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01 Sep 2010Polyglot welcomes three new puppets to the Wild Things family! The puppets will make their first appearance at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo on 27 September. To send them off in style, we need you to help us find them names. So we're running a ’separated at birth’ naming competition.
We reckon these puppets look very much like everyday people you know. Please send us...
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23 Aug 2010In 2009, we undertook an Extended Schools Residencey at Furlong Park School for Deaf Children. Over two terms Deaf and hearing artists worked with the kids; exploring, improvising and making and finally transforming the whole school into a pathway of newspaper, drawings, huge paper balls, shadow screens, puppets, landscapes and video pictures and stories from Furlong and from a Cambodian...
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06 Aug 2010The Check Out! team had a ball in Hong Kong, with a sold-out season and gorgeous kids and families coming to see Baby and Speedy's mad supermarket world. Suits Hong Kong shopping obsession perfectly!
As well as playing to appreciative audiences, enjoying Q and A sessions and watching the photo line get longer...
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06 Aug 2010Polyglot had the joy of soaking ourselves in a two day season of workshops for the very very young - creating a creative and hands-on space for children from 0 - 3 years old and their adults. We worked with different textures and materials, playing with images on the floor, up in the air, in intimate booths, surrounding everything with ambient soundscapes and captured voices. It was...
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04 Aug 2010This month, Artistic Director Sue Giles celebrates ten years leading Polyglot. In this time, Sue has written or directed ten full length works for the company, broadened Polyglot's scope to facilitate a number of community residencies, expanded our touring arm so we now reach over 60 000 children annually on four continents and boldly redefined Polyglot's vision to be Australia's...
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02 Aug 2010Polyglot's award-winning production, Check Out!, opened yesterday in Hong Kong to a sold-out crowd, ahead of a week of fully booked shows at the Sha Tin Town Hall and HKICC theatres in Hong Kong. This season is part of the Hong Kong International Arts Carnival, and features original cast member Christian Bagan, returning to the show for the first time since the 2007...
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17 Jul 2010Polyglot and Yarra Ranges Council are inviting residents of Yarra Ranges to join us in free weekly child-parent workshops run by Polyglot artists.
Held over 10 weeks from 17 July to 18 September, these dynamic workshops will bring together parent and child collaborators to explore generative drawing and writing, design and construction, story building, puppetry and theatrical play... -
16 Jul 2010We have recently returned from one of our biggest and most successful tours in Polyglot's illustrious 32 year history, bringing our world-renowned cardboard box installation work We Built This City to England, Ireland and Scotland.
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13 Jul 2010City of Riddles is Polyglot's new work that will tour to Victorian schools from 8 to 26 November 2010. Availability is strictly limited. Suitable for Prep to Grade 6 students. Schools may book through Regional Arts Victoria website.
About City of Riddles
Entering the space through a portal,...
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07 Jul 2010
Phew! It's a busy week - Free Muckheap performances at Fed Square til Friday 9 July, babies' workshops at The Arts Centre and Check Out! tours again! Read about it all in the latest newsletter.
Plus we're moving to a new Facebook Page and closing the old Friend profile by end July. So make...
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Congrats to Miss Betty Amsden OAM, our lovely patron, who was awarded the 2010 Melbourne Award for individual giving. bit.ly/aTwVT7
