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Our strong belief in the objectives of Papercuts has been supported by the Ian Potter Foundation, who have provided funding for the program's administration through 2009-2010. We are thrilled with what this support can do for achieving the best poetry program possible for all Australian schools.
2008 participating schools and poets:
Belmont High School
with Ivy Ireland
Fitzroy High School
with Briohny Doyle
On Wednesday 27th of August
at 7PM Fitzroy High unveilled
their marvellous cabinet.
HERE is a peak at the school's cabinet.
Read Fitzroy High's Newsletter about the Cabinet.
Abbotsleigh
with Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
Concord High School
with Bravo Child
2007 participating schools and poets:
Mt Carmel
with Emily Ballou
Listen to an ABC interview with Mt Carmel students
Read Mt Carmel student responses
Pennant Hills High
with Pam Brown
Penrith Selective High
with Gareth Jenkins
Abbotsleigh
with joanne burns
Click here to see this school's cabinet workshops
Papercuts is proudly sponsored
by:
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PAPERCUTS
(c) The Red Room Company 2008
PAPERCUTS is the name for The Red Room Company's poetry education program which, with generous support from the Keir Foundation and the Ian Potter Foundation, was piloted in four NSW high schools during 2007.
In 2008 we expanded into Victoria and in 2009 we move further interstate to Norfolk Island and Queensland schools.
Papercuts focuses on Australian poetry and poetry's role in contemporary society. Written and implemented in conjunction with teachers, students and professionals in the education sector, our program has the potential to transform the way poetry is taught and experienced in Australian schools.
Our education program is based around a single Red Room project we have already implemented successfully in the public sphere. For the 2007 pilot program we will use The Cabinet of Lost and Found, originally presented at the 2006 Sydney Writers' Festival.
[Article from Sydney newspaper 'MX' on original ''Cabinet of Lost and Found')
To register your school for 2009 or for further information contact us.
(extracts from original Emily Ballou's objects for 'Cabinet of Lost & Found' top)
Over the next five years we aim to build Papercuts into a poetry program that reaches Australian students and schools of various denominations, locations, learning levels and resources: a program that is of benefit to students, teachers, parents and the communities in which they live
The poetry program encourages student participation in the writing, reading, performing and understanding of poetry. Students are inspired to collaborate with each other and with people working in other art forms, such as the visual arts. The forms of poetry publication and distribution, and ways of understanding poetry are also explored through using the web and digital mediums.
There is no other poetry education program like this in the country.
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