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09.02.2022 Are you a teacher or education practitioner living or working in the City of Greater Dandenong? Join a free Polyglot professional development workshop at Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, presented as part of the Arts and Culture Education Program. Two sessions are being offered next Thursday 17 February - to find out more and register, visit https://www.greaterdandenong.vic.gov.au//professional-deve #PolyglotTheatre Image thumbnail description: a professional development workshop photo. Artists kneel around a large piece of paper on a wooden floor, drawing with coloured pastels.

07.02.2022 This April, our Ants are taking their crumbs to Without Walls Festival in San Diego! Presented by La Jolla Playhouse, Without Walls (WOW) is an invitation to reimagine what theatre can be through intriguing and playful experiences. Polyglot is thrilled to be returning We Built This City was presented in 2013, and Boats in 2019 and we’re working in partnership with Inlet Dance Theatre to deliver Ants in the United States. #PolyglotTheatre #WOWFestSD

27.01.2022 We are very excited to share our shiny new Polyglot website! After months of dreaming, talking, writing and tweaking, we are so proud of our accessible online home. It was designed and built by Freerange Future, and was made possible by the generous support of our 2021 donors. Freerange Future also refreshed our logo after 20 years, it was time for a new look. You can explore the new website here: https://polyglot.org.au/ Like all of our work, our website is a living, breathing, evolving creation, and we invite you to check in regularly to see any updates. #PolyglotTheatre Image description: a bright pink rectangle, filled with large colourful shapes. The refreshed Polyglot Theatre logo, with the tagline, 'theatre is child's play' is in the centre, in white.

22.01.2022 Polyglot Theatre is seeking an energetic Assistant Producer to join our team for 12 months. The Assistant Producer is a key member of Polyglot’s producing team, working to support, coordinate and deliver Polyglot’s program of new work development, touring, community projects and school workshops. The role offers a stimulating mixture of planning, coordination and hands-on doing, and offers excellent opportunities for career development in producing and program management. A...n early-career producer or a stage/production manager wanting to shift into arts administration will thrive in this role especially if you are an organisational whiz who loves creating great systems and working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. For more information and to apply, visit https://www.polyglot.org.au/join-the-team-assistant-produc/ #PolyglotTheatre IMAGE DESCRIPTION: The back of a child wearing a blue shirt and handmade paper hat, looking at a Polyglot postcard. There are vegetables fashioned into a train on the table in front of them.

22.01.2022 What do kids really think? Voice Lab offers children a safe and responsive space to articulate their thoughts and opinions about the world they live in. Here they explore what they would say if their voice could be heard by everyone. If your voice could be heard by the entire world, what would you say? Please share in the comments below. #PolyglotTheatre

21.01.2022 WIN a Polyglot school workshop and a $100 Coles/Myer gift card! Our incredible school workshop program sponsor Lucas Dental Care has dreamt up a fabulous competition inspired by our new online workshop Paper and Tape Escape. Open to all primary school aged Melburnians, you just need paper, tape, your hands and your imagination to create something that makes you smile. The competition post over at the Lucas Dental Instagram has all the activity and entry details check it out for your chance to win! Competition closes Friday 27 November. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWLE-tJXYc/ #PolyglotTheatre #LucasDentalCare

20.01.2022 This NAIDOC Week, Polyglot acknowledges that First Nations people have lived on and cared for this continent for more than 65,000 years. We celebrate the thousands of generations of children and families who have played together and told stories throughout this extraordinary land. We are grateful that art is still created and shared here, and that we are able to take part in this. Always was, always will be. For more information about National NAIDOC Week 2020, visit https://...www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2020-theme Image courtesy of National NAIDOC #NAIDOC2020 #NAIDOCWeek #NAIDOC

19.01.2022 We’re delighted to be working with the Bayside City Council, Victoria! Our new workshops My Shadow Self and Paper and Tape Escape will be presented as part of the Bayside Gallery school holiday program on 23-24 Sep. My Shadow Self is fully booked, but there are some spaces left for Paper and Tape Escape register now!

