Program

Exibitions
Concert / DJ Set
Projection
Conference / Round table
Skate session

Espace d'exposition / Exhibition Area

Dela Charles

Dela Charles Photos
20:00 - 00:00

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

20:00 - 00:00

Dolores Magazine

20:00 - 00:00

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye
20:00 - 00:00

Expressing the Instrumental

Gustav Eden
20:00 - 00:00

Espace concert / Concert Area

Grand Opening

20:00 - 20:30

Screening

20:30 - 21:00

MX back to back to back Dj Sets

21:15 - 00:00

Office du tourisme / Tourist Office

Science and Skateboarding

13:00 - 18:00

Place Tourny / Tourny Square

What is Skateboarding?

18:30 - 19:15

Espace d'exposition / Exhibition Area

Dela Charles

Dela Charles Photos
All day

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

All day

Dolores Magazine

All day

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye
All day

Expressing the Instrumental

Gustav Eden
All day

Espace concert / Concert Area

Video Premiere Guaranítica

Mike Mag
20:30 - 21:00

Bruit Rose Music

21:00 - 00:00

Espace conférence / Conference Area

Meet & Greet

Leo Valls
11:00 - 12:30

La Trame

17:15 - 17:30

Skaturbanism White Paper

Gustav Eden
Leo Valls
Juliette Evon
17:30 - 18:15

Inclusive Skate Urbanism

Bella Warley
Harry Meadley
18:30 - 19:15

En ville / In town

Opening

Karabo Mooki
16:45

Espace d'exposition / Exhibition Area

Dela Charles

Dela Charles Photos
All day

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

All day

Dolores Magazine

All day

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye
All day

Expressing the Instrumental

Gustav Eden
All day

Espace concert / Concert Area

Exhibitor village 

10:00 - 19:00

Kids’ expression session

17:00 - 18:00

Malraux session : Past Meets Future

18:00 - 18:30

Live score screening Concert

18:30 - 19:15

Video premiere

19:30 - 20:00

Bruit Rose Music Dj Sets

20:00 - 00:00

Espace conférence / Conference Area

Namaskate

10:00 - 11:00

THE SKATEPARK PROJECT : Strengthening the Sector

11:15 - 12:00

Mental Health

12:15 - 13:00

White Arkitekter

Fredrik Angner
Josefin Norén Almén
14:15 - 15:00

Stand Up Comedy

15:30 - 16:00

Talk

Ulrike Reinhard
16:15 - 17:00

En ville / In town

Photography Exhibition Photos

Karabo Mooki
All day

Espace d'exposition / Exhibition Area

Dela Charles

Dela Charles Photos
11:00 - 18:00

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

11:00 - 18:00

Dolores Magazine

11:00 - 18:00

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye
11:00 - 18:00

Expressing the Instrumental

Gustav Eden
11:00 - 18:00

Espace concert / Concert Area

Loto Skate x Magenta

14:30 - 16:00

Open Air Dj Sets

16:00 - 20:00

Battle Freestyle Skate

19:00 - 19:30

Espace conférence / Conference Area

Documentary Première

11:15 - 12:15

Headz 4

Harrison Woolgar
12:00 - 12:30

Barcelona

12:45 - 13:30

En ville / In town

Downhill

21:00

Guided Tour

10:00 - 11:00

Photography Exhibition Photos

Karabo Mooki
All day

Dela Charles

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Berlin-based photographer Dela Charles as part of its 2026 edition.

Working primarily with analogue photography, Dela Charles documents skateboarding and the people around it through a raw and intimate visual language. Moving between black-and-white and colour, her photographs capture everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that shapes skateboarding. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Dela Charles

Dela Charles is a Berlin-based photographer working primarily with analogue photography. Her work explores skateboarding, youth culture and the relationships that develop within skateboarding communities across different parts of the world. Working from within the scenes she photographs, her images are shaped by familiarity, trust and long-term relationships. Moving between black-and-white and colour, she documents everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that defines skateboarding through a raw and intimate visual language.

As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Florida-based photographer Adam Hadden, featuring legendary Floridian skateboarder Jimmy Lannon, as part of its 2026 edition.

Adam Hadden documents skateboarding through its relationship with architecture, light and the built environment. His photographs focus on how skateboarders inhabit public space, capturing the atmosphere of overlooked places and revealing the unique character of each location. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding, identity and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a series of recent photographs of Jimmy skateboarding across Florida, alongside the presentation of a new book dedicated to his work. The project celebrates more than twenty years of Jimmy’s unique approach to skateboarding, built around style, creativity and a deep connection to spots. Rather than focusing on spectacle, these images reveal how an identity can emerge through local urban landscapes, colour and architecture.

