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Don’t miss the premiere of Think Thank’s “Right Brain Left Brain” a 2-disc feature in downtown Boston. The Greatest Bar will host the screening on Friday October 8th at 9:30 with an after party kicking off an hour later. Prizes giveaways and as always, shenanigans.
Get ready for the SOS Season Pass Tour, coming to your college soon! Stratton, Okemo and Mount Sunapee have teamed up to offer their season pass to anyone with a valid college ID for just $279. The tour will make stops at more than a dozen colleges starting October 6th with RPI. Make sure to stop by and get in on all the great swag from tour sponsors and hit up the free video premier from Standard Films “The Storming”. Makes us wish we were still in college… Don’t miss out!
In case you missed it, most of Western Mass and CT came out to Agawam Family Cinemas last night for the double feature of Think Thanks “Right Brain Left Brain” and Videograss’s “Bon Voyage”. It was great to see 3 shops teaming up to put on a kickass event. Riders, (Scott Stevens, Austin Granger, Chris Beresford), mountains (Blandford, Butternut!), companies (K2, Ride, Steez) were all on had last night. Tons of product was given away, everyone waled off happy. As usual Western Mass did it up right.
The fifth annual Fun in the Sun Railjam goes down on Saturday October 9th at WaWa. It gets bigger and better every year and in case you haven’t ever been, we’ll tell you – it’s ridiculous! Contest starts at 1pm with a $15 entry fee. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of prizes and over $1,000 in cash. Get some.
Flow Snowboarding brings their latest flick “Witness the Sickness” to Boston with an 80′s snowboard party. Don;t miss it Friday october 1st at The Good Life in downtown Crossings. Special guest appearances from Scotty Lago, Tim Humphreys, Jeremy Thompson and Brandon Reis. Dress in your best 80′s get up!
Get over to the Johnson Skatepark for one of Vermonts biggest skate events of the year. Saturday September 25th the Johnson Jam Sessions and Chili Cookoff will kick off at noon and go till night. Open to all ages for a suggested donation of just $10. Live music, free food, tons of prizes. They’ll be giving away 3 complete custom cut cruisers in addition to tons of other prizes in the following contests and categories: Park, plaza, and mini ramp jams, high ollie, game of skate, best tricks (a few since there’s so much new stuff) and time trials. There will be awards for worst slam, best overall and more.Come help raise money for a concrete bowl. What better to do on a Saturday afternoon?
Boston kicked off premiere season with a bang. Absinthe’s NOW/HERE came to Coolidge Corner’s Theater last night thanks to many sponsors. With over 100 people in attendance and Bjorn Leines and Nicolas Muller signing autographs, it was a great way to get some re-season stoke in. Always a good time in the Bean.
Satrday September 25th, get out to Agawam, MA for a very proper double feature. Think Thank will be premiering their new flick “Right Brain Left Brain” and Videograss will be showing “Bon Voyage.” It’s only $5 at the door with plenty of prizes and special guests on hand.
In this “Perspectives” video series, Planet Earth Clothing shares the story of what started as an illegal ramp under an overpass on Seattle City property that has now sprawled into a legal 10,000 square foot concrete skatepark. Built by skaters, for skaters it continues to grow backed by a community of people that have a stake in the park, not just for themselves, but for the entire skateboard community of Seattle. They raise the money, they build it, they maintain it. It’s a public skatepark, built one truck of concrete at a time.
In an industry of televised competitions and household name pros, Planet Earth takes a step back and has created a down to earth, behind the scenes real-life 5-part video series & interview documenting the “egg” effort and completion of this homegrown, grass-roots DIY skatepark. Beyond just telling the story, Planet Earth donated a concrete truck of concrete, and spent 5 days documenting the completion of the new shallow bowl & the crew skating it after. Not all bros are pros, in this web-documentary you’ll find their inspiring story, seldom told in the skate industry.
Get over to Andover Skatepark on Saturday September 18th for the grand opening of the concrete section. From 11am to 7pm there’ll be music, food, contests, clinics and tons of freebies. More shop sponsors than you can shake a stick at too so don’t miss out!
