Last week’s Creative Longboard Making Workshop at the Old School Arts Centre was a great success. Seven longboards with unique shapes, unique creative graphics and grip tape designs are now hanging at the Raglan Old School Arts Centre. Congratulation to all participants for their hard work!
The boards will be on display finally today Sunday in the Gallery while the Raglan Creative Market will be happening from 9am.
The workshop was run by Katja Oberhofer and Sean Oliver. The Creative Longboard Making Workshop covered an introduction to longboard making, shape design and laminating plywood, cutting the deck and sketching a graphics design, application of the graphics design, finishing the graphics design, starting with grip tape design and then finishing the grip tape. The boards went on display on Saturday for a two-day period. Due to the success and popularity of the workshop Katja and Sean plan to repeat it soon.
The exhibited boards were fantastic, the kids did a great job and look very happy and proud with their work. The co-ordinators and kids are to be congratulated. Its a shame that Raglan’s public library refused to put the poster advertising the workshop on display. However, it’s difficult to read the notices in the window now with all the free wifi users leaning against the windows, legs outstretched, loudly skyping family and friends on the other side of the world. Kids are not encouraged to skate around town but internet users create a hazard around the library. Go the skateboarders.
Even stranger is that Council is now providing pillows for the WiFi users.