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AHA MEDIA is very proud to announce Fearless City Mobile Event Coverage of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson at W2 Culture + Media House on Wed Feb 10, 2010 and “Raise the Red Lantern” on Sat Feb 13, 2010
The Fearless City Mobile Project crew members of W2 were very excited to be do mobile media documentation and helping to archive the historical day through using social media and new media tools to get the word out of all the great arts, cultural and media events happening at W2 Culture + Media House on Wednesday Feb 10, 2010! 🙂
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Below is a photo of Hendrik Beune of Fearless City Mobile Project in front of W2 Culture + Media House at W2
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Below is a photo of Hendrik Beune, April Smith, J-Hock and Peter Davies of Fearless City Mobile Project anticipating our Mayor Gregor Robertson to do the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
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Below is a photo of J-Hock and Richard Czaban of Fearless City Mobile Project discussing camera angles to best cover the event. Fearless City Mobile is alway proud to be part of the action and help support W2 Community Media Arts
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Below is a photo of our Press Conference Stage at W2 Culture + Media House
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Below is photo of Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2 welcoming everyone
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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie of W2, together with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson
Fearless City Mobile Project members still remember when Gregor Robertson came out and met with us back when we first started our project a few years ago. Fearless City Mobile is very honored to be recognized warmly by our Mayor and we thank him for his support of us always!
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Below is a photo of Mayor Gregor Robertson with April Smith – Fearless City Mobile Project Coordinator
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Below is a photo of Stephen Hill and the rest of Fearless City Mobile singing a rousing and much inspiring Fearless City song!!! Not only does Fearless City Mobile do great mobile media, we can sing too!!
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Below is a photo of Richard Czaban showing the Fearless City Mobile crew photos and videos of local Vancouver Downtown Eastside events
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Fearless City Mobile will be covering “Raise the Red Lantern” event on Saturday Feb 13, 2010 starting from 9pm onwards. Come celebrate with us at W2 Culture + Media House!
Raise the Red Lantern
~ A Tiger’s Tale
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Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 9:00pm
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Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 2:00am
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W2 Culture + Media House
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112 West Hastings
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Vancouver, BC
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Feb 13th marks the eve of Valentine’s Day and Chinese/Lunar New Year. Let’s usher in the
Year of the Tiger together amidst all that will be happening in Vancouver on this much anticipated weekend. Please join us at W2 for an evening of offerings.
Some of you may remember the great space(s) of W2 where El Papa Chango played last November. W2 recently celebrated its official opening and will be the first ever independent social media center created to help non-accredited media journalists and bloggers cover the Olympics. Raise the Red Lantern will also be the after-party for Artwalk Vancouver happening throughout the DTES. Sure to be many streams of people creating one very diverse mix.
For more info on W2:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/
We are pleased to announce the performing artists joining us this night.
The players:
Lesley Ewen – thespian extraordinaire
Dawn Zoe – ephemeral chanteuse
Babette Santos & Stephanie Pintar –
fanning the dance
live painting by Jordan Bent:
http://www.jordanbent.com/
more tba
followed by DJs
Deano (Sunshine Coast, BC)
One of Left Coast’s best-kept secrets, Deano is a dj/producer that has been playing shows for the past ten years. He plays eclectic sets that get the party BOUNCIN. He also happens to be
a master carver. We are stoked to have him in Vancity.
http://www.myspace.com/deanowomp
DJ Mazeguider (aka Jeet K)
When not speaking to the Senate and helping to put a stop to absurd legislation, Jeet K can be found behind the decks rockin the electro, techno and glitch hop. Jeet K has been involved in Vancity’s underground music scene as both producer and MC since the 90s and a dj for the past six years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgsCeuFu_M
opening set by Patricia
Patricia played out years before, under the moniker Kriyatrix. For this set, expect something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Visuals by Sammy Chien & Patricia Kim w/ Fearless City Mobile
Sammy is a media artist, filmmaker and VJ. He has created live visuals for concerts, interactive installations and new media dance performances. He will be performing real-time generative images, triggering by movement and sound.
http://soar.is2.net
*Fortune readings by Dragan. Hidden deep withing the labyrinthine spaces of W2, look for a man with cards (by donation).
doors at 9pm
performance 10-10:30
djs Deano & Mazeguider 10:30 onwards
112 W. Hastings (and Abbott)
$10 (!) at door only
19+ event
“The Tiger is one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, and is feared and revered in equal measure. It features in many Asian cultures as a manifestation of courage, power, passion and royalty. The Tiger symbolizes the female Yin energy as opposed to the Yang male energy of the dragon. Ancient Chinese believe that the markings on the forehead of tigers resemble the Chinese character for “Wang”, or King. In Imperial China, where the dragon is the insignia of the emperors, the tiger is the military emblem of the highest supreme commanders of the army symbolizing fearlessness and victory. The Tiger also represents earth, while the dragon represents Heaven. The powerful and stealth prowess of the Tiger inspire the martial art movements of many Kung-Fu masters.”
