CITY OF GOD - CIDADE DE DEUS

This year, Clown Skateboards, Damian Platt, Ademafia, ALLCITYX are working together to help The CDD SKATE ARTE project in Brazil raise funds for classes, sporting/cultural events, workshops, and lectures.

Cidade De Deus Capsule: Drop 1 - Celebrating the 21st Anniversary of the re-release of the four-time Oscar-nominated Brazilian masterpiece CITY OF GOD, this collection by Clown Skateboards and AllcityX aims to help CDD SKATE ART keep the kids rolling. 

The tight capsule (DROP 1) is limited to skateboards only, with the permission of Wild Bunch and The Festival Agency – the owners and distributor of the film.

DROP 1:

A collectors set with a limited run of 50 sets only - all numbered and with a Clown Skateboards COA

CLOWNZ POP - 8.25" / 8.38" / 8.5"

REEFEEMER OVER POP - 8.625"

As the film gets a wider release in other Countries throughout 2024, Clown Skateboards will be making DROP 2 available to further independent shops to help raise funds for the Brazil project.

DROP ONE AVAILABLE FROM: SLAM CITY SKATE / NJ SKATESHOP / NOTE / WELCOME / DECIMAL / UPPER WEST SKATES / BORED / FOCUS / CSC / ALLCITYX

Get involved with CIDADE DE DEUS CAPSULE – DROP 2 HERE

The CDD SKATE ARTE project was born in 2018 in the face of the military intervention that was taking place in Rio de Janeiro. As a countermeasure, they decided to carry out a socio-cultural intervention in Cidade De Deus, which was the scene of the urban warfare that was taking place that year. The project succeeded in renovating a skate park in the favela, collected 15 skateboards for classes and promoted sporting/cultural events, workshops and lectures.

Sport can be a way of transforming the lives of children and young people. It can give them a different path in life if they decide to become professionals, or it can serve as a necessary escape tool. It's very important in the favela because it's a breath of fresh air in the midst of so many bad events. Together they expand community coexistence through integrated actions that complement sports development. The increase of more than 100% from 2011 to 2021 shows that the number of skateboarders has never risen so significantly. Every child's development must start with experimentation and awareness. What a child is, what they feel and know, they learn through their senses and direct contact.

Today they run classes twice a week in Praça Quirino, area 13, offering cultural and sporting activities to 60 children and young people. Promoting social inclusion through weekly skateboarding classes, encouraging sports initiation as a strategy for new opportunities, a tool for combating marginalization and urban violence, bringing a different worldview, autonomy and health to the participants. The weekly classes occur both in the square and in the Sesi Cidania space, where we have secured a partnership to use the rooms and auditorium.