Peace Park Street Festival and Contest Results

Yesterday  was the first day of the Festival D’expression de la Rue. What makes this event great is that the police do not patrol the park during the 3-day festival. This means that people are free to drink, smoke, skate, and basically party in the park. The only incident was a guy getting smacked out for who knows what reason right before the festivals actually got started. A lot of the local lifers were present like Bunny, Mary, C-J, Didi, just to name a few.

The action started at 3pm with a video tent. It had about 10 short films people could watch, which started with the MQC We’re Real video. The comments in the crowd revealed that people loved it, even though they were a little shocked at times.

The skateboard best trick contest started around 4 o’clock.  There wasn’t an enormous amount of contestants, but it was more than fun nonetheless because the whole crowd and park community were into it. Photos of the winners haven’t yet arrived unfortunately that show Phil Lavoie in 3^rd, who did a Nollie shuv nose slide. Mike Roy in second place who landed a Fs board slide 270 out. And, in first place Jason Puliz a skater punk from out of town who did a some kind of boneless 360 hand shuv, and a bunch of other old school tricks.

The festival had lots of other things going on like ceramic painting, T-shirt screening, and even stained glass instead of broken glass. There was something there for everyone to enjoy.

During the games of twister free food was served. Once people got their grub consisting of corn on the cob, salad, and potato salad, they began to sit on the park ledges that were reserved for skating in order to eat.  The food was really good, but it forced the skaters to skate in the street where a disgruntled man was taking a hairy fit. Tomorrow is the last day of festival be sure to check it out, it’s fun and stress free.