Imagine a space created just for children from birth to five years old to explore, create and play. Imagine art installations and events curated to engage and inspire our youngest Atlanta friends. You are imagining the PNC PlaySpace, a brand-new space now open at the Woodruff Arts Center.

The PNC PlaySpace is an experiential learning space where children can explore, move, and make believe. Open six days a week, the PNC PlaySpace invites children from birth to five years old to enjoy free play, engage in interactive performances, and embrace the chance to move and imagine. Provided at no cost to families, this space offers a consistent, accessible environment that sparks creativity and supports early childhood development through joyful, unstructured activity.

“The first few years of life are essential to human development,” says Dan Reardon Director of Youth and Families Olivia Aston Bosworth, “but there are so few public spaces that tolerate babies and toddlers. At the Alliance Theatre, we celebrate these years and welcome children to be their authentic selves. They need to move, touch, laugh, and connect with their trusted adults. The PNC PlaySpace installation, BOSSA NOVA BABY, is a peaceful retreat where early learners and their grownups can experience joy, connection, and wonder. We hope this space provides a gentle landing place to imagine new worlds, take tiny risks, and form lasting memories with the people they love most.”

The opening of the PNC PlaySpace also celebrates the inaugural immersive exhibition — Bossa Nova Baby. Little ones are invited into a sensory journey through the Brazilian rainforest, starting from the moment they enter through a cascading curtain of soft rope vines and are enveloped by echoing rainforest sounds. Once inside there is so much to discover — snuggle into the hug wall, splash in the projected river and explore the fiberoptic rainbow wall. Bossa Nova Baby is created in partnership with DashStudio and reflects the living and breathing nature of the space that can be forever reimagined with new experiences.

In addition to open play, free weekly programs will be offered for littles ones and their caregivers. Mark your calendar for engaging events, such as Babies: Off Book!, the Lullaby Project, Baby Rave, Baby Yoga, Baby Wearing Dance, and so much more. Children ages 0-5 are invited to dance, read, stretch, laugh and imagine at the PNC PlaySpace — a place just for our youngest Atlanta community.

The PNC PlaySpace is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9am – 4pm and located within the Memorial Arts Building at the Woodruff Arts Center. Walk-ups are welcome. To guarantee immediate entry at arrival, patrons are encouraged to pre-register online. Park your stroller at The Selig Family Park & Play, remove your shoes and socks and enter a world of wonder.