AHA Media

Part of the Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver Downtown Eastside http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-29/

Celebrating the Voice of the Strathcona Children, Princess Avenue Interpretive Walk

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Below is a photo of Lead Artist Anne Marie Slater with students

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Below is a video of the Visual Arts –   CHILDREN LIVE DREAM HERE

The presence of children in our community is the focus of this show of photo works by students from grades 4 to 7. Photographer and lead artist Anne Marie Slater collaborated with the students on an interpretive walk of Princess Avenue and their photographs reveal the sky, the street, and the industrial side of Hastings Street re-linking the historic north/south connection to the waterfront.

The perspectives of inner city children are captured in photo stories and audio recordings, on view in the main gallery and in projections on the outside of Chapel Arts. Children Live Dream Here: Urban Landscapes is a community arts initiative with the participation of local organizations, community members and the support of the Festival and the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program.

Sponsored by Strathcona Elementary School, Strathcona Community Centre Association and Chapel Arts, with funding from Port Metro Vancouver and Telus-Vancouver Community Board.

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or message me at http://www.facebook.com/AprilFilms

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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie of W2 http://www.creativetechnology.org with his Daughter reading a photo book made by school children

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Below is a photo of Terry Hunter of Heart of the City Festival http://www.HeartOfTheCityFestival.com

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Below is a photo of a young artist drawing with chalk while Savannah Walling of Heart of the City Festival looks on. http://www.HeartOfTheCityFestival.com

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Below is a photo of Savannah Walling, Anne Marie Slater, Irwin Oostindie and daughter looking at the Powerful Projection of Photos taken by students of Strathcona Elementary from the Garage across Dunlevy Street to the side of Chapel Arts!

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Thanks to the following who made the Princess Avenue Interpretive Walk very possible!

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Below is Anne Marie Slater with Nathan Wiens of Chapel Arts http://www.ChapelArts.com at the end of a successful evening !

Visual Arts
CHILDREN LIVE DREAM HERE

 
Thursday October 29, 5:30pm-10pm
5:30pm-7pm Art opening
Families welcome

7pm-10pm Join your neighbours to celebrate the Festival
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy

The presence of children in our community is the focus of this show of photo works by students from grades 4 to 7. Photographer and lead artist Anne Marie Slater collaborated with the students on an interpretive walk of Princess Avenue and their photographs reveal the sky, the street, and the industrial side of Hastings Street re-linking the historic north/south connection to the waterfront.

The perspectives of inner city children are captured in photo stories and audio recordings, on view in the main gallery and in projections on the outside of Chapel Arts.

Children Live Dream Here: Urban Landscapes is a community arts initiative with the participation of local organizations, community members and the support of the Festival and the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program.

Sponsored by Strathcona Elementary School, Strathcona Community Centre Association and Chapel Arts, with funding from Port Metro Vancouver and Telus-Vancouver Community Board. Free

With thanks to Anne Marie Slater and the Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver Downtown Eastside for text and image

http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-29/

We , the Ancient Rugged Revival, in association with The Dusty Flower Pot Cabaret  do cordially invite you to an evening of delectable theatre and revelry…. . .. .

CABARET L’AMOUR FOU! offers up a 12-person spectacle of genre-bending collaboration by East Vancouver’s Ancient Rugged Revival.  Recently returned from the Montreal Fringe Festival, here is what folks have been saying about this viewer-rated FESTIVAL TOP TEN performance:

AHA MEDIA created the following Political Parody and Satire videos to demonstrate the voting process in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) on May 12, 2009 for BC Election.

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Parody Video 1 – BC Election – May 12, 2009 – Hendrik Beune Going to Vote with a Jar of Pickles

In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHAMEDIA dressed up as a Grim Reaper and satires Gordon Campbell as he goes out to vote even though he feels he’s in a pickle in thinking that voting will change the lives of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Through his acting he hopes to demonstrate how some Vancouver Downtown Eastside residents feel powerless given the choices of our political candidate’s election solutions to solve the issues.

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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Parody Video 2 – BC Election May 12, 2009, Hendrik Beune casts his vote

In this video, Hendrik Beune satires the voting process and Gordon Campbell for the BC Election  May 12, 2009 at Ray Cam Community Centre in Strathcona much to the mixed reaction by the polling clerks

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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Parody Video 3 – BC Election May 12, 2009- Hendrik Beune thinks the votes are like a Whoopee Cushion
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA activates a whoopee cushion to demonstrate his feelings on how he thinks the votes are counted in the BC Election and how he thinks that Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals shouldn’t win.

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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Parody Video 4 – BC Election May 12, 2009,Vancouver Downtown Eastside Reaction to Gordon Campbell

In this video, May 12, 2009, Al Tkatch, Co-founder of AHA MEDIA and also of the music duo Rockafellas announces that BC Election results. A bitter woman yelled out Who cares while Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA dressed up as a parody ofGordon Campbell  as a Grim Reaper lookalike entertained the laughing Vancouver Downtown Eastside crowd with his antics.

This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.

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Here’s to another four years of our current BC Government!