Department of Public Play

02/06/2016

Thanks for everyone who came out to the Opening ribbon cutting ceremony today!

02/05/2016

Chris Wood, Craig Hollow, and the O'Connell High Student bring the sculpture to the end zone. Touchdown!

01/29/2016

NO BIG DEAL STUDENT AND ARTIST COLLABORATIVELY BUILT SCULPTURE!

01/28/2016

The master welders of O'Connell High School

01/27/2016

We are welding today!!!

01/23/2016

Student Workshop 1! complete! Welding basics and Department of Public Play has 6 new members

01/22/2016

Getting ready to start our workshop this afternoon with O'Connell and YAX students.

01/13/2016

So we ordered steel. Student Workshop and Field Trip are upcoming in the next two weeks. Getting very excited to make this design real. If you need extremely helpful customer service when ordering your tube or pipe metal pieces, DPP recommends Sharpe Products! Linda is great!
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01/08/2016

Excited to have students from YAX to work with for this project! Craig Hollow has been teaching students through YAX building parklets and engaging their communities for a number of years! Check out the work on their website. Here's a link to the Ocean Ave Parklet Project http://youthartexchange.org/seen-in-san-francisco/designbuild/parklet/
http://youthartexchange.org/

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01/08/2016

This is a video of some of the students who we will be working with at O'Connell High School from the Building and Construction Trades Lab taught by Chris Wood. We will also be working with some students who are in Youth Art Exchange who are taught by our very own Craig Hollow!

Chris Wood discusses John O'Connell High School's Tech 21 program and his role as an instructor at the school.

01/08/2016

01/08/2016

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PLAY 60, Play On, an initiative by 50 Fund and NFL Foundation, has awarded $750,000 to 21 Bay Area cities to promote play everywhere.