Dolores Magazine

Magazine Covers Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present an exhibition dedicated to DOLORES Magazine, the independent skate publication based in Barcelona and led by editor-in-chief Raisa Abal, who will be present throughout the festival.

Founded in 2019, DOLORES was created to give greater visibility to women and gender minorities in skateboarding through independent publishing. 

Published three times a year, the magazine has become an important platform for documenting contemporary skateboarding from fresh and inclusive perspectives. 

Presented as part of the CONNECT Media Booth, the exhibition features a selection of enlarged magazine covers alongside editorial spreads that reveal the stories, photography and creative process behind each issue. Visitors will also be able to browse and take home copies of the magazine, celebrating independent skate publishing as an essential part of skateboarding culture.

Friedjof Feye

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by German photographer Friedjof Feye as part of its 2026 edition.

For more than fifteen years, Friedjof Feye has documented skateboarding through analogue photography and self-published projects. Working independently, he develops long-term personal projects that explore skateboarding, travel and the character of the places he visits. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition features a series of recent skateboard photographs produced using the cyanotype process, one of the earliest photographic printing techniques, invented in 1842. Through these unique blue prints, Friedjof combines contemporary skateboarding with a historic photographic process, creating original images that invite viewers to look at skateboarding from a different perspective.

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye is a 38-year-old photographer from Hanover, Germany, who has dedicated the past 15 years to documenting skateboarding through his lens. His passion for skateboarding photography grew alongside his own involvement in skateboarding, leading to publications in both German and international magazines, as well as the creation of his own self-published zines. Working independently of brands, Friedjof organizes his own trips to pursue personal projects and bring his creative ideas to life.

Beyond skateboarding, he has a deep appreciation for travel and analog photography, using his cameras to capture the character of the places he visits.

Expressing the Instrumental

Research Presentation

Why is it easy for skateboarders to speak to each other about skateboarding, yet so difficult to answer the question, “What is skateboarding?”

Swedish skaturbanism pioneer Gustav Svanborg Edén explores the distinction between the instrumental and the expressive as a framework for understanding why skateboarding escapes categorization and why skateboarding culture offers a profound contribution to the life of cities.

Gustav Eden

Gustav Eden is the skateboarding coordinator for the City of Malmö Streets and Parks dpt. He’s regarded as one of the key figures of the Skaturbanism movement. Gustav has been developing skateboarding related projects to generate long-term benefits for his city and has been an inspiration for many. In 2024, he finalized one of his biggest projects, the reconstruction of a part of Love Park in the center of Malmö.

Grand Opening

Screening

3 videos, with each director taking the stage at the end

MX back to back to back

Willy / Bareeo / Malinovski

Dancing therapy

Serge Detreias / live acid house perf machines

Science and Skateboarding

ESSCA Académic Workshop

What is Skateboarding?

Street Performance

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present the premiere of What is skateboarding(?), a site-specific performance by Italian skater and theatre director Ruggero Franceschini, created especially for the new wooden pyramids installed in front of Bordeaux’s classic Grand Théâtre.

Bringing together skateboarding, live narration and sound, the performance explores a simple question: What is skateboarding? Inspired by the work of Mark Gonzales, it follows a group of skateboarders who gradually transform the pyramids into a playground, revealing new ways of reading and interacting with public space. The sounds of wheels rolling across the wooden structures become part of the performance, creating a dialogue between movement, architecture and storytelling.

Presented at sunset in the heart of Bordeaux, right before the official opening of the festival, this unique performance reflects CONNECT’s ambition to explore skateboarding as both an artistic practice and a way of experiencing the city.

Dela Charles

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Berlin-based photographer Dela Charles as part of its 2026 edition.

Working primarily with analogue photography, Dela Charles documents skateboarding and the people around it through a raw and intimate visual language. Moving between black-and-white and colour, her photographs capture everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that shapes skateboarding. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Dela Charles

Dela Charles is a Berlin-based photographer working primarily with analogue photography. Her work explores skateboarding, youth culture and the relationships that develop within skateboarding communities across different parts of the world. Working from within the scenes she photographs, her images are shaped by familiarity, trust and long-term relationships. Moving between black-and-white and colour, she documents everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that defines skateboarding through a raw and intimate visual language.

As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Florida-based photographer Adam Hadden, featuring legendary Floridian skateboarder Jimmy Lannon, as part of its 2026 edition.

