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Rob Milton of Vancouver Downtown Eastside to play Street Soccer in Brazil!!
Rob Milton of Vancouver Downtown Eastside excitedly shares his story of being selected to play for Street Soccer Canada for Homeless World Cup in Brazil!!
In this video, Rob Milton shares his great excitement and mentions how he’s preparing for Brazil
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
Story Box Project Opening Reception on Friday, August 6th from 7pm till late at W2 Storyeum
The Story Box Project featured at the Surge Festival
August 6 – 28th, 2010
W2 Storyeum – 151 West Cordova St. (at Abbott St)
Opening Reception: Friday, August 6th from 7pm till late
Regular Exhibition Viewing
August 7 to August 28, noon-6pm. Wednesday to Sunday, Free admission
At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various voices which are intermingled to create a new and visceral experience.
The Storybox Project at the Surge Festival is the sensational finish to a process that involved over eighty members of DTES community based writing groups who developed their individual stories utilizing personal artifacts as inspiration and illustration. The manifold stories held common threads bound to universal themes. StoryBox at Storyeum presents five such themes as representative of the powerfully spoken words by the most demo-diverse voices working in concert with some of Vancouver’s brightest lights in media arts.
urban ink, an interdisciplinary theatre company connected artists with residents to create five video and sound installations:
A solely aural exploration of the Story Box themes, AudioVox simultaneously looks at the relationship between chaos, order and form. [Frederick Brummer/Rupinder Sidhu]
Resistance for Existence exposes four different realities of people forced to hold firm against adverse forces even as they need to shift their perspectives in order to survive. [Cease Wyss/Shawn Chappelle]
Natural beauty and magic have been lost within the distractions of materialism yet we conjure different illusions & myths to help make sense of things in Web We Weave. [Su-an Ng/Sepideh Saii]
A suspension of story, image and object triangulate as audience members weave their way inside and outside the Mother Tongue musings of four multilingual tellers. [Justin Sekiguchi/Lenke Sifko]
ShadowBox presents a random interplay of silhouetted actors with the stories and key phrases from StoryBox’s eighty participants. The results of this 6-month project are revealed to pedestrian onlookers in W2 Storyeum windows. [Krista Lomax/Sammy Chien]
Media Artists: Frederick Brummer, Shawn Chappelle, Su-an Ng, Sepideh Saii, Justin Sekiguchi, Rupinder Sidhu, Lenke Sifko, Cease Wyss, Krista Lomax and Sammy Chien.
Contributing Artists: Julia Aleynikova, Samuel Beaudry, Colin Beiers, Hendrick Beune, Afuwa Granger, Lenore Herb, Jezebel S. Jones, Quest Kabuki, Bill Lim, Joan Morelli and Antonette Rea. Community Group Animators/Facilitators: Hari Alluri, Lesley Ewen, MutyaMacatumpag, Omari Newton, Irwin Oostindie, Quelemia Sparrow and Naomi Steinberg.
The StoryBox Exhibition has been curated by urban ink and W2, with financial assistance of the City of Vancouver, and produced in association with: Vancouver Society of Storytelling, Raycam Community Centre, Interurban, Fearless City Mobile, Musqueam Nation Writer’s Group, DTES Women’s Centre Writing Group, Carnegie Centre’s Thursday Writing Collective, Life Skills Centre, Native Court Workers’ Saturday Family Storytelling, Ugnayaan Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance, Surrey Urban Youth Project, Gathering Place Megaphone project, Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society (ACCESS).
AHA MEDIA at Social Media Club Vancouver (SMCYVR) – Nokia Digital Scavenger Hunt at Trout Lake on Thursday Aug 5, 2010
On August 5th, Social Media Club Vancouver, in association with Nokia Canada, is taking social media out of the office and into the great outdoors for its first Digital Scavenger Hunt. More specifically, to Trout Lake Beach, in an event that everyone will enjoy.
