Since the beginning of the year, Dad? crew- a bunch of teenage skateboarders from Newcastle- have been working with poet Paul Summers to create an exhibition of skateboarding sonnets, photos of flips and short films that show you places and faces through a skateboarder’s eyes. It’s a chance to see the tagging, tricks and injuries, and to see Newcastle in a totally new way.
Alongside the exhibition, there will be bands and music, spoken word, and a screening of seminal skateboarding documentary, Dogtown and Z-Boys, which tells the story of the group of teenage skaters in 1970s California who formed Z-Boys skate crew and went on to change the history of skateboarding.