17.01.2022 WIN 2 x All Access Tickets to Word Travels Story Week! From 6-14 Nov, experience an electrifying line-up of performers and writers from across Australia and the world. 28 events bringing an action-packed program in the cloud. Click for poetry slams. Eavesdrop on conversations. Share your stories and hear your virtual neighbour’s experiences. For your chance to win, comment below with the Story Week event you’re most looking forward to. Winners will be notified by 5pm, Thursday 29 Nov. For the Story Week program and to book tickets, visit https://www.wordtravels.info/storyweek2020 #storyweek2020 #storyweek #wordtravels

16.01.2022 VOXDOCS is a new initiative from Shark Island Institute and Documentary Australia Foundation, in association with The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Eight Australian filmmakers have been invited to each create a 5-minute documentary with a focus on the performing arts. They launch tomorrow (Sat 3 Oct) in collaboration with a bumper Arts and Culture edition of the Good Weekend. Set a reminder to buy the paper and visit the Facebook event for sneak peeks of the films! #voxdocs #ShortFilmsDifferentVoicesBigIdeas

14.01.2022 #ThrowbackThursday. Polyglot at home DO: ‘Lettuce’ leap into the crisper for inspiration! Use fruit and veggies to make some ‘fungi’ friends, then hit the dancefloor and boogie down to some classic ‘beets’. Create and play with Polyglot artist Afsaneh Torabi. PS: please excuse the ‘corny’ puns. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: An artist’s hands on a bench, creating a character out of a celery bunch, paper and carrot. A choko, pumpkin, purple cabbage and aloe vera plant are in the background.

14.01.2022 I also discovered this concept of small to medium. There was a whole part of our industry, quietly working away, even in my hometown, that on the smell of an oily rag, was bending over backwards, to take cultural experiences and theatre to young people, to communities. They were working with skeleton staff and providing programs that reached people nationally, internationally. They created art that spoke about other experiences, that strived to be inclusive and accessible. T...hey made things of beauty with some of the most talented people I had ever met, and they did all of this while struggling to keep afloat. But they did it. They actually did it. Read Emily Tomlins' Brain Food piece ‘What are the three pieces of career advice that you’d like to share with your younger self?’ in Polyglot Spot edition 9: https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-9/ : #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot Theresa Harrison IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A Polyglot artist with short hair kneels on a wooden floor covered with paper. She is holding tin foil. She is looking at a small child who is standing next to her, smiling, and also holding tin foil.

14.01.2022 Working with numbers (particularly those preceded by a dollar sign) is a big part of my role as General Manager at Polyglot. In a typical week I spend time adjusting budgets, making sure I’m across everything that travels in and out of our bank account, and considering how this all relates to the bigger picture. For the first few months of 2020 the numbers followed fairly predictable patterns. The coloured bar charts and cash flow reports all looked as they should, which to ...me is a lot like a familiar city skyline. Then the pandemic hit and almost all aspects of how we work changed, and with that so did the numbers. Read ‘Crunching the numbers’ by Kath Fyffe, a Business as Unusual piece for last week’s Polyglot Spot. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot Mitchell Luo via Unsplash IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A double exposure photo of the Melbourne city skyline, with only the tops of the buildings visible at the bottom of the image. The rest of the image is filled with the teal-coloured sky.

14.01.2022 Always was, always will be Aboriginal land. Image description: a First On The Ladder photo. A child's drawing of the Aboriginal flag on brown paper, surrounded by other colourful drawing.

13.01.2022 In Polyglot Spot edition 9, Artist Emily Tomlins explores the career advice she’d like to share with her younger self in Brain Food, Development Coordinator Olivia Satchell remembers her first experience with a Polyglot show in a Story Map reflection, and Executive Director Viv Rosman outlines how the Polyglot team are streamlining their to-do lists during stage 4 restrictions in a working from home tip. https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-9/ #PolyglotTheatre #P...olyglotSpot Ai Ueda IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A production photo from the Paper Planet season in Minami Sanriku, 2018. A group of Polyglot and Acchi Cocchi artists stand in a circle amongst cardboard trees, their arms raised joyously. They are all wearing fabulous and intricate costumes made from brown paper and blue tissue paper. There are wooden stairs visible in the background.

