Dec 25, 2017 | campference, Canada, Children, Play, Playful Schools Online, Playwork, playworker, Playworker Development Course, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Tour
Since founding Pop-Up Adventure Play, we’ve worked in two main arenas. Firstly, to share playwork ideas as widely as we can. Secondly, to help both new and dedicated playworkers connect with one another. This year, those efforts felt at times more important...
Nov 13, 2017 | Board of Directors, Canada, Guest Writer, loose parts, Photos, Play, Playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, The Land Documentary, Tour, workshop
It was a warm evening in Vancouver and I had just been picked up in the little yellow tour car (with a surprising amount of leg room) and I was heading into the little known space of playwork. This was an adventure that I never thought that I’d have the chance...
Sep 29, 2017 | Canada, Children, loose parts, Photos, play conference, play frames, Playwork, playworker, Pop-Up Adventure Play, presentations, Tour, video, workshop
After nine weeks, 10,000 miles, and 18 stops, our Pop-Up Adventure Play team reached the final destination of our Canadian tour. Along the way, we met thousands of people in big cities and small towns, on mountains and prairies, in schools, lecture halls and community...
Sep 18, 2017 | adults, Canada, Children, dens, forts, loose parts, parents, Play, play frames, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour
For our 17th stop we were invited to the small towns of Foremost and Bow Island in the Forty Mile Region. This stop was brought together by Terri-Lynn and Corinna from FCSS who had been following our Canadian tour and asked us to bring our Pop-Up Adventure Playground...
Sep 17, 2017 | Adventures, Canada, loose parts, Play, play conference, Playwork, playworkers, presentations, Tour
This article was originally written in 2017 to recap the Calgary Play Symposium. While the event is in the past, the discussions and ideas shared by playwork pioneers continue to be highly relevant. We have updated this post to reflect on how those insights have...
Sep 12, 2017 | Canada, Children, Morgan, parents, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, risk, Tour, workshop
Well, we were on the final stretch of our Grand Canadian Tour! Our last stop in BC was Surrey. It included both a pop up adventure playground and a screening of The Land. These two events were hosted by Child Care Options and gave us the chance to meet folks in quite...
Sep 11, 2017 | Canada, children's rights, freedom, panel, Play, risk, screening, The Land Documentary, Tour
Play has a way of bringing great people together. On 2nd September we welcomed Ricky to the tour and yellow car. He’s been a member of our Board since 2013 and was curious to see what we were up to in Canada firsthand. On his third day, we participated in Integrate...
Sep 9, 2017 | adults, box, Canada, Children, dens, loose parts, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour
During our Canadian tour, we received an invitation from Jade, representing a local Chinese immigrant family group in Richmond. Their message confirmed our fourth stop in the Vancouver area. This event would fall between a community gathering in East Vancouver and a...
Sep 8, 2017 | box, Canada, Children, family, loose parts, moments, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour
At pop-up adventure playgrounds, we meet children in public spaces, usually alongside their parents and caregivers. Every event offers us a window into their world. Sometimes that means laughter and hope. Other times, it raises conversations about freedom, time or...
Sep 2, 2017 | Adventure Play, Andy, Canada, Play, Playwork, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Professor Fraser Brown, Tour, workshop
Our stop in Edmonton, AB combined a workshop and community play event across two days. The workshop was hosted at the University of Alberta and organised by the fantastic team at Play Around the World, with support from Child Friendly Edmonton. Despite a few technical...
Aug 31, 2017 | Canada, Children, loose parts, Morgan, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, swings, tape, Tour, video
We stopped at Laurier Heights Out of School Care to meet our host Sherri. She led us out from the parking lot and into the field behind the school. Loose parts were already stacked there, waiting for play. There were pallets, cardboard tubes, boxes of tape, rope and...
Aug 27, 2017 | adventure playground, Canada, Children, Morgan, parents, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour
By Morgan The first family arrived 10 minutes early at our North Battleford pop-up, and sat on the grassy hill to wait. Workshop participants and staff of BECIP carried out materials from the library basement, armfuls of cardboard, piles of shoe boxes, tubs of tape...
