Pop-Up Adventure Play

Pop-Up Adventure Play
Formation2011
Websitepopupadventureplay.org

Pop-Up Adventure Play is a not-for-profit play advocacy organization founded in the United States with centres in other countries. It is also a registered charity in the UK.[1]

History

Pop-Up Adventure Play was first founded in the United States with support from Fractured Atlas[2] in order to translate the UK playwork tradition for use in the US.[3] It was later established as a Private company limited by guarantee, and then a charity, in the United Kingdom.[4][1] Its founding members include Morgan Leichter-Saxby, Suzanna Law, Sharon Unis, Anna Housley Juster, Daniel Bigler and Erin Davis.[5] Pop-up Adventure play held its first pop-up adventure playground in New York City in 2010.[6] There have since been over 300 Pop-Ups in more than 25 countries.[7]

Programs

Pop-Up Adventure Play advocates for "child-directed, open-ended play," hosts pop-up adventure playgrounds, provides Playwork training and pop-up play support and free resources to other play organizations worldwide.[8][9]

Pop-Up Adventure Play has held pop-ups in McCarren Park, in Brooklyn,[10] Central Park and other parks in New York City,[11] Northampton, Massachusetts,[12] Port Clinton, Ohio,[13] Largo, Florida,[14] Santa Clarita, California,[15] Missoula, Montana,[16] and elsewhere.[17] Pop-Up Adventure Play also opened a free "Pop-Up Play Shop" in Cardiff, Wales, where children could play with recycled materials.[18]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Pop-Up Adventure Play (Uk), Charity #1148987". charitycommission.gov.uk. Charity Commission of the UK and Wales. 2016. Retrieved June 27, 2017.
  2. ^ Ackerman, McCarton (May 19, 2011). "Adventure Playground Pops Up in McCarren Park". Greenpoint Gazette. Brooklyn, NY. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  3. ^ Featured Speakers: Morgan Leichter-Saxby (PDF). Conference on the Value of Play: Where Design Meets Play, April 2-5, Clemson University. Clemson, South Carolina: US Play Coalition. 2016.
  4. ^ "Pop-Up Adventure Play UK". companieshouse.gov.uk. Companies House U.K. October 4, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  5. ^ "Pop-Up Adventure Play". Play and Playground Encyclopedia. Playground Professionals. 2010–2017.
  6. ^ "Global Pop-Ups". popupadventureplaygrounds.wordpress.com. Pop-Up Adventure Play. 2016. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  7. ^ Holmes, Tao Tao (November 6, 2015). "Playworkers, Ph.Ds, and the Growing Adventure Playground Movement". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  8. ^ "Pop-Up Adventure Play". Play and Playground Encyclopedia. Playground Professionals. 2010–2017.
  9. ^ "Pop-Up Adventure Play". popupadventureplaygrounds.wordpress.com. Pop-Up Adventure Play. 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  10. ^ Ackerman, McCarton (May 19, 2011). "Adventure Playground Pops Up in McCarren Park". Greenpoint Gazette. Brooklyn, NY. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  11. ^ Correal, Annie (May 27, 2016). "On Governors Island, Mountains of Junk Where Children Find Adventure". New York Times. New York, NY. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  12. ^ Redington, Pete (August 14, 2014). "Structuring the Unstructured". The Valley Advocate. Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  13. ^ Dials, Christine (April 14, 2014). "Play, the Important Work of Children". Civitas Media. Archived from the original on August 29, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  14. ^ Castillo, Piper (June 20, 2012). "Largo event in March will get kids to 'Play Unplugged'". Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Bay, Florida. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
  15. ^ Lampert, Melissa (March 3, 2014). "Newhall Preschool To Host UK's Pop-Up Adventure Play Workers". Hometown Station (KHTS AM 1220). Santa Clarita, California. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  16. ^ Miller, Alice (July 20, 2014). "Missoula kids get creative at Pop-up Adventure Playgrounds". The Missoulian. Missoula, Montana. Retrieved May 28, 2017.
  17. ^ Juster, Anna Housley; Leichter-Saxby, Morgan (2014). "Citizens at Play: children's participation through community-based opportunities for child-directed play". Global Studies of Childhood. 4 (2): 77–88. doi:10.2304/gsch.2014.4.2.77. S2CID 153658270.
  18. ^ March, Polly (October 28, 2011). "Pop-Up Play Shop". BBK UK. Cardiff, Wales. Retrieved March 28, 2017.

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