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​What it is

​Playspace is a get-together and coworking session for the kind, nerdy, and creative.

​Come if you like to learn to draw from youtube videos, create websites for friends, play music, write blog posts, compose songs, arrange flowers, research distributed systems — and everything in between. Playspace is for you to explore what makes your world sparkle :)

​Format

​Every Sunday from 1:00PM - 4:30PM :)

• ​Beginning ritual & introductions - 15m

• ​Silent focus session 1 - 1hr

• ​Break - 15m

• ​Silent focus session 2 - 45m

• ​Scrapbook - 5m

• ​Show & tell - 30m

​*we ask you to please arrive as close to 1PM as you can so you don't interrupt a working block!

​Philosophy

​Play allows us to create and share in ways that competitive environments disincentivize. We're a group of people that values exploring, learning, and building based on curiosity and intrinsic motivation.

​Part of the magic of it is that it's a very high-trust environment where people can fully be themselves and be comfortable exploring new facets of themselves. Although Playspace is open invite, we ask that you hold a respect for the space and the people within it. Everyone who attends Playspace is, in many ways, a host of the space as well.

​We kindly ask that you refrain from sharing any media captured during the event unless you have explicit permission from the individuals involved.

​Funding

​Playspace does not take external funding. The existence is purely made possible by the hosts that volunteer their time and money to make the events possible. If Playspace is something that means a lot to you, consider donating to our community fund @playspace on Venmo to help offset some of our costs :)

​Acknowledgements

​Thank you to our friends at Socratica up in Waterloo for seeding the ideas for a lot of what Playspace is today.