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Video: Artist who transformed 100-year-old church into a rainbow skatepark

Okuda x The Church Brigade — Madrid street artist Okuda teams up with The Church Brigade to create a 'Sistine Chapel' for skateboarding.

  • Art
  • HUCK HQ

How skateboarding is helping to revitalise a village in rural India

Skating, educating and building community — Author, futurist and community activist Ulrike Reinhard founded Janwaar Castle to reinvigorate a rural village through skateboarding.

  • Skate
  • Alex King

Teenage Utopia: Skating Through the Lockdown

Skateboarding and unity in Brussels — The Paris attacks pushed Brussels into the centre of Europe's debate about immigration, intolerance and radicalisation. Ursulines skatepark offers a refreshing counterpoint, here kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

  • Film
  • Alex King

Video: Skateistan's new year's resolution is to bring skateboards to kids everywhere

Become a 'Citizen of Skateistan' — Groundbreaking NGO Skateistan has shown how skateboarding can be a force for social change in Afghanistan, Cambodia and South Africa. Now they need your help to keep moving forward.

  • Skate
  • Alex King

Mimi Knoop is paving the way to gold for women’s skateboarding

Our day will come — The potential inclusion of skateboarding in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics divides opinion. But the potential benefits for women’s skateboarding could be huge, explains Mimi Knoop.

  • Skate
  • Hannah Bailey

Meet the Brussels skaters overcoming cultural barriers to create their own utopia

Skateboarding and integration — The media has painted Brussels as a city of immigrant ghettos, intolerance and radicalisation. But at Les Ursulines skate park, kids from all backgrounds skate together in peace.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

Meet the pioneers of Palestine’s skateboarding scene

Skateboarding knows no religion — Can non-profit project Skatepal help unite the youth in a divided land?

  • Skate
  • King Adz

A young and not-so-young Sydney photographer celebrate skateboarding in the harbour city

AJP & Mike O'Meally — Nobody knows the Sydney skate scene like Mike O’Meally and Andrew James Peters: two of the city’s finest photographic exports. HUCK sits down to chat magic moments and throwing cameras in bins.

  • Skate
  • Oliver Pelling

Photographer Luke Overin reveals the dystopian world of modern Britain

Ultimate Metal Breakdown — South London-based photographer Luke Overin explores a weird world of suburban retail parks and youthful escapism in his new show at Huck’s 71a Gallery.

  • Photography
  • Alex King

Top skate photographer Atiba Jefferson reveals his earliest, and favourite, images

Oakley In Residence Sydney — To celebrate his retrospective exhibition in Sydney, we catch up with Atiba Jefferson about the skateboarding photographs that have made him who he is.

  • Skate
  • Oliver Pelling

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