PPLG 2021: Creating Belonging in Times of Pandemic
PPLG 2021 ‘Creating Belonging in Times of Pandemic’ took place online on 10-12 September 2021. It gathered more than 300 people from 45 countries to craft new possibilities of belonging through play, performance, dialogue, art and ritual in times of pandemic.
The global pandemic, among many other things, increased our sense of separation—from our jobs, our schools, our friends, our families, from nature and from the world as we knew it. Isolation, the social and economic inequalities along with our alienation from our planet, long predated Covid-19.
The pandemic, however, drew new attention to them, creating an increasingly urgent call for action. New grassroots-based artistic, emotional support, political initiatives and movements of solidarity were created in response to—and building with—the pain, grief and injustice. New ways developed to transform working and educational practices, to humanise online environments, to bring local and transnational communities into being. Online platforms made possible encounters amongst people who might not have otherwise met, crossing physical, ideological and cultural borders.
The fourth Play Perform Learn Grow (PPLG) conference became a stage to document and amplify all those initiatives. It brought together educators and researchers, therapists, and psychologists, artists and movement practitioners, social and youth workers, activists and community organizers and others from all around the world, including people could not join to presential conferences due to visa limitations.
Without any external source of funding, PPLG 2021 has been organized grassroots and completely independently.
The PPLG 2021 Call for Proposals can be found HERE.
The Organizers of PPLG 2021 are HERE
Supporting and Supported organizations are HERE
The Organizing and Scientific Committees of PPLG 2021can be accessed HERE
The Creative Program and the Abstract Book can be accessed HERE
The Profiles of PPLG 2021 Presenters are HERE
