Me (Rosie) and Sadie met at school briefly but it wasn't till college our friendship blossomed and we found out how much we had in common. One of our shared interests was skateboarding, we both hadn't done it for a while because we were to scared to go to the skate park, which was a little intimidating as it was mostly boys. In our later years we decided we want to change this, Its so rad to watch
girls shredding the park or see a fellow girl skater just cruising down the street! We've made it our mission to give females of all ages the opportunity to try skating even if its just for a confidence boost, if they know they can do this they can go on and do a lot more. We hope to achieve this by running a girls skate night locally and then hopefully create some events more broadly. We have also been contacted by girls doing similar things not only in the UK but across sea's which is so over whelming, knowing you have there support and you can give them yours. One of our latest expeditions was with Neon Stash, who works in the skate/ clothing and a girls board magazine, Cooler, which you should definitely check out! . Shes started a project called Brits on board, which is venturing around the Britain visiting girls doing board sports and interviews. It's so insightful to see people are noticing the gap in the board sport culture. So we got our camera's out and filmed some sikk girls snowboarding at Freeze festival, a ski/snowboard festival with live music, as well as interviews with the ladies. Its such a supportive and friendly environment as well from girls and boys. We worked along side Kate Nash a lot the end of last year, which has been so much fun and completely inspirational! She is doing the same as us but in the music industry. Try to boost the numbers of Girls involved in music, making them aware its not just about playing in a band, there is so much more involvement.She picked up an amazing fan base, whilst kicking ass on stage. We were lucky enough to go to a few festivals with her and Manchester pride, we even made her Christmas video ' I hate you this Christmas' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCG1TtrzFY . Sadie is a free lance photographer, so it kind of started there, she brought a video cam out on a skate once for us to play around with, then we edited a video of us skating. Kate Nash seen our video and asked us to skate during her rehearsals at one of her gigs last year, although we're not great, we loved it. I met Kate a few times previously, through a music artist who i use to assist the manager for. That's how we got into music video, like i mentioned before, following Kate round at gigs. She even asked us to film at her big show last year at shepherds bush in October, which is a big venue in London. Helping Kate Nash really inspired us to start this big adventure. Right now we're trying our hand at not only filming and skating but we want to organize some great events this year, we just organised a music gig for our friend, Lauren Bannon at a beautiful venue on the south coast. Also we hope to do some more collaborations with inspiring Ladies, but most importantly get more girls involved! Its the best feeling, cruising at any speed down a road or along a sea front we want to share the buzz! You can keep up to date with us on our page also
https://www.facebook.com/skategirlsproduction?fref=ts
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