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AHA MEDIA eats at Kentizen Fusion Lounge at International Village (Tinseltown Mall) in Vancouver

March 19, 2011 Leave a comment

 

AHA MEDIA recently enjoyed  a delicious lunch buffet at Kentizen

Kentizen Fusion Lounge

88 W Pender Street, #2029
Vancouver, BC V6B6N9

Tel: (604) 771-0301
Fax: (604) 682-5676

Neighbourhood: China Town VancouverGastown

Japanese fusion restaurant and lounge located inside International Village (Tinseltown) on the second floor beside the food court. Spacious, floor to ceiling windows, beautiful decor and huge bar. Occasional live entertainment. A la carte and buffet menus available.

Below are photos of Barb Goosehead on her first visit to Kentizen!

 

Street Soccer Canada team from Vancouver Downtown Eastside present video of Homeless World Cup 2010 at First United Church

March 17, 2011 2 comments

Our local Street Soccer Canada team from Vancouver Downtown Eastside recently presented a video of their memories of their time at Homeless World Cup 2010 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil to members of First United Church

SFU Woodwards Community Choir at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

March 9, 2011 Leave a comment

SFU Woodwards Community Choir recently met at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside with guidance from Vanessa Richards

Below is a photo of Peter Davies and Barb Goosehead

Below is a photo of Shane Turner, Peter Davies and Barb Goosehead

Rob Milton’s 2 poems for International Women’s Day 2011 in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

March 9, 2011 Leave a comment

Rob Milton wrote 2 poems to celebrate women of our country for International Women’s Day 2011 in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

In the photo and video below, Rob Milton reads his poems to Barb Goosehead and Tiah Seward

WOMEN

Women are our mothers, our aunties, our grandmothers

Ones who bear the pains of birth

Birth of our sisters, sisters who become wives

Then become mothers, mothers to our nieces

Nieces who we will protect,

Protecting our future loving mothers,

Our future loving aunties, our future loving grandmothers

The mothers who we all look up to

The women who we all love


I LOVE A WOMAN

I love a woman who fights for her rights

One who wear jeans, not a skirt and tights

I love a woman who knows what she wants

One who spread happiness, and not one who haunts

I love a woman who is open to new things

One who dances, laughs and sings,

I love a woman who makes me smile

One who argues but just for a while

I love a woman who is down to earth

One who brings joy today, and ever since birth

I love a woman who says “I can do it!”

One who doesn’t when to quit

I love all women, and that is that

Ones who say hi and will stop to chat

In the next photo and videos, Rob reads his poems to a group of women in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

 

Utopia Festival at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

March 5, 2011 Leave a comment

Utopia Festival

at the W2 Storyeum.

It’s the first annual women’s digital culture festival, one of only a few in all of North America, and includes an all-day workshop/conferencemobile dance party and evening showcase, in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day.

This is shaping up to be one of the most important musical events of the year in Vancouver.

During the daytime conference <http://www.creativetechnology.org/page/utopia-conference> , women will get the chance to learn DJ/VJ’ing from some of the top women digital artists in the world and learn about the logistics of producing music, getting press, collaborating and more. The opening address and respondents panel will address barriers to entry for women in digital music <http://www.granvilleonline.ca/arts-and-culture/festivals/utopia-women-djs-vancouver-w2> .

Then at night the whole place blows up, as men and women are invited <http://www.creativetechnology.org/page/showcase-1> for a keynote address by Berlin-based electroclash gender-bender Peaches at 8pm with performances by throat singer/electro artist Tanya Tagaq, local hiphop artists JB The First Lady and Crunch, and cello prodigy/electro composer Chris Derksen (plus live readings by Vancouver writers).

Then… the showcase at 10:30pm: 30+ female digital artists performing live PA, DJ and VJ sets in 3 rooms at the W2 Storyeum.

Peaches goes on at 1am.

It’ll be the biggest lineup of female electronic artists ever to hit a Canadian stage, including: Peaches, Isis Salam (Thunderheist), Betti Forde, B-Traits, The Librarian, Lynx, Zenobia, She, Blondtron, Lady Lane, Tank Girl, Miss M, Just Sheila, The Square Root of Evil, JNL, Miss Innocent, and DJ Tapes. Visual Media artists include VJ Electrabelle, Julie Gendron, Sebnem Ozpeta, Claudia Medina, and Krista Lomax. (19+)

In the middle of the day, Utopia will storm the Drive with female-focused music for the Mobile Dance Party <http://www.creativetechnology.org/page/mobile-dance-party> ! This is a free, inclusive event (read: co-ed), meeting at Broadway Station at 12:30pm. W2 has launched crowdsourcing project to collect songs by 100 female artists using the Twitter hashtag #w2utopia100 <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23w2utopia100>, which will be played from bike/shopping cart-mounted speakers.

Tickets <http://utopiafestival.eventbrite.com/> at Beatstreet, Little Sister’s, Puff, Zulu, People’s Coop Bookstore, The Fall, W2 and online.

Would appreciate any help you can give to spread the word on this. It’s all completely grassroots with no funding or grants, with any net proceeds going to support W2’s 2nd annual Girls Creative Tech Summer Camp this summer.

Here’s the FB link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197864190224498