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.
History
Pop-Up Adventure Play was first founded in the United States with support from
Fractured Atlas in order to translate the
UK playwork tradition for use in the US.
It was later established as a
Private company limited by guarantee
In British, Australian, Bermudian, Hong Kong and Irish company law (and previously New Zealand), a company limited by guarantee (CLG) is a type of corporation used primarily (but not exclusively) for non-profit organisations that require legal pe ...
, and then a charity, in the United Kingdom.
Its founding members include Morgan Leichter-Saxby, Suzanna Law, Sharon Unis, Anna Housley Juster, Daniel Bigler and Erin Davis. Pop-up Adventure play held its first pop-up adventure playground in New York City in 2010. There have since been over 300 Pop-Ups in more than 25 countries.
Programs
Pop-Up Adventure Play advocates for "child-directed, open-ended play," hosts
pop-up adventure playgrounds, provides
Playwork Playwork is the work of creating and maintaining spaces for children to play. The theory and practice of playwork recognises that children's play should ideally be "freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated."
It is the job of ...
training and pop-up play support and free resources to other play organizations worldwide.
Pop-Up Adventure Play has held pop-ups in
McCarren Park
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, in
Brooklyn
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,
Central Park
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and other parks in
New York City
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,
Northampton, Massachusetts
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,
Port Clinton, Ohio
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The city has been nicknamed the "Walleye Capit ...
,
Largo, Florida
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,
Santa Clarita, California
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,
Missoula, Montana
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, and elsewhere. Pop-Up Adventure Play also opened a free "Pop-Up Play Shop" in
Cardiff, Wales, where children could play with recycled materials.
See also
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Adventure playground
An adventure playground is a specific type of playground for children. Adventure playgrounds can take many forms, ranging from "natural playgrounds" to "junk playgrounds", and are typically defined by an ethos of unrestricted play, the presence ...
*
Playwork Playwork is the work of creating and maintaining spaces for children to play. The theory and practice of playwork recognises that children's play should ideally be "freely chosen, personally directed and intrinsically motivated."
It is the job of ...
References
Further reading
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*{{cite journal , last1=Juster , first1=Anna Housley , last2=Leichter-Saxby , first2=Morgan , date= 2014 , title= Citizens at Play: children's participation through community-based opportunities for child-directed play , journal= Global Studies of Childhood , volume= 4, issue= 2, pages= 77–88, doi= 10.2304/gsch.2014.4.2.77 , s2cid=153658270
External links
* Erin Davis (2012)
The Land (documentary about an Adventure Playground, Wrexham, UK)
Organizations established in 2011
Non-profit organizations based in New York (state)
Playgrounds
Adventure playgrounds