January 2018: A new year, a new chapter for SKATEISM: The Diversity Skateboarding Magazine. We’re excited to announce our first ever print publication, which will be released at our SKATE BORDERS exhibition at BRIGHT 2018. Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
In the past half decade or so we’ve watched skateboarding expand and develop in very interesting ways; it’s a net cast wider and wider every day, encouraging those with little or no experience with the culture to drop in and get involved. We’ve seen scenes pop up in the far East thanks to skate-aid projects like SkatePAL and Skateistan, the female skate community blow-up due to the dedication and passion from womxn skaters the world over, and queer culture – which was near-nonexistent in skating – is now being pioneered by the likes of Sam McGuire, Brian Anderson and Leo Baker. We are so fucking proud of you skateboarding, so we wanted to give something back.
BRIGHT Tradeshow, home of the Bright European Skateboard Awards, kicks off next week (16-18th January); the Arena on Am Flutgraben is set to become the buzzing home of skateboarding in Berlin, Europe and further afield for just two days. In that short but exciting time, the city will be swamped by the brightest and best, with brands and pros riding in from all over to join the festivities. We can’t wait to see you all there.
Yet amid all the excitement, it’s crucial we don’t forget that skateboarding is still far from perfect. We are young. We can be naive. We can exclude. But we can also be powerful, political, beautiful and accepting. Skateboarding was always the place for outcasts, well now more than ever we must open our culture, and not make the same mistakes Europe more broadly is in danger of making.
SKATEISM present “SKATE BORDERS”, an exhibition and fundraiser at BRIGHT ‘18. For two days our booth (No. E9) will be home to the work of internationally renowned skate-artists, with pieces up for sale to you, the attendees of BRIGHT. For every piece sold, the artist donates a portion of the profits to Free Movement Skateboarding: the refugee outreach programme in Athens, Greece.
Featuring work from:
Sam McGuire
Lucas Beaufort
Liam Painter
Eloise Dorr
MOCH
Funeral French (Witchcraft Skateboards)
Ruby Mateja (Free Movement Skateboarding)
Alex Souetre (SOVRN Skateboards)
Ziv Lahat
SKATEISM will also be releasing issue #1: our first hard copy publication, featuring the alternative, the outcasts and the unique – the underground and overlooked in skateboarding culture. Pick up yours for FREE at BRIGHT 2018.
