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AHA MEDIA is very pleased to announce David Roche – A night of Humour and Inspiration! Presented by BOB at Carnegie Centre Wednesday June 10 6:30pm at Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

June 8, 2009 ahamedia 1 comment

AHA MEDIA is very pleased to announce

David Roche
A Night of Humour and Inspiration

( presented by BOB – Building Opportunities with Business) http://www.bobics.org

David Roche has transformed the lessons of lifelong facial disfigurement
into a compelling message that leaves audiences entertained and encouraged to face their own personal challenges. The story of his heroic journey from shame to strength opens hearts to courage, laughter and inspiration.

David’s performances and presentations have won standing ovations across the United States (including at the White House!), in Canada, England, and
Australia, where he headlined at the Sydney 2000 Olympics Arts Festival.

Wednesday June 10
6:30pm
401 Main Street, Carnegie Theatre
http://www.davidroche.com <http://www.davidroche.com>

Lani Johnson ׀ Employment Support Coordinator
lani.johnson@bobics.org
tel 778.328.7674
fax 778.328.7667
cel 778.990.2981

Based in Vancouver, B.C. Building Opportunities with Business (BOB) is a
non-profit organization that is championing an inclusive revitalization
process for the inner-city that values existing businesses and residents.
BOB is a connector, a resource and a facilitator working to: strengthen the
inner-city’s community capacity; identify and build on untapped business
opportunities; improve employment opportunities and retention; and increase investment in Vancouver’s inner-city.

AHA MEDIA is pleased to present BOB’s local Green Inner-City Cluster Kickoff Event

May 26, 2009 ahamedia 1 comment

Green Inner-city Cluster Kickoff Event

Join Building Opportunities with Business and local green business leaders such as Toby Barazzuol of Eclipse Awards and Louise Schwartz of the Recycling Alternative to learn how being green can be a competitive advantage for your business. Topics covered will include:

Marketing Sustainability
Greening Your Business
Green Buildings and Green Roofs
Recycling and Waste Reduction
Collaborating to increase efficiency
Urban Agriculture

There will be presentations but also peer learning opportunities where attendees can share what has worked most successfully at their own business.

Time: June 10th 10:00-2:00

Location: Japanese Language School, 487 Alexander Street

Cost: Free (includes lunch, coffee, etc.)

RSVP: andrew.mckay@bobics.org

See what efforts are already underway to green Vancouver’s inner-city at the blog we started.

** NEW UPDATE **

We are pleased to have Councilor Andrea Reimer giving the opening address. She is a leader in BC’s environmental movement and a member of the Mayor’s Greenest City Action Team.

AHA MEDIA attended the Plan-It event at Aisle 45 by BOB ( Building Opportunities with Business )

April 17, 2009 ahamedia 2 comments

AHA MEDIA attended the event where it was a presentation by UBC students on :

“How can BOB work with the community to revitalize the Hastings corridor between Main and Cambie?”

After an introduction to the evening’s presentations by CEO Shirley Chan of BOB http://www.bobics.org , we heard:

Topics to be presented on:

1) Social Enterprise & Informal Economies
2) Celebrating Community
3) Lighting the Corridor
4) Save on Meats, an institution
5) Using Branding for Revitalization

The highlight of the evening was when Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA won free entry into a golf tournament sponsored by

EMBERS on Thursday, June 25th

for their “Against All Odds”

Golf Tournament Fundraiser

http://embersvancouver.com/golf_tournament_27.html

Pedicabs Training in Chinatown ( sponsored by BOB – Building Opportunities with Business )

April 15, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

Sunny Days and sunny smiles! 🙂

Pedicabs and their new tour guides from our local area including the Vancouver Downtown Eastside training and learning many things including:maintenance, customer service, time and small business management and skills and history of both Chinatown and Gastown – our tourists and local citizens are in for a treat! 🙂

In the photo below, Garvin Snider dressed in red is training to be one of the newest Pedicab operators 🙂

The Pedicab project is outlined below and highlights some of the work that BOB is currently doing in our neighborhood 🙂

Pedicabs

A pedicab is a bicycle-rickshaw ridden by a tour guide for hire and usually seats one or two passengers. The pedicab project is led by the Chinatown Business Improvement Association (BIA), with BOB providing a grant to kick-start development of the project.

By providing visitors with an environmentally friendly, fun and novel way of seeing the sights, the BIA expects to boost tourism and employment in the inner-city. Best of all, passengers will find the pedicab experience from the waterfront through Gastown and Chinatown an adventure with knowledgeable guides willing and able to provide a unique and multi-faceted experience.

In the photo below, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA, smiles and waves as he takes a test ride as a new Pedicab tour guide for our two historical neighborhoods – Gastown and Chinatown 🙂

BOB’s BusinessLink program will assist in the recruitment and training of pedicab guides in the inner-city. This project is just another example of how BOB is helping bring positive change to the inner-city.

For more information about this project, please contact Andrew McKay at (778) 328-7672 or email andrew.mckay@bobics.org.