Let’s Go Play Outside!
For a full year in 2024, this playground within a rental flat cluster at Boon Lay Drive was a weekly site of gathering, play and connection for a group of facilitators and a total of 194 children across the year, engaging around 30 children in each session, We used found and everyday materials that could be found around the neighbourhood and fell into a routine of creating and playing with games, toys and installations that would appear and disappear with each session. Time, space and relationships held this community together and also brought new children into the fold. By activating the common playground as locus of social interaction, LGPO! establishes informal contacts regardless of socio-economic class.
Let’s Go PLay OutSide! (LGPO!) was initiated in 2016 as the first flagship programme of 3Pumpkins, a socially-engaged arts organisation. The programme is a social practice that encourages communities to play together, connecting people by engaging the youngest and most vulnerable yet most imaginative members of the society – children. The work stems from recognition of a lack in arts activities accessible for children and families from less privileged background, and explores the role of artists as agents of social change.
Credits:
Artist-Facilitator - Chew Shaw En
Community Worker - Amanda Yeo
Social Workers - Ajriani Asrul, Jamie Chua
Organisation - 3Pumpkins
*faces of children have been masked by their drawings to protect their identities*
Let’s Go PLay OutSide! (LGPO!) was initiated in 2016 as the first flagship programme of 3Pumpkins, a socially-engaged arts organisation. The programme is a social practice that encourages communities to play together, connecting people by engaging the youngest and most vulnerable yet most imaginative members of the society – children. The work stems from recognition of a lack in arts activities accessible for children and families from less privileged background, and explores the role of artists as agents of social change.
Credits:
Artist-Facilitator - Chew Shaw En
Community Worker - Amanda Yeo
Social Workers - Ajriani Asrul, Jamie Chua
Organisation - 3Pumpkins
*faces of children have been masked by their drawings to protect their identities*