Adam Hadden documents skateboarding through its relationship with architecture, light and the built environment. His photographs focus on how skateboarders inhabit public space, capturing the atmosphere of overlooked places and revealing the unique character of each location. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding, identity and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a series of recent photographs of Jimmy skateboarding across Florida, alongside the presentation of a new book dedicated to his work. The project celebrates more than twenty years of Jimmy’s unique approach to skateboarding, built around style, creativity and a deep connection to spots. Rather than focusing on spectacle, these images reveal how an identity can emerge through local urban landscapes, colour and architecture.

Dolores Magazine

Magazine Covers Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present an exhibition dedicated to DOLORES Magazine, the independent skate publication based in Barcelona and led by editor-in-chief Raisa Abal, who will be present throughout the festival.

Founded in 2019, DOLORES was created to give greater visibility to women and gender minorities in skateboarding through independent publishing. 

Published three times a year, the magazine has become an important platform for documenting contemporary skateboarding from fresh and inclusive perspectives. 

Presented as part of the CONNECT Media Booth, the exhibition features a selection of enlarged magazine covers alongside editorial spreads that reveal the stories, photography and creative process behind each issue. Visitors will also be able to browse and take home copies of the magazine, celebrating independent skate publishing as an essential part of skateboarding culture.

Friedjof Feye

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by German photographer Friedjof Feye as part of its 2026 edition.

For more than fifteen years, Friedjof Feye has documented skateboarding through analogue photography and self-published projects. Working independently, he develops long-term personal projects that explore skateboarding, travel and the character of the places he visits. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition features a series of recent skateboard photographs produced using the cyanotype process, one of the earliest photographic printing techniques, invented in 1842. Through these unique blue prints, Friedjof combines contemporary skateboarding with a historic photographic process, creating original images that invite viewers to look at skateboarding from a different perspective.

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye is a 38-year-old photographer from Hanover, Germany, who has dedicated the past 15 years to documenting skateboarding through his lens. His passion for skateboarding photography grew alongside his own involvement in skateboarding, leading to publications in both German and international magazines, as well as the creation of his own self-published zines. Working independently of brands, Friedjof organizes his own trips to pursue personal projects and bring his creative ideas to life.

Beyond skateboarding, he has a deep appreciation for travel and analog photography, using his cameras to capture the character of the places he visits.

Expressing the Instrumental

Research Presentation

Why is it easy for skateboarders to speak to each other about skateboarding, yet so difficult to answer the question, “What is skateboarding?”

Swedish skaturbanism pioneer Gustav Svanborg Edén explores the distinction between the instrumental and the expressive as a framework for understanding why skateboarding escapes categorization and why skateboarding culture offers a profound contribution to the life of cities.

Gustav Eden

Gustav Eden is the skateboarding coordinator for the City of Malmö Streets and Parks dpt. He’s regarded as one of the key figures of the Skaturbanism movement. Gustav has been developing skateboarding related projects to generate long-term benefits for his city and has been an inspiration for many. In 2024, he finalized one of his biggest projects, the reconstruction of a part of Love Park in the center of Malmö.

Video Premiere Guaranítica

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present the premiere of Guaranítica, the latest video part by Brazilian skateboarder, filmmaker and visual artist Mike Mag, as part of its 2026 edition.

Shot in his classic guerrilla style on the VX1000, Guaranítica follows Mike on a journey through space, time and the history of Brazil, as he makes his return home to Rio de Janeiro from Amazonas.

Known for his unique guerrilla-style skate cinema and deeply authentic underground aesthetic, Mike Mag has developed a distinctive visual language that blends skateboarding, filmmaking and artistic experimentation.

Mike Mag

Brésil

Mike Mag (born Michael Magalhães) is a Brazilian skateboarder, filmmaker, and visual artist known for his unique “guerrilla-style” skate cinema and deeply authentic underground aesthetic.

Bruit Rose Music

Reggae / Dub / UK Dub Night – Paris Crew
Teak Soundsystem

Meet & Greet

Leo Valls

Born and based in Bordeaux, Léo Valls is an internationally recognized professional skateboarder, one of the pioneers of the skaturbanism movement, and the co founder of the Connect festival. 

Skateboarding has taken him around the world, where he has collaborated with diverse communities and developed a practice rooted more in artistic and urban expression than in pure performance. Sponsored by brands such as DC Shoes and Magenta Skateboards, his influence stretches from Japan to the United States, with appearances in numerous international skate videos and public exhibitions. His projects also include the development of shared public spaces with skateboarding and the creation of skatable sculpture exhibitions that merge art and urban play.

Today, Léo is recognized as a global voice of skaturbanism, combining professional skateboarding, cultural advocacy, and consulting for architects and municipalities to envision more vibrant, inclusive, and playful cities.

