Posts Tagged "Nancy Chang"
Open your hearts, open you homes. The sk8rs are coming! Hang with them dudes! You won’t regret it. You can even meet illustrious adventurer, Nancy Chang (see her profile from Monday on le adventure blog!)
Get pumped for Skate Like a Girl presents Winnipeg or Bust! An all girl skateboard tour!
Hot on the heels of the Shh Just let this happen tour. Skate Like a Girl presents Winnipeg or Bust!, a van full of international female skaters weaving in-between the US and Canada to skate! The tour starts in Seattle, WA, traveling north to Vancouver, Calgary, Missoula, Winnipeg, and everywhere in between – teaching girls and women to skate, performing demos and competing in See Jane Skate and Chicks Flip Out! The mission is to promote girl’s skateboarding!
Here are the tour stops:
August Tue 4 / 6pm Clinic + 7pm Demo
Seattle @ Sea Sk8 (2nd and Thomas)
August Wed 5 / 4pm Clinic / Demo
Renton @ Skatebarn (2900 Lind St)
August Thu 6 / 12pm Clinic + 1pm Jam
Vancouver @ Strathcona Park (Venables & Campbell Ave)
August Thu 6 / 8pm BBQ + Dear & Yonder Premiere
Vancouver @ Antisocial (2337 Main St)
August Sat 8 / 12pm
Calgary @ See Jane Skate (2000 69th ST SW)
August Mon 10 / 4pm Clinic + demo + Jam
Missoula @ 52 Skatepark (8404 El Way Building B Unit A)
August Sat 15 / 11am Clinic + 1pm Contest
Winnipeg @ Chicks Flip Out (Forks Plaza)
+ surprise stops!
Van of skaters include: Tamara Drybrough (Canada), Esther Godoy (Australia), Beth Nenninger (Canada), Susannah Young (Sweden), Chelsea Mullins (USA), Chrissie Lathrop (USA), Fred Luyet (Canada), Laura Silva (Canada), Sydney Goldberg (USA), J Nordh (Sweden), Nancy Chang (USA), and Nina Suesstrunk (Germany).
Women rule!
Hardcore ladies, listen up–
Today we are featuring one of your clan. Meet Nancy Chang, zoologist-turned-sculptor, social justista, and ”one bad-ass mother who don’t take crap from nobody.” (Name that quote! Anyone? Anyone? Cool Runnings!)
She’s co-director of Skate Like a Girl, a mega cool organization that promotes female empowerment and social justice through female skateboarding. Skate Like a Girl’s Winnepeg Or Bust tour starts in Seattle tomorrow! Mosey down to Sea Sk8 on 2nd and Thomas tomorrow at 7pm to see some skilled lady skaters do their thing. But first read all about Nancy here and then visit her website , read her blog, and see her work.
What skill do you want to learn?
How to slow down time.
Food and drink you donʼt want to live without?
Rice and water. I know it’s the food fare of prisoners in medieval times.
What’s the scariest thing you can think of?
Militarization via mainstream movies like Transformers and GI Joe. Maybe it’s not that bad, cause I loved watching the cartoons as a kid, and I am not all about nuking countries that lack democracy.
What is your favourite party supply?
Edible: ice cream cone cupcakes
Non-edible: It’s a toss up between music and an open pit of fire
Your favorite book of the moment?
This question highlights why I need to learn the skill of slowing down time. I don’t have a current book crush right now, but a book that my co-worker has tried to get me to read and is staring at me on my desk right now is: The Art of Racing in the Rain. I think it’s another book about inspirational dog relationships.
Describe your dream party place.
Wherever The Adventure School wants to throw a party for me! An open air covered area, like the old Carnation Farm. Lots of flowers and fruit bearing trees. Some sort of body of water for summer swimming.
What is the evil version of you like?
The evil version of me is how I talk to people closest to me (mean-spirited), but doing it to anyone. A raw, uncut, unfiltered Nancy Chang.
What gives you confidence?
Maybe right now my awful tan lines and white legs. My legs look like raw chicken. White, bumpy and covered in bruises. I guess it highlights that I can get by on my wits alone and I don’t have to rely on my looks.
Name four essential elements of a good party.
People
Music
Space
Food & Spirits (is that cheating to lump them together?)
What do you appreciate most about a party host?
That they planned everything and invited me.
Favorite adventure supply?
Passport!
Describe the best party you ever attended.
Duh, my 28th b-day party where Barack Obama became president!
Hotel room or campsite?
Depends, but I would like to say campsite.
Do you have a style icon?
It’s always changing, but I do appreciate the Swedes as the all around. They make style accessible to the masses (HM and Ikea). What can I say I am a champion of the Proletariat. On the tech end Sony Ericsson phones are usually pretty styling and Volvos/Saabs.
Where is your next adventure destination?
Winnipeg or Bust!
If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach?
‘A Better You: How to Not Be an Idiot!
Your motto?
Kill people with kindness.
What is your spirit animal?
Monkey
If you are a teen or know someone who is . . . you should come to this panel tonight! The Adventure School will be speaking about what it is like to be an entrepreneur at the behest of our friend and 2008 Loreal Woman of Worth, Nancy Chang who runs a fabulous youth program for the City of Redmond working with RYPAC, the Redmond Youth Partnership Advisory Committee! The best and weirdest part is that the panel will be held inside of MY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which has since become a community center. But, back from 1984 to 1991 it was my main stomping grounds! Big ups to the gym! Holla at the cafeteria! What’s up playshed! Hey there BIG SLIDE! The panel information is as follows:
Career Panel Series
Get Connected: Career Exploration for Teens
Monday April 27, 2009, 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Location
Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center
16600 NE 80th ST, Redmond, WA 98052
Career Panel
Get Connected is a series of three panel discussions that get young people in touch with who they want to be when they grow-up. Teens have dreams, and we are here to provide them with resources to realize them.
Panelists will give some background information about what they do, and how they got started. Afterwards the panel will be open to questions and discussions.
Do you own thing! Start a business or a non-profit
Monday April 27, 2009
You think you can compete in the free market, fair market and / or the green market?
Come listen to what our local panel of entrepreneurs have to say about starting your own business and what it takes in today’s economic climate.
Evening’s schedule
At 6pm we have a short meet and greet so we ask panelist to be there just before 6pm to check in with our MC’s and do a meet and greet with the audience for about 15 plus minutes before we start. The MC’s for the event will be teens and we will have information for them to direct the process.
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