For the 2021 skate season, board member Peggy Seto started up a junior and senior high school girls skate group at the Genesis Centre. Peggy is a teacher at the Nelson Mandela high school and felt that girls from under-represented communities in the NE, would benefit from skateboarding. The club runs after school on Fridays, and we hope to be …
100% Skate Club Survey
100% Skate Club has been operating for over 6 years, creating a fun and supportive community for girls, women, BIPOC and LGBTQ skaters in Calgary and beyond. We are introducing some changes for our 2021 season and we need your feedback to make next season our best yet! We want to hear from everyone! If you are a parent/caregiver please …
How A Skateboard Club Saved My Life
I stumbled across a local group of skater girls who held weekly meet ups. I was terrified to join them, since I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. I had always wanted to learn to skateboard, and it looked like they were having so much fun.
Interview with Skateistan’s Talia Kaufman
INTERVIEW BY: Erica Jacobs Where are you from? Where do you live now? I was born in Calgary, AB, and lived there until I was 29, except for a few 6-month periods where I was travelling. Since 2012, I’ve been working and living overseas with Skateistan. I’ve lived in Afghanistan, Berlin, Cambodia and South Africa and for the last year I’ve …
100% Skate Club Zine
As a way to stay connected and engaged during this world pandemic we thought it would be a perfect time to showcase women’s unique perspectives about the skate scene. Skateboarding artwork, in its many forms, is all part of our collective skate culture. As women and girls we have our own interpretation of what we see and experience. It’s not …
2020 Skate Season Update
We miss you all and can’t wait to skate again in the near future. We want to communicate our current position with 100% meet up sessions for June. We have decided to continue to postpone any 100% sessions due to these challenges: Maintaining 2 meters physical distance at skateparks No hand wash options We can’t assist people with helping hands …
We’re making a Zine!
Calling all creatives! 100% Skate Club is Producing a Zine! We’ve really been missing everyone this season. We’d love to see what you’ve been up to. In the gap time between Covid-19 lockdowns and skating regularly again, we thought it would be great to collect your skateboarding-themed content for a digital (pdf) zine. Don’t know what a Zine is? Here …
Introducing your 100% Skate Club Board of Directors
In late 2019, 100% Skate Club was approved as a Non-Profit Organization. We had an open invitation to our brainstorming meeting on February 18, and in that meeting we discussed our past successes, and ideas for the future. It was great to see everyone after a long winter, and to get people’s input for season six. We also had six …
What Flamingo 3 Recap
What Flamingo 3 was held June 22-23, 2019. What Flamingo is our annual skateboarding festival featuring clinics with celebrity skate instructors, and a party with lots of giveaways. This year we had three events over 2-days. For Saturday’s skate clinics at Huntington Hills skatepark, we hired three of Calgary’s most popular skate instructors; Brooke deHondt, Tom Nelner and Benjamin Zack. …
Calgary’s 3rd Annual All Girls Skateboard Festival
“WHAT FLAMINGO” TAKES PLACE JUNE 21 AND 22 Check our event calendar, Instagram and our Facebook page for weather updates. Free festival hosted by 100% Skate Club is part of international “Go Skateboarding Day” (Calgary) June 17, 2019: 100% Skate Club is thrilled to announce their third annual all girls skateboard festival “What Flamingo 3” will take place June 21 …