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...
Aug 21, 2017 | adults, Andy, Canada, Children, families, Photos, Play, playworker, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour
Since we started our Canadian tour just over a month ago, we have started each day full of curiosity. We were wondering what the next location will bring. Our only disappointments have been in not yet seeing a moose. We were hearing that our chances get slimmer the...
Aug 20, 2017 | adults, Canada, Children, loose parts, Morgan, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, risk, teenagers, Tour
We were told to park at the Rec Center opposite Safeway supermarket and wait for the boat to come. The Lake in the Woods – aka Kenora, Ontario – is a vast aquatic wilderness of densely wooded islands. It is navigated by small boats with outboard motors,...
Aug 18, 2017 | adults, Andy, Canada, Children, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, swings, Tour, workshop
By Andy After a long drive from Vaughan, we made it to Englehart, with just minutes to spare. We quickly shuffled into our ‘fancy’ clothes, wiped the sweat from our foreheads and jumped on stage before a packed-out room of friendly parents and professionals, many...
Aug 14, 2017 | Canada, film, loose parts, Morgan, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, The Land Documentary, Tour, workshop
We drove along a paved path that curved up through the Kortright Centre for Conservation. We parked and walked in, past a grove of tall slender trees. Boxes and saucepans lay between them, along with string and fabric squares. A clearing brightened the air, revealing...
Aug 10, 2017 | Canada, Morgan, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Tour, workshop
Blenheim, ON has a population of 4,563. Between the pop-up adventure playground and workshop afterwards, we saw about 200 – a significant proportion of the local residents. They welcomed us into the Growing Together Family Resource Centre and talked about...
Jul 27, 2017 | Canada, Children, fund raising, Morgan, Photos, Play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, risk, The Land Documentary, Tour, workshop
Well, we’ve had an awesome start to the tour. First, you marvellous individuals brought us over the line of our crowdfunding goal. One person was a particular friend to Pop-Ups, and we’d like to thank Queenie for her incredible generosity. Now we can sleep indoors...
Jun 5, 2017 | Canada, Child-Directed, fund raising, Play, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, press release, screening, Tour, UK, workshop
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Pop-Up Adventure Play confirmed workshops and hands-on practical sessions with organisations and play enthusiasts across eight Provinces of Canada. Following the huge success of their 2014 US Tour and 2015 World Tour, UK-based charity Pop-Up...
Jun 2, 2017 | box, child-led, Children, festival, Photos, Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, right to play, robot, Zan
After much organising and some epic geometrical loose parts stuffing into our cars, Pop-Up’s Andy and I found ourselves in the middle of a field and under a giant tent. This would be the site of our 3-day pop-up adventure playground at the Geronimo 2017...
Apr 9, 2017 | Adventure Play, adventure playground, campference, Guest Writer, loose parts, Play, Playwork, playworkers, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Reflections
Mischelle reached out to us in 2016, sharing her passion for play. In 2017, we met her at the Playwork Campference — it was inspiring to hear her perspective and learn about her exciting plans for her community and upcoming adventures. Here are some of her...
Feb 11, 2017 | campference, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, press release, screening, US
By Andy Team Pop-Up has just arrived on the shores of California. It’s the first time the three of us have been together, in-person in over 15 months. We are so excited to work on the final preparations for the first-ever Playwork Campference in the USA! In...
Dec 28, 2016 | Adventures, Board of Directors, celebrations, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, review, Zan
By Zan This year has been a tough one for Pop-Ups Morgan and me. We had set out to get our heads down and into our playwork PhDs but unexpected things happened and we both had to turn our focus onto our families. Nonetheless, we still have many things to celebrate...
