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AHA MEDIA is very proud to be invited to the LG Mobile Phone Roundtable & $5,000 Charity Challenge in Vancouver on Thursday November 26, 2009!
AHA MEDIA is delighted to be invited by LG Canada to have a sneak peek at some of the newest LG phones! AHA MEDIA has always had a great interest in mobile technology and how it can help make lives better!
AHA MEDIA will be participating in the LG Mobile Phone Roundtable & $5,000 Charity Challenge on Thursday November 26, 2009 and remembers back in April 2009, April Smith and Peter Davies competed in the LG Canadian Texting Championships and Media Charity Challenge! 🙂 http://tinyurl.com/c8kngu
If AHA MEDIA wins the $5,000 Charity Challenge, we will donate our cheque to CACV – Community Arts Council of Vancouver
The Community Arts Council of Vancouver was the first arts council in North America.
Since its beginning in 1946, the Community Arts Council of Vancouver has been a contributor to shaping the cultural life of Vancouver. The Council has been a powerful force in creating and advocating for many of the institutions, traditions and policies in Vancouver that we benefit from today.
For more than 60 years, CACV has been contributing to the cultural and community development of Vancouver by creating art projects that engage the community and facilitating, supporting, and advocating for initiatives, facilities, and programs that increase community participation in the arts. Our interests are to increase understanding of how the arts create community, grow our appreciation of our cultural differences, and engage the community in the art of developing community.
In the next few years we will attract and engage community leaders and the people who have the ability to provide the resources and collaborate with them in determining the critical initiatives that will accelerate the cultural and community development of our city.
Our biggest priority and greatest opportunity is our Downtown Eastside community which is rich in history and cultures and the neighbourhood with the largest population of artists per capita in British Columbia.
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From LG ‘s letter to AHA MEDIA:
With lots of new gadgets coming out for the holidays, LG wanted to invite you to join your fellow media and bloggers at a reception designed to give you a first-hand look at the newest in innovation for mobile phones from LG. Come and try out the LG New Chocolate, which was recently announced at LG Fashion Week and the LG Eve, which made its Canadian debut this week. In addition, there will also be a sneak peek of a yet-to-be released phone, launching later this month.
Below is a photo of LG New Chocolate
Below is a picture of LG Eve
Following the session, we’ll invite you to participate in a friendly competition with an opportunity to win $5,000 for a charity of your choice. If you want to participate, there will be a series of fun challenges that will require you to use each of the phone’s features. Don’t forget to have your Facebook and Twitter accounts set-up!
Complimentary food and beverages will be served throughout the evening, so come and join us for a drink!
Who: You (and a friend if you like!)
What: LG Mobile Phone Roundtable & Charity Challenge
Where: Goldfish Pacific Kitchen1118 Mainland Street
Vancouver
When: Thursday, November 26th, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Please help Megaphone’s Joyful Voices Fundraising Campaign
With your help, Megaphone can make this Christmas one of Joyful Voices for our vendors and community. Megaphone gives homeless and low-income people a chance to be heard, whether it’s by being a vendor, writing an article or having their issues covered in a story. For many, it’s an opportunity they’ve never had before.
“I really had no outlet until I started selling the paper,” says Megaphone vendor Danny Maloney. “It gave me the chance to interact and socialize with people and turn my life around.”
Our vendors take pride in selling Megaphone to their customers. When you buy a copy of the magazine from one of them, you are telling them that their voice matters. But in order for Megaphone to continue to give a voice to the voiceless, we need your support.
This Christmas season, Megaphone needs to raise $5,000 so we can keep working to empower homeless and low-income people, and make sure the rest of the city hears what they have to say. We need your donation.
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Please donate online or fill out this donation form and send a cheque to:
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Heart Therapy: A Downtown East Side Art Show Features Unlikely Artists; Pamela Masik leads Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) women on Healing Journey
Can art heal? Try asking the artists featured in a show titled: “Uncovering Vision: A Discovery of Art Forms by Men and Women on the Downtown East Side.” The show runs from Nov. 20-22, with an opening at 4:00pm on Friday the 20th at 361 Heatley Ave., and is sponsored by the East Side Culture Crawl.
