Support Escape Route Zine #2 on Kickstarter

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ABOUT THE PROJECT: We want to print issue #2 of the community based female skateboarding zine Escape Route. Escape Route is a DIY cut and paste community driven zine featuring all female skateboarders. The idea of the zine is to inspire people to skate, properly represent females in the skate community AND show that we're everywhere!!!!! It also seeks to empower young girls & women to grow into strong, confident leaders who promote and implement social equity via skateboarding.

Escape Route will share submissions contributed by female skaters from around the world. Submissions include photos, articles and interviews of skaters, recipes, tour diaries, reviews, directions to skate spots, up and coming skate events, and places to stay/people to contact when on skate trips.

ABOUT PRINTING THE ZINE: In order to finish this project we need to print the zine (this is where you and Kickstarter come in). It will be a 32 page, color, 5.5"x8.5", cut/paste zine. We would like to use a printing company who uses recycled papers/soy-based inks. It'll be about $500 to print the zines. It will also be about another $600 to distribute the zines (it costs about a $1 to ship in the US. and about $3 to ship worldwide) depending where the zines are sent. $50 will go toward kickstarter/amazon processing fees.

PLEDGES: The money pledged to the zine via Kickstarter will go toward paying for the printing services and postage for distributing the zines worldwide. All leftover money (if any) will go toward future issues of the zine. Since this is a volunteer run zine, we are using Kickstarter to pay for the zine and make the zine more accessible to people regardless of their financial situation by not having to charge $ for Escape Route.

If you'd like to be a part of the #2 issue of Escape Route please send in your submissions to skatelikeagirlsf@gmail.com by May 21, 2011. We'd like to have the zine ready to print by May 31, 2011 and ready to distribute by June 2011.

You can find more information about:

Skate Like A Girl: www.skatelikeagirl.com

Issue #1: http://skatelikeagirlsf.bigcartel.com/product/escape-route-zine-1

New Equipment Thanks to Board Rescue

We are delighted to have received 7 complete skateboards and SuperTool skate wrenches from Board Rescue this past month. A big thank you to the organization for providing us gear to help further SLAG SF's programming. We are currently scheduling clinics and programs for the summer so keep checking in.

About Board Rescue

Board Rescue is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public benefit corporation. We partner with the skateboard industry to supply skateboard decks, trucks, wheels and safety equipment to organizations that work with children, targeting low-income and at risk youth.

for more information visit http://boardrescue.org/

Join SLAG SF & SFWAR Walk Against Rape

SLAG SF will be collaborating with the non-profit organization San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) on Saturday, April 30, 2011. Come out and join us in support of SFWAR’s 6th Annual Walk Against Rape starting at the Women’s Building and Ending at the Potrero del Sol Skatepark. SLAG SF will be participating in the march and providing a skate clinic as well as skating the Potrero Skatepark at the end of the walk. There will be performances and vendors as well for the remainder of the day. Proceeds from the day’s events will go out to the organization’s services that support survivors of rape and sexual assault. The walk will begin at 10 am and end around 1:30pm with activities throughout the day at Potrero del Sol Park. Our clinic welcomes everyone. All ages, all abilities.

Walk Against Rape aims to:

Raise awareness in San Francisco around issues of sexual violence.

Provide a space for survivors of sexual violence to heal and celebrate their survival.

Educate communities about the resources available in the aftermath of an assault.

Raise money for San Francisco's only community based rape crisis center.

Create community around shared experiences of sexual violence so as to not isolate further the experience.

To make visible what has historically been silenced and invisible.

For more information or to register and walk in the march visit sfwar.org

To walk with SLAG SF contact us at sanfrancisco@skatelikeagirl.com

About SFWAR

San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, we believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution.

SFWAR is a women of color led, volunteer-based organization that has provided rape crisis services to survivors of sexual assault for over 30 years. As the primary provider of rape crisis services in San Francisco, we also offer support to friends and families of survivors and provide expert advice, training, and assistance to healthcare workers, medical professionals, educators, law enforcement officers and other professionals throughout the city. Our prevention programs have reached young people in classrooms in schools serving every area of San Francisco, and provided information and resources to people of all ages through community programs, social services, and numerous community events. All our services are confidential and free of charge.

Screenprinting Shenanigans

We made new posters! We went fluorescent-ink-happy and also made a few different color paper runs. They all turned out pretty awesome, but I think our favorite is the mixed "sherbet-colored" one. Thanks to the Levi's Workshop and their awesome staff for hookin us up and teaching us how to screenprint (here's lookin at you, Ed)! Our poster was also in the Levi's closing party in SF and is now in the Levi's Workshop archives! The SF pop-up shop may be gone and off to NY now, but we hope to continue screenprinting here in the Bay Area. Do I foresee screenprinting parties in the future??? Oh, here are a few images from the workshop. Enjoy!

The Rise of Rad

SKATING & ZINES!!! Couldn't of asked for a better show...unfortunately, "The Rise of Rad: The Influence of the Urethane Revolution" exhibition at the Torrence Art Museum is coming to a close THIS Saturday, Sept 4!

I'm super bummed I've been putting off going to this for so long and probably won't be able to make it...times like these make me wish there was bullet train in SF for us to hop on and be in Torrence in less than an hour (hint hint governor).

If anyone goes, please make sure to drop us a line and send some images our way! Thanks!

Hyphy Tour Memorial Day Weekend 2010

Join SLAG SF on their tour up to Fort Bragg to help with the city's skatepark fundraiser. We will be touring from 5/28-5/30 2010 Contact us for more information or if you plan on coming. Caravans encouraged! There will be one rental van if you need a ride. First come, first serve. See you on the road! [Click on Flyer for Larger View]

save money

Hey

This is Staycee from Skate Like A Girl SF.

I started working at a skate shop in S.F. called Purple Skunk. My boss, Lizzie, said I could give all the SLAGSF girls a 10% discount in the store. So, if you want to drop by the shop, let me know when, and I can hook you up. OR...you can shop online and if you order over 75 dollars, you get free shipping..and you can get a discount too for being a part of SLAGSF. So, for more info, just let me know.

Oh, and if you want us to sell something that you can't find anywhere else, or if you would like us to carry a product = decks, trucks...etc. let us know the size you like and brand...

-stace

THE ZINE IS READY!

Email Skatelikeagirlsf@gmail.com to learn how to grab a copy. You can choose a b&w copy, or color copy (which costs a bit more 'cause it's color)

type (zine) in the subject

-stace

ZINE

For those of you who didn't know...


The zine is coming along very nicely!
I think it may be done either tonight or Sunday night. We still do not have a name for it yet, so your suggestions are highly appreciated.

If you would like to help with the printing of the zine, you can go here:
www.firstgiving.com/skatelikeagirl


All the donations made in Made in March will go towards the Skate Like A Girl S.F. Chapter!!!

So, PLEASE...Let all your friends and family know.

Thanks!



-stace

P.S. Skate Date tomorrow in Santa Cruz! Wooo! Hope it doesn't rain!

Riding Dirty

Thanks, Jo, for sharing!

ridin dirty from Jo Lambert on Vimeo.