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 After the opening of the first licensed Billabong specialty store in Hong Kong on Pak Sha Road in Causeway Bay on September 1st, . Billabong is pushing board sports a step forward by providing a rare opportunity for Hong Kong people to witness first hand the technique of four world-renowned Billabong professional skateboarders. The Billabong Skate Jam Hong Kong 2006 will be held on November 18th (Saturday.) The aim of this event is to facilitate the exchange of experiences between Billabong Pro-skaters and the local Hong Kong skateboard community.
Billabong Skate Jam Hong Kong 2006 features three 3 main activities:
1. Skate Workshop Co-organized by Billabong & Six Keyz；
2. Skate Jam by Billabong Pro-Skaters；
3. DJ Party Featuring Turntablist DJ Dexter, DJ Blackjack & DJ Jason F Skate Workshop Co-organized by Billabong & Six Keyz
Billabong as a worldwide brand for board sports apparel and supplies, has invited the collaboration from Six Keyz, a significant local skateboarding group, to be the consultant for the venue of this event. The aim of this event is to promote skateboarding to the Hong Kong public. The Billabong Skate Workshop is to be held at the indoor Six Keyz Skateable Art Gallery. Four Billabong Pro-skaters will be traveling to Hong Kong from Australia to demonstrate their skateboard skills on the skateboard mini ramp and coach thirty students, from various local and international schools, how to skateboard. Date: November 18, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 12pm – 5pm
Venue: Six Keyz
Unit 603 Chai Wan Industrial City, Phase 1
60 Wing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong Billabong Skate Jam
Billabong Pro-skaters from Australia, Bart Carnes, Aaron Rowe, Jon Lorcan and Russell Grundy, will be demonstrating their skateboard skills on the mini ramp that was specially designed for this event by Six Keyz and they will also skate with local Pro-Skaters in a “Game of SKATE”. SKATE is a game played a lot like basketball's HORSE. You can play with as many skaters as you want, but usually there are only two skaters challenging each other. The skaters take turns trying to land tricks. Once one skater lands a trick, the other skater has to land the same trick, or he or she earns the first letter of the word SKATE. Once a skater spells out SKATE, that player loses. Date: November 18, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Venue: Shaw Studios
201 Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O, N.T. Billabong Skate Jam DJ Party
Billabong Skate Jam DJ Party will be held at No. 5 Shaw Studios, which is over 16,000 sq ft. in size. The Skate Jam DJ Party will be equipped with a wooden skateboard ramp (20 ft wide x 4 ft tall X 28 ft long) specially designed by Six Keyz and there will be skate demonstrations all night long. Advance electronic lighting and large projection screen will be installed to enhance the overall experience. There are two Chillout Lounges set-up in the venue, providing complimentary beverages, including Heineken Beer, Red Bull etc. Apart from the honorable presence of the four Billabong Pro- Skaters from Australia, the Skate Jam event will feature world leading DJ Dexter for a set, with DJ Blackjack and DJ Jason F as guest DJs and MC’ing all night will be MC Brian Siswojo from local skateshop 8FIVE2. Date: November 18, 2006 (Saturday)
