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Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Coquitlam, BC
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...
Richmond BC Community Play Event at Burkeville Park
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...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – East Vancouver, BC
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...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Edmonton AB
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...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Laurier Heights, AB
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...
Pop-Ups Canada Tour – North Battleford, Sasketchewan
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...
Winnipeg MB Play Event at Brant-Argyle School
During our Canadian tour, every stop has brought new surprises. In Winnipeg, the experience began with an unforgettable sight - horses around a smoky fire, observed by cautious cows. At first, we thought it was a campfire scene but later learned it was smudging, a...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Kenora, ON
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, silent canoes...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Englehart ON
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...
Pop-Ups On Tour 2017 – Vaughan, ON
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...