Skateboarders explore the city as you move through, over and across Newcastle. Skaters have a better feel for how the city is, the architecture, layout & secret places, than many other passers-by....even if they are sometimes banned, moved on or segregated. This project explores the skaters’ Newcastle through your images, videos and maps.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Update

A few things to update.

1. Work is underway on the poster we're going to produce based on all the maps people have been doing. The idea is to create something which represents the findings of the research we're been doing and in some way maps the skate scene in Newcastle. We'll be using our own work, but mainly stuff from the maps people have been drawing. As part of the process Jon has been cutting out people from them, and you can see them here:

Various Skaters' Self Portraits

2. Jon met with people at Dance City to finalise what is going to be included in the event/exhibition. We're going to mount every single map we've got. So, if you've done a map it will be on display at Dance City on June 19th - you all will be artists! We are also planning to have a huge map of Newcastle that anyone can draw on and/or annotate with their stories about skating in Toon. The performance space is going to be full of stuff, and we're hoping it will make for a great afternoon.