The group of nine — which includes skateboarders, filmmakers, and photographers — will be travelling to Malmö to explore the city’s famous skateboarding culture and history.
The group will take classes in Malmö’s skateboarding high school which uses skateboarding as a vehicle to teach different subjects.
The participants, who are associated with the Skate Space charity, plan to learn how Malmö’s skateboarding collective collaborated with the local authorities to build skateparks and host events that make the city famous in the skate community — and even created the need for a skate ambassador in government.
The group will take photography and filmmaking classes at the Bryggeriet school, visit the city’s skateparks and meet professional skateboard filmmakers, photographers, and skateboarders.
As well as providing inspiration for Jersey’s emerging skateboarding spaces, it is hoped that the trip will benefit the local community by pulling together a team of people who have the potential to collaboratively create something inspiring for the island.
Pictured: Malmö, in Sweden, has used skateparks to revitalise its public spaces
Skate Space’s Natalie Mayer said: “Malmö has a reputation as a city that has supported the skateboard world for many years, encouraging a DIY skate build scene, creating nine skateparks dotted about the city, hosting exhibitions, competitions, film screenings and skateboard-centred academic conferences.
“Not to mention, home to the Bryggeriet skateboard high school – which offers a traditional education taught through the medium of skateboarding, art, photo and film. We will visit all these goings-on, connect with locals from the art and film world, and hope to return inspired and full of ideas.”
The trip is funded by the Rivington Fund, which funds islanders’ trips off-island to explore arts, crafts and history.