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AHA MEDIA filmed at HIV testing event at Pigeon Park in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
From What’s Your Status
Together we can radically stop the spread of HIV and AIDS through identifying participants who are positive. The earlier you learn your status and start treatment you significantly lower the risk of transmitting this disease to someone else.
Finding out your HIV status is positive used to be thought of as a death sentence. This is no longer the case because of pioneers in medical research like Dr. Julio Montaner and the BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS who have developed a highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for people living with the disease that can prolong healthy living for a lifetime and reduces the risk of HIV transmission. Along with this ground breaking research, a Point of Care test (similar to a test a diabetic would take) has the ability to screen for the virus in 60 seconds.
We are initiating a HIV testing, treatment and education campaign in the downtown eastside community (DTES). This program is a pilot project linking peers within our DTES to information and resources that they need and are available to them within the PHS programs that currently exist as well as special summer outdoor events.
Our objectives are to test and educate as many people from the DTES community as HIV screening is an important part of preventative health care for everyone. We also intend to link people living with a HIV positive status to all the resources and support that are available to them in their community.
Getting Tested
Getting tested to find out your HIV status is as simple as
- Showing up to one of our testing sites or events
- Do the test & get your results *
- Receive education without discrimination
* If you test positive we will assist you in proceeding to a second test from a Health Care professional, where post education; service, support and resources will be discussed.
To find out where and when you can be tested, click here.
Our Testers
Our testers are DTES community members who have been educated to perform the Point of Care tests by a certified practitioners and educators. They are leaders in the community who are trustworthy, honest and have all signed legal confidentiality agreements. They have been given all the tools necessary to deal with any situation in the most respectful, safe and non-judgmental way possible.
AHA MEDIA filmed Saturday June 12 of the 23rd Annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA was invited to film at Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver by Rogers Communications. Thanks to Rogers for providing AHA MEDIA with a Sony Xperia Arc smartphone to film with!
The 23rd Annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival
Presented by the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival Society
June 11 & 12, 2011 Festival and Races
Recognized as North America’s biggest and best, the 23rd annual Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in Vancouver will be a true celebration of our diverse and beautiful city, attracting over 100,000 people and close to 180 dragon boat teams from across the Lower Mainland and around the globe.
Beginning on Friday afternoon with the colourful Eye-dotting Ceremony, the festival will continue with two more days of non-stop entertainment on the World Beat Stage, fabulous food and shopping, and of course, dragon boat racing of the highest caliber.
Admission is free to the general public so what’s stopping you? Come on down to the waters of False Creek and celebrate with us!
Friday, June 10
2pm Eye-dotting Ceremony at the Dragon Zone docks
Saturday, June 11
8am Races start
10am Site activities open
11am World Beat Stage entertainment begins
6pm Festival Site closed
Sunday, June 12
8am Races start
10am Site activities open
11am World Beat Stage entertainment begins
12pm Championship races begin (time approximate)
1:30pm Welcome Remarks from World Beat Stage
6pm Dragon Boat Festival entertainment ends and Site is closed to the general public
6pm Paddler’s Party begins
Located at Concord Place, Creekside Community Centre and the waters of False Creek, near Science World. Nearest SkyTrain Station is Science World. Intersection of Quebec Street and Terminal Avenue in Vancouver.
http://qik.com/video/40949480%5D
AHA MEDIA thanks Rogers for this opportunity to film this amazing Dragon Boat Festival event by providing us with a Sony Xperia Arc smartphone
Broken glass at 711 store on Stanley Cup Game 5 Final in Vancouver on June 11, 2011
7-11 Store workers sweep up broken glass from a window smashed during Stanley Game 5 final between Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins in Vancouver.
AHA MEDIA is very proud to have a sponsorship and partnership with Rogers Communications in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA is very happy to work with Rogers Communications Inc to help do social media coverage of the great community events sponsored by Rogers in Vancouver! AHA MEDIA will be provided with a new Sony Experia Arc phone during select events to help do live documentation through our online social networks.
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA
Below is April Smith of AHA MEDIA with Sandra Hobbs and Rebecca Chan of Rogers
COMMUNITY ARTS DIALOGUE: Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside – Part 1 and 2 on June 18, 2011
Dr. Maggie O’Neill, researcher from Durham University, will discuss her work in participatory action research and participatory arts, specifically, “Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: a participatory project”.
This project is a social research collaboration between Atira – Enterprising Women Making Art, Providing Alternatives Counseling & Education (PACE) Society, Megaphone, and United We Can and supported by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver and AHA MEDIA
The project explores ways of seeing the spaces and places of community through the eyes of DTES residents.
Part 2: 2:00-4:00pm
Viewing of the exhibit with presentations from the local DTES organizations on their experience working on the project.
Location: Interurban: Gallery and Community Art Space, I E Hastings St
Dr. Maggie O’Neill, researcher from Durham University, will discuss her work in participatory action research and participatory arts, specifically, “Community, Politics and Resistance in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside: a participatory project”.
Maggie O’Neill has extensive experience in inter-disciplinary contexts with expertise in critical and cultural criminology. Her focus is on innovative biographical, cultural and participatory research methodologies; and the production of praxis – knowledge which addresses and intervenes in public policy. Her work has been instrumental in moving forward debates, dialogue and scholarship in three areas: prostitution and the commercial sex industry; forced migration and the asylum-migration nexus; innovative participatory, performative and visual methodologies. She is a member of the steering group for the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action.
This event is being coordinated by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver in partnership with SFU Woodwards.
It is part of Langara College’s annual Summer School on Building Community.
FREE event.
Membership in CACV and donations appreciated.
Register here:http://communityartsdialogue.eventbrite.com/
June 18, 2011 10am-1pm
Location: World Art Centre, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings (entrance on Cordova Street)
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