Nov 13, 2023 | campference
California, Texas, Online, Online… Istanbul! Close observers may have noticed our first announcements online, that the 2024 Campference will be hosted with our marvellous friends at Superpool in Istanbul. We wanted to talk a little bit about that choice and what...
Mar 7, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
Dear Playwork friends, We’re so pleased to have been nominated and shortlisted as one of the potential recipients of the Altogether Different Award this year! Thank you so much! As one of the 5 awards at the Annual Playwork Awards, we’re particularly...
Feb 1, 2023 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
We have been running the Playworker Development Course for almost 10 years now. It is still humbling to hear about people’s experiences while engaging with the course materials and how they apply playwork theory to real life. This is a guest written post by PDC...
Sep 8, 2022 | campference
We are very pleased to announce our keynote speakers for the Playwork Virtual Campference 2022. Below you will find introductions and bios from Aby, Zeynep and Sara – some lovely folks whom we have personally met and worked with! We can’t wait for you to...
Sep 8, 2022 | campference
We co-hosted the Playwork Virtual Campference 2022 on 15th October 2022 @12pm-4pm EST. It’s good to ask yourself every so often, why were we doing this? Why were we doing it this way? Of course, these days I’m also often asking myself ‘what did I come in here for’ but...
May 30, 2022 | Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
There are some questions that we’ve been asked potentially hundreds of times – about risk, conversations with parents and liability. That doesn’t mean that our answers are any more tidy than they were in the beginning! These are good questions, bigger than they seem...
Apr 22, 2022 | Blog Thoughts, Morgan, Reflections
From my first moment in playwork, I knew this was something powerful and important. I felt it in my bones, and have been stubbornly determined to stay in this field ever since. A lot of us have stories of moments like that, when something ‘clicked’ inside and changed...
Feb 22, 2022 | Blog Thoughts, Morgan, Play
Driving in the car, I’m going through my ‘To Do’ list and berating myself. I’m always behind where I want to be, feeling late and worried. I keep putting ‘creative writing time’ on my calendar, but day after day other things get crossed off first. The...
Dec 7, 2021 | Morgan, Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds
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. It was intended as the seed of a blog post on the most recent (and by far,...
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...
Oct 19, 2019 | Adventures, Charity, Children, Morgan, Play, Playwork, Pop-Up Adventure Play, Roadtrip, Tour
Pop-Up Adventure Play is pleased to announce the Pop-Ups Tour 2019: Morgan Edition. Morgan Leichter-Saxby will be touring across Illinois, Indiana and Missouri during her tour this Fall, and will be setting off on 23rd October. The trip starts in Chicago, then onwards...