Jan 8, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan This is a quick note from all of us at Pop-Up Adventure Play, wishing everyone a Happy New Year! Many folks may only just be getting back to work now, but we have already running full steam for the last few days! Next week, Morgan and I will be heading to...
Dec 28, 2019 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan Our annual tradition is to write about each year in a blogpost. This is mostly to document what exactly we have been up to in the past 12 months, but also serves as a reflective moment for us. Afterall, Professor Fraser Brown suggested that playworkers should...
Dec 16, 2019 | cardboard, children, guest writer, loose parts, play, playworker, Playworker Development Course, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, trust, Turkey
Ozlem is from Turkey and has enthusiastically been writing to us for a few months now. Joining us on the Playworker Development Course as soon as humanly possible, Ozlem has been working hard in play ever since. Here is the journey so far. **** By Ozlem Arkun The...
Oct 2, 2019 | children, community, Just Play MCR, photos, play, playwork, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Pop-Up Play Shop, Radcliffe, Zan
By Pop-Ups ZanSitting at a tiny desk in the middle of a swelteringly hot day in Hong Kong, I stared at an email that had just popped through. I am working in Asia, and my brain is discombobulated from many layers of bilingual conversation, so upon reading this email,...
May 20, 2019 | cardboard, children, music, photos, play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Radcliffe, reflections, Zan
By ZanQuite without me realising, pop-up adventure playgrounds have becoming quite popular in my community. I am obviously delighted, but boy has it been busy! Here are some little reflections of some of those events this month:1. Radcliffe Market 3rd MayThe 4 of them...
Apr 24, 2019 | charity, children, community, Just Play MCR, Manchester, photo, play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Radcliffe, volunteers, Zan
By ZanIt’s been a while since I have written about my community pop-ups. The 19 Pop-Ups that we managed to host in 2018 were a real hit, so there has been a lot of anticipation for what 2019 will bring!So as not to inundate non-Manchester folk with local...
Jan 30, 2019 | campference, play, play conference, playwork, playwork conference, playworkers, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Professor Fraser Brown, Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play, workshop
******Dear Campference 2019 attendees,Why do we attend conferences?To paraphrase the 20th Century poet, T.S. Eliot: ‘information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom’. In other words, it is possible to have lots of information in your memory about a particular...
Dec 27, 2018 | campference, community, Morgan, photo, play, Playful Schools Online, Playworker Development Course, Playworker Travelling Fund, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, support
By MorganAs I write this, it’s the little gap of time between Christmas and New Year, when the world seems cold and quiet. My notes say to talk about how Suzanna and I spent this year apart – no tours, no shared events, but instead focusing on home and local...
Dec 24, 2018 | box, community, donation, fund raising, Just Play MCR, loose parts, Manchester, play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, support, video, volunteers
By ZanIt has been an amazing year for me at Pop-Up Adventure Play. Not only have I managed to travel to two new countries with this little charity, but I have also started embedding play into my own community. I’ve been in the field for over 10 years now but...
Sep 4, 2018 | adventure play, campference, community, personal development, play, playwork, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Pre-Campference
By MorganSince 2010, we’ve had the pleasure of being a part of the US Playwork and Adventure Play scene and helping it to grow. New projects have opened coast-to-coast in North America, and around the world, led by passionate and dedicated people we are proud to...
Sep 1, 2018 | box, children, loose parts, play, playwork, playworker, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, reflections, stories
By Zan”…what I find particularly attractive about storytelling is that no one has to teach us how to tell a story. It is a way we make sense of our experiences. It is inclusive and open to all playworkers irrespective of their setting, previous experiences...
May 9, 2018 | box, children, community, family, fire, loose parts, PDC, photos, play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, risk assessment, Zan
This is part 5 of a multi-part blog series about the pop-up adventure playgrounds we create in our own communities throughout the year. This is an example of how our pop-up adventure playgrounds work, and us using our namesake model and our own resources to...
