It’s becoming a spring tradition, and one my family looks forward to every year.
The TIFF digiPlaySpace is an interactive, digital exhibit just for kids. Imagine a huge room with the most fun, educational, state-of-the art video games. Except one massive wall is made up entirely of a vibrant screen and children are jumping up and down in front of it, creating bursts of colour and movement on the screen. On another wall is a green screen where kids get to see themselves living among dinosaurs or riding roller coasters. Turn the corner and there are children making stop motion animations of themselves running for their lives, kids sculpting mountains out of kinetic sand, robotics, virtual reality, and more.
Touch the screen and watch the colours explode.
The harder you move, the better the effects.
Ready, set, green screen.
Yeah, well, the moon’s pretty cool, I guess.
Topographical light displays meet kinetic sand.
I couldn’t pry my four-year-old away.
Mad ball handling skills in progress courtesy of stop motion animation.
This is the fifth year TIFF has put on the digiPlaySpace exhibition and, I swear, it’s the best year yet. Head over to the TIFF site to book your time slot and buy your tickets in advance. Tickets are $10 each or (and this is what I would totally do) you can buy film and PlaySpace combos for $15 per kid and $20 adult that also let you screen a TIFF children’s film.
The digiPlaySpace and TIFF Kids International Film Festival are only on until April 24. So if you have any downtime at all in the next two weekends, I’d highly recommend it.