Acknowledgment of country

Polyglot acknowledges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live and create, and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. For more than 65,000 years, children and families have created and played here, and we are grateful to make our art on this country too.


Arts

A Paper Planet production photo. A parent and child create and play together with tissue paper and tape. Photo: Ai Ueda

Catch the Light at ArtPlay

Join Polyglot Theatre and Flow Festival Australia for a creative bi-lingual (Auslan and English) and bi-cultural exploration into identity and community.

A Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate black and yellow Bee costume engages with three children. Adults and other children look on. Photo: Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria.

Bees at Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden

The Children’s Garden is turning 20! And you’re invited to help celebrate at a jam-packed weekend of activities.

A Pram People production photo. A Polyglot artist in a colourful green and purple costume engages with a small child. Behind them are adults wearing headphones, standing with their prams decorated with brightly coloured ribbons. Photo: Theresa Harrison

Pram People at Barking Town Square (UK)

A moment in time for children who ride in prams, and the adults who push them.

A Pram People production photo. A person wearing headphones pushes a pram decorated with brightly coloured ribbons. Behind them, Polyglot artists and other participants push similarly decorated prams in different directions. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

Pram People at Freedom Festival (UK)

A celebration of community, Pram People rolls out the red carpet for every pram, big or small.

A Cubbyhood workshop photo. A child peers through a cardboard window under a blue piece of cloth. The child has black hair and is smiling. Photo by Suzanne Phoenix.

Cubbyhood: A Window Exhibition

Reflections on Play in the Home.

A Pram People photo. An adult in a green jumper and headphones pushes a small child in a pram decorated with green streamers. They are surrounded by colourful motion blurs. The adult looks out of frame, while the child looks at the camera. Photographer: Sarah Walker

Pram People at Greenwich+Docklands International Festival (UK)

A colourful celebration of community, connection and people who use prams. 

A Paper Planet production photo. A smiling child in a handmade tissue paper costume creates and plays among suspended blue tissue paper creations. Photo: Ai Ueda

Paper Planet workshops at State Library Victoria

Following Paper Planet at Kids Takeover: After Dark, join us for school holiday creative paper play and making.

A Paper Planet production photo. A Polyglot performer and a child sit in a forest of tall brown cardboard trees, adorned with paper plants and creatures. They look around with paper binoculars. Other performers, children and families are visible amongst the trees, creating and playing. Photographer: Sarah Walker

Paper Planet at Kids Takeover: After Dark

Paper Planet is a universally accessible experience that families find utterly captivating.

A Sound of Drawing production photo. A child wearing a jacket and headphones, draws intently on a table covered in paper. Other children are visible behind them, also drawing. Photo: Sarah Walker

Sound of Drawing & Voice Lab at Melbourne Design Week

Witness texture and technology come together in an interactive soundscape and communal works of art with Sound of Drawing, and participate in a beautifully designed

A Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate black and yellow Bee costume kneels on green grass, engaging with two small children. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

Bees at Children’s Food Bowl Festival

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.

A Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate black and yellow bee costume dances in front of the blue, and yellow hive set on a green lawn. They are surrounded by children, some wearing handmade paper bee costumes, following their movement. Trees are visible in the background. Photographer: Theresa Harrison.

Bees at Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne

This school holidays, visit the bushland at Cranbourne Gardens for a day of bee-inspired fun and nature play.

A Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) photo. Adults wearing headphones push their small children in prams decorated with brightly coloured ribbons. They are on a grassy lawn, with a harbour and palm trees in the background. Photo courtesy of Learning and Participation Team, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District.

Dress rehearsal – Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) 「Pram People(香港版)」彩排活動

Melbourne families who speak Cantonese are invited to join us for a special bilingual dress rehearsal of Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) ahead

A Pram People production photo. A person wearing headphones pushes a pram decorated with brightly coloured ribbons. Behind them, Polyglot artists and other participants push similarly decorated prams in different directions. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

Dress rehearsal – Pram People

Join Polyglot Theatre for a dress rehearsal in Melbourne ahead of our tour to Western Australia.

A Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) promo photo. Adults wearing headphones push prams decorated with brightly coloured ribbons on the Harbourside Lawn. Photo courtesy of Learning and Participation Team, Performing Arts Division, West Kowloon Cultural District

Pram People (Hong Kong Edition) at WestK FunFest

A fun and immersive spectacle using the pram to connect communities.

A Pram People photo. An adult in a green jumper and headphones pushes a small child in a pram decorated with green streamers. They are surrounded by colourful motion blurs. The adult looks out of frame, while the child looks at the camera. Photographer: Sarah Walker

Pram People at Joondalup Festival

A moment in time for children who ride in prams, and the adults who push them.

A Sound of Drawing production photo. Two children wearing headphones stand at a table covered in brown paper, drawing with blue and green pastels. They smile at each other. Photographer: Sarah Walker

Sound of Drawing at Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery

Sound of Drawing brings together texture and technology in an interactive soundscape.

A photo of Cat Sewell, Polyglot's Artistic Director and co-CEO. She has long hair, and wears a green plaid shirt. She stands in front of a large tree and bank of green shrubbery, smiling at the camera. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

MTALKS: Play and the art of nature at MPavilion

Reflections on the importance of natural environments for engaging children in the arts.

A FLOAT promo image. A child in a red jumper and yellow overalls carefully places a handmade leaf boat into a pool of water. Their hand, torso, and the boat can be seen in the reflection. Photographer: Darren Gill.

FLOAT at MPavilion

Polyglot leans into the reflective offer of Tadao Ando’s pavilion design, and extends this invitation to children and families in FLOAT.

An outdoor Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate black and yellow bee costume crouches on a green lawn. A small child, holding their parent's arm, looks at them intently. Other families are visible in the background, and the grassy area is surrounded by trees. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

Bees at Wyndham City Children’s Week Picnic

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.

A When the World Turns production photo. A child holds up a cardboard tube, using it to make sounds. An adult leans towards the tube, listening. They sit at a small table in a darkened space, surrounded by plants. They are illuminated by a lamp on the table. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

When the World Turns at Bunjil Place

A fantastical experience for young people with complex disability and their families, leading a participating audience into a sensory state of mind and body.

A Bees production photo. Polyglot artists in intricate Bee costumes are perched on and around a large metal pipe. A child wearing handmade paper antennae and wings sits on the pipe looking at them. There is green lawn and trees in the background.

Bees at Beckman Arts & Science Family Festival (USA)

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.

A Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate Bee costume stands in a stylised position. In the background are children and other artists in Bee costumes. They are on a green lawn, with trees and blue sky in the background. Photo: Theresa Harrison

Bees at Breckenridge International Festival of Arts (USA)

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.

A Bees production photo. A Polyglot artist in an intricate black and yellow Bee costume kneels on green grass, engaging with two small children. Photographer: Theresa Harrison

Bees at Big Umbrella Day (USA)

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.

A Bees Production photo. Three characters dressed as bees gather around a closed window. One of the bees climbs towards the window while the other two bees bend down towards the ground beneath them.

Bees at EarthFest (USA)

Bees is a joyful interactive work in which children are welcomed into a world of community, communication, wonder and imagination.