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...
Sep 2, 2017 | adventure play, Andy, Canada, play, playwork, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds, Professor Fraser Brown, tour, workshop
By AndyThe second part of our Edmonton stop was a combined workshop and Pop-Up Adventure Playground spread across two days. The workshop was held at the University of Alberta and was brought together by the great people of Play Around the World with a helping...
Feb 28, 2017 | Andy, campference, photos, playwork, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Professor Fraser Brown, stories, US, weather
By AndyI can’t quite believe that it’s been over a week already since the Playwork Campference came to an end! What an amazing whirlwind it has been. As I get ready to depart the US and head back to Europe, I spent a moment to reflect on my experiences of...
Jan 18, 2017 | adventure playground, campference, free, playwork, Professor Fraser Brown, Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play, screening, The Land Documentary
By ZanTeam Pop-Up Adventure Play and Santa Clarita Valley Adventure Play are extremely excited to be having a free film screening as part of the Playwork Campference 2017. It will feature The Land documentary, about Plas Madoc Adventure Playground in Wrexham, Wales,...
Jun 6, 2016 | book, campference, interview, PhD, play, playwork, Professor Fraser Brown, Zan
By ZanAlthough we are both British, Fraser and I actually met in Atlanta, Georgia at the IPA/TASP conference in 2010. I presented about playrangers and he was one of the people who joined my audience. Soon after, I enrolled at Leeds Beckett University to study...