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Get in touch if you would like to devise strategies and deliver all age playful activation, playful public art and inclusive design of your city centre spaces.
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Such a lovely morning celebrating #InternationalDayOfPlay! So proud to work in Leeds and be part of such an amazing #community who champion #play! Thank you for organising @Child_Leeds @LeedsPlay @PlayfulAnytime @LS14Trust @ActiveLeeds
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Today @HelenFisher_ & i I organised a joyful, hands-on ARTY PARTY at Bentley Youth Hub as part of @RemakeDays.
and it reminded me exactly why this kind of creative, playful making matters so deeply, for people of all ages.
Throughout the day, we explored cyanotype printing using sunlight (made harder by the rain, lol!), stitched fabric collages for our community Bentley banners, created brilliant new made-up games, made tiny architectural models, and experimented with sound and music for a future outdoor sound sculpture.
There was learning, laughter, deep concentration, and total chaos. All in the best possible way!
It was sooo busy too!
What days like this show is that learning isn’t something that stops when we leave school. It’s lifelong, relational, and joyful.
It happens when we experiment with new materials, take creative risks, & share space with others.
It strengthens confidence, imagination, &community.
Organising this stuff - so it’s not pressured but fun & accessible can be a lot of work, but seeing people of all ages light up with curiosity & pride in what they made reminded me why we do it.
Because when we make together, we remember that we can shape the world together.
In times that feel heavy or fractured, this stuff aren’t just nice to haves - they’re necessary.
Creative spaces aren’t a luxury. They’re how we build hope & love & place.
#remakelearning #remakedays
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Watched this girl practicing & choosing kindness. Was playing a game & then saw the guy in a wheelchair & invited him to play with her & her bro. The young people are alright ❤️🥹🌈
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Had an amazing day doing sound workshops with @PlayfulAnytime who are in Doncaster City Centre until Sunday! Come out & play!!!! @MyDoncaster investing in FREE amazing fun for everyone
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Today @Paul_Lindley, @annelongfield & Mark Mon-Williams joined us to hear about how we began the #ChildFriendly ambition first in the UK from 2012, led by the voices of children and through our ambassadors approach with a core focus on #PLAY! From play streets to @LeedsPlay …
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have you seen the cambridgeplaylaws.fun/ @theplaylaws - very much about taking S106 contributions and turning byelaws into co-created Play Laws in a designated S106 zone in central Cambs
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Fun times testdriving the @PlayfulAnytime playcarts today, at #Beeston's Rowland Road Club (+ helping the team building the play zone) + at @LeedsDock. Top chats about how to develop play in our communities, + more. Get in touch anytime to get involved with this #Leeds-wide work.
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🧵Zelensky being publicly berated by US president and VP (a mass media spectacle par excellence) has left western Europe stunned, shocked, and floundering. There was much ‘unprecedented’ about the spectacle but I want to talk about something that isn’t being discussed.
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That Trump Gaza AI video was simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened. Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.
They used the most artless art medium in existence to digitally dance on the graves of mountains of dead civilians. The most powerful government on earth celebrated the idea of Trump and Netanyahu presiding over orgiastic parties for the obscenely wealthy on a land that has been purged of its indigenous inhabitants following a year and a half of brutal slaughter. Twerking to shitty AI-generated techno music surrounded by golden Trump statues and hundred dollar bills, because you are so happy that you finally found a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.
It doesn't get any more American than this, and it doesn't get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest. This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.
This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They're making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.
I've always said that the only thing I like about Trump is that he puts an honest face on the empire. In terms of actual policy and actions he's not much different from any other Republican president, but he has this compulsive inclination to constantly yank off the plastic smileyface mask of the empire and reveal the snarling blood-spattered face beneath. This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
That one video, in and of itself, tells you more about what the US empire really is than every movie its PR agents in Hollywood have ever produced. This is the real America. This is the real Israel. This is the real empire.
And this is why we must defeat them.
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Fantastic report out today highlighting the desperate need to plan for more playtime at school and beyond - so children can have the freedom they need! #playtime #opalschools
There's a warning that playtime is being squeezed out of children's lives, according to a report by early years experts. They're urging the Government to protect playtime in schools after their research found that screen time instead of play, is leaving children unhealthy, unhappy, and not ‘school ready'.
@NickDixonITV reports.
FAMILIES IN LEEDS
We'll be on Briggate Friday, Sat & Sunday this weekend & the following Sat & Sun
Free Play
We're working with the University of Leeds Research Team on what would make the city centre play spaces even more inclusive & accessible
leedsinspired.co.uk/events/f…
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@PlayfulAnytime Not like it's "needed", but, in case some might be interested,... some research backing, I think, your work,...
backtothefuture.ch/talks/Tho…
Really think we need to read this and think about how AI and digital platforms will impact who we are in the next decades
theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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The Leeds Storytelling Festival starts on 14th February! ✨
Watch award-winning family theatre, listen to acclaimed author readings, or dabble in costume-making workshops.
This @leedslibraries festival runs until 8th March 2025.
Book your tickets 👉 orlo.uk/X1rKB
ALT A graphic promoting the festival which features drawings of children doing different activities related to storytelling. The background imitates graph paper and orange and white text in the top right corner of the graphic reads ‘Leeds Storytelling Festival’.
If you were to get ahead of national legislation in terms of making the place you live in more child friendly and prioritise children's rights to play in the built environment what would you do to convince those who 'value engineer out' the spaces or design that enables play?
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Get in touch if you would like to devise strategies and deliver all age playful activation, playful public art and inclusive design of your city centre spaces.
Would love to use images of Sheffield Sheaf Square (the water/steel public realm outside of Sheffield Train Station. Ideally one in the sun with people/children playing. Anybody got one I can share in a presentation please
Bradfordians what are you most looking forward to in 2025 as part of your year of culture?
@bradford2025