La Trame

Film Screening :  Documentary on Skaturbanism and Connect festival

CONNECT is proud to premiere a new short documentary by Miami-based filmmaker Mike Atwood.

While attending the last two editions of CONNECT, Atwood turned his camera towards the festival itself, exploring the origins of skaturbanism and the ideas that have shaped the project over the past decade. Through conversations, skateboarding and everyday moments, the film offers an outside perspective on CONNECT and its growing international community.

Skaturbanism White Paper

Methodology Presentation

CONNECT presents the first White Paper on Skaturbanism, a practical guide designed to help cities, institutions and local communities better understand and develop skaturbanism projects.

Written by Jean-Sébastien Lacam, Juliette Evon and Léo Valls, the publication brings together research, field experience and international collaborations. During this presentation, Juliette Evon and Gustav Edén will introduce the methodology behind the project and discuss how skateboarding can become a tool for rethinking public space.

Gustav Eden

Gustav Eden is the skateboarding coordinator for the City of Malmö Streets and Parks dpt. He’s regarded as one of the key figures of the Skaturbanism movement. Gustav has been developing skateboarding related projects to generate long-term benefits for his city and has been an inspiration for many. In 2024, he finalized one of his biggest projects, the reconstruction of a part of Love Park in the center of Malmö.

Leo Valls

Born and based in Bordeaux, Léo Valls is an internationally recognized professional skateboarder, one of the pioneers of the skaturbanism movement, and the co founder of the Connect festival. 

Skateboarding has taken him around the world, where he has collaborated with diverse communities and developed a practice rooted more in artistic and urban expression than in pure performance. Sponsored by brands such as DC Shoes and Magenta Skateboards, his influence stretches from Japan to the United States, with appearances in numerous international skate videos and public exhibitions. His projects also include the development of shared public spaces with skateboarding and the creation of skatable sculpture exhibitions that merge art and urban play.

Today, Léo is recognized as a global voice of skaturbanism, combining professional skateboarding, cultural advocacy, and consulting for architects and municipalities to envision more vibrant, inclusive, and playful cities.

Juliette Evon

Juliette Evon holds a PhD in Management Sciences and is a Professor of Management at ESSCA. At the intersection of strategy and human resource management, the territorial dimension is one of the key aspects of her research. Using a qualitative methodology, she studies the various components (resources, skills, proximities) and the mechanisms of interaction and coordination that can contribute to the development of identity, attractiveness, and competitive advantage for a territory.

Inclusive Skate Urbanism

Panel talk

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to welcome Bella Warley and Harry Meadley for a panel discussion as part of its 2026 edition.

Bella Warley is Skateboard GB’s Skateable Space Development Officer and has spent the past ten years developing inclusive skateboarding programmes, community projects and skateable spaces across the UK. Harry Meadley is a skateboarder, artist and researcher whose work explores the relationship between skateboarding, public institutions and marginalised communities.

As skate urbanism is one of the rare examples of a community with real input into the design and policy of public space, this conversation asks: how can we make this process—and therefore our cities—even more inclusive? What happens when we treat inclusion as a relational human practice, rather than simply a design feature? How do we move from bonding communities to bridging them? What does it really mean to collaborate? How can we demarginalise marginalised skaters while keeping skateboarding itself marginal? And ultimately, what does successful skate urbanism even look like?

Bella Warley

Bella Warley is a skateboarder, youth and community practitioner and skateable space development officer at Skateboard GB. Beginning her work in non-profit skateboarding by volunteering with SkatePal in 2015, Bella has spent 10 years developing and running inclusive skateboarding programmes, events and community building opportunities.

She has co-managed the first ever national audit of skateable spaces in the UK, delivered Skateboard GB’s first and only adaptive skateboarding community event, and co-developed purpose built, permanent skateboarding infrastructure in a Bristol primary school playground.

Harry Meadley

Harry Meadley is an artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University. They created the inclusive skate festival Civic Skateboarding (2023), co-directed the documentary Where Do You Want Us? (w/ Sarah Oglesby, 2024), and their PhD The Art of Skating Institutions (2025) used socially engaged art practice to support making street spots safer and more inclusive for non-traditional skateboarders.

They have been a presenter or panelist at various skate festivals and conferences such as The Stoke Sessions, San Diego; Common Grounds, London; Skateboarding in the City III, Nottingham; Skateholders Forum, České Budějovice; was the keynote speaker at the 2025 Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network conference; and will be convening a symposium on skateable sculpture at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, in early 2027.

