Skateboarding In The City Nottingham

Skate nottingham are a not for profit community organisation dedicated to changing perceptions of skateboarding and raising its profile as a positive healthy culture and community that can help the city we love become more.

Skateboarding in the city nottingham. It aims to attract hundreds of visitors to its exhibitions and competitions in the city. 100 skateboarding forty two skate shop 19 victoria street nottingham ng1 2ew tel. Skateboarding on film and on concrete 11 30am 2pm all ages short film screenings talks and discussions from skaters designers historians and architects about how the city its built environment and its heritage is viewed in a unique way by skateboarders and the potential for the future of nottingham s public spaces. Skateboarding and the city presents the only complete history of the sport exploring the story of skate culture from the surf beaches of 60s california to the latest.

Edits screened at broadway cinema on. Skateboarding will become an olympic sport for the first time in tokyo next summer. Nottingham is one of the original homes of uk skateboarding with a large skate community that helps feed the city s art music and fashion scenes with a diy sensibility. Enter your email address below please enter a valid email address.

Skateboarding in the city fri 26 july sat 3 aug 9 days of events across nottingham exhibitions films talks skateboarding. Skateboarding is both a sport and a way of life. Everyone at forty two skate shop has been involved in skateboarding for many years. Creative physical graphic urban and controversial it is full of contradictions a billion dollar global industry which still retains its vibrant counter cultural heart.

Skate nottingham and backlit gallery will together be delivering a programme of free creative workshops events and skate jams through the winter and spring of 2020. Skateboarding in nottingham to promote the city as a national and global destination. Nottingham to host the uk s first city based festival of skate culture in the run up to tokyo 2020. Nottingham is one of the sport s original homes in the uk with a vibrant community and culture going back more than fifty years including internationally known professionals such as carl shipman in the.

These are open to skateboarders and non skateboarders everyone who has an interest in diy culture skating art photography building and creating things. The design and consultation for the proposed skate facility in king edward park sneinton is our first. City circuit skate filming competition get a crew together of 3 4 skaters and a filmer come to nottingham film at locations around the city including skateable installations.