12.01.2022 My most recent memory of Polyglot is a Zoom meeting. A Zoom meeting filled with all of those familiar faces and brilliant minds now physically at a stand-still in their own personal spaces. Spaces that have become almost as familiar to me now as the faces they are home to. Yes, this is hard. I’ve spent months turning the page of my diary to a new day to cross off another flight detail and load-in notes of yet another cancelled tour. But in a year where my last memory of Poly...glot may have been back in March, where I spent a couple of hours in Bendigo with some brilliant theatre making students, creating cardboard play spaces, memories of 2020 Polyglot fill my heart and mind. Read Artist Emily Tomlins' Story Map memory in Polyglot Spot edition 11: https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-11/ #PolyglotSpot #PolyglotSpot IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A screenshot from a Polyglot artist Zoom meeting. Twenty participants are visible.

12.01.2022 We’re so excited to be working with the City of Greater Dandenong! Our shiny new workshops My Shadow Self and Paper and Tape Escape will be presented by Arts in Greater Dandenong as part of the Greater Dandenong Children’s Festival online. For more info, visit https://greaterdandenong.com/childrensfestival #ArtsinGreaterDandenong

12.01.2022 #FlashbackFriday. Hands up if you love Dolly’s World! Here’s her first fabulous video, featuring music by Lachlan, Maisie and Chester. Find some cardboard boxes at home and play along with Dolly and Sylvie. What will you build in your Box City? We’d love to see your creations please post them in the comments below. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome [VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: A small child with long hair and a fringe, wearing a black Polyglot t-shirt, white patterned leggings and stripy socks, is smiling and waving at the camera. She is in a living room with brown carpet, dragging a box by a string.]

11.01.2022 Has your child entered the competition to WIN a Polyglot school workshop and a $100 Coles/Myer gift card? Our incredible school workshop program sponsor Lucas Dental Care has dreamt up a fabulous competition inspired by our new online workshop Paper and Tape Escape. Open to all primary school aged Melburnians, you just need paper, tape, your hands and your imagination to create something that makes you smile. The competition post over at the Lucas Dental Instagram has all the... activity and entry details check it out for your chance to win! Competition closes this Friday 27 November. https://www.instagram.com/p/CHWLE-tJXYc/ #PolyglotTheatre #LucasDentalCare IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A mint-green square, with the following text in black font: ‘Lucas Dental Care + Polyglot proudly presents What makes you smile! Paper and Tape Escape competition’. The Lucas Dental logo (featuring blue font and a cartoon illustration of a crocodile) is in the bottom left of the square, and the Polyglot logo (featuring black font and pink swirls in place of the O’s) in the bottom right.

10.01.2022 What do kids really think? Through Polyglot's Voice Lab, children can share their innermost thoughts and feelings in a safe and responsive space. Here they reflect on power, and what it means to them. What does power mean to you? Please share in the comments below. #PolyglotTheatre

10.01.2022 A key discovery of the research was the importance of supporting children’s instinctive connection to nature and encouraging them to independently find their own ways of understanding and appreciating their local reserve. Read Dr Tanja Beer’s Education News article ‘Biophilia and nature deficit: co-designing natural spaces with and for children’ here: https://www.polyglot.org.au/biophilia-co-designing-natural/ #PolyglotTheatre... Sarah Walker IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A photo from the Outer Bounds project. Five primary school students crouched in a sandy bush area, surrounded by tufts of grass. They are wearing black clothes and costumes and masks made from natural-looking green and brown materials.

08.01.2022 Polyglot is hosting a free one-hour Zoom workshop for children with disability aged 6-12 years as part of NDIS Brotherhood of St Laurence Creative Control - an online program of events in celebration of International Day of People with Disability. Saturday 5 December, 11am-12pm. This playful session will teach kids to make their own paper adventures. Registrations are essential book here: https://bit.ly/3e7iScb #CreativeControl #idpwd #PolyglotTheatre Ai Ueda... IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A child with long dark hair stands in front of a window, laughing, with one arm raised. She wears an aqua jumper with white polka dots and a handcrafted blue tissue headpiece. A string is suspended in front of her, adorned with scraps of blue tissue paper.

