Skateistan found raising @ Fluxlab, via Silvio Pellico 8 - Torino
Skateistan is Afghanistan’s—and the world’s—first co-educational skateboarding school. Operating as an independent, neutral, Afghan NGO, the school engages growing numbers of urban and internally-displaced youth in Afghanistan through skateboarding, and provides them with new opportunities in cross-cultural interaction, education, and personal empowerment. Skateistan's students come from all of Afghanistan’s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They not only develop skills in skateboarding and skateboarding instruction, but also healthy habits, civic responsibility, information technology, the arts, and languages. The students themselves decide what they want to learn—we connect them with teachers who will enable them to develop the skills that they consider important. Since Skateistan has been active in Kabul, we’ve seen that Afghan youth of all ethnicities, genders, and socioeconomic backgrounds love to skateboard. Skateistan brings them together, equipping young men and women with the skills to lead their communities toward social change and development.
my contribution for papergirl bcn.
Exhibition at Caleidoscopio gallery, calle nou de sant francesc 4, barcelona.
La petita galeria is a little amazing bar with a little exhibition room in the heart of Raval, my (favourite) district of barcelona. In August, every week they organize the Sketch Wensday: is nothing sophisticated or artistic-wannabe, they simply put some marker, pencil and paper sheet on the tables, and everyone can draw, write, cut and paste the paper as he want. It's probably the only place where I saw an initiative like this work pretty well. Almost all the people, while chatting and drinking, were drawing. Even if sounds weird going out to put myself drawing on a table (read: I do it everyday in my house), I really enjoyed it without feeling the typical pressure of drawing in a public place. If you got the same problem and are in barcelona in this moment, you can start from here to solve it.
