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Our Place Community Forum at W2 Media Cafe on Wed Nov 21, 2012
Our Place – Promoting Local Access & Community Empowerment
Community Forum
Our place is a multi-faceted community based initiative and You play play an important role in determining the overall success of our coordinated strategy to grow healthy children and families in a healthy community.
The Community Forum is an opportunity to share ideas on the Inner City. Sessions will focus on:
Home – Social Housing for Families and Seniors
Family – Parent to Parent Advocacy Training
Work – Opportunities for a Sustainable Economy in the Inner City21 10:30 to
Join us and share your ideas for OUR PLACE:
Wednesday November 21 10:30 to 2:30
W2 Media Cafe, 111 West Hastings
Vancouver Health Show 2012
Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA says
Today we went to the ever interesting Vancouver Health Convention. Located at the beautiful Vancouver Trade and Convention centre and overlooking Burrard Inlet, this location is very desirable and the convention succeeded in living up to its location. Do you like Protein Shakes, health bars, massage chairs, acupuncture, and everything else health related, then this was the place to be. Wall to Wall vendor booths, wall to wall people. We learned about Honey and some of its health benefits while drinking super healthy green juice. Awesome times!
We enjoyed Tommy Europe, Flora Health, Foxy Kickboxing, Nutra Cleanse, Honibe and Kangen water
Remembrance Day 2012 at Victory Square in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Remembrance Day November 11, 2012
Vancouver’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony on Sunday November 11 at the cenotaph in Victory Square (West Hastings and Cambie).
In memory and honour of those men and women who sacrificed so much so that we may all enjoy the freedoms we have today! We salute you all!
Opening night at Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) November 8-11 at W2
A thrilling magical evening on Opening Night at W2 for the Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) November 8-11, 2012
Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) November 8-11 at W2
COAST SALISH TERRITORIES (Vancouver) – The Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) will be showcasing the best of cutting-edge Indigitized artists and their works November 8-11 at a handful of venues on Coast Salish Territories.
VIMAF brings together special guests from across Turtle Island, including Alanis Obomsawin, who will be presented with VIMAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She will be joined by directors and producers from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and BC. Their works will be shown at the West Coast’s only Native media arts festival, including a variety of mediums such as short films, music videos, documentaries, video art, animation, feature length films, interactive media, video projection, and broadcasting.
Programming at the weekend festival will celebrate a number of trailblazing artists from around Turtle Island with Gala and Conference events, interactive installations, National Film Board (NFB) feature film premieres, and evening musical programs, all meshing traditional and contemporary experiences of Indigenous Peoples. A number of prominent featured installations and films will be making their west coast debut at VIMAF, including NFB/imagineNATIVE partnership De Nort, an online interactive journey and onsite installation from the Winnipeg/Montreal ITWĒ Collective exploring life and experiences on a northern Manitoba reserve and how through forced reservation traditional memories and knowledge are being replaced.
“Presenting web-based work alongside radio, television,and cinema really show the multi-platform storytelling strategies being used to tell our stories,” said Ronnie Harris, member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee. “Using digital tools is a popular strategies for Indigenous storytellers on the West Coast.”
NFB Film premieres include Director Alanis Obomsawin’s The People of the Kattawapiskak River, returning Residential School lens We Were Children, West Coast Smokin’Fish, Every Emotion Costs, and others. VIMAF and W2 Community Media Arts Society resident media artist, Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), will also be projecting, Wuulhu – To Fuse Together, a series of digital installations throughout Festival home venue, W2, for the weekend. Musical offerings fuse traditional sounds with cutting edge electronic-influenced sets provided by the East Coasts’ A Tribe Called Red, and locals Skookum Sound System, as well as DJ’s Annashay, Vancouver DMC Finalist DJ Krisp, and others.
The 2012 Festival will be headquartered at W2, with other events taking place at SFU Woodward’s Cinema, National Film Board – Pacific Region, and Fortune Sound Club. “Anchoring the Festival in Vancouver’s original settlement is fitting,” says Harris, “we are using the Woodward’s media hub which is made up of W2, SFU and the NFB, to bring a focal point for understanding what is Indigenous culture today in the centre of the city.”
For more information and the full schedule of events visit www.vimaf.com
Media Contacts: Ronnie Harris (Sto:lo), Member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee
Eugene Boulanger (Sombah K’e, Denendeh), VIMAF Coordinating Committee
eugene@creativetechnology.org /
Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), VIMAF Media Artist-in-Residence
bracken.hanuse.corlett@gmail.com /
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