Come along for the last Friday of the school holidays and enjoy a FREE pop-up workshop with the The Venny!

The Venny is a supervised, free communal backyard and safe play space for 5- to 16-year-olds. It is intentionally designed to engage in risk-taking play, creativity and connectedness among young people.

Established in 1981 and located in the JJ Holland Park in Kensington it is modelled on the original concept by Danish landscape architect, Carl Theodor Sørensen, who observed children preferred to play everywhere except the playgrounds that he designed and built. Sørensen imagined “a junkyard playground in which children could create and shape, dream and imagine a reality”.

In 1942, set against the destruction of World War Two, Europe’s first adventure playground opened in Copenhagen under the title ‘Emdrup’ and features in The Playground Project Melbourne exhibition.

The Venny also runs weekly pop-up play sessions at the Djerring Flemington Hub and North Melbourne public housing estates with their mobile Venny To You van.