Barring Yanabul

Date

Sat 10 May

Venue

The Victoria Hotel  215 Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 RMIT Design Archives Window Gallery RMIT University, Melbourne City Campus, Building 100 154 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Royal Lane Between Lt Collins and Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Checker Box Corner of Swanston Street & Little Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

Bourke Street Mall

Located between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne VIC 3000

As the sun falls, First Nations creatives move through the city, breaking away from colonial constructs of performing in ‘designated spaces’ to give the stories of now back to country, to the lands that have held them for over 80,000 years.

Dance

Drag

Family

International

Music

Theatre

Visual Art

Image credit: Keelan O'Hehir

The 2025 iteration of Barring Yanabul cracks open the heart of narrm/Melbourne, setting streets and laneways alight with installations, visual arts, music, drag, dance and maybe… something you’ve never ever seen before.

BARRING YANABUL TIMETABLE

RMIT Design Archives Window Gallery
RMIT University, Melbourne City Campus, Building 100
154 Victoria Street, Carlton
Open 24hrs — Ama Algorithmus

Royal Line
Between Lt Collins and Bourke Street, Melbourne
6PM–9PM — Connection to Country

The Victoria Hotel
215 Little Collins Street, Melbourne
3PM–9PM — Jackie’s Psychic Readings, Channellings & Healing

Bourke Street Mall
Between Swanston and Elizabeth Streets, Melbourne
6PM — Ngargee (Ceremony)
6:30PM & 8PM — IBIS: Movement Into the City
6:45PM & 7:35PM — John James
8:20PM — Williby

Checker Box
Corner of Swanston Street & Little Collins Street, Melbourne
6PM & 8:30PM — IOKOS Cadre
6:45PM & 8PM — Songs That Raised Me
7:15PM & 8:30PM — Nyribillyln
7:30PM & 8:30PM — Dzunukwa

Melbourne Town Hall Forecourt
From 6PM — Bakiamu
7:45PM & 8:45PM — Mullyanne Nimito

Section 8
6PM–8PM — VERVE

Big Screen, Fed Square
7PM–9PM — WIND

Golden Square Car Park
6PM–9PM — Already Occupied

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