirra Yaakin provides the means and environment to assist the nurturing of Aboriginal community cultural development.[1][2][3][4]
Yirra Yaakin means "stand tall" in the Noongar language.
References
- ^ Shevtsov, Katya (2014), Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company : twenty-one years of sharing Aboriginal stories, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, ISBN 978-1-925005-11-0
- ^ Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre : collection of posters, 1900, retrieved 6 January 2020
- ^ Narkle, Geoffrey; Milroy, David (2014), Yirra Yaakin presents King hit, Yirra Yaakin, retrieved 6 January 2020
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Radio National (1 May 2013), The museum as a stage for Yirra Yaakin theatre, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, retrieved 6 January 2020
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