Satellite Foundation

The story so far

Wish Street is our ongoing collaboration with Satellite Foundation. The relationship between our organisations began in 2018, when Polyglot’s Voice Lab spoke to children at Satellite Foundation’s Music, Art and Songwriting Workshop. We share the belief that, ‘bringing creativity into schools can offer young people a chance to connect to themselves and to their communities.’ (Satellite Foundation).

In 2021, we came together to discuss a new creative workshop designed to spark conversation around mental health and wellbeing. The Wish Street concept was developed: aiming to celebrate the essence of both organisations, it ‘offers young people the opportunity to think about, talk about and reflect upon shared experiences and explore complex themes around community, connection and mental health freely and theatrically, led by facilitators who know how to hold space for both things.’ (Satellite Foundation).

In November 2022, the first iteration of Wish Street took place at Tylden Primary School, a small, regional schoolin central Victoria.

The second iteration (November 2024) was delivered at Footscray Primary School, which is bigger, and in metropolitan Melbourne.

In December 2024, we returned to central Victoria for the third and final stage of the pilot, sharing Wish Street with Trentham Primary School.

Wish Street is now a fully-realised in-schools residency program, delivered collaboratively by Polyglot and Satellite. With a focus on community, mental wellbeing and play, facilitators from both organisations work with young people to build a large-scale neighbourhood directly from their imaginations and their real-life experiences. Here, anything is possible, and everything can be done together.

In 2025, Wish Street was delivered at Abbotsford Primary School in May, and Campbells Creek Primary School in October. Highlights included notable increases in student engagement, teamwork, enthusiasm and school attendance.

“One educator said that being part of the project has made them completely rethink how they run things for their class and has given them lots of ideas of how to better engage [their students]. They noted that play and impermanence actually meant that the kids… worked together in ways they’d never seen before.” Artist workshop report, Wish Street