let’s play

a Creative third place for community, exploration, colLaboration

The Workshop Playground is an alternative and dynamic space designed as a “third place” to foster meaningful connection in personal, community, and environmental stewardship through crafty, creative problem-solving and exploration.


Tori Kampmann

Founder, Principle Creative @ The Workshop Playground

Tori Kampmann is a heartfelt community builder and environmental steward who nurtures connection through the transformative power of creativity. With a soul dedicated to service, she brings her passion to her work with Santa Barbara County's Resource Recovery division, the Surfrider Foundation, and Vesper Post events in addition to her current project The Workshop Playground.

As the visionary behind Workshop Playground, Tori creates welcoming spaces where diverse souls can gather in authentic community, sharing skills and stories through accessible creative workshops. Her sociology background and open heart guide her mission to heal social disconnection through collaborative artistic experiences.

A lifelong learner and compassionate leader, Tori believes in the profound ability of creative expression to awaken our connection to ourselves, each other, and our precious environment. Through her work, she invites others to journey toward more meaningful, sustainable, and joy-filled ways of being in community.

Re:imagine

the Workshop Playground is an inclusive, hands-on, supportive, creative hub through facilitating an array of creative and community building activities, classes, and workshops

  • Re:connect Center

    is designed as a third place and aims to create a home-like atmosphere for planned and unplanned community gatherings; a place to foster genuine conversation and deepen connection to ourselves, community, and our environment.

     Through our own and shared experiences of stimulation, socialization, excitement, joy, and creative wonder, we hope to reintroduce an organic rhythm to daily life that inspires meaningful connection to self, community, and environment.

  • Re:SOURCE CENTER

    participants can engage in various workshops and classes with naturally resourced materials - such as woodworking, metal/welding, and textiles. Workshops and classes are led by experienced creatives. Participants are encouraged to help each other learn as they develop their skills; teachers and students symbiotically engage in the sharing of ideas, skills, and tools.   

  • Re:vitalization Program

     is a Santa Barbara grassroots organization and movement advocating for the action of revitalizing public spaces in our community to be more people-centric, rather than car-centric, to further facilitate connecting folks with each other in outdoor community spaces. Community-based participation and organizing is at its core of success.

    The results are in the creation of quality public spaces that contribute to people’s health, happiness, and well-being, as well as, the fulfillment of contributing to the place you live and can be proud of.