Video Premiere: Unity Skate Club
“I love skating so much, I sleep with my skate boots like they are my girlfriend. -Mensah” Today we are proud to share the story of Unity Skate Club. For the members of Unity Skate Club, skating is a space of freedom. An opportunity to test limits. Feel the wind. Be with friends. And forget their problems and worries. For the members of Unity Skate Club- skating is their life. Skating is still a small sport in Ghana, but its popularity is booming. Unity Skate Club has grown from a more »
New Release- Artist Portrait: RAAM
RAAM made a promise. He had finished art school in Accra, Ghana and was facing an uncertain future. He chose to take a path with no guarantee of success and promised himself that he would do everything he could to make a career as an artist. He began painting shirts and taught himself to sew, convincing local fashion shops to give him their extra scraps of cloth. He experimented with combining collage, paint and dying techniques- all from his parent’s home and began running his own business. He promoted his more »
It Gives Us Freedom- Unity Skate Club
Unity Skate Club Preview from Of Rags on Vimeo. This past weekend we had the privilege of shooting and interviewing members of the club including Joshua, Of Rags’ longest standing employee, who is one of three co-founders of the club. He helped form the club two years ago when he saw that he could bring together his friends who were into skating and two (of the only) professional skaters in Ghana. Joshua gathered youth in Labadi, helped them find roller blades (imported and mostly second hand), and organized them to more »