Bring your mobile phones and cameras, and get ready to scour neighbouring spots for clues. The digital scavenger hunt is family-friendly and there’s no cost to attend. Mobile media mavens from Social Media Club Vancouver and Nokia Canada will be on site to guide participants on how to use mobile location tools to win prizes.
The event will run from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Trout Lake Park is easily accessible via Skytrain, and Nokia Canada will be on site demonstrating their latest phones. Some of them are so user-friendly that even a five-year old could operate them!
Leslie Murray and April Smith of AHA MEDIA formed together a team to go treasure hunting using the Landmarks Application off of a Nokia N97 mini
Below is a closeup of our instructions and Nokia N97 mini with Kemp Edmonds in the background
Below is a photo of Tom Hall of Nokia Canada and his reflection in the screen of Nokia N97 mini
Below is one of our clues
Below is a photo of Mitch Baldwin and Tom Hall watching the usage of the Landmarks Application on a Nokia N97 mini
AHA MEDIA was very proud to be the first winner of the Social Media Club Vancouver – Nokia Digital Scavenger Hunt !!
Among the prizes was a cute charm to accessorize a Nokia cellphone
With many thanks to Tom Hall of Nokia Canada, Raj and Social Media Club Vancouver for a fun filled evening !
Angel “Molly” Gaeta and her artwork in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Angel “Molly” Gaeta shows her artwork and describe her creative process to Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA in her temporary art giftshop at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Surge Festival – 1st Annual Festival of Urban Digital Culture at W2 Storyeum – July 30 to Aug 28, 2010
At the core of this year’s inaugural Surge Festival program are four exhibitions, plus weekly live DJ and VJ events, film screenings, workshops, parties, and youth summer camps.
More than 50 artists are showing including: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, Indigo, Take5, the dark, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Ange Sterritt, Frederick Brummer, Shawn Chappelle, Su-an Ng, Sepideh Saii, Justin Sekiguchi, Rupinder Sidhu, Lenke Sifko, Cease Wyss, …Krista Lomax and Sammy Chien.
Opening night reception July 30th, 8-11pm, free
After-party 11pm with DJ Kilocee, Take5 & The Phonograff, part of the W2 Summer Nights series, $5 at door.
The centrepiece of the Surge Urban Digital Culture Festival is a massive mural installation for ‘All our Walls’ (opening July 30) by the dark, Take5, Sensr and Indigo, alongside a graffiti & street art exhibit featuring established and emerging Canadian artists. Coast Salish-based Aboriginal artists represent the urban experience for the 50% of First Nations living off reserve in Rezilliance (opening July 30). Facing the Wind: Whey-ah-Wichen looks at 20 years of the Under the Volcano Festival taking place on Tsleil-Waututh Nation Territory (opening July 30). StoryBox makes inner-city voices digital in this collaboration between 80+ residents and professional media artists (opens one week later on Aug 6).
Formerly street-wise and counter-culture, urban art has found its way into powerful institutions, advertising, and art market galleries. This mainstreaming also exposes that street art traditions are connected globally across borders, and open up space to contest the privatization of public space, battles for free speech, while building creative inner cities. Urban art has its roots in the undercurrents of social alienation and resistance to power, and artists can create relevant and transformative cultural experience for neighbourhoods and people of all ages.
Surge exhibition viewing hours are Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6pm. W2 Summer Nights kick off at 10pm. The Festival takes place in one of Vancouver’s best exhibition and festival venues, W2 Storyeum at 151 W Cordova, just steps north of W2’s future media centre site in the Woodward’s Atrium. Program subject to change. For updates and new screening and workshop announcements check our website.
Weekly performances in our W2 Summer Nights series feature some of Vancouver’s most innovative urban DJs and VJs, with all proceeds supporting the development of W2’s inner-city community media programs.
For more information on the exhibits RSVP on the Facebook event or read:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/profiles/blogs/surge-first-annual-urban
Time: July 30, 2010 at 8pm to August 28, 2010 at 11:45pm
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova Street
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.facebook.com/event…
Phone: 604-689-9896
Event Type: festival, exhibition, party
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