The third screening of You Can’t Move History reconnected Long Live Southbank with the campaign to save skateboarding in Norwich city centre.
Sam Avery, owner of Drug Store Skateboarding and organiser of the Norwich campaign back in 2014, joined a panel alongside LLSB’s Stuart Maclure, and Sandra Bögelein, a local Green Party councillor who had been vocal in her support for the skaters. The discussion was led by Tim Snelson, and enlivened by the presence on stage of Sam’s young daughter and Sandra’s baby son!
Moving beyond skateboarding, the conversation explored what lessons the LLSB and Norwich campaigns can teach us more broadly about public space, local democracy and activism.