Time: 9:30pm till late
Venue: No. 5 Shaw Studios
201 Wan Po Road, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories What’s more?
With the invite of Billabong Skate Jam 2006, customers will be entitled to 30% discount upon purchase at our Billabong store. Billabong
G/F shop, 9 Pak Sha Road, Causeway Bay, HK
3/F Sogo, Causeway Bay, HK
Billabong Skate Team:
Bart Carnes
Born in 1973, Sydney, Bart has 17 years skating experience and now manages the Billabong Skate Team. Bart has always been a skateboard enthusiast, he even built his own Billabong Vert Ramp at home to practice. And he is also the national winner at the 2000 SDS Competition. Russell Grundy
Now 23, born in Newcastle Australia, Russel is an active skater in Melbourne and Slam Factory. He is also known as the “Skate Machine” by his mates; he skates all terrain and destroys everything in his path. Russel has competed all over the world with impressive results. Russ was the National Australian Champion in 2004. Jon Lorcan
Born in 1981 Brisbane, and now residing in Sydney. Jon’s experience in skating is over 10 years. Jon is also an all terrain nutter, be it ramps or street. Jon throws down awesome tricks with a smooth style. Aaron Rowe
With the precise movement and smooth tricks performance, and his modest attitude, Aaron is known as one of the brightest up-and-coming stars in the international skateboarding community. Six Keyz Background Information:
Six Keyz ; a collective of local and overseas skateboarders, artists, musicians and designers, was officially formed in the Summer of 2006. The Six Keyz gallery, an area of 1,200sq ft. with 18 ft. high ceilings is equipped with a skateboard mini ramp and it is capable of displaying large art installations. It is Hong Kong’s first “Skateable Art Gallery”, combining an art gallery with a skateboarding studio. Apart from skateboarding, Six Keyz is also involved in multimedia arts creations, like music, photography and graphic design. Through networking and influences from different aspects, Six Keyz represents a major force in promoting both Hong Kong local Skateboarding and Arts development. Some people have termed what they do as ‘SKART’ or skateboard art–the founders describe this as promoting creativity through skateboarding and art. Along with working with local artists like Simon Birch a.k.a. DJ Blackjack, Six Keyz has established ties to the fine arts community through their established relationship with Hong Kong’s 10 Chancery Lane Gallery. Their recent exhibition “Outside Context Problem” presented by 10 Chancery Lane Gallery at Six Keyz featured local and international artists Simon Birch, Huang Rui, Li Wei, Cang Xin, Wing Shya, Anthony Lam, Anothermountainman and Tatsuyuki Tanaka. Coming up in December, Six Keyz will be introducing a new exhibition on New York graffiti. Long time partners in crime from New York City, Pen1 and Drift will team up at Six Keyz to produce a graffiti art exhibition entitled "BURN". This will take place on December 7th at Six Keyz. When asked what the "BURN" exhibition was about both artists agreed, "It's about burning. If you're not sure what that means, it's graffiti lingo, come check out the exhibit to understand”. Six Keyz is set to create Hong Kong’s finest sanctuary of creative expression. Founder and Hong Kong Skater, Andy Lee
“Not only do we understand skaters’ needs for a private, hassle-free skating ground, we also realize skaters’ love for street art. Six Keyz was thus established to provide a private venue for skaters and artists to meet and collaborate” Founder and Graffiti Artist, Drift
“Six Keyz displays creative artworks in various forms, recognizing the outstanding talents and superior standard of local artists and designers and at the same time introducing our local pro-skaters’ names to the world. As Hong Kong weather is humid and warm, outdoors skating is not comfortable. That is why we built an indoor skateboarding spot, making skateboarding convenient and more enjoyable as a sport.” New York Graffiti exhibition entitled “BURN” with artists Drift and Pen1 will take place at Six Keyz on December 7th at 8pm. Date: December 7th, 2006 (Thursday)
Time: 8pm – 12pm
Venue: Six Keyz
Unit 603 Chai Wan Industrial City, Phase 1
60 Wing Tai Road, Chai Wan, Hong Kong DJ Dexter Profile:
DJ Dexter, four-time DMC Australian Champ winner in the past 10 years, making him one of the hottest names in the international DJ arena. Dexter, arguably the world’s finest party/eclectic DJ, formerly of The Avalanches fame all the while playing a massive part in establishing fundamental elements of Hip Hop culture. Described by Grandmaster Flash as the most creative and original DJ in the world. His unique style in mixing Papua New Guinean Folk, Rag-time Jazz into traditional hip hop music wowed audiences the world over with finger blistering sets. His music is so powerful, that it guarantees to pump anyone’s heart rate up. Dexter recently voted Australia’s “Top Turntablist” by readers of 3-d World magazine, is rated 5th in the world. Dexter also put together music hits for the world renowned bands Chemical Brothers and Beastie Boys at their personal invitation. DJ Blackjack Profile:
Simon Birch, a.k.a. DJ Blackjack, is one of the most influential members of the Asian DJ community. Based in Hong Kong, he has been DJing since the late 80’s, starting in the U.K. organizing events with Sasha, Carl Cox and Grooverider before anyone knew who they were.
After traveling the world and settling in Hong Kong, Blackjack set up Way Out East with partner, Joel Lai. Together they were responsible for some of the most successful parties ever seen in Hong Kong, promoting artists like Paul Van Dyk, John Digweed and Sasha. The milestone CD, Global Underground Hong Kong, mixed by Digweed, was based on one of Blackjack’s events.
DJ Blackjack quickly became one of Hong Kong’s leading DJs, playing at every party going!
Alongside this, Simon set up Way out East touring (now called Supermodified) and began promoting DJs across Asia.
Simon is also currently well known for his huge success as an artist and curator with exhibitions upcoming in Hong Kong, Beijing, Los Angeles and New York. His recent OCP exhibition in Chai Wan was the most attended and successful privateer exhibition in Hong Kong’s history. (information provided by the organiser) |
