Roller Jungle
March 15—May 17, 2024
Welcome to the Roller Jungle!
Want to Learn How to Get Down on Rollerskates? Lets FUNK Around, and find out what its ALL about! The Roller Jungle offers three unique programs based on your experience level and interests including Learn to Skate, Intro to Rollerdance, and Open Skate sessions. Visit the links below for more details and to register.
The Roller Jungle is passionate about bringing the joy and magic of Rollerskating and Rollerdancing to the BIPOC & our Allies Communities in Alberta and beyond…come get your GROOVE ON & FUNK around and find out What its ALL about!
Contemporary Calgary is a proud venue partner, for questions about the program contact the organizer Livvy Skates, via the Contact button on the Eventbrite page.
Learn to Skate
Sign up for the Learn to skate Program where you will learn skate rink etiquette, balance, and how to get Rolling and how to stop and fall (safely). This wildly Fun and progressive course will get you Up and Rolling and Roll-Dancing to some Great Music and where you will learn all about and gain an Understanding about Rollerskating and the culture and how it ties to HipHop and Black culture.
Intro to Rollerdance
Sign up for the Intro to Rollerdance, and Learn To put wheels To Dance! Learn how to control your balance and your wheel edge as well as transitions and learn to spin!
Open Skate
Come Roll with us at our Open skate sessions and use the time to get to know us and others, work on skills learned in class, Roll around and have Fun!
ABOUT THE ORGANIZER
Olivia Walker (she/her)
Olivia Walker better Known as Livvy Skates started skating 8 years ago. She fell in love with the movement and feeling that skating can bring and bought her own skates shortly after visiting the local Rollerrink. Since that then, she has travelled and trained with Master skaters in Canada, the US and across the pond in the UK.
She has been featured in a few commercials, been a stunt skater for Ghostbusters afterlife movie and starred in a music video for world renown Dj Armand Van Heldon called "step it up" (check it out on you tube).
She has led classes for such skate events like "Rollin in the Rockies" 2 years in a row and also has been the main instructor for the outdoor rollerrink at Deerfoot city mall here in Calgary.
With many years of experience and quite the skill level under her belt you will be sure to have a funky Good time learning from her!
