Life Shop is at the Boys & Girls Club of Utah County in Provo. bgcutah.org
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This is the place.

A teen center at the Boys & Girls Club of Utah County in Provo — a basketball court, an open field for frisbee golf, lawn games, nine square in the air and pickleball, and an RC track inside. The mobile skate park and crazy cart circuit head out to events across the county. Hover any photo to blow it up.

These photos come from all three Life Shops. Life Shop started in Lehi, then moved to the Provo Town Center Mall, and is now open in the Provo clubhouse at the Boys & Girls Club of Utah County. Every Life Shop gets its own artwork — no two are painted the same — but every one is built to look and feel like it belongs to teenagers: welcoming, safe, and genuinely fun to be in. Graffiti has been a big part of that from the start, and it comes with us wherever we go.
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The people

Who actually turns up.

Opening day, tournament nights, and every ordinary evening in between. 22 photos

The Life Shop ribbon cutting, a crowd of teens, families and city guests behind the blue ribbon Teens spread out on the couches talking Teens eating together at the tables Teens and staff around the poker table Teens working at a table in the main room A table of teens playing poker together on tournament night Teens playing cornhole together under the Life Shop sign A room full of teens and staff in the Life Shop lounge Three teens holding their winnings in front of the Life Shop logo wall A group of teens by the Life Shop logo wall Two teens holding RC bodies they painted themselves A teen being congratulated with a certificate A teen with an RC buggy in front of the Life Shop logo A teen holding up a finished RC car Teens in front of the IYKYK wall by the ramps The graffiti artists with Life Shop staff in front of their work A Life Shop selfie in the finished space Life Shop staff on the Good Things Utah television set Two teens with their certificates after the axe-throwing competition Cornhole winners holding up their Life Shop bottles Two teens holding Life Shop skate decks A teen wearing a Life Shop tee customised with her own name, and LOVE on the back

Classes

What gets taught.

Auto shop, first aid, money, filmmaking, yoga, crafts — over a hundred of them, all free. 28 photos

Teens sitting along the couches listening in during a Life Shop session A group of teens on the couches at Life Shop, listening to the person leading the session A Life Shop staff member setting up at the front, moon chairs laid out for the group Teens in the moon chairs facing the screens during a class A wide view of a class running, teens in moon chairs and the screens up A class in progress at the tables, with the graffiti wall and screens behind Teens at the tables working while a lesson runs on the big screen Teens sitting round a table together at Life Shop Two teens working on a craft project at the table A staff member running a class quiz on the big screens Teens in camp chairs watching the big screens Teens building RC kits together at the class tables A wide view of the build class with teens at every seat Teens working through their RC kits at the long tables Traxxas kits and tools laid out ready for a build class The Life Shop classroom with computers and the poster wall behind A build station set up with an unassembled RC kit and tools Kits and parts trays lined up down the class table A teen spray-painting an RC car body in the paint booth A teen shading an RC body with spray paint A teen finishing the paint on a custom RC body A yoga class laid out on mats in the main room Teens working on diamond art at the tables Finished diamond-art stickers laid out Teens making things together at the craft table A work table covered in supplies during a class A teen and a staff member unboxing new kit A teen working at one of the Life Shop computers

Open Shop

What happens after class.

Ramps, RC cars, poker, volleyball, dodgeball, ping pong, cornhole and films. Every night is different. 29 photos

A teen mid-trick on the ramp in front of the LIFE SHOP throw-up A teen mid-throw during a cornhole game at Life Shop Two teens playing cornhole with the live tournament bracket on the big screen Cornhole in front of the graffiti wall and the ramp A volleyball rally in full swing in the main room Teens leaping for a volleyball at the net A volleyball game in full swing across the main room Shooting hoops under the disco lights Teens rollerblading across the main room A ping pong rally in the main room Teens deep in a hand at the Life Shop poker table A full poker table of teens and staff A teen in a blazer at the Life Shop poker table Two teens at the poker table with their chips A poker hand being dealt at Life Shop poker night A staff member running the poker table for a group of teens Teens watching a film from the zero-gravity chairs Teens watching a film from the moon chairs Two teens playing a board game at the table A teen throwing at the axe-throwing target Teens playing Spikeball in the main room A teen stretched out on the couch by the windows Two teens hanging out on the lounge floor Teens with drinks and snacks at the table The red pool table at Life Shop A wide view of the Life Shop floor with games running Teens playing volleyball over a ribbon strung across the room Teens and staff playing poker at Life Shop Teens spread out on the couches in the lounge

Mobile events

We bring the whole thing to you.