08.01.2022 The wonderfully warmer weather and the faint twinkle of festivity in the air heralds the end of a strange year. The days are longer, celebrations of all sorts are being planned (COVID cautiously of course) and summer holiday plans dreamed up. This week brings us to edition 15 of Polyglot Spot a curious, creative project borne out of the long months of Melbourne’s lockdown. Artist and Awesomeness Facilitator Lachlan MacLeod introduces himself in Meet Polyglot, and Artist Syl...vie Meltzer shares a Brain Food piece about Voice Lab. Is there anything that you’d like to see in the final editions of Polyglot Spot? Email your thoughts to [email protected]. https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-15/ #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot Theresa Harrison IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A Voice Lab production photo. A child wearing blue leggings and a colourful tunic crawls under white fabric into a white dome structure. Green light emanates from within, and a bed of white elastic tangle spills out onto canvas.

07.01.2022 Stage 4 restrictions eased this week, and Melburnians across the city are excitedly venturing out to support newly re-opened businesses. Many of us have been working from home since March, but it’s not clear yet when we’ll be able to get back to our headquarters. Now is a time for planning a COVID-normal return to shared workspaces, but it’s also a time for reflecting on what has changed in the last seven months, and what ‘lockdown learning’ we might take with us. In Polyglot... Spot edition 14, our Administration and Operations Coordinator (and award-winning author) Sophie Overett reflects on just this in her Brain Food piece, and we take an around-the-world jaunt down memory lane with Artist Sonya Suares, who shares some of her favourite Polyglot tour experiences. https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-14/ #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot Sarah Walker IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A production photo from Bellbird. Green and blue ribbons hang in front of a white cloth. Each ribbon has a small gold bell attached to the end.

07.01.2022 What is something about being a Polyglot artist that would surprise someone who doesn’t work in the arts? Probably the weird sorts of things I keep in my car. I have a tape measure, at least 20 metres of rope, four rolls of different tape, some pool noodles, and a USB with various cat meowing sounds and four hours of Australian rainforest ambience. Hannah Murphy. Check out edition 11 of Polyglot Spot: https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-11/ #PolyglotTheatre #...PolyglotSpot Theresa Harrison IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A production photo from Tangle. An artist with short hair, wearing a pink ruched costume, grins toothily at the camera with his arms raised. Behind him are the golden Tangle poles, covered with green, black and red elastic. Four small children are visible in the background.

06.01.2022 As Melbourne itches to be free of Stage 4 restrictions, Polyglot Spot goes behind-the-scenes for some interesting perspectives. General Manager Kath Fyffe crunches the numbers in Business as Unusual, we get to know Artist Ashlee Hughes in Meet Polyglot, and Production Manager Hannah Murphy shares her hilarious first experience working on Paper Planet. https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-10/ #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot... Alvin Ho, courtesy of Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A production photo from Cerita Anak (Child's Story). An artist, in silhouette, manipulates a shadow puppet amongst several white screens, upon which abstract blue and green drawings of underwater scenes are projected. A theatre light shines, and shadows are visible.

05.01.2022 Polyglot at home DO: what kinds of feathered friends can you make? Maybe a bird you see everyday, or a creature you've dreamt up in your imagination! Create and play with Polyglot artist Briony Farrell, using materials gathered from your backyard and around your house. Featuring music by the talented Lachlan MacLeod. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: An artist with red hair and fair skin is sitting behind a wooden table, holding up a bird made from leaves, sticks, masking tape and twine. She is smiling.

05.01.2022 #FlashbackFriday. Polyglot at home DO: using simple materials, transform yourself into a sea creature and your home into a watery ocean wonderland. Scout for starfish and ride the waves in a washing basket. Create and play with Polyglot artist Nick Barlow. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: a close shot of a Polyglot artist with short, dark hair, wearing a black t-shirt, crouched behind a kitchen bench. He holds a small bottle of blue food dye, and on the bench in front of him there is a clear glass jar of water with swirls of blue dye. He is looking at the jar with a faint smile.

