Rumbalara Football Netball Club Presents Short Black Opera for Kids Proudly Sponsored by Riverlinks and Greater Shepparton City Council

When: Friday 8th of May, 2026, at 12:00pm to 12:30pm
Where: Riverlinks Westside, Echuca Road Mooroopna
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Cost: Free
Contact: Riverlinks Box Office: 03 5832 9511

Rumbalara Football Netball Club and Short Black Opera are united in their commitment to support First Nations children to learn, maintain and share their culture, the longest continuous culture on earth.

Short Black Opera for Kids is a five day intensive program designed for First Nations children in grades 3 - 6 from all schools in the Greater Shepparton region. The program provides immersive and culturally authoritative training in music, stage craft and song writing for students, and serves as the entry level training opportunity for acceptance into Australia's peak Indigenous led choral organisation, Dhungala Children's Choir.

Short Black Opera Company (SBO), established by Yorta Yorta Artistic Director Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO, is a national not-for-profit First Nations company based in Melbourne specialising in training and performance opportunities for First Nations singers, composers, conductors and instrumentalists.

The Short Black Opera for Kids program is designed to empower First Nations children by helping them find their voice and giving them the skills and confidence to create their own songs using traditional language and contemporary experience

The program will run at Rumbalara FNC from Monday 4 May - Friday 8 May 2026.
The public performance on Friday 8 May at 12:00pm is a showcase and celebration of this week long program featuring music from Short Black Opera’s brand new work How to Make a Cheeky Opera!