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22 Apr 2013
Polyglot's Marketing Coordinator Catherine reflects upon children's honesty. Polyglot does have an impact... and the experience is not a hard sell with feedback like theirs!
With curiosity I sat in waiting for the evaluation presentation of our latest extended school residency. In the six months since I’d joined Polyglot, I had known -...
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16 Apr 2013
Do you consider yourself a grant writer extraordinaire? Do you get a kick out of schmoozing? Are you great at bringing in the dosh?
If so, we want you as a new recruit! Polyglot is currently seeking a part-time Philanthropy Manager to join our team. Applications close Friday 26th April.
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06 Mar 2013
How might tourism concepts relate to an arts organisation like Polyglot? Our Marketing Coordinator Catherine shares her thoughts about the Victorian Ideas Forum.
It is a valuable task entering into working discussions of an industry – you realise there is not much difference between us.
The Victorian Tourism Industry Council Ideas Forum in February was...06 Mar 2013For four magnificent days in January, Paper Planet was in orbit around the Darebin Arts & Entertainment Centre. We're taking the time now to reflect upon the wonderment that was...
It is always a treasure to reflect with satisfaction in knowing a new and fast friendship has been formed. City of Darebin, it has been a pleasure!
City of Darebin...06 Mar 2013Polyglot has been making great inroads with our revitalised school workshops program. Our Company Manager, Julie Wright, tells us how...
Launching three new workshops Shadow Tricks, Robot heads and My House. My House has its debut for Harmony day next week at a primary school in Noble Park. This is a house project, where children make their own houses out of...25 Jan 2013At Polyglot we create all our works by enabling a creative vibration between intuitive and trained artistry. Our model connects professional artists to contemporary childhood by engaging the instinctive creativity of children, using this as the starting point and touchstone for all works. We work with distinctive collaborative artists who develop strong artistic concepts which both...
25 Jan 2013Polyglot's first collaboration with the Melbourne Recital Centre invited children to explore an interactive, playful recreation of the Great Australian Dream, part of the Music Play Children's Festival in 2013.
Music Play offered audiences free activity between the shows in the theatres and it was perfect for Polyglot – believing as we do in accessibility, affordability and the...
06 Dec 2012Cheesily, the soundtrack to Chariots of Fire made its way round the victory bell at Polyglot today - our modest little wind charm attached to the lighting fixture - as we celebrated the recognition of our work Tangle Motion, a collaboration between Polyglot, VicHealth, Kinship Care and Berry Street Playgroups.
The project has ventured to Shepparton's Art Museum,...04 Dec 2012In 2013 Polyglot is reinvigorating its schools workshop program. Our aim is to reach more children and more schools, providing that first significant arts experience to children and increasing their creative confidence.
Philanthropy Manager, Cathy Kirwan, recalls one of her first significant arts memories “When I was about 7 years old my Mum took me to see...
04 Dec 2012Polyglotters Jodee Mundy and Dan Goronszy with Jonathon Oxlade present Pigeonhole, a visual theatre installation. Check out their Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/events/346470468783324/?fref=ts
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