Go here this Thursday and support a great cause and help make a huge difference for the lives of a lot of kids.

Skateistan is Afghanistan’s (and the world’s) first co-educational skateboarding school. 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 programs. The students are selected from all of Afghanistan’s diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. They will develop skills in skateboarding, skateboarding instruction, 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 to lead their communities toward social change and development.

Last year, the Skateistan fundraising project set up in Copenhagen. A mix of on online art auction (where well known Danish artist redesigned skateboards which were sold through Lauritz), a skate contest and a sick line up of musicians and DJ’s.

Sponsors stepped up and donated cash, time and goodies. Everyone worked for free and the whole thing was a super success raising 306,770 kroner. Skateistan has such a fantastic momentum which was solidified in its claiming of the KPH Award and a further 25,000 to toss on the pile.

Thursday the 11th March, Skateistan2010 is going down at Copenhagen Skatepark with a superduper line up of crazy crackers playing records, skateboard foolios and of course all the donated art work.

16:00-17:00 DJ TYKMESTER (AKA Master Fatman)
17:00-18:00 COPIA DOBLE SYSTEMA
18:00-19:00 BANG BANG CLUB
19:00-20:00 KJELD TOLSTRUP
20:00-21:00 COHNNY JAZZ – sætter kog under skatekonkurrencen
21:00-22:00 LADY BOX
22:00-23:00 DOKKEDAL/DIXEN
23:00-24:00 LULU ROUGE
24:00-01:00 DJUNA BARNES
01:00-02:00 WHITE PONY
02:00-04:00 SOULSYSTEMET (POLKA)

Skateistan Copenhagen 2010

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