Director Crystal Moselle’s previous project, documentary The Wolfpack, focussed on a group of reclusive brothers, locked away from the outside world in their Manhattan apartment.

Pumpcage skatepark under the Mancunian Way will be launching its first ever adults skateboarding lessons on May 2 with weekly sessions running every Wednesday thereafter. The sessions cost £8 for two hours.

Skateboarding, more so than any other sport, is connected to a culture.

Some may be struggling to prosper as the economy crawls out of recession, but for one Mancunian man, there has been no time like the present to start his own business.

The House of Vans’ weekend of music, art, street culture and skateboarding will arrive in Manchester at the Great Northern Warehouse at the beginning of October.