Those who are skilled in combat
do not become angered.
Those who are skilled at winning
do not become afraid.
Thus, the wise win before they fight
while the ignorant fight to win.
Sun Tzu, “The Art of War
AHA MEDIA is proud to help announce the InterUrban Gallery opening of Far, Up Close on February 12 for the duration of the Winter Games in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
A Flickering light in the heart of darkness
Multimedia art show opens in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Vancouver, BC—In the heart of Vancouver’s infamous Downtown Eastside, the InterUrban Gallery opens Far, Up Close on February 12 for the duration of the Winter Games. The show is made up of a number of multi-media works, providing a flickering counterpoint to the darkness, real and over-hyped, surrounding it.
- Where: 1 East Hastings St. (Google map)
- When: February 12 to March 21, Gallery Hours: Wed to Sun, 12 to 5pm; Window Projections: dusk to dawn
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“The media makes the Downtown Eastside out to be such a dark place,” says artist Christoph Runne. “In some ways, that is true. But this is also a place of community and people with stories to tell. We wanted to show that.”
Below is a photo of one of Christoph Runne’s portraits
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Far, Up Close includes works by Chris Welsby, Christoph Runne, Faith Moosang and Monique Mees
Chris Welsby’s Time After, a five-monitor new media landscape, is neither a movie, nor a photograph. It takes high-speed communications technology and slows it down to planetary speed. Revealing hitherto unnoticed atmospheric shifts and subtle changes in light and color, it turns the city into a landscape and places human activity within the larger time scale of the natural world.
Christoph Runne’s Portraits combines classical portraiture with overt allusions to Dutch masters, turn-of –the-century anthropological photography and police mug shots. Projected on the gallery’s windows, Portraits creates a spectral permanence for the residents of Vancouver’s most disputed neighbourhood.
Faith Moosang and Christoph Runne’s film installation, The Blair Bush Project, looks at the glamourization of warfare and suggests that there is a correlation between beauty and horror.
Monique Mees’ photographic series Specimen Plates exposes the visual culture of medicine by addressing the historical use of cinema in medical science to analyze, regulate and reconfigure the transient and uncontrollable human body.
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ARTIST BIOS
Chris Welsby
Chris Welsby is a graduate of the Experimental Media Department at the Slade School of Fine Art, University of London UK. He is currently Professor of Film and Digital Media at Simon Fraser University Vancouver and a member of ICICS (Institute for Computing, Information, and Cognitive Systems) at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Showing internationally since the early 1970s, his work has ranged across several media, but always concentrating on this central theme: how do we see ourselves in relation to the natural world and how should we position ourselves and our technologies within it?
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Christoph Runné is a Vancouver-based experimental film, video, and installation artist. Through his work, he explores the unhidden yet seemingly invisible world around us. He creates visual tone poems with a humanitarian heartbeat whose minimalist and impressionistic methodology contradicts the complex human conditions with which Runné engages.
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Faith Moosang graduated from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has received her MFA from Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Her work, while largely based in photography, has also included installations using video and film. She has shown in group and solo exhibitions in Canada, the United States and Europe. She is fixated on the constructed visuality of warfare and its mediation to and by the public at large.
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Monique Mees graduated with honors from the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1987. She pursued a scholarship in Germany at the Staatliche Der Bildenden Kunste, Karlsruhe, where she studied painting and has since developed a multi-interdisciplinary practice. Mees has received numerous cultural grants from both the Canada Council and the BC Art Council for her work, which has been shown both nationally and internationally.
AHA MEDIA films an Aerial View of the Carnival Band from Woodwards Housing as they pass through the Woodwards Atrium and SFU Woodwards Theatre onto Cambie Street in Vancouver
In this photo and video, is an aerial view of the Carnival Band from Woodwards Housing as they pass through the Woodwards Atrium and SFU Woodwards Theatre onto Cambie Street in Vancouver
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, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to help announce: Mayor Gregor Robertson to do honours at ribbon-cutting ceremony for official opening of W2’s Winter Olympics unaccredited media centre – W2 Culture + Media House at 112 West Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) at 9:30AM on Wed Feb 10, 2010
Vancouver, BC – Mayor Gregor Robertson will officially open W2 Culture + Media House on Wednesday morning, a media centre hosting independent journalists and bloggers from across the globe.
A morning reception with Salt Spring Coffee Co. and fresh croissants will take place from 9am to 10am on February 10, 2010, at 112 East Hastings with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9.30am with Mayor Gregor Robertson.
