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Co-working space available at BOB ( Building Opportunities with Business ) in Vancouver Chinatown

November 7, 2009 ahamedia 1 comment

COWORKING @BOB

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BOB (Building Opportunities with Business)

http://www.buildingopportunities.org/businessdevelopment/

To further our mission, we would like to make available to select partners, individuals, and businesses the main floor of 163 East Pender Street. We hope that this open shared work space can contribute to the revitalization of the inner-city by providing a space for creative professionals to flourish, for ideas to percolate, to cross pollinate, for businesses to grow, a place where stuff gets done.

What we’re offering is a work surface, be it a desk, a chair, a table, a couch, or the bay window, wherever you’re most comfortable.

Of course we’ll offer wi-fi and other niceties such as an electronic white board and a projector to facilitate discussion and creative thinking. There’s a fridge for your food, a microwave, filtered water cooler, and secure storage for your bike.

The price is a flat $200 per month and includes keyless access.

We’re looking for creative professionals, progressive thinkers, the socially responsible and ecologically conscious who want to be surrounded by others of like mind. Folks who want more than a cubicle and a 9 to 5 and dream of bigger things and a better Vancouver to call home. If this sounds like you, contact Andrew “Muskie” McKay 778-328-7672 or write coworking@bobics.org

Categories: Andrew "Muskie" McKay, BOB Building Opportunities with Business, Chinatown, Community Engagement, Vancouver

Role of the Arts in the DTES – Thursday November 5, 2009 5pm-7:30pm at W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings in Vancouver

November 5, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

At W2 112

Dialogue

ROLE OF THE ARTS IN THE DTES

Thursday November 5, 5pm-7:30pm

W2 Perel Gallery, 112 W. Hastings (note: change of venue)

With new asphalt, renovated heritage buildings, and hundreds of new condo units, the Downtown Eastside is changing. In other ways, it stays the same. W2 Community Media Arts, The DTES Community Arts Network and Heart of the City Festival invite you to participate in a conversation on the role of the arts in the neighbourhood. What does development mean for existing artists? Are artists the unwitting “shock troops of gentrification,” or are the arts an integral component of the community?

With guests David Duprey, business man and entrepreneur; Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director – W2 Community Media Arts Society; Wendy Pedersen, community advocate for low-income housing; and Anne Marie Slater, independent photographer and media artist; moderator Ethel Whitty, Director—Carnegie Community Centre.

Reception at 5pm, Dialogue begins at 5:30pm. Free

http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/november-5/

Categories: Artist, Arts, Carnegie Centre, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, DTES CAN, Hastings Street, Irwin Oostindie, Lani Russwurm, Media Event, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, W2 Community Media Arts, Wendy Pedersen

Dr. Bruce speaking on the topic of “Folk Devils and Moral Panic” – The Globalization of Addiction Nov 12th, 2009 at Noon – 2pm.

November 4, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

Thanks to Coco Culbertson of PHS Community Services Society for the following:

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I would like to strongly encourage you to attend a lecture – as part of our staff development and training, being given by Dr. Bruce Alexander, on

Nov 12th at Noon – 2pm.

He will be speaking on the topic of “Folk Devils and Moral Panic” – The
Globalization of Addiction.
Dr. Alexander has studied addictions for over 30 years, and is a renowned
expert in the field.

He was one of the founding Board Members of the PHS Community Services
Society, and understands very clearly the role of harm reduction based approaches, policy, housing and the role of a strong community
in the DTES, and in the context of addiction.

He will be speaking at the Fletcher Challenge Auditorium (Room 1900) at
the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre on Thursday November 12th from
noon-2pm.

Look forward to seeing you there,
Coco

Categories: Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Harm Reduction, PHS, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside

AHA MEDIA attended Rockafellas’ Hallowe’en event at Paddlewheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C.

November 2, 2009 ahamedia 2 comments

AHA MEDIA attended Rockafellas’ Hallowe’en event at Paddlewheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C.

