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A Cautionary Tale - Should Children have more Freedom?

A Cautionary Tale – Should Children have more Freedom?

Looking through my old family photographs set me thinking about the differences between my childhood, many years ago, and how children experience play today.

Nowadays, most children are protected and looked after far better than when I was young. While many will protest at their lack of freedom, I see it as a good thing. When I was young, in the 1950s, there was far more freedom for children.…

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Council adopts playing out policy

Council adopts playing out policy

The City of Edinburgh Council has decided that the 2017 pilot project to close streets and allow children to play outside has been so successful that they have made it a new council policy.

There were 54 playing out sessions last year on 30 streets across the city. The council paid for all the costs of road closures and providing and delivering road closure equipment. Now it will be a…

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Playing 'Out'

New Post has been published on http://www.trueguitarist.com/playing-out/

Playing 'Out'

Playing ‘out’ is very common in jazz and fusion circles, as it adds tension-resolution to your phrasing. In the video I show a few examples of this and of how to get ‘that’ sound.

Tips: 1- always use phrases that are very recognisable, with very strong melodic content.

2- use this techinque at the end of a bar, or a section of the tune

3- resolve on a strong note, preferably chord tone

4- in the end, this has a lot to do with HOW you play than WHAT you play!

best of luck!

Suggested reading:

Contemporary Blues Soloing

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Street Play - where to go for advice

Street Play – where to go for advice

With lots of talk and articles in the press and online about ‘street play’ I’m just going to summarise a few of the places and organisations to go to for advice and guidance.

First what is generally meant by ‘street play’?

There are of course still many places where children and teens play in the street as a matter of course. but in far, far too many places this has fallen away with the rise of…

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Playing Out - A Thing of the Past?

Playing Out – A Thing of the Past?

I came across an article on Mail Online, which showcased photographer Robert Frank’s pictures documenting early 1950s London. They’re so striking; I think they’re fantastic. It made me look for further examples of his work and during my Internet travels I came across another photo by a different photographer (Weegee) that also really struck me. This one was from the 1930s and was taken in NYC,…

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Reflections on Reverence Play, and Social Action: 2

Before attending today's event I wondered, as I often do with such open-ended discussion groups, where the conversation might lead and what, if anything, we might achieve from the endeavour.

My sense of wonderment at this was not allayed by the enormity of the premise we opened up as the short presentations from Amy and Constance led us to the general order of the day. Two worlds: One inordinately vast, reaching down into everything we might hold dear, the other small, fleeting, and faint, but no less important; a world threatened by both the influx of information and the sheer physical gravity of the greater sphere, a world all of us, for different reasons, were here today to speak out for.

The somewhat controversial Indian saint Kabir was once confronted by one of his more orthodox renunciate companions over the time he spent outside of the ashram and in amongst the villages nearby. "Why do you go down to the marketplace so often," he enquired. Kibir Replied "To look at all the things I might leave behind."

As a playwork professional, such an aloof sensibility is not something I can afford to indulge. I would suggest that this might be true of all of us. The kids that we represent are fated to enter that marketplace, and the haggling for their worth begins even before they are born.

To know how to respond in the larger world requires a rigorous exploration of the gaps in-between both places; what we have been calling the liminal spaces - a territory that the artist, the activist and the child all have a reverence for, though perhaps for different reasons and with a very different worldview in the case of the child.

Through a knowing of this 'wee gap' in worlds (as a Caledonian colleague of mine once described it)  we are led to a quiet authority that percolates way under our daily reality. Children develop this authority through playing, usually away from adults, where their imagination can flow more freely and the boundaries of their surroundings can be tested with greater urgency. It is one of the most essential requirements of childhood to have time and space to develop this authority amongst one's peers.

As a professional responsible for facilitating the opportunity for children to 'play out' like this ('playing out' in it's broadest sense; from within, into the world of forms, and back in cycles and epicycles), the concerns that were expressed in the Reverence... workshops were not unfamiliar. That there is an erosion in the ludic habitat, that this erosion exists in all socio-economic backgrounds, but for different reasons, that a need for a response to this erosion is as pertinent as it has ever been. What we all differed on was where our ideas on how to respond to this erosion were coming from. But this might be no bad thing.

At the end of the day had a really lovely conversation with Amy about the purpose of what we had done with the day, and our experiences with other organisations involved in the children's workforce in relation to the work that we had been doing. I excitedly suggested that we should follow the event up as soon as we could, and explore what we had opened up to debate in more detail. Amy's response to me was at once wise and laconic. "It is happening already. Let's just see what comes next," she said, or words to that effect. It wasn't what I had expected, but I realised that she was right. Today, if it was about anything, was trusting a process we were all passionate about. In the quiet moments between worlds, that process makes itself visible.

  Eddie