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Premiere of W2TV with interview of AHA MEDIA and Premiere of “Paper Sons and Daughters” Documentary
Vancouver BC – Auspicious circumstance heralds the premiere of W2TV, produced by W2 Community Media Arts (W2) and ACCESS-TV*.
Opening the W2 TV show are hosts Irwin Oostindie and Sid Tan, with interviews with Karen McAthy, chef at W2 MediaCafé, and April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA Media, specialists in social media production. 
In rotation for two weeks beginning 10pm on Sunday June 10, W2TV broadcasts on Shaw cable 4 in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley and repeats Monday midnight (00am Tuesday), Thursday late night (2am Friday) and 2pm on Saturday.
W2’s mandate is to break the digital divide through access to technology and training while promoting full inclusion, encouraging cross-cultural dialogue and advancing issues of redress. W2TV is initiated to engage local media arts practitioners in community television, new media production and storytelling.
The inaugural W2 TV show features the television broadcast premiere of “Paper Sons and Daughters” to mark the 62nd anniversary of the June 9, 1960 announcement which granted amnesty for paper sons and daughters if they confessed to the government.
“Paper Sons and Daughters” is produced and directed by Deborah Angrave with Sid Tan as executive producer. The twenty minute bare bones documentary is compelling storytelling of Chinese immigration and personal family histories.
*Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society, an associate member of W2 since 2008, is a chapter of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) which has 27 chapters across Canada. As ACCESS-TV, it produces regularly scheduled community television broadcasts of local, national and international human rights, social justice and environmental concerns for public interest.
Hanging Baskets on East Hastings from PHS Community Services Society and Hastings Folk Garden Society in Vancouver DTES
Hanging baskets with Robbie and the team: every year PHS Community Service Society and the Hastings Folk Garden Society re-plant the hanging baskets that line E. Hastings:
A new bee hive for Hastings Folk Garden in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
The newest addition to Hastings Folk Garden is a brand new bee hive!
Downtown Eastside residents in the community garden program will have an exciting opportunity to learn about bee keeping.
Honey Bees bring so many benefits to our lives, flowers and vegetables including the sweet treat of delicious honey!
“Unique among all God’s creatures, only the honeybee improves the environment and preys not on any other species.” ~ Royden Brown
“If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live?” ~ Albert Einstein
2ND ANNUAL PANTAGES PAINT-IN, PANCAKES, PETTING-ZOO, AND PROTEST
2ND ANNUAL PANTAGES PAINT-IN, PANCAKES, PETTING-ZOO, AND PROTEST
Saturday June 2
12Noon
100-Block East Hastings
(in front of the Pantages demolition site)
Last year we gathered in front of Pantages (before it was all knocked down) and painted the walls with visions of a future where everyone in our community is housed and healthy and where no one faces the threat of eviction, displacement, and homelessness. On April 23 the Vancouver Development Permit Board approved the proposal for condos on the Pantages site despite massive DTES community opposition. Come join the community in the street on June 2nd to renew our commitment to fighting this condo project and winning 100% resident controlled social housing on the 100-block of East Hastings. There will be paint, pancakes, a petting zoo, and some speakers too. All you need to bring is your self and your hopes and will to fight for the future of DTES low-income communities.
AHA MEDIA’s own interview during Hope In Shadows 2012 event made it onto Global TV BC – Vancouver news
While April Smith of AHA MEDIA was interviewing Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd of AHA MEDIA for having Camera #1 of Hope In Shadows 2012 event, the cameraman for Global TV captured a happy “AHA” moment for Global TV BC news video.
AHA MEDIA is featured during 0:43-0:49 of the Global TV BC video.
Below are screen shots from the video
April Smith of AHA MEDIA smiling during her interview with Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd of AHA MEDIA at Hope in Shadows 2012 event
April Smith, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd of AHA MEDIA smiling during interview at Hope In Shadows event
Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd of AHA MEDIA smiling during interview at Hope In Shadows 2012 event
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