Worldwide Book Release Party in Berlin \u2013 June 9th<\/p>\n
Date:<\/strong> Saturday, June 9, 2012 Skateistan is releasing its first book, entitled Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan! The worldwide release party and exhibition for the book will take place on Saturday June 9 in Berlin at the DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum).<\/p>\n The release event for this limited edition publication will feature a mix of films, photographs, DJs, and a Q&A with members of the Skateistan team, including book contributors and the NGO’s Founder\/Director Oliver Percovich. The exhibition will also be open the following day (Sunday) from 10am to 6pm.<\/p>\n Members of the press and the public are welcome to join Skateistan in celebrating the release of the book. Any questions or requests can be sent to media@skateistan.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n About the Book:<\/strong> The book was designed by Skateistan’s Art Directors Alexandra Bald and Ana Lessing who are part of the C-D-A-P collective, which will also be organizing the release event.<\/p>\n Book Sponsored by: The Kindle Project<\/a> and the Danish Embassy in Kabul<\/a>. Worldwide Book Release Party in Berlin \u2013 June 9th Date: Saturday, June 9, 2012 Time: 6pm \u2013 late Location: DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum), K\u00f6penicker Stra\u00dfe 48\/49, 10179 Berlin, Germany Skateistan is releasing its first book, entitled Skateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan! The worldwide release party and exhibition for the book will take place […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4041],"tags":[11747,11749,11750,14653,11751,11752,14630,11753,2717,11748,11746],"class_list":["post-31474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-skate-2","tag-afghanistan","tag-alexandra-bald","tag-ana-lessing","tag-berlin","tag-c-d-a-p-collective","tag-danish-embassy","tag-germany","tag-kabul","tag-skateistan","tag-the-kindle-project","tag-the-tale-of-skateboarding-in-afghanistan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/skateistanmasterlogo.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31474"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31478,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31474\/revisions\/31478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juicemagazine.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime:<\/strong> 6pm \u2013 late
\nLocation:<\/strong> DAZ (Deutsches Architektur Zentrum), K\u00f6penicker Stra\u00dfe 48\/49, 10179 Berlin, Germany<\/p>\n
\nSkateistan: The Tale of Skateboarding in Afghanistan shares the strange and beautiful intersection of traditional Afghan society and a new generation of Afghan skateboarders and artists. Through a balance of words and photographs, the book tells the tale of \u2018Skateistan\u2019, which since 2007 has taught skateboarding and creative arts to girls and boys in Kabul, Afghanistan.<\/p>\n
\nSee skateistan.org\/book<\/a> for full details about the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"