Events

[SKATE PARTY] Themed for the couple’s choice skaters on Valentine’s Day, Red Rovers Roll is calling for skaters from every side of the city to roll to dance-heavy beats of DJ Reazon and Sike. Roller-skating ain’t nothing new, but using skating as a tool to build a a more unified community certainly feels novel in the light of Buffalo’s many social problems that we’ve covered so often in The Public like education, poverty, racism, and homicide. Organizer Barrett Gordon, who also operates an arts program out of a Burmese-owned laundromat on Massachusetts Avenue (The Wash Project) and works with students in Lafayette High School as part of the Ferry Street Corridor Project, feels that roller-skating’s blend of sport, history, music, and style has the ability to transgress segregation. And there’s no better location to do that than the centrally-located Skateland which straddles the city’s regressive East-West divide.