BackYard Players & Friends is an inclusive arts-based community program located on Long Island. “Inclusion inspires creativity.” #getinthebackyard BackYard Players & Friends is an inclusive arts-based community program, open to the public, for teens and young adults bypandfriends@gmail.com Backyard Players & Friends is an inclusive, arts-based community program, open to the public for participants age 14 and older. We work to give every person a space so that together we can share ideas and experience openness, joy and creativity. We believe that through inclusion there is diversity and strength. Our program seeks unity without uniformity and diversity without fragmentation.