SkatePal
SAHTEN صحتين
2020
Personal work
SAHTEN صحتين
2020
Personal work
An unconventional cookbook that uses food to tell the story of SkatePal and paint a portrait Palestine’s growing skateboard scene.
SkatePal is an organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding – a place where due to years of military occupation recreational opportunities are severely limited.
In the years since it began as a humble summer school, SkatePal has helped grow a healthy skate scene in Palestine and a compelling reputation within the international development. The problem, however, is that non-profit’s need money, and skateboarding isn’t a sport with deep pockets. We needed to broaden our audience beyond skaters.
If there’s one thing that unites everyone, it’s food. And in Palestinian culture not only is the food incredible, but an inseparable way of building trust between SkatePal partners and the local community.
This book is a collection of recipes and stories from local skaters, their families, shop owners, local heroes, past volunteers, and even Palestine’s own international masterchef, Sami Tamimi (co-founder of Ottolengi) – plus loads of other fun features.
All proceeds from the sales of the book help to sustain SkatePal’s programmes in Palestine.
View some featured stills here, then go pick up a copy here, or via your nearest stockist:
~ Antenne [Worldwide]
~ Artists Proof [Berlin, DE]
~ Artwords Bookshop Ltd. [London, UK]
~ Athenaeum Boekhandel [Amsterdam, NL]
~ The Book Depository [Worldwide]
~ BY.E [Oklahoma, USA]
~ Bodega Ritas [London, UK]
~ Category Is Books [Glasgow, SC]
~ Flatspot [Worldwide]
~ Hen's Teeth [Dublin, IR]
~ Homestead [Hull, UK]
~ Librairie Sans Titre [Paris, FR]
~ Mast Books [New York, US]
~ Materia Prima [Porto, PT]
~ McNally Jackson [New York, USA]
~ Milk Run [London, UK]
~ Nöl Collective [Ramallah, PS]
~ Palomino [EU]
~ Shreeji Newsagents [London, UK]
~ Skylight Books [Los Angeles, USA]
~ Spazio Punch [Venice, IT]
~ Stack [UK]
~ Tender Books [London, UK]
~ Tranquebar [Copenhagen, DK]
~ Village Bookstore [Leeds, UK]
Concept Development ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Editor & Writer ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Design & Art Direction ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Photography ︎︎︎ Tom Bird & many more
Copy-Editors ︎︎︎ Dorothy Izkrzynska, Theo Krish, Aram Sabbah, Charlie Davis
Translation & Cultural Guidance ︎︎︎ Aram Sabbah
Logistics ︎︎︎ Alex Adetiba
Contributors ︎︎︎ (too many to mention here, see inside book)
Distribution ︎︎︎ Antenne (Global)
Flatspot (EU)
SkatePal (UK ︎︎︎ Worldwide)
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SkatePal is an organisation that supports young people in Palestine through skateboarding – a place where due to years of military occupation recreational opportunities are severely limited.
In the years since it began as a humble summer school, SkatePal has helped grow a healthy skate scene in Palestine and a compelling reputation within the international development. The problem, however, is that non-profit’s need money, and skateboarding isn’t a sport with deep pockets. We needed to broaden our audience beyond skaters.
If there’s one thing that unites everyone, it’s food. And in Palestinian culture not only is the food incredible, but an inseparable way of building trust between SkatePal partners and the local community.
This book is a collection of recipes and stories from local skaters, their families, shop owners, local heroes, past volunteers, and even Palestine’s own international masterchef, Sami Tamimi (co-founder of Ottolengi) – plus loads of other fun features.
All proceeds from the sales of the book help to sustain SkatePal’s programmes in Palestine.
View some featured stills here, then go pick up a copy here, or via your nearest stockist:
~ Antenne [Worldwide]
~ Artists Proof [Berlin, DE]
~ Artwords Bookshop Ltd. [London, UK]
~ Athenaeum Boekhandel [Amsterdam, NL]
~ The Book Depository [Worldwide]
~ BY.E [Oklahoma, USA]
~ Bodega Ritas [London, UK]
~ Category Is Books [Glasgow, SC]
~ Flatspot [Worldwide]
~ Hen's Teeth [Dublin, IR]
~ Homestead [Hull, UK]
~ Librairie Sans Titre [Paris, FR]
~ Mast Books [New York, US]
~ Materia Prima [Porto, PT]
~ McNally Jackson [New York, USA]
~ Milk Run [London, UK]
~ Nöl Collective [Ramallah, PS]
~ Palomino [EU]
~ Shreeji Newsagents [London, UK]
~ Skylight Books [Los Angeles, USA]
~ Spazio Punch [Venice, IT]
~ Stack [UK]
~ Tender Books [London, UK]
~ Tranquebar [Copenhagen, DK]
~ Village Bookstore [Leeds, UK]
Concept Development ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Editor & Writer ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Design & Art Direction ︎︎︎ Tom Bird
Photography ︎︎︎ Tom Bird & many more
Copy-Editors ︎︎︎ Dorothy Izkrzynska, Theo Krish, Aram Sabbah, Charlie Davis
Translation & Cultural Guidance ︎︎︎ Aram Sabbah
Logistics ︎︎︎ Alex Adetiba
Contributors ︎︎︎ (too many to mention here, see inside book)
Distribution ︎︎︎ Antenne (Global)
Flatspot (EU)
SkatePal (UK ︎︎︎ Worldwide)