The show is the culmination of two art programs hosted by the Union Gospel Mission for the men and women from their Alcohol and Drug Recovery Program and Women’s Drop-In Program: The Creative Journey, with artist Pamela Masik, and Photography 101, with photographer Kevin Clark.
Elizabeth, one of the women who took part in the Creative Journey class, arrived in Vancouver ten years ago with only five dollars in her pocket, fleeing an abusive relationship. Finding herself on the streets and alone, she turned to the Union Gospel Mission for help, eventually finding a home in one of UGM’s permanent supportive housing suites. She’s been through some difficult times over the last ten years, and the Creative Journey program has helped her to process those experiences.
“It isn’t just art, it’s healing,” says Elizabeth. “It’s a way to take everything that happened to me in the past and let it out. I didn’t realize I had so much emotion in me!”
Masik led the women through a ten week journey, helping them to find their own artistic voice and create several pieces each, including a mask, a charcoal drawing, and a large-format oil painting on canvas. But the women came away with more than just art. “Life out there is hard, so it was good to get in off the street and express ourselves,” says Elizabeth. “We became friends, got updates from each other and supported each other every week. We’re healing together.”
Photo Caption(high-res available on request): Artist Pamela Masik (right) helps guide Elizabeth, a participant in the Creative Journey program.
For Masik, the Creative Journey was a natural extension of her own work. She recently completed a series of 69 8’x10′ portraits of women who have been missing from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side for more than a decade, a collection titled The Forgotten. The collection will be featured in a major museum in 2011. “Facilitating the women on this creative journey has been a wonderfully transformative experience, and I believe finding one’s voice through art can be very empowering. Not only did the women create amazing art, which will be featured at the Uncovering Vision show as part of the East Side Culture Crawl, they were also offered a group art exhibition opening at Grace Gallery on Main Street on January 14th, 2010. I am proud of them for their achievements!”
Masik will continue to fund and run the program in the future. “It is a way to give back to the community, by inspiring women to find their voice through art.”
The Details:
What: Uncovering Vision: A Discovery of Art Forms by Men and Women on the Downtown East Side, sponsored by the East Side Culture Crawl. Opening will be attended by many of the featured artists, Mayor Gregor Robertson, Photographer Kevin Clark, Artist Pamela Masik, and others.
When: Opening Friday, November 20th at 4:00pm; show runs Friday, Nov. 20th 4pm-10pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am-6pm
Where: Maurice McElrea Place, 361 Heatley Ave, Vancouver.
HomeGround Community Meeting at Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver Downtown Eastside Friday November 20, 2009 2PM
HomeGround for the homeless & underhoused DTES residents, 1-28th February 2010
HomeeGround – a secular, creative event in February for DTES residents, who are homeless and underhoused.
HomeGround – to offer additional sanctuary and sustenance to our most vulnerable neighbours during the period of the Olympic Games.
HomeGround Workshops – at Carnegie, the DTES Neighbourhood House & Oppenheimer Park as of November 2009
HomeGround Workshops
– painting
– banner making
– exploring a DTES Flea Market with our binning neighbors
– traffic calming signage
– creating a HomeGround Zine
– workshops to support residents in dealing with the potentially invasive international media
– adapt as you contribute your ideas
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AHA MEDIA attends Rockafellas’ music event at 14th Avenue Pub in Mission, BC on November 13, 2009
Rockafellas –http://www.rockafellasduo.wordpress.com
In this video, Al Tkatch of Rockafellas play “Walk of Life” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Fast As You” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Pride and Joy” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “New Orleans” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Sharp Dressed Man” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Walk the Line” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Jumping Jack Flash” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) play “Every Rose has its thorn” at 14th Avenue Pub in Misson Nov 13 2009
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 Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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