(6.8) Live art, live music, and a Best Trick Skate Jam! The Collective PVD presents “Trinity is Home Vol. 3” this Saturday downtown at Trinity on Adrian Hall Way.
Best Trick Skate Jam includes: Ledges & Manny Pad, Volcano, Maz Paz Ramp, and Rail & Set.
Live Music with the Hammer Party, Fraida Felcher, Immortal War, Administer, DJ Nes, DJ Ken, and Nicky Highwing.
Artist vendors: PVD Vintage, Duque Skate Art, Sosico, Island Circle, Alphabets, Unknown Studios, Burton, ASE38.
For the uninitiated, this space on Adrian Hall Way (between Trinity Brewhouse and the parking garage) began life as an outdoor theater space until it was unofficially taken over by skaters. Early on they scavenged old theater sets from the Trinity Rep dumpster to make ramps and jumps and such, but finally got serious, secured permits and funding, and adapted the space as a real skatepark. Park designer and guiding force William Cornwall explained the name “Trinity” in an interview last year.
The current generation of skaters have always referred to the spot as “Trinity,” predating any intentional skate construction we’ve done. Officially the park is called the Trinity Mews. Adrian Hall is a former director at the adjacent Trinity Repertory Theatre and the single block of the street running along the park was rededicated Adrian Hall Way in his honor in 1997. No one calls the spot Adrian Hall Park, but I like that the name of our non-profit group, Friends of Adrian Hall, doesn’t have the words skatepark, plaza or skateboarding in it. We’re acknowledging the history predating our involvement.
And I love that ‘Friends of Adrian Hall’ has nothing to do with the theater or acting.
Now about these photographs: If you have ever tried taking pictures of skateboarders in action you know how unusable your results were. God knows I’ve tried. These are the work of local photographer James Lastowski who also tackles other impossibly kinetic subjects like surfers and musicians. Thank you James.
(Not a helmet or elbow pad in sight . . . what are you gonna do.)
Noon to 6pm, Saturday, June 8, Trinity Skatepark, Adrian Hall Way (directions)
I’m not sure how this ended.