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Role of the Arts in the DTES – Thursday November 5, 2009 5pm-7:30pm at W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings in Vancouver
Dialogue
ROLE OF THE ARTS IN THE DTES
Thursday November 5, 5pm-7:30pm
W2 Perel Gallery, 112 W. Hastings (note: change of venue)
With new asphalt, renovated heritage buildings, and hundreds of new condo units, the Downtown Eastside is changing. In other ways, it stays the same. W2 Community Media Arts, The DTES Community Arts Network and Heart of the City Festival invite you to participate in a conversation on the role of the arts in the neighbourhood. What does development mean for existing artists? Are artists the unwitting “shock troops of gentrification,” or are the arts an integral component of the community?
With guests David Duprey, business man and entrepreneur; Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director – W2 Community Media Arts Society; Wendy Pedersen, community advocate for low-income housing; and Anne Marie Slater, independent photographer and media artist; moderator Ethel Whitty, Director—Carnegie Community Centre.
Reception at 5pm, Dialogue begins at 5:30pm. Free
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/november-5/
AHA MEDIA attended a very successful Photography Opening : Children Live Dream Here – Urban Landscapes, Children Photography – Inner City Children’s Voice at Chapel Arts 304 Dunlevy in Vancouver Downtown Eastside Thursday Oct 29, 2009
Part of the Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver Downtown Eastside http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-29/
Celebrating the Voice of the Strathcona Children, Princess Avenue Interpretive Walk
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Below is a photo of Lead Artist Anne Marie Slater with students
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Below is a video of the Visual Arts – CHILDREN LIVE DREAM HERE
The presence of children in our community is the focus of this show of photo works by students from grades 4 to 7. Photographer and lead artist Anne Marie Slater collaborated with the students on an interpretive walk of Princess Avenue and their photographs reveal the sky, the street, and the industrial side of Hastings Street re-linking the historic north/south connection to the waterfront.
The perspectives of inner city children are captured in photo stories and audio recordings, on view in the main gallery and in projections on the outside of Chapel Arts. Children Live Dream Here: Urban Landscapes is a community arts initiative with the participation of local organizations, community members and the support of the Festival and the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program.
Sponsored by Strathcona Elementary School, Strathcona Community Centre Association and Chapel Arts, with funding from Port Metro Vancouver and Telus-Vancouver Community Board.
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 or message me at http://www.facebook.com/AprilFilms
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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie of W2 http://www.creativetechnology.org with his Daughter reading a photo book made by school children
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Below is a photo of Terry Hunter of Heart of the City Festival http://www.HeartOfTheCityFestival.com
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Below is a photo of a young artist drawing with chalk while Savannah Walling of Heart of the City Festival looks on. http://www.HeartOfTheCityFestival.com
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Below is a photo of Savannah Walling, Anne Marie Slater, Irwin Oostindie and daughter looking at the Powerful Projection of Photos taken by students of Strathcona Elementary from the Garage across Dunlevy Street to the side of Chapel Arts!
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Thanks to the following who made the Princess Avenue Interpretive Walk very possible! 🙂
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Below is Anne Marie Slater with Nathan Wiens of Chapel Arts http://www.ChapelArts.com at the end of a successful evening !
AHA MEDIA is proud to present Children Live Dream Here: Urban Landscapes on Thursday Oct 29th, 2009
Visual Arts
CHILDREN LIVE DREAM HERE
Thursday October 29, 5:30pm-10pm
5:30pm-7pm Art opening
Families welcome
7pm-10pm Join your neighbours to celebrate the Festival
Chapel Arts, 304 Dunlevy
The presence of children in our community is the focus of this show of photo works by students from grades 4 to 7. Photographer and lead artist Anne Marie Slater collaborated with the students on an interpretive walk of Princess Avenue and their photographs reveal the sky, the street, and the industrial side of Hastings Street re-linking the historic north/south connection to the waterfront.
The perspectives of inner city children are captured in photo stories and audio recordings, on view in the main gallery and in projections on the outside of Chapel Arts.
Children Live Dream Here: Urban Landscapes is a community arts initiative with the participation of local organizations, community members and the support of the Festival and the City of Vancouver Great Beginnings program.
Sponsored by Strathcona Elementary School, Strathcona Community Centre Association and Chapel Arts, with funding from Port Metro Vancouver and Telus-Vancouver Community Board. Free
With thanks to Anne Marie Slater and the Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver Downtown Eastside for text and image
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-29/
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 at Gastown Farmers Market in Vancouver
Visit the Gastown Farmers Market in the on 200 block Carrall Street, Sundays throughout August and September
The following text is from http:/www.vancouver.ca/summerspaces
Join neighbours, friends and visitors at the Gastown Farmers Market held Sundays, 11am – 3pm on Carrall Street near Gassy Jack Square. The market will feature only locally grown and harvested produce, meat, seafood, baking, preserves, snacks and more! Enjoy lunch at one of several cafes adjacent to the market or grab some groceries and head out to discover the many great local shops in the area. Its Sunday – slow down and enjoy Gastown and the Gastown Farmers Market.
Get in touch
Visit: http://www.eatlocal.org/
Visit: http://www.gastown.org/
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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This video showcases Chris Croner and his delicious blueberries from Matsqui Blue Farms at Gastown Farmers Market.
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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Below is a photo of Maddy and Honey Mae of W2 Community Media Arts standing in front of Klippers Organic Acres
Support our local Vancouver Farmers Markets! 🙂
Please see all 82 photos of Gastown Farmers Market on our Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622078860013/
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