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Here is the movie the LiveWire kids made about Rollartista at Cathedral Gardens Plaza..

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Rollartistas Threatened with Police Arrest

Rollartistas have been informed by upper powers at Urbis and Cornerhouse that they will be arrested by police if they perform on skates in Cathedral Gardens. The city-wide anti-skating by-law is in full effect due to recent fighting in the plaza. We will meet in the plaza and talk about the injustice of this by-law and then skate into the night later at undisclosed locations, hopefully not ending up in a Manchester jail.

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Rollartistas in Manchester
Category: Games

Saturday November 3, Cathedral Gardens/Urbis, Manchester, UK 6pm

Riot Gear for Rollartista is a mobile game performance using humor and ridicule to call attention to disturbing police abuse of ethnic minorities and immigrants in Europe and the United Kingdom. Three machinima videos, videos made using computer game worlds, show violent police actions intermingled with musical, dance performances (by the police characters in the video games). These videos are meant to connect loosely to three real life stories of police abuse and racism, stories selected from hundreds posted on the Internet and in the press. The victims of these injust incidents and their families often do not have access to many legal recourses nor public attention. Riot Gear for Rollartista is also inspired by creative activist gear, padded riot gear, and uses rollerskates, an ultra light-weight projector and a portable playstation(PSP) to intervene in urban public space.

Wayne Douglas

The Brixton riots of 1995 began on December 13 after the death of black 26 year old, Wayne Douglas in police custody. Trouble broke out after what had been a peaceful protest outside the Brixton Police Station where the death occurred. With several hundred people involved, the riot resulted in damage to property and vehicles in the area. Police sealed off a two mile area around Brixton in south London. The police statement said that Mr Douglas died after collapsing while being questioned at a local police station about a burglary. Although the post-mortem on Mr Douglas revealed that he had died of heart failure, the inquest into his death showed that he had been held face-down with his hands cuffed behind his back on four separate occasions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995

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near a skating park

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rollartistas next to central park

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The video finally got here...a plaza at night

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Photos from Saturday night street actions

Here is the video the kids from Livewire made..

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Rollartista Performances

We were planning to do a performance outside the museum Friday but it rained so we did it inside. Luckily, inside the floor surface was smooth skating. Saturday we we went to four spots at night in Castellon--near a skate park, a parking lot, near the city park and a central plaza. I didnt expect us to be so interesting to kids at night but they asked us lots of questions and followed us around...and some Muslim women with their babies in a plaza, a guy from Chile, some old Valenciano couples and random passersby. I handed out all of our flyers we had with the stories of police abuse and did my moves while Talice worked the Playstation controller and projections. It was hard to find dark (for projection) but public places with good surfaces for dancing in Castellon but we tryed. (Castellon is VERY well lit at night.) After skating all night and some beers and ice cream we got on the plane together to Madrid and then parted ways back to Mexico City and Boulder, Colorado. Hope they send us the video soon. The video is thanks to Curo who followed us all over the city with a camera on foot in his off hours, and these photos are thanks to the beautiful James of Los Angeles, another artist in Cyberfem.

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La maleta llego

Por fin llego la maleta aller en la tarde. He puesto mis nuevas ruedas y son chidos(o como se dice aqui guayes). Sin embargo, me calli varias veces...fui a doble chequear unos lugares por la cuidad donde hemos pensado projectar y encontre un nuevo lugar cerca de un estancionamento donde habian algunos jovenes patinando. Talice tambien se callo un poco feo anoche pero parace bien.. el dvd player no tan. Habia un barrio donde estan contruiendo nuevos departamentos y habian muchos carracoles por alla.

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Rollerskating practice in Mexico City

I went to the neighborhood park last night near our depto to practice my new dance moves I had been working out in my living room. They were harder on even on the flattest tiled area--I fell a couple times and I felt a little strange cause I was alone except for a couple making out on a bench next to me. Hope the new wheels Talice ordered help cause the ones we have turns out are ultra speedy and for indoor rollerrinks. I am using the toe break a lot to cheat on my moves..and trying to work out breakdancing stuff that im strong enough to do. Talice found this amazing link of rollerskating dance videos: aboutjamtime.com

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