04.01.2022 Are you 15-25 years old and wondering how to kick start your creative career? Would you like to be paid to learn? Apply now to Let’s Take Over an exciting opportunity from our friends at Speakeasy - Darebin Arts: https://www.darebinarts.com.au/special-proj/lets-take-over/

04.01.2022 In December, our friends at NDIS Brotherhood of St Laurence are presenting Creative Control - an online program of events in celebration of International Day of People with Disability. Polyglot is thrilled to be hosting a FREE one-hour workshop for children with disability aged 6-12 years on Saturday 5 December, 11am-12pm. This playful session will teach kids to make their own paper adventures. Registrations are essential book here: https://bit.ly/3e7iScb #CreativeControl #...idpwd #PolyglotTheatre Ai Ueda IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A child with long dark hair stands in front of a window, laughing, with one arm raised. She wears an aqua jumper with white polka dots and a handcrafted blue tissue headpiece. A string is suspended in front of her, adorned with scraps of blue tissue paper.

03.01.2022 Polyglot at home DO: how do you develop a Story World? Create and play with Daniel and Naiya, and learn how to fill your stories with curious characters and exciting adventures! Featuring music from Audio Network. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: A child with dark hair, wearing a silver and pink tiara, a white shirt and holding a handmade cardboard sword, smiling at someone off camera. A wooden fence and green plants are visible behind her.

03.01.2022 This week in our 12th edition of Polyglot Spot, artist and maker Trina Gaskell introduces herself in Meet Polyglot, and artist Leisa Prowd offers the career advice she’d love to share with her younger self in Brain Food. https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-spot-edition-12/ #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotSpot... Sarah Walker IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A Sound of Drawing production photo. Three children wearing colourful puffer jackets stand behind a table covered in paper. They are wearing black headphones and drawing with pastels. The middle child has his mouth open in surprise and delight.

02.01.2022 Polyglot at home DO: how can you transform yourself into a fantastical, imaginary character? Easy make yourself a paper mache mask! Create and play with Maeve, Francis and Tamara, and bop along to music by the talented Lachlan MacLeod. What will your mask look like? We’d love to see your creations please post them in the comments below. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome... VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: two children with fair hair sit side-by-side at a wooden table. Each of them has an inflated balloon covered in paper mache, balanced in a saucepan or colander, in front of them. There is a pink striped curtain hanging in the doorway behind them.

02.01.2022 Polyglot Theatre is seeking new Board Directors to support the company to achieve its strategic vision for the years ahead. We are actively placing diversity as a priority for this board recruitment process and we particularly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and people who identify as LGBTQIA+. We are also specifically seeking candidates with skills in Accounting, Human Res...ources and Philanthropy. For more information about this leadership opportunity and to apply, please visit Polyglot’s website: https://www.polyglot.org.au/polyglot-theatre-seeks-new-boa/ #PolyglotTheatre Theresa Harrison IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A smiling child standing in front of a red brick wall, with their arms crossed - they are in charge. They wear a black bowler hat, silver glasses, a blue jumper with white stripes on the arms, and blue pants.

01.01.2022 Who's spotted Polyglot in the bumper Arts and Culture print edition of the Good Weekend? Advocating for Victorian children’s rights as cultural citizens, with our friends Arena Theatre Company and St Martins. Big thanks to Shark Island Institute, Documentary Australia Foundation, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age for the opportunity. Head over to theage.com.au/voxdocs to check out the incredible VOXDOCS films. #voxdocs #ShortFilmsDifferentVoicesBigIdeas

01.01.2022 #FlashbackFriday to the best House Party ever! What does your dream house look like? Maybe it has a tin foil disco ball and toilet roll chimney! Create and play with Polyglot artist Ashlee Hughes, featuring music by Lachlan MacLeod. #PolyglotTheatre #PolyglotAtHome VIDEO THUMBNAIL DESCRIPTION: A Polyglot artist wearing a black t-shirt, sitting behind a small house made from cardboard and masking tape. She is holding up a toilet roll. There is a green plant visible behind her.