Hide and Seek in the Pembroke Pocket Garden

Every Wednesday I am assisting artist Ali Kaviani with teaching the Arts Award to students at the Pembroke Academy of Music (PAM). Discussing contemporary and conceptual art with the young people is fascinating, and their suggestions to what art means and why people create are enlightening. 


Yesterday after the session I took the children outside to play in the Pembroke Pocket Garden. Having been told off inside they soon let their energy out running around the garden and playing 'Hide and Seek', 'It', 'Sly Fox' and 'Run Outs'. Crouching behind a bush in the garden waiting for the catcher to find me again brought back vivid memories of childhood. After running around for a good 20 minutes the energy was only increasing rather being 'let out', so we got the chalks out for some pavement drawing. 


Now to introduce these new games to PLAY SWAP this afternoon...