Dec 7, 2021 | Morgan, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Pop-Ups Morgan I’ve struggled to write about Campference, both before and after it actually happened. I had ‘wheelbarrows full of potatoes’ written on a piece of card that I carried around for nearly a year, intended as the seed of a blog post on the most recent...
Aug 12, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some scenes I will forever associate with Campference… talking around the fire, watching sparks fly up while people laughed. Pushing wheelbarrows full of potatoes around. Seeing folks who have been emailing for months or years, finally meet face to face. If...
Jan 14, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan We began developing and running the Playworker Development Course (PDC) way back in 2013. It was designed to meet a very specific need: individual play advocates all around the world wanted to learn more about playwork theory and how to put it into action....
Jan 1, 2021 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Zan It’s 2021 and we rejoice in the start of a brand new year! The unpredictability of 2020 has taught us make some positive and achievable plans for 2021. And having thought long and hard, we’d like to share them with you: As per our announcement, we...
Dec 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan Right now, my world is under nearly three feet of snow. It is even quieter in Vermont than usual, and I can hear the busy woodpeckers hammering away above, and a stream gurgling determinedly at the bottom of the garden. Getting anywhere new, off the...
Dec 7, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan It can feel odd sometimes, to be an adult who talks about play so much. Advocating means saying yes: play is important for children at school. Yes: play is important for communities, for the earth. Whatever the conversation, play should be part of it. Play...
Sep 11, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan We are so enormously excited about the upcoming Prioritizing Play Conference! Kelsey of KOOP Adventure Play has gathered a remarkably knowledgeable, talented, and genuinely diverse line-up of play and playwork people. This is going to be a 7-week online...
Sep 9, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Aug 26, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Maritza has been a friend to Pop-Ups for several years. She is a gifted playworker at AP at the Parish School, a warm host to Campference visitors, and creator of truly magnificent pupusas. As a student on our Playworker Development Course, Maritza has now shared a...
Jul 28, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Our Playworker Development Course brings people together from all over the world to talk about playwork. Divya is from India. She joined the course in March 2019, with the intention of channelling her passion for play. She successfully completed the course in March...
Jul 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Morgan This pandemic play note goes out to Anthony from Vivo, who asked “but how do I clean this tub full of pool noodle chunks?” He asked it worried, laughing, earnest. It felt like a quintessential playworker question – knowing the value of what looks like...
Jun 2, 2020 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
By Pop-Ups Morgan Every adventure playground is unique. There are definitely trends across them – longtime fans will recognize patterns of handmade wooden constructions, enthusiastically painted. More mud than grass. Weird trash, emerging from the landscape....
