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.

Yirra Yaakin Theatre, 65 Murray Street.

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.

See also

References
  1. Shevtsov, Katya (2014), Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company : twenty-one years of sharing Aboriginal stories, Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, ISBN 978-1-925005-11-0
  2. Yirra Yaakin Noongar Theatre : collection of posters, 1900, retrieved 6 January 2020
  3. Narkle, Geoffrey; Milroy, David (2014), Yirra Yaakin presents King hit, Yirra Yaakin, retrieved 6 January 2020
  4. 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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