grounds for play

"The right to play is the child's first claim on the community. Play is nature's training for life. No community can infringe that right without doing enduring harm to the minds and bodies of its citizens."

-David Lloyd George 1925

Exhibit B: Right to Play

you're it..

"Children are not mini-persons with mini-rights, mini-feelings and mini-human dignity. They are vulnerable human beings with full rights which require more, not less protection.”

-Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe, October 2005

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0HfwkArpvU

(How do you define play?)

Exhibit B: Right to Play

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Funding for music education programs is being slashed left and right- which is rather unfortunate as learning to play musical instruments is said to develop young people's cognitive skills, teach discipline, relieve stress, and of course be fun! Studies have also found that when young people play instruments, they become better at extracting sound patterns in other parts of their lives, meaning they can "better process speech in noisy classrooms" and can "more accurately interpret the nuances of language that are conveyed by subtle changes in the human voice".

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1252652/Learning-play-musical-instrument-helps-young-brains-develop-language-skills.html)

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"Van the Man"

"In order to win, you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing." -V.M.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlS0wKrwwOw

As a youngster, George Ivan (Van) Morrison played a variety of instruments for various Irish showbands, including the guitar, harmonica, harp, keyboard, bass drums and saxophone. He never finished high school and educated himself because he says he found school boring. But things seemed to work out well for him, as Morrison later confesses, "I'm very lucky; I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever."

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jamaican high stakes dominoes

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

-George Bernard Shaw

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whatever's living will yourself become

you shall above all things be glad and young.
For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become.
Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls needs:
i can entirely her only love

whose any mystery makes every man's
flesh put space on; and his mind take off time

that you should ever think, may god forbid
and (in his mercy) your true lover spare:
for that way knowledge lies, the foetal grave
called progress, and negation's dead undoom.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

-e.e.cummings

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the business of not going wireless

Read the story of Tauri, the wire car entrepreneur:

http://www.highlightskids.com/Science/Stories/SS1105_wireCars.asp

Yes this article is from a children's magazine. Yes- you should read it. (This kid's pretty awesome..)

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and the little one said

"Play is a major avenue for learning how to manage anxiety. It gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will, suspending the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play, the child becomes master rather than subject... Play allows the child to transcend passivity and to become the active doer of what happens around her."

-Alicia F. Lieberman, author, The Emotional Life

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universally speaking

Elephants have incredible memories and can cry, play and even laugh. Plato's student Aristotle even claimed that elephants are "the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind."

(He also once said that, "all paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." Enough said?)

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the little prince(ss)

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
-Plato

(This bronze statue sits on the banks of the Danube just across from the Buda Castle. While artist Laszlo Marto portrays the figure in boy's clothes and an over-sized pixie crown, he says it was actually inspired by his daughter playing in their family garden.)

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Another Invitation

Exhibit B: "Right to Play"

Gallery Opening: Monday, July 11
Admission: Free