Opening

Karabo Mooki

Karabo Mooki is a South African documentary photographer whose work explores contemporary youth culture in South Africa. Through an intimate and honest visual language, he documents underrepresented communities and examines the intersections of race, class and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. His photography gives visibility to stories that are too often overlooked, capturing both everyday life and powerful moments of collective resilience.

Dela Charles

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Berlin-based photographer Dela Charles as part of its 2026 edition.

Working primarily with analogue photography, Dela Charles documents skateboarding and the people around it through a raw and intimate visual language. Moving between black-and-white and colour, her photographs capture everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that shapes skateboarding. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Dela Charles

Dela Charles is a Berlin-based photographer working primarily with analogue photography. Her work explores skateboarding, youth culture and the relationships that develop within skateboarding communities across different parts of the world. Working from within the scenes she photographs, her images are shaped by familiarity, trust and long-term relationships. Moving between black-and-white and colour, she documents everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that defines skateboarding through a raw and intimate visual language.

As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Florida-based photographer Adam Hadden, featuring legendary Floridian skateboarder Jimmy Lannon, as part of its 2026 edition.

Adam Hadden documents skateboarding through its relationship with architecture, light and the built environment. His photographs focus on how skateboarders inhabit public space, capturing the atmosphere of overlooked places and revealing the unique character of each location. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding, identity and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a series of recent photographs of Jimmy skateboarding across Florida, alongside the presentation of a new book dedicated to his work. The project celebrates more than twenty years of Jimmy’s unique approach to skateboarding, built around style, creativity and a deep connection to spots. Rather than focusing on spectacle, these images reveal how an identity can emerge through local urban landscapes, colour and architecture.

Dolores Magazine

Magazine Covers Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present an exhibition dedicated to DOLORES Magazine, the independent skate publication based in Barcelona and led by editor-in-chief Raisa Abal, who will be present throughout the festival.

Founded in 2019, DOLORES was created to give greater visibility to women and gender minorities in skateboarding through independent publishing. 

Published three times a year, the magazine has become an important platform for documenting contemporary skateboarding from fresh and inclusive perspectives. 

Presented as part of the CONNECT Media Booth, the exhibition features a selection of enlarged magazine covers alongside editorial spreads that reveal the stories, photography and creative process behind each issue. Visitors will also be able to browse and take home copies of the magazine, celebrating independent skate publishing as an essential part of skateboarding culture.

Friedjof Feye

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by German photographer Friedjof Feye as part of its 2026 edition.

For more than fifteen years, Friedjof Feye has documented skateboarding through analogue photography and self-published projects. Working independently, he develops long-term personal projects that explore skateboarding, travel and the character of the places he visits. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition features a series of recent skateboard photographs produced using the cyanotype process, one of the earliest photographic printing techniques, invented in 1842. Through these unique blue prints, Friedjof combines contemporary skateboarding with a historic photographic process, creating original images that invite viewers to look at skateboarding from a different perspective.

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye is a 38-year-old photographer from Hanover, Germany, who has dedicated the past 15 years to documenting skateboarding through his lens. His passion for skateboarding photography grew alongside his own involvement in skateboarding, leading to publications in both German and international magazines, as well as the creation of his own self-published zines. Working independently of brands, Friedjof organizes his own trips to pursue personal projects and bring his creative ideas to life.

Beyond skateboarding, he has a deep appreciation for travel and analog photography, using his cameras to capture the character of the places he visits.

Expressing the Instrumental

Research Presentation

Why is it easy for skateboarders to speak to each other about skateboarding, yet so difficult to answer the question, “What is skateboarding?”

Swedish skaturbanism pioneer Gustav Svanborg Edén explores the distinction between the instrumental and the expressive as a framework for understanding why skateboarding escapes categorization and why skateboarding culture offers a profound contribution to the life of cities.

Gustav Eden

Gustav Eden is the skateboarding coordinator for the City of Malmö Streets and Parks dpt. He’s regarded as one of the key figures of the Skaturbanism movement. Gustav has been developing skateboarding related projects to generate long-term benefits for his city and has been an inspiration for many. In 2024, he finalized one of his biggest projects, the reconstruction of a part of Love Park in the center of Malmö.

Exhibitor village 

  • thrift stores
  • flash tattoo
  • skate mag space
  • osteo corner
  • screen printing workshop
  • women’s skate association booth
  • participatory mural
  • bar & snacks

Kids’ expression session

Performance: Music playlist, Dance therapy

Malraux session : Past Meets Future

Organised by Slime in collaboration with CONNECT, the Malraux Session celebrates one of Bordeaux’s most iconic street spots by bringing together different generations of skateboarders. For the occasion, parts of the famous Malraux steps will temporarily become extra-skateable again, creating a unique session inspired by the history of the spot and its continued influence.

