What is Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG)?

PPLG is a series of conferences, community events and artistic residencies.
Founded in 2017 in response to the dehumanizing conditions created by the refugee policy crisis in Europe, the PPLG conferences have taken place four times, connecting more than 700 people from 50 countries. They bring together people from around the world who use play, performance and arts to engage social issues, heal trauma, stimulate imagination and possibility, generate community, and build bridges.

PPLG Community:

PPLG ignited among its participants and their communities a collective movement, nourishing homegrown initiatives and creating new spaces of belonging across borders and cultures. Through art, performance, ritual and play, PPLG honors and celebrates the power of collective creativity to endure and transform adversity, to create new possibilities.

PPLG Residency:

In the years PPLG has become a stage to document and amplify grassroots initiatives, creating spaces for encounters among people who would not have met and for new initiatives to emerge. Through residencies PPLG supports artists to nourish, sustain and grow grassroots efforts and innovative artistic social projects connecting them with international networks of care and support.

PPLG is independent and grassroots:

PPLG has always been organized grassroots and completely independently – without external funding. The registration fees make the conference and its community activity feasible. Scholarships are always offered when needed. It’s the people that each time co-create PPLG and make it possible.

We invite you to create PPLG with us!