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Board Women: Feel the fear and drop in anyway - Esther Sayers Season 0, Ep. 2
No full textEsther Sayers is a role model to us all. Her name comes up in so many conversations in this community; it seems all roads lead to her. She took up skateboarding at the age of 47, and continues to enjoy the sport to this day, despite a substantial injury to her fingers. She runs the MA Arts and Learning program at Goldsmiths and brings her experience of skateboarding in to her academic work
Beyond Boards Episode 79 - Esther Sayers
No full textEpisode 79 with Esther Sayers, artist, researcher, gallery educator, lecturer and skateboarder from London, England.
Together we discussed her life and career from studying art in the early 90’s to her current role at the Goldsmiths University of London, picking up her first board in 2017 at the age of 47 and how it’s affected her life from then on, connecting with the local and broader skate community, her involvement with the Hackney Bumps Regeneration project and the City Mill Skate Research project at UCL East, her upcoming projects…
(00:13) – Intro
(01:25) – Getting started
(02:00) – Artist Educator
(06:56) – PhD in Philosophy
(16:04) – Starting skateboarding with her son
(24:23) – First time stepping on a board
(27:11) – Skating in skateparks for the first time
(30:47) – Dealing with injuries
(38:02) – Connecting with people in the skateboarding industry/community
(42:53) – Consuming skate media
(47:10) – Free Skatemag interview: “We’re always learning”
(51:21) – Skateboarding as an obsession
(54:49) – Hackney Bumps
(01:03:20) – City Mill Skate
(01:12:39) – Panel discussion in May and Chelsea Gardens
(01:18:09) – What could be your “next” skateboarding?
(01:25:00) – Friends questions
(01:25:03) – Aga from Everyone on boards
(01:31:05) – Josh Sutton
(01:33:46) – Sander Hölsgens
(01:35:06) – David Gough
(01:51:40) – Iain Borden
(02:00:45) – Gustav Edén
(02:08:00) – Åsa Bäckström
(02:09:33) – Paul O’Connor
(02:15:59) – Indigo Willing
(02:19:07) – John Dahlquist and George Nicholls
(02:36:10) – Conclusion
For more information and resources: https://linktr.ee/beyondboard
Book Review: Pedagogies of Taking Care by Dennis Atkinson
No full textBook review by Esther Sayers
Pedagogies of Taking Care by Dennis Atkinso
Skater Girlhood: A snapshot of now
No full textAn article for Grey Skate Magazine. Explores the contemporary scene in UK skateparks and the increase in girls skateboarding. Text by Esther Sayers and photographs by Amanda Fordyce
Senior Skateboarding
No full textA discussion on skateboarding as an older novice with Josh Sutton and Esther Sayers. An article about learning to skateboard, parenting and not growing up
Author Interview with Novelist Esther Laforce
No full textNovelist\u27s Corner:
Author Interview with novelist Esther Laforce, author of: In the Early Days of the Anthropocene (Aux premiers temps de l’Anthropocène). Ottawa, CA: Leméac Editeur, 201
The Bumps - a grassroots community project
No full textArticle about the community renovation project to save Hackney Bumps skatepark. An interview with the Bumps regeneration team, including Dr Esther Sayers, and Editor of Grey Skateboard Magazine and Photographer, Henry Kingsford
Skateboarding, Pedagogy and Motherhood
No full textA chance meeting at the Pushing Boarders conference in Malmo 2019 brought Dr Esther Sayers into dialogue with Editor of Free Skateboard Magazine, Arthur Derrien. This article is the documentation of a conversation between the two about Esther's experience of skateboarding, motherhood and learning to skate. It was distributed by Free Skateboard Magazine online on 2 September 201
Common Grounds: Skateboarding, Learning and the Built Environment
No full textUniversity College London and Goldsmiths are pleased to announce the inaugural edition of Common Grounds: a new symposium dedicated to understanding skateboarding through practice based research.
Common Grounds draws together multi-modal approaches to research across different disciplines, focusing on how skateboarding frames ideas relating to placemaking, community and learning. Alongside examining how participatory design can be used as a vehicle for fostering a legacy of ownership and belonging within skateable spaces.
Programming across the day will consist of a keynote presentation, three panel discussions, a film screening, and a tour of the nearby City Mill Pool Street skateable space. Common Grounds explores how creative and participatory approaches to community engagement can influence the design and use of public spaces, and how skate communities subsequently form around them.
The Common Grounds programme also seeks to generate a particular understanding of the embodied and sensory knowledges that contribute to our understanding of how learning takes place in skateable spaces.
Common Grounds is curated by Dr Esther Sayers with the following invited contributors:
Iain Borden, UCL - author of Skateboarding and the City
Bedir Bekar, UCL - architect and engineer and lecturer
Ben Dixon, Goldsmiths - Postgraduate research, Goldsmiths Listening to skateboarding: a multimodal exploration of an urban development project in East London.
Ben Borthwick - Curator @primedesignplymouth and Head of Programme at Karst
Sheryl Clark, Goldsmiths - author of Skateparks as Communities of Care
Tom Critchley - Goldsmiths - Postgraduate Research
John Dahlquist - Vice Principal of The Bryggeriets Gymnasium School, Malmo
Sam Elstub - Hackney Bumps and Betongpark - landscape architect
Sam Griffin - artist and co-founder City Mill Skate
Sander Holsgens, Leiden University - co-editor of Skate/Worlds: New Pedagogies for Skateboarding (w. Adelina Ong)
Chris Lawton - Skateboard GB
Stuart Maclure - Long Live Southbank and Betongpark
Marie Mayassi - founder Melanin Skate Gals and Pals
Harry Meadley - artist and director of Civic Skateboarding
Paul O'Connor - Exeter University - author of Skateboarding and Religion
Carrie Paechter - Nottingham Trent University - author of What’s it like to be a girl skateboarder? (with Stoodley, Keenan and Lawton)
Lucy Raemers - co-founder of The Ben Raemers Foundation
Esther Sayers - Goldsmiths - co-founder City Mill Skate and author of Skateboarding, Time and Ethics
With remote interventions from:
Sophie Friedel - author of The Art of Living Sideways
Indigo Willing, University of Sydney - author of Skateboarding, Power and Change (with Anthony Pappalardo
The Esther Forbes Papers
No full textThe Esther Forbes Papers contain original manuscripts written by Forbes during her childhood and college years. They also contain manuscripts for The Running of the Tide, Rainbow on the Road, and Paradise. With the papers are housed bibliographic material about Esther Forbes collected by Jack Bales and published as: Esther Forbes: A Bio-Bibliography of the Author of Johnny Tremain, by The Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Md., 1998, Scarecrow Author Bibliographic Series, No. 98
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