The session will also feature a Tom Penny Challenge, paying tribute to his legendary magical backside 5-0 shove-it at Malraux. Open to everyone, the event celebrates skateboarding’s ability to connect generations while writing the next chapter of Bordeaux’s skate history.

All set to a soundtrack curated by DANCING THERAPY, featuring iconic tracks from legendary skate videos.

Live score screening

TAREEK X BX EXPOSURE (JULIEN J) X TIM CLEMENT

Video premiere

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present the exclusive premiere of 3rd Eye, the third full-length video by San Francisco-based wheel company Loophole Wheels, filmed and edited by Zach Chamberlin.

Filmed entirely in San Francisco and New York City, 3rd Eye is the third full-length release from Loophole. The video features full parts from Roger Krebs, Josh Narvaez, Jesse Narvaez, Dustin Eggeling, Alexis Lacroix and friends.

Several members of the Loophole team will be in Bordeaux to introduce the film and celebrate, including Brian Powderly, Jeremiah Nares, Dustin Eggeling, Guillaume Nozières, Etiel De Lucia, Harrison Woolgar, Vince Ruocco, Zach Chamberlin and more.

Bruit Rose Music

Tech/House Party

Namaskate

Yoga for Skateboarders

Developed by Léo Valls and yoga teacher Lauren Mahan Valls, Namaskate combines yoga and skateboarding into a practice designed specifically for skateboarders.

Blending movement, balance, breathing and mobility, these sessions help improve body awareness, flexibility and recovery while supporting the physical and mental demands of skateboarding. Open to skaters of all levels, Namaskate offers a different way to connect with your body, prevent injuries and build a more sustainable skateboarding practice.

THE SKATEPARK PROJECT : Strengthening the Sector

Panel talk

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to welcome Benjamin Anderson Bashein, CEO of The Skatepark Project, for a talk as part of its 2026 edition.

Founded by Tony Hawk in 2002, The Skatepark Project supports communities in creating free, safe and accessible places to skateboard. Through funding, technical expertise and advocacy, the organisation has helped deliver hundreds of public skateparks while promoting skateboarding as a driver of healthier, more inclusive and more vibrant public spaces. More recently, it has also contributed to landmark urban skateboarding projects in the United States, including the preservation and redevelopment of West LA Courthouse in Los Angeles and Brooklyn Banks in New York.

At CONNECT, Benjamin will discuss how skateboarding can shape better cities through long-term investment in public space, community partnerships and skater-led urban projects. The Skatepark Project has also collaborated on this year’s edition through the creation of a new original artwork developed with CONNECT, reflecting a shared vision of skateboarding as a lasting part of the urban landscape.

Mental Health

White Arkitekter

Sustainable Skate Environments: Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability in Skateable Spaces

Environmental sustainability is becoming an increasingly important part of how we plan cities and public spaces. But what does that mean for skateable spaces? This presentation draws on an ongoing research project shaped by conversations with designers, skate urbanists, skatepark builders and researchers. It explores themes such as longevity, flexibility, materials, reuse and climate adaptation, and how they can inform the planning and management of more environmentally sustainable skate projects.

Fredrik Angner

Fredrik Angner is a landscape architect at White Arkitekter, specialising in public spaces with a focus on climate adaptation, activity and play. His work often includes topics such as coastal protection, flood resilience and sustainable stormwater management.

Alongside his design practice, he works with skate environments and has led several research and development projects in collaboration with the Swedish Skateboard Federation, exploring how skateable spaces can become more inclusive, better integrated into cities and more environmentally sustainable.

Fredrik is currently involved in the research project Sustainable Skate Environments, exploring how skateable spaces can be planned, built and managed in more sustainable ways.

Josefin Norén Almén

Josefin Norén Almén is Head of Landscape Architecture in Stockholm at White Arkitekter. With a background in the music industry, she entered architecture through temporary and experimental spatial practices, and has since established herself as an award-winning landscape architect. Her work focuses on public space, accessibility and democratic urban development, and includes the internationally recognised project Flickrum!, exploring how cities can better accommodate girls and young women.

Alongside this, she has led several research and development projects in collaboration with the Swedish Skateboard Federation, exploring how skate environments can become more inclusive through both design and participation. She is currently involved in the research project Sustainable skate environments. 