The skate park, the crazy carts and the RC track all pack down and travel. Life Shop takes them out to schools, fairs and community days — a taste of what happens at the clubhouse. 13 photos

A panorama of a Life Shop outdoor event: the ramp park on one side, a tyre-lined crazy cart circuit on the other, food trucks and bounce houses behind Dozens of kids riding the Life Shop mobile skate park at an outdoor community event The full mobile skate park set up outdoors with food trucks and tents behind Riders spread across the whole outdoor ramp park Kids skating and scooting the portable ramps at an outdoor event The tyre-lined crazy cart circuit laid out at an outdoor event Crazy carts running a tyre circuit in a speedway paddock The outdoor RC track with jumps, set up alongside the ramps Teens holding school supplies beside the Life Shop van The Life Shop stand set up in the Lone Peak High School commons Students playing cornhole at a Life Shop school event Boxes of notebooks, folders and pencils loaded up for the school supply drive Stacked boxes of donated school supplies inside Life Shop

The cars

The RC shelf.

Kyosho Mini-Z on the shelf, Traxxas Slash trucks on the bench — every one of these gets driven, and most of them get built and repaired by the teens who drive them. 29 photos

The wall of RC cars with their controllers racked above The Life Shop RC collection lined up on the shelf The RC collection with a Skyline in the foreground The full RC track laid out in the main room The RC track from the corner of the room The RC track with the seating area behind Traxxas Slash kits boxed up on the classroom tables, ready to be built A Traxxas Slash kit box on the build table The whole classroom set up for a Traxxas Slash build A teen with his short-course RC truck in front of the Life Shop wall One of the RC trucks the teens built, on the bench The same truck from the other side A teen spray-painting an RC body shell The RC shelf with boxed Kyosho Mini-Z kits underneath Boxed Kyosho Mini-Z cars on the shelf More boxed Mini-Z kits below the display shelf A number 6 Hakosuka Skyline RC body An orange Datsun 240Z RC car A blue Subaru Impreza STI RC car Front view of the blue Subaru Impreza STI RC car Close-up of a Skyline GT-R RC body A Skyline GT-R RC body from the front three-quarter An orange Porsche 911 GT3 RC car The Renown Mazda 787B Le Mans RC body The black number 62 Sauber Mercedes RC body The silver number 63 Sauber Mercedes RC body An orange McLaren GT3 RC car The Esso Ultron Toyota number 3 Le Mans RC body A Life Shop tee, belt bag and stickers laid out together

The build

Every one of them started as an empty room.

Bare concrete, sheets over the windows, and a stack of flat-packed ramps. Then the artists arrive. Every location gets its own original artwork — we have never painted the same room twice. 23 photos

The Life Shop building before fit-out: bare concrete and empty walls The first ramps standing in the empty room, sheets still over the windows Two people assembling the Freshpark ramps during set-up Artists part-way through the SKATE SCOOT RIDE MOVE PLAY wall A graffiti artist beside the spray-can cart mid-build Two graffiti artists filling in the PLAY lettering The mural part-finished, an artist on a ladder A graffiti artist at work behind a tray of spray cans The finished SKATE SCOOT RIDE MOVE PLAY wall The finished SKATE SHOOT RIDE MOVE PLAY wall A panorama of the full Life Shop graffiti room The values wall: WORK HARD, PLAY HARD, GO DO IT, KEEP ON KEEPING ON The YOU DO YOU corner of the graffiti room MOVE, SEND, GO and RIDE across the corner of the room The LIFE SHOP piece on the main graffiti wall Graffiti-painted panels standing in the main room The Life Shop logo on the wood wall The Life Shop logo painted on the floor The Life Shop main room, empty, showing the full length of the space A wide view of the Life Shop main room The Skills and How can you help posters The Who is Life Shop and Our Mission posters The yellow three-wheeler built at Life Shop

Clips

Straight off the floor.

Straight off the floor — just what it looks like on a normal night.

Shark Tank: teens pitching a business.
Crazy carts, out front.
A walk down the RC shelf.
Crazy carts under the lights.
Carts on the shop floor.
Dodgeball night.
Dodging.
Down the RC shelf.
The collection, end to end.
An RC run on the floor.
Movie night, full house.
Lights and screens on.
A tour of the graffiti room.
A lap of the track.
Customising a body in the spray booth.
Race night, heat one.
Race night, heat two.
Around the shop floor.
Tournament night.
Close up on the grid.

Out in the community

Life Shop travels.

The skate park, the crazy carts and the RC track all pack down and go on the road. Life Shop takes them to schools, fairs and community days — a taste of what happens at the clubhouse, free for everyone who turns up.

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