PIVOT’s Hope In Shadows Top 40 photographs! Come Out to Vote!

July 9, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment Go to comments

This Sunday the new Hope in Shadows photographs will be at Grandview Park on Commercial Drive and at the Pivot Potluck at Trout Lake. If you’d like to see the top 40 and help select the photos that will be in the 2010 calendar, please come and see us!

AHA MEDIA is proud to say that one of our photos made it to the Top 40. A photo of April Smith sitting on a chair in No 3, please vote for us to rank higher in the Top 40.

The Hope in Shadows community vote began this week in the Downtown Eastside where we set up a tent and mobile display daily. The local vote, which runs until Friday, determines the winners of the contest, to be announced in October when the calendar is unveiled.

It’s great to see how much the local people passing by on the street enjoy checking out the top 40 photographs. Over the last few rainy days, as people have crowded our little tent on the sidewalk, I realize how much the simple display (8″ x 12″ enlargements stuck to cardboard panels) has added to the Hope in Shadows project. The Downtown Eastside is a very creative part of Vancouver, full of artists and galleries. However, I’m proud of helping to make these photographs so available to everyone – you couldn’t get a more public place in the Downtown Eastside than the sidewalk on the corner of Main and Hastings!

Voting in other areas of the city such as Commercial Drive, Robson Street and the Folk Festival will also help us choose the calendar images. If you’d like to see the mobile display please come and visit us at the following places:

Grandview Park, Commercial Drive: Sunday July 12, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Pivot Potluck at Trout Lake: Sunday July 12, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Robson St: Thursday July 16, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Vancouver Folk Festival, July 17-19: all day during the festival!

Kind regards,

P.S. Thanks to everyone who kindly completed the Hope in Shadows survey. The online survey is still open, so if you have a few minutes, please let us know what you think.

Paul Ryan
Director, Hope in Shadows