Roll Up (on your skateboards) for International Go Skateboarding Day which is Tomorrow!
The Vans team are around Manchester all day and the SkateMCR street skate time will be from 6pm - 8pm at URBIS and will be both a protest of the byelaws and a celebration of all that Tony Wilson gave to Manchester alongside the Tony Wilson Experience.
Joe Gavin has been busy making a sign saying “Skate MADCHESTER” to show our support of the Tony Wilson celebration.
Word is that there will be plain clothed wardens and police at URBIS ready to give fines and ASBO’s so it’s your descision to come and skate!
Also, the final of the eS Game Of Skate is taking place in Manchester on Sunday outside the Projekts Skatepark. So make sure you enter and rep Manchester!
The latest exhibition at Projekts gallery titled ‘This is for you’ is a show made up of collaborations with Artist Paul Roberts’ Monsters Monsters.
The idea for the project is devilishly simple, drawing up a hit list of artists Paul Admires, he sent them doodles, paintings, patterns for plush toys and toys themselves with instructions for them to let their imaginations run riot.
Among the Artists are names like Jon Burgerman, Micheal Sieben, Ian Stevenson, The Outcrowd Collective, Travis Millard as well as some up and coming hot new talent, resulting in over 50 individually pieces from all over the world (see flier attached for full list). Projekts is happy to invite all their friends to the gallery on Friday 6th June for a special preview of the work.
Show runs; Weds 4th-Sun 22nd June Opening night: Friday 6th June 7-9pm
I have been told reliably that the Cathedral side will not be fenced off so the new plan is to go and skate there from 6pm in tribute to Tony Wilson, a true pioneer in Manchester.
I’ll be using the £30 which SkateMCR has to create a banner saying something like “Skaters Love Tony Wilson”.
If you have a snappier idea for what the banner should say, leave a comment below!
This year’s Go Skateboarding Day is fast approaching (it’s June 21st in case you didn’t know). And this year SkateMCR is planning to organise another protest skate at URBIS.
Go Skateboarding Day 2008 is set to be a big one in Manchester because the Vans team are coming here for the day! Their team includes Kris Vile, Danny Wainwright, Ross McGouran and local boy Ben Grove.
Their plan is to have a pump aroung the Projekts Skatepark from noon - 3pm, then sign stuff at the NOTE shop from 4 - 5pm, street skate from 5 - 8pm, then finish off with a Jam at Central Skatepark from 8pm onwards where there will be bands and some “special guests”!
The SkateMCR Protest will be at URBIS from 6pm - 8pm so the Vans team should be able to come and skate with everyone at the best spot in town. The protest will be about the byelaws which ban skateboarding in Manchester’s City Centre. See the byelaws here and sign the petition to get rid of them here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SkateMCR/
See the Vans website for more info. Here’s their poster:
The Gasworks was boarded off in July last year to the huge dismay of skaters across Manchester, nay, the North, nay, the Country! In response to this, Joe decided to make a documentary commemorating the good times over the last decades at the Gasworks.
If you’ve ever skated there come on down, you might even be in the film!
Thanks to Drake for the heads up on the 
I’ll be using the £30 which SkateMCR has to create a banner saying something like “Skaters Love Tony Wilson”.
This weekend sees Weekend In The City return to Manchester thanks to Projekts.
Go Skateboarding Day 2008 is set to be a big one in Manchester because the 
It is being premiered on Thursday April 17th at 
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