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Our Pop-up Play Cafes (Mobile Play Cafes- As part of Froebelian Futures)
The Froebelian Futures Mobile Play Cafe initiative was an action and practice project (delivery). Mobile Play Cafes led by the University of Edinburgh (Kristina Konstantoni, lead academic, researcher and parent) and Cowgate Under Fives Centre (Simon Bateson, lead practitioner) were curated in partnership with local community organisations in different neighbourhoods (Leith, Newhaven, Pilton/Granton, Old Town/central Edinburgh). The Mobile Play Cafe facilitated pop up play and social spaces for children, families and key workers across Edinburgh and beyond, co-designed with diverse community organisations.
Click here to read more about our Mobile Play Cafes!
25th May 2025 | The Little Plaza, Edinburgh
The Play Cafe Gathering!
Join us as we celebrate THE PLAY CAFE PROJECT!
Celebrate with us in a beautiful play cafe at Little Plaza combined with arts and craft activities, painting, music sessions and more! Light snacks, tea, coffee and juice are available for everyone!
Families and children of The Play Cafe family will be receiving our illustrated Storybook as well as a voucher. So do come down and enjoy this moment with us.
Our Storybook Illustrator, Ms Iffah Humaira, will be there too!
21st June 2024 | 5:00 PM – 8: 00 PM
Pop Up Play Cafe @ Athens, Greece,
Friday 21st June 2024
Pop-up play cafe @ Athens, Greece
The main objective of this pop up play cafe curation in Greece, Athens, is to create a welcoming, warm, inspiring, accessible, enriching, anti-discriminatory and anti-racist play and social environment for children and their families. An informal drop in, stay and play experience, free and open to all.
Team:
Kristina Konstantoni, Reyhaneh Mozzafar, Aggeliki Dimoulia Iffah Humaira, Vasiliki Bourdouvali, Eftychia Panagopoulou, Sofia Stathopoulou and Konstantina P.
Pop Up Play Cafe & Sharing Session with Practitioners, Cares and Parents @ Athens, Greece
Join us in our second pop up play cafe in Greece, Athens! It is to create a welcoming, warm, inspiring, accessible, enriching, anti-discriminatory and anti-racist play and social environment for children and their families. An informal drop in, stay and play experience, free and open to all. It is followed by an embodied workshop about free play.
Links to presentations:
Play cafe – ‘Slow Pedagogy – Συζητώντας για την εναρμόνιση με τους ρυθμούς του παιδιού’
Shared by Konstantina Papaspyropoulou, PhD student, The University of Edinburgh