Stand Up Comedy

By René Olivio

Talk

Ulrike Reinhard

Ulrike Reinhard is a German social entrepreneur who brought skateboarding into Janwaar, a village of 1,200 in rural India, in 2015. One rule: no school, no skateboarding. Girls first. School attendance rose 50%, and a girl once nearly married off at sixteen became a national skateboarding champion. The community now runs the project without her.

In 2017 she brought three Janwaar kids to Bordeaux, their first time outside India. She’s back this time to talk about the Janwaar Way: what ten years of building change from the ground up actually looks like.

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism festival is proud to present a public exhibition by South African photographer Karabo Mooki as part of its 2026 edition.

Karabo Mooki is a documentary photographer whose work explores contemporary youth culture in South Africa. Through an intimate and honest visual language, he documents underrepresented communities and examines the intersections of race, class and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. His photography gives visibility to stories that are too often overlooked, capturing both everyday life and powerful moments of collective resilience.

Presented at CONNECT, this series focuses on a community of Black women skateboarders who have turned skateboarding into a space of solidarity, self-expression and resistance. In a country still shaped by the legacies of apartheid and gender-based violence, these photographs reveal how skateboarding can reclaim public space and create new forms of belonging.

By bringing these stories into the public realm, the exhibition reflects CONNECT’s ambition to explore skateboarding as a cultural, social and urban practice.

Karabo Mooki

Karabo Mooki is a South African documentary photographer whose work explores contemporary youth culture in South Africa. Through an intimate and honest visual language, he documents underrepresented communities and examines the intersections of race, class and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. His photography gives visibility to stories that are too often overlooked, capturing both everyday life and powerful moments of collective resilience.

Dela Charles

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Berlin-based photographer Dela Charles as part of its 2026 edition.

Working primarily with analogue photography, Dela Charles documents skateboarding and the people around it through a raw and intimate visual language. Moving between black-and-white and colour, her photographs capture everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that shapes skateboarding. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Dela Charles

Dela Charles is a Berlin-based photographer working primarily with analogue photography. Her work explores skateboarding, youth culture and the relationships that develop within skateboarding communities across different parts of the world. Working from within the scenes she photographs, her images are shaped by familiarity, trust and long-term relationships. Moving between black-and-white and colour, she documents everyday moments, street environments and the atmosphere that defines skateboarding through a raw and intimate visual language.

As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a selection of skateboarding photographs alongside the presentation of Dela’s latest book. Through her quiet and personal approach, the exhibition offers a portrait of skateboarding that values people, places and everyday life as much as the tricks themselves.

Adam Hadden x Jimmy Lannon

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Florida-based photographer Adam Hadden, featuring legendary Floridian skateboarder Jimmy Lannon, as part of its 2026 edition.

Adam Hadden documents skateboarding through its relationship with architecture, light and the built environment. His photographs focus on how skateboarders inhabit public space, capturing the atmosphere of overlooked places and revealing the unique character of each location. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding, identity and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a series of recent photographs of Jimmy skateboarding across Florida, alongside the presentation of a new book dedicated to his work. The project celebrates more than twenty years of Jimmy’s unique approach to skateboarding, built around style, creativity and a deep connection to spots. Rather than focusing on spectacle, these images reveal how an identity can emerge through local urban landscapes, colour and architecture.

Dolores Magazine

Magazine Covers Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present an exhibition dedicated to DOLORES Magazine, the independent skate publication based in Barcelona and led by editor-in-chief Raisa Abal, who will be present throughout the festival.

Founded in 2019, DOLORES was created to give greater visibility to women and gender minorities in skateboarding through independent publishing. 

Published three times a year, the magazine has become an important platform for documenting contemporary skateboarding from fresh and inclusive perspectives. 

Presented as part of the CONNECT Media Booth, the exhibition features a selection of enlarged magazine covers alongside editorial spreads that reveal the stories, photography and creative process behind each issue. Visitors will also be able to browse and take home copies of the magazine, celebrating independent skate publishing as an essential part of skateboarding culture.

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by Florida-based photographer Adam Hadden, featuring legendary Floridian skateboarder Jimmy Lannon, as part of its 2026 edition.

Adam Hadden documents skateboarding through its relationship with architecture, light and the built environment. His photographs focus on how skateboarders inhabit public space, capturing the atmosphere of overlooked places and revealing the unique character of each location. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding, identity and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition brings together a series of recent photographs of Jimmy skateboarding across Florida, alongside the presentation of a new book dedicated to his work. The project celebrates more than twenty years of Jimmy’s unique approach to skateboarding, built around style, creativity and a deep connection to spots. Rather than focusing on spectacle, these images reveal how an identity can emerge through local urban landscapes, colour and architecture.

