Vancouver’s voice for skateboarding
The mission of the Vancouver Skateboarding Coalition is to act as an entity that is accessible to all skateboarders, promoting unity throughout our city’s diverse skateboard scene and taking a proactive role in creating and maintaining a safe, fun environment that all of Vancouver’s skateboarders can enjoy for years to come.
There are pages at the top and the rest is like a blog.
This site is best viewed using FireFox which will provide a safer browsing experience - please click on the button on the right to make sure you're browsing safely and seeing this website the way it was intended!
Happy New Year kids. The Vancouver Skateboard Coalition’s first meeting of 2009 is tomorrow. That’s Wednesday, January 7th. And please note our change of venue… it’s going to be at Boulevard, Kevin Kelly’s new skateshop. That’s out in Kerrisdale at 5305 West Boulevard.
As mentioned below, the Coalition recently had an election. 2009 has the makings of being a great year for skateboarding in Vancouver, and our new board is stoked to get things underway.
(Read on …)
Hey everyone, Thor, who heads up the Leeside Stewardship Group just made a short video about Vancouver’s favourite DIY skatepark. Yes. Leeside. The video is called “Tunnel Visions” and it’s a quick look at the history of the place and at what’s going on down there right now. Check it out. And keep an eye and ear open for Coalition members and associates.
Since elections seem to be the hot thing in this autumn of 2008, we here at the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition have decided to jump on the bandwagon with an election of our own. What positions are we voting on? All of them! President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, enthusiastic board members, etc.
(Read on …)
On Tuesday, October 28th at Antisocial, the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition hosted “Boards and Biscuits”, a casual meet-and-greet event for Vancouver City Council candidates. Despite, in a textbook display of Murphy’s Law, another candidates meeting being simultaneously held at Britannia Community Centre, several COPE and Vision Vancouver candidates (along with a few parents, neighbours, kids, and local skateboarders) came to see what we had to say…
(Read on …)
The Vancouver Skateboard Coalition would like to extend our congratulations to our very own Sarah Blyth - Vision Vancouver’s candidate for Park Board 2008. Vision Vancouver members went to the poles to vote for Park Board nominees at Sir Charles Tupper School on September 20th. Sarah surprised herself by coming #1 favorite Vancouver Vision Park Board nominee and as rumor has it - apparently beat out fellow nominees by quite a stretch. If your not familiar with Sarah - she is the founder of the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition and has been involved with many community events through out the years involving of course skateboarding, bmx and art. We obviously think that Sarah would make an outstanding addition to the Vancouver Park Board and invite you to become familiar with Sarah before election day.
Visit www.sarahblyth.com to learn more about Sarah!
Check it out kids. A slideshow of the Vancouver Skateboard Coalition’s second annual Pride Parade float, courtesy of Jason. Enjoy!
Huge thanks to everyone who came out.
Pride 2008 was a complete success. We had so much fun with out mini ramp on wheels. I will post some photos on our flickr site.
