Portland, Oregon’s newest indoor concrete skateboarding/art gallery facility Commonwealth of Skateboarding will be celebrating it’s grand opening on Saturday, February 26, 2011 beginning at 3 PM.
The afternoon/evening event will feature a photography show by Jon Humphries, Garric Ray, and Bryce Kanights along with “grinding, spracking, music, friends, beverages,” and “good ol’ conversation.” As they say:
We built this park with our own damn hands so that we and our friends and all Portland skateboarders would have somewhere to go when it was too hot, too cold, too we–didn’t feel like driving to a park or spot. . . Without your contributions this place won’t last too long. . . We are for quality over quantity and creative a kind of community here–so membership has it’s privileges, and doing a drop-in definitely isn’t the cheapest method. . . But we’re down if you’re down.
Memberships in the park are $750 for a year, $80 a month, or $9 for a two hour drop-in. And helmets are not required (if you sign the waiver.
The Commonwealth of Skateboarding is located at 1425 SE 20th Ave. (at Hawthorne), in Portlandia. For more info, click the link.
Or check Skatedaily.net for the entire behind the scenes story.
