Free interactive digital art exhibition & maker activities for children and families.
25 – 30 June & 2 –7 July 2019
Site Gallery, Sheffield
Free interactive digital art exhibition & maker activities for children and families.
25 – 30 June & 2 –7 July 2019
Site Gallery, Sheffield
The Children’s Media Conference has invited a selection of the world’s most innovative artists, developers and companies specialising in creative and interactive play to exhibit their projects at Site Gallery, Sheffield.
Playground is a two week-long exhibition of everything that’s new in play-along digital for children and families.
This year’s theme is Game/Changers. Children and families are welcome to make some noise while exploring new pieces of art, apps and games.
25th June
11:00 – 18:00
26th June
11:00 – 18:00
27th June
11:00 – 20:00
28th June
11:00 – 18:00
29th June
11:00 – 18:00
The Quiet Hour
11:00 – 12:00
30th June
11:00 – 16:00
2nd July
11:00 – 18:00
3rd July
11:00 – 18:00
4th July
11:00 – 20:00
5th July
11:00 – 18:00
6th July
11:00 – 18:00
The Quiet Hour
11:00 – 12:00
7th July
11:00 – 16:00
The exhibition has been curated for 5-12 year olds, however everyone is welcome to drop-in during the gallery’s opening hours and it is FREE!
If you or your child have sensory requirements, or find sound overwhelming, please join us for The Quiet Hour on Saturdays 29 June and 6 July 11am-12noon.
Yes! At this exhibition we’re going to let you touch the art. In fact we insist.
Playground 2019 is located in Site Gallery, 1 Brown Street, Sheffield, S1 2BS. (Get directions)
We are close to the bus and train stations and pay and display parking is available nearby.
Will Hurt
Interact with an abstract audio-visual scene, featuring geometry inspired by modernist architecture.
Sensible Object
A game of strategy and balance in which you build a tower of animals on your table-top, and then help them evolve in a connected digital world.
Arthur Masson with La Sophiste and 3 Hits Combo
Instead of using buttons on a controller, the player controls old portable video games by moving in the game area drawn on the floor.
Panoramical and the Panoramical Guitar
Presented by The National Videogame Museum with a custom PlayStation 2 guitar controller made by Lex Roberts
Discover incredible digital landscapes that change to your command in an immersive musical adventure through space and time.
Society of Explorers and Peter Martin
A video play-along board game. Can you work together to save your spaceship from being pulled into the orbit of a mysterious planet?
Playing the Archive: Memory, Community and Mixed Reality Play
Dial the Time Telephone Box to reach a portal to games and rhymes of the past.
Saturday 29 June 11am-4pm
Join the adventure and help to create an experimental one-day playground on The Square opposite Site Gallery.
Tuesday 25 - Sunday 30 June, Friday 5 and Sunday 7 July
The Playground Maker Table is open for you to take part in hands-on digital and creative making.
The University of Sheffield, School of Education
Tuesday 2 July 11am-6pm
Wednesday 3 July 11am-6pm
Thursday 4 July 11am-8pm
Saturday 6 July 11am-6pm
11:00 - 12:00, 29 June & 6 July
If you have sensory requirements, or find sound overwhelming, please join us for The Quiet Hour.
Open 21 June–14 July
Fridays 2-7pm, Saturdays & Sundays 11am-4pm
Yorkshire Artspace
Never-Land-Sheffield is a fictional nowhere, imagined for this project. Its ambition is to ask young people what Europe will be like in 200 years.
We would love to hear from you once you have attended the show – please send your feedback to
playground@thechildrensmediaconference.com
The website from last year is archived here and you can find photos from Playground18 here.
