There's an Artist in the Playground

A one-day conference about play

High cobbled shoes on suited legs Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Marches

Wednesday 20 May 2009
9.30am – 5pm

Royal Vauxhall Tavern
372 Kennington Lane
London
SE11 5HY

Booking essential - click here to secure your place
£10 / £7.50 includes lunch

In 2007 we attended the PlayEducation conference in Wolverhampton, and became interested in using play as a metaphor to speak about artistic practice.

Play is something we can all relate to. It’s an essential part of our human development and we all have memories and experiences of it. Our attendance at the conference inspired two programmes of commissions, TAZ, which began in 2008 and will finish in May 2009 and Pirate Utopias which begins later this summer.

Part of our interest in Play practice is the way that it encompasses and embodies so many of our adult concerns; responsibility, risk, fun, recovery, politics, inclusion, conflict, environment, belonging, being.

This one day conference is for people who work in the arts and on the peripherals of Play. It platforms a discussion about the parallels between collaborative practice, socially engaged commissioning and Play and seeks to bring these dialogues out beyond the Playworld and into a broader context.

Speakers include key Play specialists and practitioners Pete King, Martin Maudsley, Jess Milne, Wendy Russell and Jayne Stansfeld.