2010 has been the most extraordinary year for Polyglot. We premiered a new work, had 154 performances and two creative developments, created three new roving characters, delivered 116 workshops, undertook nine Victorian tours and seven international tours, including a tour to the Royal National Theatre in London, reaching a total of 101,239 people. We also won two AbaF awards for our annual giving program and partnership with Web Prophets. And there's still a few weeks to go!
2011 will be another ambitious and fun-filled year for Polyglot. We are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of two of our iconic shows; We Built This City will have a spectacular season in Melbourne, while Muckheap will be translated into two different languages. We will debut another new work, Tangled Web, embark on a City of Riddles Victorian theatres tour, and launch the Australia-Korea year of friendship in Seoul. And that’s just the first few months!
We wish all our friends and supporters a great break and hope you remember that cardboard boxes are much more fun than the presents they so often contain. |
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| We Built This City: 10th Anniversary in Melbourne |
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We kick off the New Year with the 10th anniversary of our most enduring work, We Built This City. This international touring show has inspired over 40 000 children playing with over 150 000 cardboard boxes over the last 10 years. To date, the work has travelled to the Royal National Theatre in London, Scotland, Cumbria, Ireland, Singapore, and the Kennedy Center in USA. At last we bring the show back to Melbourne with a week of free performances at the Arts Centre.
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| Wild Things: Getting friendly in Seoul |
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Our rockstar puppets - Ned the Pelican, Precious the Emu and Rocky the Koala - fresh from their recent Taiwan engagement, will feature at the launch of the Australia-Korea 'Year of Friendship' ceremony in Seoul.
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| Tangled Web at ArtPlay |
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Our new work Tangled Web premieres at ArtPlay in March 2011. It is a huge, messy, fun, interactive elastic weaving event created live by children and their families. It’s part mass visual arts installation, part performance, part play ground, part dance party and all chaos.
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| City of Riddles Victorian Tour |
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City of Riddles is Polyglot’s newest work. It’s a fully interactive, three hundred and sixty degree theatre experience, requiring hands-on participation from its audiences, who must solve a series of mysteries and puzzles which literally surround you. You can touch it, change it, move it... Be the first to witness the larger theatres version as we tour in April 2011 reaching Portland, Casterton, Bendigo, Frankston, Gippsland, Warragul, Moorabbin, Ringwood as well as Melbourne’s city.
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| 10% discount off workshop bookings |
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We are offering 10% off all of our creative and engaging schools workshops if booked before 31 December 2010. Simply quote the word "Create" when you make a booking.
In our imaginative puppetry workshops, students learn to create and manipulate a shadow or junk puppet. Embracing recycling and sustainability, our workshops ensure that participants never look at junk the same way again.
We are also offering a brand new Teacher’s Professional Development workshop called Unleash the Beast: Uncovering building blocks to the imagination which encourages creative responses to expand the possibilities of teachers’ practice.
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| Ambassadors’ Circle |
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Polyglot’s award-winning Ambassadors’ Circle program supports Polyglot’s artistic works, currently with 20 members, headed by its Patron Miss Betty Amsden OAM. Donations will support our 2011 regional touring program.
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| Rehearsal Venue for Hire |
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Polyglot has a fully functioning theatre available for hire for rehearsals and creative developments. For enquiries, or to make a time to see the venue, please contact us. |
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We Built This City 10th Anniversary
Dates: Wed 12 to Sun 16 Jan 2011
Times: 10.30am to 12.30pm
2pm to 4pm
Venue: The Arts Centre, Forecourt
Cost: FREE (no bookings required)
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Wild Things Outback in Seoul
Dates: 26 Jan 2011
Times: 7pm
Venue: Grand Hyatt Seoul, Korea
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Tangled Web at Artplay
Dates: 12 to 14 Mar 2011
Times: 10am to 6pm
Venue: ArtPlay
Cost: FREE (no bookings required)
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Kids Workshops
Polyglot’s hands-on workshops for children aged 5 to 12 are available for school incursions and free form festival workshops in rod, junk, or shadow puppets.
An interactive way to develop creativity and imagination.
10% off bookings made
before 31 Dec 2010.
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Roving Performances
Polyglot's most popular puppets, including dinosaurs Tooth and Claw and Wild Things animals are available for roving performances at festivals and events.
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