Council promote beginners skate board event | The Examiner | December 5, 2023 - video Dailymotion

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Launceston City Council Youth and Community Development officer Stephanie Armour and Mayor Matt Garwood are excited to introduce the beginners skate board event in Central Launceston and Ravenswood. Video Rod Thompson

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00:00 So this Saturday down here at the skate park we are going to be in collaboration with Big

00:10 Heart, an arts based social change organisation, bringing some professional skaters from the

00:15 mainland heading down.

00:16 They've been doing a few visits on the north west coast and they'll be coming in to Launceston

00:23 to engage with our skating community but also our more broader community, doing some workshops

00:28 and doing some demos and actually just giving everyone a chance to get in and have some

00:32 fun.

00:33 There might be a few youth in Launceston that have maybe thought about skating but don't

00:37 have the skill set or maybe not the equipment.

00:38 We've got a few free giveaways as well on the day so really looking to pull the community

00:44 together, let them connect with one another and hopefully see if this can eventuate into

00:49 future events.

00:50 Here at Ravenswood we'll be in collaboration with the City Missions Snagchat.

00:55 They're up at the Ravenswood skate park two Fridays a month so we've decided to crash

01:01 their party, take a few of the skaters up while they're in town and utilise this opportunity

01:06 to give maybe some people in the northern suburbs who can't make it down.

01:10 So this is another City of Launceston collaboration coming around, just so happens to be, based

01:16 around recreation and sport with the skateboarding, the scootering and the BMXing.

01:20 We're obviously seeing heavy investment in this at the moment and to go with a recently

01:26 acquired grant with the state, the City of Launceston will be spending up to a million

01:30 dollars on our skate park and also our pump track.

01:34 So to think what that brings forward for our next generation, our younger generations,

01:39 it's about ensuring that they're engaged and finding opportunities to engage not just with

01:44 their peers but also as mentioned the service providers that jump on board these sort of

01:48 events and the positive outcomes that are delivered through those points of conversation.

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Council promote beginners skate board event | The Examiner | December 5, 2023

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