Friedjof Feye

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present a photography exhibition by German photographer Friedjof Feye as part of its 2026 edition.

For more than fifteen years, Friedjof Feye has documented skateboarding through analogue photography and self-published projects. Working independently, he develops long-term personal projects that explore skateboarding, travel and the character of the places he visits. As part of its 2026 programme, CONNECT is also committed to highlighting photographers whose work remains underrepresented in skateboarding media, while offering original perspectives on skateboarding and the city.

Presented at CONNECT, this exhibition features a series of recent skateboard photographs produced using the cyanotype process, one of the earliest photographic printing techniques, invented in 1842. Through these unique blue prints, Friedjof combines contemporary skateboarding with a historic photographic process, creating original images that invite viewers to look at skateboarding from a different perspective.

Friedjof Feye

Friedjof Feye is a 38-year-old photographer from Hanover, Germany, who has dedicated the past 15 years to documenting skateboarding through his lens. His passion for skateboarding photography grew alongside his own involvement in skateboarding, leading to publications in both German and international magazines, as well as the creation of his own self-published zines. Working independently of brands, Friedjof organizes his own trips to pursue personal projects and bring his creative ideas to life.

Beyond skateboarding, he has a deep appreciation for travel and analog photography, using his cameras to capture the character of the places he visits.

Expressing the Instrumental

Research Presentation

Why is it easy for skateboarders to speak to each other about skateboarding, yet so difficult to answer the question, “What is skateboarding?”

Swedish skaturbanism pioneer Gustav Svanborg Edén explores the distinction between the instrumental and the expressive as a framework for understanding why skateboarding escapes categorization and why skateboarding culture offers a profound contribution to the life of cities.

Gustav Eden

Gustav Eden is the skateboarding coordinator for the City of Malmö Streets and Parks dpt. He’s regarded as one of the key figures of the Skaturbanism movement. Gustav has been developing skateboarding related projects to generate long-term benefits for his city and has been an inspiration for many. In 2024, he finalized one of his biggest projects, the reconstruction of a part of Love Park in the center of Malmö.

Loto Skate x Magenta

Open Air

Battle Freestyle Skate

Documentary Première

CONNECT Skaturbanism Festival is proud to present No Place Like Home – A Portrait of Milano Centrale, a documentary by René Olivo about one of skateboarding’s most iconic spots.

Built from over thirty years of photography, archival footage and personal stories, the film traces the evolution of Milano Centrale from its renovation in the mid-1990s to today. Through the voices of the generations who skated there, it tells the story of a place that became a cultural landmark known around the world. 

As legendary skate spots continue to disappear, No Place Like Home is both a historical document and a love letter to Milano Centrale. René Olivo and the Chef guys will be at CONNECT to present the film and celebrate the enduring legacy of one of skateboarding’s greatest public spaces.

Headz 4

Harrison Woolgar

Harrison Woolgar, 28, I’m a British street skater, independent VX filmmaker and scene catalyst based in my hometown Brighton, England. Cruising round the streets of Brighton with the HEADZ crew we tackle rough Sussex crust, wondering into abandoned buildings and climbing onto roofs. I will send you a photo separately, feel free to take anything from my previous HEADZ videos for content or the trailer from the last video which was shared with connect socials.

Barcelona

By Dolores Magazine

Downhill

Sainte Catherine street

Guided Tour

Guided tour of Bordeaux through skateurbanism

Photography Exhibition

CONNECT Skaturbanism festival is proud to present a public exhibition by South African photographer Karabo Mooki as part of its 2026 edition.

Karabo Mooki is a documentary photographer whose work explores contemporary youth culture in South Africa. Through an intimate and honest visual language, he documents underrepresented communities and examines the intersections of race, class and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. His photography gives visibility to stories that are too often overlooked, capturing both everyday life and powerful moments of collective resilience.

Presented at CONNECT, this series focuses on a community of Black women skateboarders who have turned skateboarding into a space of solidarity, self-expression and resistance. In a country still shaped by the legacies of apartheid and gender-based violence, these photographs reveal how skateboarding can reclaim public space and create new forms of belonging.

By bringing these stories into the public realm, the exhibition reflects CONNECT’s ambition to explore skateboarding as a cultural, social and urban practice.

Karabo Mooki

Karabo Mooki is a South African documentary photographer whose work explores contemporary youth culture in South Africa. Through an intimate and honest visual language, he documents underrepresented communities and examines the intersections of race, class and identity in post-apartheid South Africa. His photography gives visibility to stories that are too often overlooked, capturing both everyday life and powerful moments of collective resilience.