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.

Education

Paper Planet

A highly interactive and universally accessible experience, facilitating free play, making costumes and creatures, and manipulating paper.

A Paper Planet production photo. A child with dark hair, wearing a baseball jacket, joyfully hangs long strips of white paper on a suspended piece of tape. They are in a sunlit room lined with brown cardboard and other children creating with paper are visible in the background.

This schools version is based on Polyglot’s popular show Paper Planet.

Polyglot artists welcome students into a sensory play space filled with tall cardboard trees. Performances unexpectedly happen as simple materials meet creative freedom. The work encourages practical explorations of character, narrative, and design. It also encourages sustainable arts practices as well as the interconnectivity of species, ecosystems, and new worlds.

Paper Planet offers an unusual and immersive environment within school grounds that illustrates the complexity, power and intricacy of students’ creativity. 

It is best suited to multi-day whole-school engagement. 

To maximise our impact and exchange with school communities, a week-long minimum booking requirement is now in place. Please contact us if you wish to discuss this.

  • Paper Planet is a universally accessible experience. There is no English language barrier, and it can be entirely non-verbal.
  • Students choose how they engage with the performers and the space, moving around as they like.

With support from the Victorian Department of Education Positive Start in 2022 initiative, Polyglot toured Paper Planet into five specialist schools across terms 1-2, reaching over 600 students.

This program was supported by the Victorian Department of Education Strategic Partnerships Program from 2018-2023, and it was this support that enabled us to tour to an additional four schools in terms 3-4 of 2022.

Logo: Victorian Department of Education

In 2023, this program was also generously supported by the Cassandra Gantner Foundation.

Logo: Cassandra Gantner Foundation

Year level

Early learning – 6 (ages 3-12)

Duration

45-60 min, up to 4 sessions per day

Crew

3-4 artists

Set up

1 day

Venue

A large, indoor space with electricity, like a hall or drama room

Capacity

25 students per session

Booking enquiry
+61 3 9826 3301
  • It stimulates the imaginations and takes students on an adventure where they are creating and exploring not on their own but also with other students. It is so inclusive and accessible to everyone in our school and everyone can create no matter what level they are.

    Jane Sartori, Performing Arts Teacher, Belvoir Special School

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