At the Free Krek And Mers Skate / Graf Jam, Eddie talks about his love of food and his favourite trick amongst many other things. Click below to listen:
Download SkateMCR Podcast - Eddie Belvedere
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| October 15, 2007 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
You are invited to come to the next SkateMCR Open Meeting at 7pm at the Projekts shop (36 - 40 Edge Street, Northern Quarter) on the 15th October.
We will be discussing plans for a 6 month removal of the byelaw banning skateboarding from Cathedral Gardens (aka URBIS). The idea bahind this is to prove to Manchester City Council and others that skateboarders can look after a space and that it is positive for the City.
Another thing on the agenda will be plans for Manchester International Skateboard Festival for summer 2008.
You can only hear what the current plans are and pitch in your ideas if you’re at the meeting, so make sure you come!
Also, free biscuits, crisps and drinks!
This Sunday afternoon (30th September) Fakie Rock is happening again at URBIS.
The workshop (from 1pm - 4pm) consists of designing graphics to go on the mini-ramp and recording sound samples to be played when you skate the mini-ramp. Then from 4pm - 6pm you get to skate the mini-ramp and trigger the noises you created earlier!
Take a look at this video we put together from the first Fakie Rock on Sunday 16th Sept:
We’ve also got a bunch of photo’s from the afternoon on our flickr site, click here to take a look.
To take part in Fakie Rock, click here to book your place.
In this Podcast episode, Nev talks about how he started skating and what he thinks would make the skate scene in Manchester better. Have a listen:
Download SkateMCR Podcast - Nev
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| October 2, 2007 | ||
| 4:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Nick Hornby, bestselling author of Fever Pitch, About A Boy and High Fidelity, is launching his new book - SLAM - in Manchester on Tuesday October 2nd.
Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend– because by the time she tells him she’s pregnant, they’ve already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young interrupted her life. There’s only one person Sam can turn to–his hero, skating legend Tony Hawk. Sam believes the answers to life’s hurdles can be found in Hawk’s autobiography. But even Tony Hawk isn’t offering answers this time–or is he? Inexplicably, Sam finds himself whizzed into the future, for a quick glimpse of what will be . . . or what could be. In this wonderfully witty, poignant story about a teenage boy unexpectedly thrust into fatherhood, it’s up to Sam to make the right decisions so the bad things that could happen, well, don’t. (from Amazon.com)
The book launch is at East City Library from 6.30pm. Nich Hornby will read some of his book for the audience, then aswer any questions, then he will sign books which you can buy on the day - 1 week before the book is launched nationally!
ProjektsMCR will be doing some skate coaching from 4pm - 6pm for beginners and SkateMCR are organising a skateboard demo on a mini-ramp before the book launch so make sure to get there early.
Tickets for the book launch are free but you’ll need to book them in advance - call 0161 234 5501.
The Free Krek And Mers Skate / Graf Jam went really well on Saturday. Around 200 people turned up in support of Thomas Dolan (Krek) and Thomas Whit (Mers).
Join the Facebook Group or the Myspace page supporting the campaign to release Krek and Mers from prison.
We recorded these interviews during the day, take a look:
| September 15, 2007 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 7:00 pm |
Press Release: SKATEBOARDERS PROTEST AT GRAFFITI ARTISTS IMPRISONMENT
Skateboarders in Manchester have organised a Skate & Graff Jam to protest against the prison sentences received by Thomas Dolan, 20, and Thomas Whitaker, 18, on 28th August 2007.
The Skate Jam will take place on Saturday 15th September 2007 from 1pm at the Projekts Skatepark beneath the Mancunian Way in Manchester’s City Centre. Everybody is being invited to come down to skate, paint or chill.
Thomas Dolan, who’s graffiti tag name is “Krek”, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment and Thomas Whitaker, who’s graffiti tag name is “Mers”, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment even though the judge described them as “talented” and “nice people”.
Thomas Dolan, also known as TJ, skateboarded regularly in Manchester’s City Centre and is well known amongst skaters. NOTE, the skateshop on Tib Street, has been selling out of T-shirts sold at cost-price with the words “Free Krek Free Mers” in Graffiti style lettering.
The campaign to free Krek and Mers has been hugely successful online. The Facebook.com group has over 100 photo’s of graffiti art by Krek and Mers and has nearly 1,400 members at the time of writing. The Myspace.com page has been flooded with dozens of comments in support of the Graffiti artists and shock at their prison sentences.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8440946757
http://www.myspace.com/hellokreky
Phil Heathcote, a friend of Thomas Dolan’s, has been leading the campaign. “We’re not saying that what they did wasn’t wrong or illegal - in fact they admitted so in court!” says Phil. “But with the prisons overcrowded and the MEN reporting on 15,000 criminals being let off with a caution, including rapists, we think that these prison sentences are way overboard and should be revoked immediately.”
Journalists, Photographers and Camera Crews are welcome to come along and cover the protest. For more information, contact Ben Gibbs (details above), NOTE Skateshop on 0161 839 7077, Phil Heathcote on 07709 794 355 or go to www.skatemcr.com
| September 16, 2007 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| September 30, 2007 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| October 14, 2007 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
| October 21, 2007 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 6:00 pm |
More URBIS news… Over 4 Sundays in September and October 2007, the Juneau Projects artists will set-up a mini-ramp containing contact microphones in the URBIS foyer. The idea is that new sounds will be created as skaters skate the ramp.
The Sunday sessions will be run as workshops and will have a limited number of participants each time. Only those skateboarders in the workshops will be allowed to skate the mini-ramp after the workshops are done. The workshops will include designing images that will be painted and stencilled onto a mini-ramp and capturing, mixing and mashing up sound samples that go into the mini-ramp.
The workshop will happen from 1pm - 4pm with skating the mini-ramp from 4pm - 6pm on these dates:
For more information, click here to see the URBIS page for the exhibition.
URBIS has an exhibition of Skateboards designed by different artisits from around the world. Called “Among The Living”, the exhibition is on the wall between the shop and the foyer area.
Click here to see our photo set on flickr.
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