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AHA MEDIA filmed at the Fight HST Rally at Canada Place in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA was invited to go and film at the http://www.FightHst.com Rally on Saturday, Sept 18, 2009 at Canada Place. An estimated 5,000 people showed up to support the cause!
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Speakers included
Tom Shields – M.C. (Former Mayor of Osoyoos)
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Bill Vander Zalm – Host (Former BC Premier)
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Carole James – Leader of the Official Opposition
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Bill Tieleman – No BC HST Facebook Creator / 24 Hours columnist.
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Below is a photo of April Smith of AHA MEDIA with Ellen Woodsworth, Deputy Mayor of Vancouver who gave a rousing speech!
AHA MEDIA wishes to thank Rainer Schmoll of http://www.thinkreferrals.com, Event organizer for the invitation to come and film at the Fight HST rally.
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Below is a twitter update from Lorraine Murphy http://www.raincoaster.com
raincoaster Congrats to @AHAMedia, who made the news on all major networks for their coverage at the anti-HST rally
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Please see http://www.FightHST.com for videos and photos of the rally!
April Smith and Peter Davies are very excited to perform live at Vision Division show at 118 W.Hastings on Saturday Sept 18, 8-10pm
April Smith and Peter Davies recently participated in the Vision Division VJ residency to learn how to remix and repurpose videos and photos with Isadora sotwareinto a live cinematic performance! We are very glad to give a creative and technological spin to our videos we shoot! 🙂
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W2 invites you to VISION DIVISION: Live Cinema with live video mixing, music, and community on Saturday night at W2’s former Launch Pad space across from Woodward’s.
Experience video performances by young local media artists just wrapping up a 4-day video remixing and creation residency with Mia Makela.
Mia is a Finish media artist based in Berlin, and recently spent eight years living in Barcelona.
Saturday night’s free performances takes place in a temporary W2 space at 118 West Hastings, and runs 8-10pm.
The party will bring together good people, cheap bevvies, and a mid-evening celebration in advance of the NFF Saturday night dub event!
VISION DIVISION is copresented with New Forms Festival (September 18-19), with thanks to the Western Front.
Artist-in-residence: Mia Makela (Finland/Berlin)
Participants: April Smith, Peter Davies, Marika Swan, Dustin Rivers, Danielle Sipple.
W2 Mentor: Kris Krug.
Associate Technical Director: Steven Tong.
Executive Director: Irwin Oostindie.
Administrative Director: Lianne Payne.
Volunteer Coordinator: Maddy Kipling.
Follow W2 on Twitter: @W2Woodwards
AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival, hosted at W2 Community Media Arts
AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome the VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival ( NFF) hosted at W2 Community Media Arts ( W2) ! 🙂
AHA MEDIA and its founding members , first met at Vision Division 2008 ( last year) which prompted our journey into new media, social media and community generated media making!
AHA MEDIA members came from the Fearless City Mobile project and continue to be proud to be camera operators and content producers for Fearless and W2.
Below is a photo of the founding members of AHA MEDIA having fun!
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Below is a photo of us helping to Live VJ at Pop Vox 09
Below is a photo of Live VJ streams on a mobile screen being demonstrated at Convergence during Vancouver Digita Week
AHA MEDIA welcomes the new VISION DIVISION residency of 2009 ! 🙂
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Vision Division Residency: Live Visuals at W2 Community Media Arts
Time: September 15, 2009 at 1pm to September 18, 2009 at 6pm
Location: W2 Flack Block
Street: 163 West Hastings
City/Town: Vancouver
Mia Makela (Finland/Berlin) works with young Vancouver media artists learning to remix video and live streams for site-specific projections. The participants are under-30 marginalized media artists facing systemic barriers to advancing a media arts practice.
Produced by W2 and New Forms Festival, in association with Bladerunners and the Western Front.
Sept 15-18, All day residency workshop (all positions already filled).
Tues/Wednesday 12noon – 5pm; Thur/Friday 1-6pm.
Sept 19, 8-10pm VJ performance by attendees of the workshop (free and open to the public!)
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W2 Community Media Arts (W2) is working with New Forms Festival (NFF) to deliver this program which advances marginalized youth media artists in Vancouver with tools and strategies. Having NFF work with W2 means we can both bring our strengths and resources to the same table and do something twice as impacting.
Mia Makela has just arrived in Vancouver for the week in residence. While the workshop – like last year’s Vision Division – prioritises our W2 DTES community, all NFF fans can check out some of the results and hear from Mia first-hand on Saturday night.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/vision-division-residency-live
http://2009.newformsfestival.com/?p=143
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to introduce our newest member of our team – Alain Assailly
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to introduce our newest member of our team – Alain Assailly ! 🙂
Free lance journalist and independant photographer, Alain Assailly has been living in Vancouver since May 2008.
He frequently contributes to The/La Source multicultural newspaper (www.thelasource.com).
He has also written articles in the frenchspeaking newspaper « L’Express du Pacifique » (www.lexpress.org).
In France, from 1991 to 1993, he attended the film school ESRA (« Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle »). There he learned techniques in photography, video and cinema production. Then, after passing a French Law degree (to learn about copyright in France), he got a Master in Corporate Communication in 1999 (equivalent to the Canadian Bachelor of Arts degree).
After his studies, he occupied different positions in France : Advertising Manager (including events organization), Webmaster assistant, Sales Representative, Account and Staff Manager (in the cleaning industry).
Alain has decided to start a new and fresh life in Canada, where he immigrated to in 2008. After working in a fast food restaurant as a Counter Attendant in North Vancouver, he now strives to challenge himself. He aims to specialize in the production of documentaries and wants to support the development of the upcoming W2 Community Media Arts Centre in Vancouver (www.creativetechnology.org).
He’s still a member of the France-Canada Organization based in Paris, in France (www.france-canada.info). This organization deals with the social and cultural exchanges between the two countries.
In 2006, Alain was keen to discover the North American way of life and to improve his English. So, Alain stayed in Canada for one year from 2006 to 2007 with a Working Holiday Visa. He worked in Toronto as a Sales Assistant in a Fine Food Store. Then, he moved in Montreal where he set up his own business : a seasonal store to sell ice cream and candies. He stopped this temporary business when his visa was expired. His Canadian adventure was just about to begin!
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Below is a photo of April Smith welcoming Alain Assailly to the AHA MEDIA team! 🙂
AHA MEDIA hear Rockafellas play Tush by ZZ Top and Every rose has its thorn by Poison at Witch of Endor pub in Maple Ridge on Sept 11, 2009
In this video, Rockafellas – Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch play Tush by ZZ Top at Witch of Endor Pub in Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada on Sept 11, 2009
Rockafellas – http://www.rockafellasduo.wordpress.com <– Available for bookings/gigs
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.
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In this video, Rockafellas ( Sean Michaels and Al Tkatch play Every Rose Has Its Thorn at Witch of Endor Pub in Maple Ridge, B.C., Canada on Sept 11, 2009
Rockafellas – http://www.rockafellasduo.wordpress.com
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.
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