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Music in the Streets
SNOWY OWL DRUMMERS
Saturday October 30, 2pm-3:30pm
Starts at Pigeon Park, Carrall & Hastings
A Music in the Streets project, the Snowy Owl Drummers drum the community’s heartbeat. Feel the rhythm, sing the songs! Free

AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010

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GALLERY OPENING Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short
Friday October 29, 7pm-9pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings
During this past summer a landmark mural project was painted on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. The ground floor of the Orwell was the planning space for the artists and organizers. Inspired by the creative energy of the artists working together, the Vancouver Native Housing Society moved forward to open the Urban Aboriginal Gallery in the same ground floor location. Join the artists to celebrate with music from one of the participating artists, Haisla Collins and her roots acoustic band—Haisla with Nasty, Brutish & Short.  Specializing in blues and ballads with flavours of gospel, jazz and country, Haisla is joined by Lorenzo Watters on lead guitar and mandolin, the Reverend Gabriel Hebert on slide guitar and banjo, and Father Theo on rhythm guitar and twelve-string. That’s urban blues! See you there! Free

AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010

http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com

AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of  video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

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THROUGH THE EYE OF THE RAVEN
Friday October 29, 2pm-4pm
Urban Aboriginal Gallery, 456 E. Hastings
Meet the team of artists who created, designed and painted the extraordinary Through the Eye of the Raven, Western Canada’s largest mural recently completed on the west wall of the newly-renovated Orwell Hotel. Hear their ‘mural stories’ in the informal setting of the new Urban Aboriginal Gallery, followed by a 3pm slideshow presentation featuring the community and artistic process of this landmark project. Mural co-artistic directors were Richard Tetrault and Jerry Whitehead, and participating artists included: Richard Shorty, Northern Tutchone; Sharifah Marsden, Anishnabe; Haisla Collins, Tsimshian; Eric Parnell, Haida; and the poet Nicola Campbell, Interior Salish of Nle7kepmx (Thomson) and Nsilz (Okanagan). All artists are residents of Vancouver’s Eastside. The mural is a Vancouver Native Housing Society project created with support from the City of Vancouver, BC Housing, Britiannia Community Centre, Strathcona BIA, General Paint, the Royal Bank, VanMar Constructors and others. The best views of the mural are either from across the street in the Patricia Hotel parking lot, or looking east from Gore up the alley between Hastings and Pender. (www.urbanaboriginal.org) Everyone welcome. Free

Below is a video of  Savannah Walling at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

Below are photos of  Former Premier Mike Harcourt at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

Below is a photo and video of  Richard Tetrault at Through the Eye of the Raven Art Talk at Heart of the City Festival 2010

AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010

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AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of  video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

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Fans, friends and family joyously welcomed back our Team Canada back from Rio Homeless World Cup 2010 in Brazil!  Our boys were very proud to come home and were honored to be named the winners of the Fair Play trophy from the tournament among 65 other countries!! A delicious breakfast for our athletes was catered by Potluck Cafe at Life Skills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )

In this video, Coach Alan Bates of Team Canada for Street Soccer comes home to Vancouver DTES

In this video, Patrick, Co -Captain of Team Canada for Street Soccer comes home to Vancouver DTES

In this video, Peter of Team Canada for Street Soccer comes home to Vancouver DTES

In this video, Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA with Peter Chow of Team Canada for Street Soccer in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Peter Chow with Kevin King of Team Canada for Street Soccer in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Coach Alan Bates Team Canada for Street Soccer coming into LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Rik Mountain of Team Canada for Street Soccer coming into LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Peter Chow of Team Canada for Street Soccer coming into LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

Patrick of Team Canada for Street Soccer speaking to Media at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Leo and Patrick speak on Team Canada’s Fair Play Award from Rio Homeless World Cup 2010

In this video, Kevin King, Co- Captain of Team Canada for Street Soccer at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

In this video, Frank of Team Canada for Street Soccer at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver DTES

Friends and family members of Georgina Faith Papin gathered to honor her memory at Crab Park on Tuesday Sept 21, 2010

Georgina Faith Papin

March 11, 1964 – March 21, 1999

Internment on September 25, 2010 at Our Lady of Seven Sorrows

To be buried next to her mother Maggie Alice Papin

Georgina was a woman who cherished her Native identity. Having two given names of “Little Feather and “Red Road Woman”, she arranged the naming ceremony for her oldest daughter, Kristina, in the summer of 1998. She was also a pow wow dancer. Her strongest passion was saved for her 7 children, which she was very active in their lives. She was an advocate, working with both elders and inmates.  Georgina was president of the Native Sisterhood at BCCW. Georgina was important to any community she was part of, leaving a legacy of honest sincerity.  Giving, supporting, kindness made up her personality, where friendship was important, and keeping a strong sense of integrity.

Vigil Agenda

September 21, 2010, Crab Park, Vancouver, British Columbia

Opening Prayer:  Audrey Rivers – Squamish Nation

Dorothy Visser – Saddlelake First Nation

Opening Drum/Song:  Buffalo Spirit Drummers Group

C.J. Julien with Old Hands

Speakers:  Cynthia Cardinal

Alana Papin

Bonnie Fowler

Kristina Bateman Papin

Maggie De Vries  - Sister to Sarah De Vries

Sandra Ganon – Sister to Janet Gail Henry

Troy Boen ( son of Yvonne Boen – “The Denied 20″

Mabel Todd – Elder for Walk4Justice

Open Mic:   Honour the memory of Georgina Faith Papin

Closing Prayer: To Be Announced

Acknowledgement:  Amnesty International – Don Wright, Gloria Larocque, Battered Women’s Support Services, Marlene George, Native Women’s Association of Canada, Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House

Below is a photo and video of Christina Cardinal (sister of Georgina Papin) speaking

Kristina Bateman Papin – oldest daughter of Georgina Papin

Old Hands