Welcome to CIVIC, a Leeds Skateboarding Resource

Equal parts publication, library and guidebook, CIVIC has been created to showcase Leeds skateboarding, provide a visual archive of its history and assist in bridging formal relationships with spaces and institutions to nurture an understanding of skateboarding’s local cultural value.

The website features an interactive spot map and spot guides aiming to make street skateboarding in Leeds more accessible, and a comprehensive video archive of skateboarding media produced by the Leeds skateboarding community, spanning from the late 1990s to today.

The name, “CIVIC” is derived from a bygone nickname for what is now known as Millennium Square but also proposes the idea that skateboarders can have a greater role in discussions of public space and their place within it.

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Latest Feature:

A look back at Civic Skateboarding for Leeds 2023


Civic Skateboarding was about forming better relationships between skateboarders and Leeds’ civic and cultural institutions in order to better protect one another. It paid particular attention to the growing number of female and minority gender skateboarders who are disproportionally affected by the lack of safety in public spaces and was co-created, co-curated, and co-skated by many members of the Leeds skateboard community. Read here.

Drift Tricks

by Dani Abulhawa

Skate session for women and marginalised genders

Open Skateboarding Jam for over 16’s

Skateboarding Session for Under 16’s

1-3pm Sun 7 April

11am-1pm Sun 7 April

Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow
Leeds, LS1 3AA

museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk

11am-1pm Sun 14 April

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1-3pm Sun 14 April

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