Welcome to Polyglot's new look enewsletter, which we hope will be easier to read to keep you up to date with everything that's happening at Polyglot. We're also in the process of refreshing our website so please bear with us as we make the changes and please email us with comments and feedback. Our thanks to our friends and partners Web Prophets who are working with us on the new project.
The new look is part of Polyglot's revitalised artistic direction under Artistic Director Sue Giles, who in 2010 celebrates ten years leading Polyglot. Click here to watch Sue talk about our new direction - driven by
interactive theatre where audiences play an active part in the creation of imagined worlds. As the literal meaning of our name - 'theatre of many languages' - suggests, we use a range of artistic devices to create our works. Puppetry sits amongst visual art, multimedia, sound, movement, light, animation and other performance elements in our creative teams' theatrical palettes, with interactive, immersive and installation theatre replacing puppetry to become our central driving artistic focus.
Polyglot's international assault continues. Following last year's tours to the United States, Singapore and China, our performance earlier this year at the International Performing Arts For Youth Showcase in Pittsburgh, and last week's presentation at the Australian Performing Arts Market, Polyglot has positioned ourselves firmly as key players in the children's theatre market internationally. With the support of the Australia Council for the Arts, we are updating our international market development strategy to guide us through another three years of international activity so that Polyglot will become a truly global phenomenon. Watch this space for some very exciting announcements about some upcoming tours.
Audiences at home recently enjoyed Polyglot's return performance of We Built This City at the City of Knox, with our classic show Muckheap set for a Melbourne return later in 2010. More info coming soon. |
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| The Big Game in the arts industry's spotlight |
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Polyglot was privileged to present The Big Game as a Searchlight Pitch Session at the Australian Performing Arts Market last week in Adelaide. Our Artistic Director Sue Giles talked to Australia's arts leaders about the company's methods of collaboration with children, and presented video of the spectacular outcome as presented at the Melbourne International Arts Festival in 2008. Performers Jacob Williams and Sarah Kriegler gave a short performance featuring the Princess puppet which carefully punctuated Sue's presentation. |
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| City of Riddles development continues |
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Throughout the months of January and February, City of Riddles' designer Daniele Poidomani has been working to create the visual world which children will inhabit with this new work. The results of his work is a model of the show's set, which is like a giant puzzle, interlocking and fitting together in surprising ways, and which must be solved by the children as they uncover the mysteries of the City of Riddles.
Polyglot welcomes the Matana Foundation for Youth and Ian Potter Foundation as funders of City of Riddles alongside Australian Children's Theatre Foundation, Jack Brockhoff Foundation and Bendigo Bank Windsor Community Bank.
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| How High The Sky exploration begins |
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With assistance from the Arts Centre's Full Tilt program, we have just finished the first exploration surrounding a new work, titled How High The Sky, the first time Polyglot will has created a work specifically for the early years. Our artists Sue Giles and Jessica Wilson (co-directors), Anna Tregloan (designer), David Franzke (sound designer) and Andrew Livingstone (lighting designer) spent a week developing early concepts for an interactive work for children in the first years of their lives. We had the pleasure of working with children from the Central Carlton Children's Centre alongside a group of babies and toddlers aged from six weeks to three years old. The work is set to premiere in 2012. |
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| Ambassadors' Circle |
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Polyglot's Ambassadors' Circle is an annual giving program supporting Polyglot's artistic works, currently with 13 members, headed by its Patron Miss Betty Amsden OAM. We welcome two new members to the Ambassadors' Circle – Naomi Tippett (Box Ambassador) alongside Daniel and Danielle Besen (City Benefactor) whose generous donation supported the recent development of the How High The Sky project.
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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. Some availability remains for the second half of the year at affordable rates. For enquiries, or to make a time to see the venue, please contact us. |
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We Built This City returns to Bendigo
Back by popular demand, We Built This City headlines the 140th birthday celebrations of Bendigo's Easter Festival.
Dates: Sunday 4 & Monday 5 April 2010
Times: 11am - 1.30pm & 2.30pm - 5pm
Venue: Rosalind Park, end of Williamson Street, Bendigo
Ages: Ages 1 to 100
Cost: FREE!
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City of Riddles Arts2Go Schools Tour
Schools wanting to book Polyglot for an incursion performance can do so in the period 8 to 26 November in Victoria only. Availability is strictly limited. Bookings are through Regional Arts Victoria. |
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KIDS WORKSHOPS
Polyglot's hands-on workshop program for primary school aged children currently has some availability for bookings for school incursions (90 to 120 minutes per workshop), and free form festival workshops in marionette making, rod, junk, shadow or sock puppets.
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ROVING PERFORMANCES
Some of Polyglot's most popular puppets, including the dinosaurs Tooth and Claw and Wild Things animals are available for roving performances at festivals and events.
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