Feed The Art

Feed The Art is Polyglot's cultural model for replenishment and appraisal.

Feed The Art injects new energy and ideas, and ensures a culture of questioning and examination leading to outstanding theatre making and organisational sustainability. It is a conscious approach to embedding dialogue with artistic peers, participants and audiences within the developmental journey of an arts project, and bringing in similar stimulus to ensure best practise in our management practices.

We invite catalyst artists into the rehearsal room who contribute provocations to artform exploration, we engage with criticism from outside eye artists who assess our work through a specialised lens. We value continual improvement, engaging in artistic conversations with our peers; we recognise the need to value and give time to exchange of ideas as an important part of all our work.

 

 

There are five areas of Feed The Art that sit across the company's activities, from management to art making.

  • Children’s input engaged throughout the creative process: conceptual development, artistic input, script development and preview audience.
  • Connection with peers through conversation, seeing contemporary work, presentation in public forums, assistance and exchange.
  • Catalyst artists, who contribute new ideas to provide provocation and push the artform development throughout the creation process, including a new focus on early concept development
  • Criticism through invited external responses from experts who look at our work with a specialised lens.
  • Continual improvement is sought through ongoing skills development and a commitment to excellence, so we never stop learning.

As Feed The Art supports and challenges our arts practice, so it supports and challenges throughout the whole organisation, bringing the same model of outside criticism, provocation of ideas and continual improvement into the business practices of the company.