Concord High School first took part in Papercuts in 2008 with performance poet [[Bravo Child]].  The successful Cabinet of Lost & Found unit has led teacher John Turner to experiment with Toilet Doors in Term IV of this year.  John has been a dynamic promoter of the Papercuts program, and we admire the way that he has drawn the whole school into the presence of Papercuts at CHS.

The school

Concord High School is located in Sydney's west, near Homebush Bay.  The school is a co-ed campus with a recognised school newspaper and strong resources for Gifted and Talented (GAT) students.  In 2009, Papercuts was taken on by a Year 10 GAT class.

The project

The class worked with poet Ed Wright to create a re-interpretation of the Toilet Doors project.  Working on ideas of guerilla poetry, the students' individual poems were placed in balloons and hidden around the school site.  They created a collaborative work that was written onto an old door and suspended in the classroom for exhibition.

The poet

Ed Wright is an academic, musician and poet based in the Blue Mountains, author of The Empty Room (Vagabond Press, 2002).  He was a Toilet Doors 2006 poet, and a Red Room Remains poet.