Located in the heart of the Downtown Eastside, across from the historic Woodward’s site, the W2 Culture + Media House is a 24 hour/day media centre for non-accredited bloggers and journalists to share their perspective on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with the world.
The 1903 heritage building provides infrastructure, resources and support for unaccredited media and features 13,000 sf (over 4-floors) of media production resources, daily morning press briefings and an epic mix of programming highlighting Vancouver’s diverse cultural scene. Fourty events over 24 days featuring 150 Vancouver and international artists working in creative technology, literary, music and interdisciplinary arts. W2 will present artists and producers from Nunavut, Quebec, USA, UK, and the Netherlands. The complete program is to be launched at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and the Fresh Media Olympics Conference will be introduced, which will assess the impacts of Vancouver’s social media and journalism communities half-way thru the Games, on February 22.
Local and international media using the W2 Culture + Media House during the 2010 Games include: CNN iReport, CNN Chicago affiliate, CJSF Radio, CFRO Radio, 24 Hours, Vancouver Sun, Open Media, Vancouver Observer, The Tyee, Rabble.ca, and bloggers from the UK, Norway, USA, Japan, and the Netherlands. More are registering each day at unaccreditedolympics.eventbrite.com. The registration process provides subsidies for DTES and community media who are looking to share their view of this historic Vancouver event.
W2 is also inviting the Vancouver community to celebrate the opening on Thursday February 11th from 4pm – 7pm at the centre’s daily Cinq à Sept reception with wine provided by Ganton and Larsen Prospect Winery, hors d’ouevres and live music.
For more information on the W2 Culture + Media House, as well as W2’s upcoming programming and events, visit www.creativetechnology.org.
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Press Call – Wednesday, February 10, 2010. 9–10am – Official Opening with Mayor Gregor Robertson at 9:30am.
Opening Event – Thursday February 11, 2010. 4 – 7 pm – W2 Culture + Media House, 112 W. Hastings, Vancouver
For more information visit www.creativetechnology.org. To arrange interviews or images please contact Rebecca Eames (Media Relations Coordinator) or Irwin Oostindie (Executive Director) of W2 Community Media Arts on: 604 689 9896, 1-877-689-9896 or email: irwin@creativetechnology.org
Notes to editors:
1.The W2 Culture+Media House operations are in addition to the busy work W2 is doing building a permanent 8800 sf community media arts facility across the street at Woodward’s—set to open in the summer of 2010. W2 is the lead community non-profit amenity for the Woodward’s heritage building at the corner of Abbott & Hastings, with the W2 Cafe social enterprise opening in a few months. W2 is not supported by core government funds and relies instead on community volunteers and contributions. As the Woodward’s heritage building construction will not yet be finished for the Olympics, W2 will instead present the W2 Culture + Media House, as well as programs such as Fearless TV, Real Vancouver Writer’s Series, Fearless City Mobile, OMGIMON.TV, exhibitions, and Abandon Normal Devices Festival with our partners in the UK.
2.The W2 Community Media Arts Centre is a highly anticipated project opening in the Winter of 2009-2010 at the landmark Woodward’s redevelopment in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. In the lead-up to opening, W2 is operating the 13,000 sq ft W2 Culture + Media House across the street at 112 W Hastings. It is intended to provide a vibrant and complementary focal point in the redevelopment of Woodward’s and act as a catalyst in the revitalization of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside by emphasizing the development capacity by and for the DTES residents.
3.Media registration is now live. Visit unaccreditedolympics.eventbrite.com to register for Full Media or Basic Media Access Passes. Through this site you can also purchase guest passes to our daily Cinq à Sept Receptions, purchase a Souvenir T-shirt and button, or sponsor a community member’s participation.
4. Daily press briefings at the 100 level of the media centre commence on February 10 – immediately following the opening. Mayor Robertson will return to W2 Culture + Media House for a briefing during Copyright Day on Feb 25, concerning the City’s move towards open data.
W2 Culture+Media House
112 W Hastings, Vancouver, BC, V6B 1G8
www.creativetechnology.org
irwin@creativetechnology.org
Office: 604.689.9896 Mobile: 604.644.4349
Twitter: @W2Woodwards @FearlessCity
Skype: irwin_oostindie
Alvin Clayton of AHA MEDIA will be participating in Artwalk Vancouver 2010 at DTES CAN New Artspace
Alvin Clayton of AHA MEDIA will be participating in Artwalk Vancouver 2010 at DTES CAN New Artspace at 57 East Hastings in the LUX Hotel in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
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In the future, Alvin Clayton plans to create and distribute an Aboriginal Harm Reduction Graphic Novel to help educate youth everywhere about making positive life choices for their future
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