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All free, all fun, all day and some of the night, Pop Up Playground and Federation Square are proud to present Fresh Air ’14, from the 7-10 March.
All details are here: http://popupplayground.com.au/fresh-air-festival-2014/
Everyone knows how to play!
Curated by public artist (and Pop Up Playground’s Constructive Communities Director) Sayraphim Lothian, Fresh Air’s playful public art program celebrates the playful appropriation of public space by artists working in various ways in the streets of Melbourne.
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Kim Tairi
Urban fox tales
Little foxes wander Melbourne’s laneways. A series of tiny poems that chronical their adventures. They will be left in and around laneways in the CBD in the lead up to the festival.
Twitter: twitter.com/kimtairi
Instagram: instagram.com/lepetit_renard
Website: kimtairi.com
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Legojacker
The Very Pointy Hat
Melbourne based plastic instigator Legojacker draws upon the all too familiar world of oppressive regimes and popular uprising, with his LEGO photo story ‘The Very Pointy Hat’. Featuring his trademark style of plastic mini-figures photographed in the real world, the story documents the final days of an evil king and his very pointy hat with the unique power to create monsters and make people disappear. Photographed in Melbourne’s iconic Hosier Lane, The Very Pointy Hat shows that a playful plastic story can be a powerful one. The Very Pointy Hat will unfold over the duration of the festival and can be found on the Instagram feed @legojacker or by visiting the Instagram hashtag #theverypointyhat.
Instagram: instagram.com/legojacker
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Preprint
Haikubirds for Fresh Air 2014
I started making Haikubirds over a year ago. Each bird is a sculpture with an accompanying haiku.
The birds have been set free in Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney, Brisbane and Lebanon. I will set free a few Haikubirds as part of Fresh Air 2014 and some mini Zines in the laneways of Melbourne.
Find one and it’s yours.
Instagram: instagram.com/preprint
Twitter: twitter.com/Preprint_
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Junky Projects
Details coming soon…
Website: junkyprojects.weebly.com/
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Erin Greer
Details coming soon…
Website: www.facebook.com/ErinGreerArt
Fresh Air Festival is presented by Pop Up Playground and Federation Square.
With great thanks to Elliot Summers who created this awesomeness!
Fresh Air 2014 from popupplayers on Vimeo.
A Lost Waif, a Wandering Entertainer, a King by the River… the spirits of Melbourne must find the forgotten and impossible Gods who walk the streets as the sun is setting.
Headlining Pop Up Playground’s 2014 Fresh Air Festival will be a brand new game designed and presented by international guest artists Serious Business from the UK.
In their game, Spirits Walk, players enter the spirit world and make new spirits of their own through a series of rituals and a masked procession after sunset.
7th 8th and 9th of March
Starting at 7:00 PM at the Pop Up Playground tent at Federation Square
Free to play but bookings would be appreciated – bookings@popupplayground.c
Fresh Air Festival is presented by Pop Up Playground and Federation Square.
People! People! Come help us fine tune some of the new games we’ve designed for Fresh Air, 2014. It’s free, it’s fun and it’s the most important part of the game designing process.
We need you!
10-4, Saturday 22 of Feb, 2014
Come along at 10 and meet in the Atrium at Fed Square (usually we start at the big table in Beer Deluxe) and be the first to play(test) our newest, funnest games yet!
If you can make it all day or only for an hour or two, we’d love you to come help us make awesome situations! Email us to let us know you’re coming – rabbithole @ popupplayground.com.au
Fresh Air is returning for another year, as we have a load of brand new games we need to playtest.
10-4, Monday 27 Jan 2014
Come along at 10 and meet in the Atrium at Fed Square and be the first to play(test) our newest, funnest games yet!
If you can make it all day or only for an hour or two, we’d love you to come help us make awesome situations! Email us to let us know you’re coming – rabbithole @ popupplayground.com.au
Ooo! Fresh Air is back this year, bigger, better and more filled with games and play than ever before! Put the dates in your diary – March 7-10, 2014. Everything is free and filled with fun. More details coming soon!
Phew! What a big weekend Fresh Air was! We ran 18 large games, a myriad of smaller games, we had 4 Constructive Play events and a number of playful companies came along to run their own games too. We played with hundreds of people and had a blast!
We saved cities from burning, cracked a safe and sold the loot, had pirate raids and uncivil wars, we made trailers for movies that are yet to be made and took tours of Federation Square, Pop Up Playground style. We made offerings to bovine gods, fed oscine families, made Barbies fly and swim, we made super heroes of ordinary people and illuminated lonely corners of Fed Square.
We’re still sorting through photos, but we thought we’d upload some now for your viewing pleasure! These weren’t all the games on offer, just a couple of photos of gameplay and fun.
We’d like to thank and double thank all the people who helped us run the festival – the game runners, volunteers, game designers and other playful peeps who turned up to help as well as the national and international companies how let us run their games and of course, all the awesome people who turned up to play!
Fresh Air Festival
Pop Up Players, Federation Square
8 February 2013
The Edge, Federation Square
to 10 February
Saturday and Sunday: 1.00–4.00 and 6.00–9.00
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