CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Today it's all about having fun - from work...to kids...to car pools...school activities and more... life can be overwhelming and stressful! Do you ever feel like you'd just LOVE a play date...like you had as a kid? Now you can! Today on the show Sally Stokes the owner of Play More Charlotte, Lakhiyia Hicks, owner of HOMEplxce Consulting & Retreats and Jasmine Vializ, owner of Dancing Lotus Yoga + Arts explained how.
“The Adults-Only Play Day is all about relieving the stress from adulting and enjoying precious time spent being a kid again” says Stokes. She adds “The Play Day is a magical event hosted in collaboration between Play More Charlotte, Dancing Lotus Yoga & Arts, and HOMEplxce Consulting & Retreats to encourage adults to explore a more playful version of adulthood.”
So often, as adults, we feel limited by social expectations of what joy can or "should" look like as we get further away from childhood, and we forget, in the busyness of the day-to-day, that we benefit from play as well!
Just relax in a pit full of plastic balls that you can throw, juggle or toss to and from with a friend. It’s all about having fun and relieving stress. “Although this event is for those of us who are 18 years of age and up, it is truly for the inner children who live inside these 18+ bodies of ours” says Hicks. Hicks continues “we’re curating an opportunity with Play More Charlotte for adults to release the responsibilities of "being a grown-up" for the morning, which, for many, includes caretaking responsibilities even in the most stressful circumstances.”
This event is meant to support adults, allowing them to reclaim ease.... while finding a diverse, inclusive, playful community that can support us in prioritizing our own joy. To best tend to our inner children, we’ve partnered with many local collaborators who believe in meaningful fun, rest, and self-healing outside of isolation.
“Play More Charlotte will be providing parachute games, our ball pit selfie booth, bubble blasters, coloring books, Extreme Rock/Paper/Scissors, Keep the Balloon Off the Ground, fort-building, and stomp rocket relays” says Vializ. She continues “Dancing Lotus Yoga + Arts will be providing our silent disco musical chairs station, and HOMEplxce Consulting & Retreats will transform one of the Victoria Yards hut-lets into a mini-inner child healing sanctuary.” We also have some majorly fun community partners coming out to help us make this event unforgettable for our guests. CLTFREESKATE will be there with a really unique and creative roller-skating set-up.
DJ Code: Savi is also coming to provide our music, Tuxedo Kat Imaginarium is offering puddle-painting. Game Show Battle Rooms as well as Potions & Pixels coming out to provide a variety of games. And in addition to all of that, the Dino DoGooders will be there offering inflatable costumes, and we'll have playful art vendors, fairy hair vendors, and food and beverages vendors on site. Come and enjoy and leave the adult in you behind. Get tickets for you, Friends, and Loved Ones at playmorecharlotte.com. You do have to pre-register for the event.
Event information (if applicable)
Time: 9:00 AM until noon
Date: Saturday, Nov. 2nd
Location: Victoria Yards, 209 E 7th St, Charlotte, NC
Ticket Prices: $30/ticket
Community partners:
CLTFREESKATE
Tuxedo Kat Imaginarium
DJ Code: Savi
Potions & Pixels
Game Show Battle Rooms
The JAM: CLT
Dino Do Gooders
Rave Wolf Handpan
Pineapple Baby Water
Vendors:
John Hairston Jr.
Heather Kostell
Damalis Caraballo
Fairy hair from the folks at Hyperfang Salon Boozy Sistas
Herbal Luxe Tea
Waffle Snack World