Rockafellas – http://www.RockafellasDuo.wordpress.com

Paddlewheeler Pub in New Westminster http://www.paddlewheeler.com

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Below are photos of the Rockafellas in their Hallowe’en Costumes!

Sean Michaels dressed up as Country Singer Tim McGraw and Al Tkatch dressed up as Hard Rock Lead Guitarist Angus Young from AC/DC

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Below is a photo and video of Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) playing Spirit In The Sky at PaddleWheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C., Canada on Hallowe’en, 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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Below is a photo and video of Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) playing I Saw Her Standing There at PaddleWheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C., Canada on Hallowe’en, 2009

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Below is a photo and video of Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch) playing Wooly Bully at PaddleWheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C., Canada on Hallowe’en, 2009

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Below is a photo of Dean Nakamura, Manager of Paddlewheeler pub with the winner of the Hallowe’en Costume Contest – COOKIE MONSTER!! Prize was Vancouver Canucks Hockey Tickets! 🙂

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Below is a photo of Dean Nakamura, Manager of Paddlewheeler pub with the winner of the Couples’ Hallowe’en Costume Contest

Prize was Vancouver Giants Hockey Tickets! 🙂

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Below is a photo of Dean Nakamura, Manager of Paddlewheeler Pub with the winner of the Staff Hallowe’en Costume Contest

Prize was Vancouver Canucks Tickets AND being paid to go watch the Canucks!! 🙂 Dean Nakamura is a Great Manager! 🙂

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Below are photos of the “Extra Special” Surprise part of the Ultimate Vancouver Canucks’ Fan Costume of Dean Nakamura, Manager of Paddlewheeler Pub !! See the Pink Bow and the Ten Dollar Bill Tips tucked in for Good Luck? 🙂

Dean is the Ultimate Vancouver Canucks Fan – willing to go the extra mile on Hallowe’en! 🙂

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Below is a photo of April Smith of AHA MEDIA together with Al Tkatch of AHA MEDIA and Rockafellas dressed in AC/DC Costumes for Hallowe’en at the Paddlewheeler Pub in New Westminster, B.C.

Categories: AHA Media, Al Tkatch, April Smith, B.C., Community Engagement, Guitarist, Hallowe'en, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, Music, Musician, New Media, New Westminster, Nokia N95, Paddlewheeler Pub, Rockafellas, Social Media

AHA MEDIA attends part of the Sites of Empowerment Tour by CCAP in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday Oct 31, 2009

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AHA MEDIA attends part of the “Sites of Empowerment Tour” by CCAP in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday Oct 31, 2009

Walking Tour

SITES OF EMPOWERMENT
with CCAP

Saturday October 31, 11:30am1pm
Meet at steps of Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main

This tour with researcher Wendy Pedersen and volunteers of the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) will start at the front steps of the Carnegie Centre and visit some of the best loved places in the area according to the stories of low-income DTES residents.

Contemplate how these key sites give us clues as to how to build a vision for a safe, healthy and affordable low-income neighbourhood and how this future is threatened by gentrification.

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Below is an aerial photo of the tour of about 50 people which included Vancouver City Councillor George Chow while they stopped at the corner of Hastings and Carrall Street in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside

CCAP is building consensus within the low-income community for a vision of the Downtown Eastside that hopefully the city will adopt. Visioning reports and information on gentrification can be found on their blog:http://www.ccapvancouver.wordpress.com. All proceeds to CCAP. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents

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Below is a close up of an aerial photo of the tour of about 50 people which included Vancouver City Councillor George Chow while they stopped at the corner of Hastings and Carrall Street in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside

Part of the Heart of the City Festival in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-31/

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In the next photos and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA and Wendy Pedersen of CCAP speak at Sites of Empowerment tour in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday, Oct 31, 2009

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In this video, Wendy Pedersen of CCAP and Ann Livingston of VANDU speak at Sites of Empowerment tour in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday, Oct 31, 2009