Access Tools
Cost
$10 per family booking (incl. ticketing fees).
Booking required
When
17 May - 30 June 2021
Sat 26 June 10.30am-12.30pm, 2pm-4pm
Mon 28 June 10.30am-12.30pm, 2pm-4pm
Tues 29 June 10.30am-12.30pm, 2pm-4pm
Wed 30 June 10.30am-12.30pm, 2pm-4pm
Where
1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford VIC, Australia
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Paper Planet is a universally accessible experience that families find inspiring and utterly captivating.
This season of Paper Planet is designed to specifically meet the needs of families who have a child or children with a disability and encourages the participation of all family members. When booking, please advise us of your access requirements, including any parking considerations (there is space to do so on the booking form).
Children and families are invited to create a beautiful world inside a forest of tall cardboard trees, using only paper, tape and their imaginations. Everyone plays together in this magical place to create creatures, plants, costumes, characters, stories and adventures.
Paper Planet builds and grows as more families visit, and every session is truly unique as imaginations go wild and play takes over. Children choose how they interact with the performers and with other children; some find themselves absorbed in quiet making, and others prefer to play and explore.
Paper Planet is child-led, deeply involving and highly sensory, and sure to delight the whole family.
If the booking fee isn’t possible for your family, please contact Erica Heller-Wagner on communications@polyglot.or.au or 03 9826 3301.
Specialist school sessions are available 24-25 June. If you are interested in bringing your class or school, please contact Freya McGrath on freya@polyglot.org.au.
Accessibility
Event Access
The Oratory, where the performance is held, is wheelchair accessible.
Entrances to this space are wheelchair accessible.
There are wheelchair accessible bathrooms close to the venue. One in the Sacred Heart building, which is 30m from the entrance of the Oratory, and one in the Convent building (with an automatic door), which is 213m from the entrance of the Oratory.
All-gender bathrooms, separate to unisex accessible bathrooms, are available in the Sacred Heart building.
The performance will take place inside.
There will be a safe, quiet, comfortable, low-lit, enclosed space for patrons needing time out from sensory stimulation. This will be an enclosed area within the performance space. Sound from the performance space may be heard.
Paper Planet is a universally accessible experience, there is no English language barrier, and it can be entirely non-verbal.
The Saturday 26 June 2pm-4pm and Tuesday 29 June 10.30am-12.30pm sessions will have Auslan interpreters present.
Paper Planet will be mostly illuminated by natural light from the windows in the Oratory. Some additional lighting will be used to add colour and ambience.
A visual story for this season will be available in early June.
Family
There is one baby change table in the Convent building in the wheelchair accessible bathroom, which is 213m from the entrance of the Oratory. This change table is wheelchair accessible.
There is no parents’ room at the precinct.
There will be pram parking spaces available inside the Paper Planet performance space.
Water and infants’ bottles/breastfeeding are fine for consumption in the performance space, however we do ask that there is no eating (where possible) in Paper Planet.
If you have any questions about access at Paper Planet, please contact Erica Heller-Wagner at Polyglot Theatre on communications@polyglot.org.au or 03 9826 3301.
Venue Access
There is a wheelchair accessible ATM at the precinct. However, this ATM is not accessible for people who are blind or have low vision.
Parking
Two, two-hour accessible on-street parking spaces are located on St Heliers Street, beside Gate One.
Six accessible parking places are located at the front of the car park on St Heliers Street.
Further parking can be reserved—please advise us of your parking needs with your access requirements.
Free one- and two-hour parking spaces are available in the surrounding streets.
St Heliers Street car park rates
Weekday: 30 mins = free, 90 mins = $5, $2 per hour thereafter, 6 – 10 hours = $14, $2 per hour after 10 hours
Weekend: 30 mins = $3, $2 per hour thereafter, 5 ½ – 10 hours = $14, $2 per hour after 10 hours
Max daily rate (until 2am) = $28, Additional overnight fee (after 2am) = $25, Lost ticket = $28
Closest public transport options
Catch a Mernda or Hurstbridge line train to Victoria Park Station. The train station is a 1km walk to the entrance of the Convent, or you can catch the 200 or 207 bus down Johnston Street to the Clarke Street stop. The bus stop is a 400m walk to the entrance of the Convent.
Event type
Other accessible and inclusive event
For bookings and information on specific access and transport.
Erica Heller-Wagner
Marketing & Communications Coordinator, Polyglot Theatre
Phone0398263301
Emailcommunications@polyglot.org.au
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