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Go Skateboarding Day – 2009
Get your boards ready, kids, it’s that time again. We have a couple events going on this year. The event is spread out across the week-end. Here’s the rundown for all you skate rats.
Saturday June 20, 2009 – 11am-2pm; Fifth Avenue Deli: 2910 Rosewood Dr Columbia, SC
Bluetile Skateboards is bringing out the ramps and rails for the kiddos. This event will be chill – all about skating. Roll on down and help us shred the parking lot from 11am-2pm.
Sunday June 21, 2009 – Noon-Until; Ackerman Skatepark Charleston SC
The Charleston Committee is pulling out all the stops for this one! Jump castles, refreshments, a new skateable sculpture is being unveiled and there’s an after party at The Park in North Charleston! All that, and the event is on the real go skateboarding day which also happens to be Father’s day. What better way to spend time with the kids?
Wherever you are make sure you skate this weekend and if you can make it go to both events. We hope to see you skating with us at one of the events!
New Brookland Tavern Benefit Concert Feb. 13; 8pm!
This Friday the 13th! It’s a Valentines warm-up! Come show some love for the skatepark and POUR IT NOW! New Brookland Tavern 8pm!
Bands:
Kid Trails (Patrick and Cameron of the Heist and The Accomplice)
Cooter Scooters
Sons of Young
The Noise
The Unawares
Special Thanks to Travis Bland of Sons of Young for setting all this up! You rule!
The State Covers Owens Field Tony Hawk Grant
This article really gives some great dates/deadlines for building the skatepark.
McDuffie said the grant will help the city build the park more quickly.
Officials will begin taking bids by the end of this month and hope to build the park for about $500,000.
Depending on how many bids the city receives, construction could begin by late March or early April. McDuffie said the park should be completed by July or August.
POUR IT NOW Event Makes Best of 2008
The Charleston Post and Courier featured POUR IT NOW in their best local events of 2008!
2008 was still brand-spankin’ new when I rolled into the now-defunct Map Room in West Ashley, ready to support and ready to dance. Even into the holidays, skateboarding advocates for Charleston’s Pour It Now foundation were happy to keep on giving right through the new year. Local skaters were on hand to raise funds and awareness. Their goal? To build a skatepark on the peninsula of downtown Charleston, providing a safe haven to skate.
Tony Hawk Foundation Supports First Concrete Skatepark In South Carolina
From the Tony Hawk Foundation Website:
12/16/08 (Vista, CA) — The Tony Hawk Foundation Board of Directors met in December to select the recipients of its Fall 2008 Skatepark Grants. Among the 27 communities to receive a grant is Columbia, South Carolina, whose proposed 16,000-square-foot Owens Field Skatepark project will be the first custom-concrete skatepark in South Carolina, and also the first skatepark project in the state to qualify for a Tony Hawk Foundation grant.
Legendary: The Pool – Charleston, SC
If you have ever skated in Charleston, SC then you might have heard about The Pool. For those that had the opportunity to skate it and live it, check out the video in progress and reflect on days gone by. If you missed the chance to skate it, go ahead and live vicariously through the video. Artist and Skateboarder, Kevin Earl Taylor, is compiling video, photos and interviews in an effort to create a more complete documentary about this beloved skate spot from downtown Charleston. If you have something to add to the video please contact Kevin through sk843.com or ryan@pouritnow.com
Come Skate in the Parade with Us!
December 5, 2008; Five Points – Columbia, SC
We are going to be skating in the parade! At 6pm the Festivus Parade in Five Points will begin. Wear your POUR IT NOW T-shirts and bring posters and banners in support of the skatepark. Skate with us or just watch in the crowd. Don’t miss out on all the fun. Come show your support!
Wired Magazine Article Features Oslo Skatepark
I found this article particularly interesting and wanted to share with fellow skaters and skatepark advocates. This is a very interesting new way to build skateparks – as a natural part of the urban environment. It seems that the architects for this opera house in Oslo have embraced the skateboarding culture in order not only to foster healthy physical activity but also to enhance the environment surrounding the opera house. They have seized the opportunity to channel the inspiration and energy of skateboarding youth in a positive way that amplifies the overall experience of the opera house.
“For years, architects have gone to great lengths to protect their buildings from marauding skaters. But as aesthetic trends move toward folded planes that transition seamlessly from wall to ceiling and back to wall, designers have been looking to their former adversaries for a lesson in flow,” says Wired writer Andrew Blum.
The Columbia Museum of Art Hosts Skate and Create 3.0
January 7 – March 8, 2009; Opening Reception January 9, 2009; 5pm-7pm
Skate and Create – The opposite of stereotype.
When Dave Toole, Bluetile Skateboards Owner and POUR IT NOW volunteer, first held Skate and Create he asked the artists to re-imagine a skateboard as something new and different – the same way a skateboarder re-imagines the urban terrain into his own skateboard park. The result was fantastic, an entire gallery of skateboards repurposed and recycled as artwork. The third iteration of Skate and Create brings to The Columbia Museum of Art, the works of internationally acclaimed artists who attribute their inspiration to growing up within the skateboarding scene in South Carolina. The spirit of skateboarding is directly infused within the work of Kevin E. Taylor, Jason Filipow and the rest of the Skate and Create Artists.
Taylor writes, “our creative life was nurtured through skateboarding. Little did we know, but the act of improvising hours of fun from society’s detritus would train our minds to explore the potentiality of our surroundings. Skateboarding was a self expressive mode, in which we developed individualities and preferences. Through it and the surrounding atmosphere of counter culture, we learned the mechanics of introspection. It was something we did together, but by ourselves. We all had our distinctive styles then, just as we do now.
I remember building a ramp using found scraps of wood. For a couple of hours, we’d scoured the ground at the junkyard on Sullivan’s Island, each of us collecting an artillery of rusty, bent and nearly broken nails. With half of a broken brick, we took those and hammered them back into shape. We had learned how to design, conceptualize and construct what we saw in our heads. In 1987, we called them ramps, but now we know, they were indeed our earliest original works.”
Skate and Create began out of the necessity to build awareness and raise funds for a skateboard park in Columbia, SC. When the skatepark at Owens Field was demolished, it created an amazing opportunity for the City of Columbia to replace it with a unique structure unlike any other in South Carolina. A concrete skatepark is in essence a sculpture of massive proportions. The interaction between structure and participant becomes necessary to fully realize the potential of the piece. Thirty-year veteran skatepark designer, Wally Hollyday was commissioned for the Owens Field Skatepark project. His designs have been built all over the world. As a preview to the construction of his 16,000 square foot installation, his designs and blueprints for Owens Field Skatepark will be on display as part of the exhibit.
