"Snowboarding is getting its own place to call home.”

With the combined minds of snowboard vets Steven Kimura of United Shapes and Joe Suta of Nightmare Snowboards a change is in progress.

They, along with many others, wanted to move away from the tainted trade shows of the past decades and create a community and a marketplace solely for snowboarders and snowboard brands and so Parts and Labor was brought to fruition for 2017. 

The first event will take place in Denver, January 27-29 with an on-mountain exhibition and demo that will take place on the following two days in Summit County Colorado.

"While outsiders have been tolling snowboarding’s death knell, we have all been building an amazing scene of our own. There is more energy, ideas, style, diversity, and positivity in snowboarding today than ever before.

The increasingly commodified and fragile ski and sporting goods industry was never the right place for the snowboard industry to exist. We need a place of our own - where good business goes hand in hand with a truly responsible marketplace.

We've invited a diverse cross-section of the best brands in snowboarding for the first of many gatherings to come.

Let's put the snowboarding back into the hands of snowboarders.”

Exhibitors include: Moss Snowstick, Dinosaurs Will Die, Vans, Nightmare, Public, Grassroots Powdersurfing, the Interior Plain Project, Owner Operator, Airblaster, Fix, Ashbury, 1817, Howl, Spring Break, Dang Shades, Smokin Snowboards, Niche, Powderjet, Jones, Yes, Now, Hightide Mfg., Salmon Arms, Stepchild Snowboards, TJ Brand, Warp Wave, Remind Insoles, Lobster, Switchback Bindings, Bataleon, Elm, Shred Soles, Holden, Videograss and more.