Nayri Niara’s Dream

Nayri Niara is determined to break down cultural barriers, address intergenerational trauma and ‘close the gap’ for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people by providing reconnection to First Nations cultural practices.

We are committed to disrupting systemic poverty through Nayri Niara’s “Our Way Home” workforce development program, and healing the epidemic of isolation and mental health crises through community, connection and belonging.

We are dedicated to action orientation through our projects, experiences and advocacy.

At Nayri Niara we create Good Spirit

Nayri Niara’s founder, Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung woman Ruth Langford Tipruthanna, was born and raised in Lutruwita.

For more than two decades, Tipruthanna has drawn knowledge from her Yorta Yorta mother, the Palawa community and other mobs from this continent and overseas in order to heal lives, rebuild cultural knowledge and create new futures within and beyond the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.

In 2017 Ruth founded the biennial Nayri Niara Good Spirit Festival and wehnt on to establish social enterprise Nayri Niara and The Longhouse as a meeting place in Nipaluna where Indigenous cultural knowledge and WellBeing practices could be explored and shared with community and others.

We believe in belonging - knowing that we, and what we create, matters to the world.