Pop-Up Adventure Play

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]

Pop-Up Adventure Play
Formation2011
Websitepopupadventureplay.org

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. "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.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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