Find out about past public events
Events
PLAYING UP public Play-Ins are energetic and enjoyable events that involve kids and their accompanying adults working together as teams to complete activities and tasks in order to create their own work of Live Art.
Please go to Get Involved if you are interested in hosting a Play-in.
Permission to Play: Wellcome Collection
15 February 12pm-4pm
Ground floor atrium of The Wellcome Collection
London, UK
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Playing Up Art Trolley
Holiday activity for kids and adults to play together
Ongoing
Level 3 concourse of the Blavatnik Building, Tate Modern,
London, UK
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Norfolk & Norwich Festival 2019
18 – 19 May
The Spiegeltent
Norwich, UK
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OFFTA
24 May – 2 June
Peace Square
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Copenhagen Contemporary
17 – 21 April
Copenhagen, Denmark
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The Substation and Melbourne Fringe
26-28 September
Australia
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Arsenal of Ideas 2018
26-30 September
Ukraine
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ANTI Festival 2018
25-30 September
Finland
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Fierce Play
A mass Live Art Play-In for all ages.
Saturday 11 August 12pm-6pm
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern,
London, UK
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Practice and Power
Venue: The LAB Gallery & Liberty Park
Saturday 23 June
11am-4pm
Dublin
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Experimentica 2018
Venue: Chapter
Sunday 15 April, 11am
Cardiff, UK
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Launch of the German edition of PLAYING UP
September and October 2017
Hamburg, Stuttgart and Osnabruck
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Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Museums At Night
Saturday 20th May, 2017
5.30pm – 10pm
Coventry, UK
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In Between Time International Festival 2017
Saturday 11th – Sunday 12th February, 2017
11am – 5pm
Venue: Arnolfini
Bristol, UK
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Compass Live Art Festival
Saturday 19th November, 2016
11am – 4pm
Venue: Leeds City Museum
Leeds, UK
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PLAYING UP was also featured at Beta Public 6, an event exploring the intersections of games and performance at Camden People’s Theatre, London between the 8 and 10 November.
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Hijack Festival
Wednesday 26th October, 2016
10am – 4pm
Venue: Komedia
Brighton, UK
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SPILL Festival of Performance
Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October, 2016
1pm – 5pm
Venue: SPILL Dome
Ipswich, UK
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Cambridge Junction
Sunday 25th September, 2016
12pm – 4pm
Venue: J3
Cambridge, UK
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Latitude Festival
Saturday 16th July 2016
11am – 1pm
Suffolk, UK
Venue: Live Art House
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Playing up – The Launch
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern
Friday 1 & Saturday 2 April 2016
12.00 – 19.00
Sunday 3 April 2016
12.00 – 18.00
A public play-in in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern.
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Playing Up – The Symposium
Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern
Monday 4 April 2016
10AM – 5.30PM
The launch of PLAYING UP was marked with a major symposium with leading thinkers and practitioners in the field.
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