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Thu February 13, 2025

Skateboarding San Francisco Opening Reception

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Until the 1990s, skateboarding was perceived as a suburban, niche activity in Southern California, surfing on sidewalks. Today, it has surged into a global, urban, youth culture phenomenon. Defying easy definition and traditional classifications, skateboarding can be both a sport at the Olympics and an underground subculture, a way to connect with other skaters and surfaces, and also a means of self-discovery through movement in space. Much of skateboarding's 21st-century appeal - embracing diverse communities, creative approaches to the city's built environment, music, fashion, slang, trick choice and style - come directly from San Francisco.

The exhibit "Skateboarding San Francisco" explores how a local activity made global impact. San Francisco has always been and remains a lodestar for skateboarders worldwide, where challenges are seen as appeals, surfaces beckon play, and whose lore is celebrated through the city's characteristic concrete and evolving, vibrant communities.

Join us for the opening reception of Skateboarding San Francisco: Concrete, Community, Continuity. Light refreshments served.

Free

Presented by San Francisco Public Library, in the Jewett Gallery, Lower Level
Until the 1990s, skateboarding was perceived as a suburban, niche activity in Southern California, surfing on sidewalks. Today, it has surged into a global, urban, youth culture phenomenon. Defying easy definition and traditional classifications, skateboarding can be both a sport at the Olympics and an underground subculture, a way to connect with other skaters and surfaces, and also a means of self-discovery through movement in space. Much of skateboarding's 21st-century appeal - embracing diverse communities, creative approaches to the city's built environment, music, fashion, slang, trick choice and style - come directly from San Francisco.

The exhibit "Skateboarding San Francisco" explores how a local activity made global impact. San Francisco has always been and remains a lodestar for skateboarders worldwide, where challenges are seen as appeals, surfaces beckon play, and whose lore is celebrated through the city's characteristic concrete and evolving, vibrant communities.

Join us for the opening reception of Skateboarding San Francisco: Concrete, Community, Continuity. Light refreshments served.

Free

Presented by San Francisco Public Library, in the Jewett Gallery, Lower Level
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