Sustainable Ballard Festival September 29 & 30

[katemartin]

Hi.

Parents for Skateparks has made a commitment to Sustainable Ballard to organize a little bit of skate activity at their festival on Sat and Sunday September 29th & 30th. The festival is from 11 - 4 each day.

It would be great to create a nice spectator event and a little learning event.

I'm wondering if we can get some help for 45 minutes from 12:00 - 12:45 helping newbies to slide into the bowl and learn to roll around a little and from 2:00 - 2:45 helping demonstrate some fairly easy tricks that kids can grab some tips about and try out.

It's a "Learn to Skate" kind of thing, but with a little PR benefit.

It would be great to complement that learning event with some demonstration of highly skilled skateboarding.

Can skaters consider marking their calendars to come on out to the Ballard Bowl on those days and help out?

It would be great to have a competition of some kind (I can still remember like yesterday that winning trick by that guy Will from the railing into the old bowl several years ago).

Maybe sometime between 1 and 2 that could happen?

PfS will figure a way to host some beverages and an information table of some kind.

Hey you skaters from outside Seattle...perfect time to come to Seattle and visit with your friends and help the promotional cause.

Let me know if you can help out. I would appreciate it.

Insurance for anyone that helps out is covered by the festival folks.

-Kate

[Scott Shinn]

Thanks Kate! Flyer attached. See you tomorrow.