Project Wild Thing
David Bond is concerned, His kids waking hours are dominated by marketing and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy -eyed zombies. They spend too much time indoors, its time to get back to nature.
Play Montgomeryshire is showing the DVD of David Bond's gripping story of the desperate struggle to lead our computer crazed children back to nature, on Saturday June 7th, at 2.30pm, in the Oriel Gallery, Newtown. This showing is free of charge to the public, although donations for the Nick Waller Memorial Fund are welcomed.
This film will be of interest to parents, people who work with children and public officials and councillors who make decisions about the environments in which children play.
The DVD is very interesting and challenges our perceptions of how children play, but young children may find it less interesting - so we are going to also be running a play session outside the Gallery at the same time.
The play session will be running from 1.30 to 4.30, outside the Oriel Gallery, in Newtown Town Park.
Activities will include den building, cooking over a log fire, scrap sculpture and modelling and many other activities to play with. This is also free of charge and anyone can come for a short while or for the whole 3 hours. Children under eight should be accompanied by an adult, but if the parents are watching the DVD in the gallery children over four may stay outside and play.
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