We Play Festival
Get a glimpse of our We Play Festival held at the Scottish Storytelling Centre from
23rd September – 1st October 2023!
About the Festival
We Play Festival is a collaboration between The University of Edinburgh, The Play Cafe Project, Froebelian Futures, and The Scottish Storytelling Centre supported by a host of other partners – to celebrate and promote more child-and community-centered public spaces in our cities. Designed with and for children, families, childminders, early years practitioners, policymakers and third-sector partners.
We Play comprises:
A week-long drop-in play cafe co-developed with the UK’s leading child-led kindergarten resource designers, Community Playthings.
A series of scheduled talks, discussions, arts, well-being, music, storytelling, and film events; all in the welcoming surroundings of The Scottish Storytelling Centre.
We Play aims to blaze a trail for a kind of public space we want to see cultivated right across Scotland: one which fosters community, support, and knowledge exchange between diverse individuals and organizations concerned with children’s rights, play, equity, and innovation. At the heart of this initiative is to prototype a radical new public space for children and families where research, knowledge exchange, teaching, practice, and everyday life are integrated, so that the highest quality of early learning and childcare is provided to all children (with a focus on the most marginalized children), and young children’s rights are implemented.
As part of the project, we will co-design through community engagement what this space could look like (e.g. physically and in terms of its ethos, ways of working, activities and practices, etc), by engaging with a range of organizations working with children and families in the early years, with a particular focus on families from marginalized and disadvantaged backgrounds.
Find our event catalogue here!
Let’s take a look at our play cafe!
Our Play Cafe consists of 16 Play Cafe Sessions and a series of scheduled talks, discussions, arts, well-being, music, storytelling, and film events; all in the welcoming surroundings of The Scottish Storytelling Centre.
With high-quality play resources and trained practitioners, the We Play festival is welcomed with a humble experience for the week!
Our Outdoor Space:
We had a blast week welcoming families, children, communities and everyone to this warm and humble centre!
The We Play Festival is celebrated with so much love.
Our Events and Partners
