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Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA is proud to attend THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE ARTS4ALL INSTITUTE
Arts4All Institute
DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME GUIDE HERE (PDF)
THE DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE ARTS4ALL INSTITUTE
November 12-20, 2009
Vancouver BC
In association with Vancouver Moving Theatre
This week long intensive course focuses on the principles, practices and underpinnings of community-engaged art; the tremendous value it has for communities; and the things you need to know to launch your own project. Activities include presentations, discussions, videos, hands-on workshops, creative explorations and resources to take home.
Who is the Institute for? People interested and experienced in arts and other processes that engage communities, and Downtown Eastside community artists ready for leadership roles.
What are the course topics? Definitions, values and principles; developing your own vision; project start-ups and basics; planning and partnerships; budgets and grant-writing; arts-based and oral history research; facilitation skills; documentation and evaluation; legacy and sustainability; challenges and rewards; aesthetics and ethics.
Faculty instructors include four of Canada’s leading community artists: Ruth Howard (Jumblies Theatre, Toronto), Savannah Walling (Vancouver Moving Theatre), Cathy Stubington (Runaway Moon theatre, Enderby BC) and Varrick Grimes (associate artist, Jumblies Theatre), along with guest panelists and presenters.
Dates & Venues: all day Nov 13-15 and 17-19 at the Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender (Sat Nov 14 at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main)
With thanks to http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/arts4all/arts4all-institute/
April Smith is very proud to have her Remembrance Day video from Victory Square in Vancouver be part of this week’s BBC Your World News TV program !
April Smith is very proud to have a video clip of Remembrance Day from Victory Square be part of this week’s BBC Your World News TV Program!
It is such an honor to have April’s mobile cameraphone video from Vancouver be included with a traditional news broadcast in London, England!
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Anna Adams of BBC News mentions April Smith’s name and Remembrance Day video from Vancouver which runs from 0:50 – 1:03 in the video link below 🙂
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8359 388.stm
Below is a photo of Anna Adams of BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk
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Below is a tweet from Twitter:
RT @BBC_HaveYourSay This week’s Your World News with @AnnaAdamsBBC http://bit.ly/193rzJ – Thanks to @AprilFilms who helped out
| From: | Silvia Costeloe |
| Sent: | November 12, 2009 1:03:32 PM |
| To: | April Smith |
Hi April
I saw your video on Youtube of Remembrance Day in Vancouver and I was wondering if you’d mind us using it for Your World News, which is a BBC World short programme that goes out tomorrow. I’m putting together a small package on Remembrance Day and was wondering if you’d mind. We’d credit your name.
Also just to double check, you did take them yourself?
And lastly, if Remembrance has a special meaning to you, please email me a phone number and I’ll try and talk to you if you’re happy for me to.
Thanks a lot,
Silvia
Silvia Costeloe
Broadcast Journalist
BBC News, UGC Hub
http://www.bbc.co.uk
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Many thanks to Silvia Costeloe and Anna Adams of BBC News! 🙂
AHA MEDIA films at Annual Remembrance Day Service at Cenotaph in Victory Square in Vancouver on Wednesday November 11, 2009
AHA MEDIA pays its deepest respect to the memories of fallen soldiers who fought so hard for social justice and peace so that we may stand today and live with our freedoms in our city of Vancouver, BC, Canada
Below are photos and a video of the Annual Remembrance Day Service at Cenotaph in Victory Square in Vancouver on Wednesday November 11, 2009
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In this video, at 11 AM, at Victory Square on Remembrance Day – Wednesday November 11, 2009 in Vancouver
THE LAST POST played by Bugle Major John More of The British Columbia Regiment (DCO)
TWO MINUTE SILENCE – Twenty-One Gun Salute by 15th Field Regiment (RCA)
REVEILLE
LAMENT – “Flowers of the Forest” played by Pipe Sergeant Major Mike Bain, CD of Seaforth Highlanders of Canada
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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” WE REMEMBER “
” LEST WE FORGET “
AHA MEDIA is very proud to celebrate its First Birthday and First Year Anniversary online on Wednesday November 11, 2009
AHA MEDIA is very happy to celebrate its First Birthday and First year Anniversary online on Wednesday November 11, 2009 !!! 🙂
AHA MEDIA has come a long way in one year when we ( April Smith, Hendrik Beune and Al Tkatch) formed AHA MEDIA ( using the first letter of our first names) and decided last year to have our very own site online!
AHA MEDIA does mobile new media/social media reporting and event documentation for all communities in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside. We have even been invited to the cities of Whistler and Victoria to do mobile media and livestreaming.
With lessons learned from the Fearless City Mobile project from W2 Community Media Arts Centre http://www.creativetechnology.org, we are proud to continue to grow everyday and help support/report in all our neighborhoods from social justice issues to social media events!
AHA MEDIA enjoys providing an independent and alternative perspective to general media views. Through our new media devices and cameraphones, we hope to be a news resource for everyone who is interested in us.
Over the year AHA MEDIA has grown to include 11 people affiliated with AHA MEDIA – nearly all live and work in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
We are honored to have the Aboriginal/Native Culture perspectives from our Aboriginal reporters – Brody Benson, Alvin Clayton, Clyde Wright
Other fantastic members of AHA MEDIA are :
Peter Davies – Photographer
Ken Glofcheskie – Sports and Social Justice
J-Hock – Housing and Economic Issues
Derrick Simms – Tech Support
Alain Assaily – Real Journalist!
AHA MEDIA enjoys peer training, participating and engaging in our communities to produce content for everyone to see and hear!
Among our many news/events coverage, our next ongoing project is documenting and archiving events leading up to and during the 2010 Winter Olympics. We will report on all perspectives as well as hearing the personal stories of folks in our neighborhoods.
Two future projects AHA MEDIA will be involved in are:
1) Documenting the Poverty Olympics – a satirical view of the Games put on by CCAP who are concerned about economic, housing and social justice issues of the Downtown Eastside
2) Participating in Fearless City’s CODE Live and Bright Lights editions – the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, part of the 2010 Winter Olympics celebrations. The projects will include streaming videos created by local residents and shown on giant screens at W2, a community media arts centre opening this winter as part of the Woodward’s development.
AHA MEDIA is proud to be part of ongoing year long documentary filming process for a movie called With Glowing Hearts – http://www.vimeo.com/5401993
AHA MEDIA is still learning and growing everyday! We humbly thank EVERYONE who has supported us, been our mentor and most importantly been our friend!
We couldn’t have done it without you! 🙂
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Below is a photo of AHA MEDIA – Al Tkatch, Hendrik Beune and April Smith celebrating our First birthday and First Year Anniversary together on Wednesday November 11, 2009 in Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver Chinatown
We hope AHA MEDIA will continue to have good luck, good fortune and live as long as the turtles swimming in the ponds! 🙂
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Below is a photo and video of AHA MEDIA Co-founders Hendrik Beune and Al Tkatch and their thoughts
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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Below is a photo of three ducks swimming at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden in Vancouver Chinatown. AHA MEDIA believes that beautiful things can happen in small places especially in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA thanks everyone once again during our year long journey into media making online and offline 🙂
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