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Pigeon Park Street Market in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Sunday Oct 13 2013
Sunny breezy weather during Sunday Street Market had vendors and peer workers of the DTES Street Market Society enjoying a fun Thanksgiving in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Roland Clarke, Coordinator says:
The first sunny day in weeks came to the DTES on Sunday.
We had very little police presence, and very few incidents. The market was packed with near record number of vendors and customers, and we had a film crew with AHA Media doing a promo piece for us.One of our patron funders from the City of Vancouver – George Walker – came down to the market twice and had some very kind and supportive words for us.
The holiday spirit was in the air, lots of Halloween costumes and fun items were present. Lots of people were talking about upcoming Thanksgiving feasts.
We got a huge donation of hockey equipment that we could not sell, but come look for it next week.
It is on days like this that I have renewed faith in the DTES and its residents. Rain or shine, the market will continue. If we get a brief respite from the rain, a huge crowd returns to the square and fills this area with life.
We have 52 markets per year. This dwarfs any other festival in the city. In fact, I like to think of the DTES Street Market as the Iron Man of Vancouver Festivals. Always there, every Sunday, with virtually no funding and no support, the Market will soldier on. It embodies the spirit of the DTES – that against any hardship, any weather, any attacks, we will persevere.
Come down and buy a coffee or a pop any given Sunday, and support your neighbourhood at its finest.
Filming Promo video for Mothership Stories Society for their Indiegogo campagign to go to Magnetic North Festival
A promo video for Mothership Stories Society to go to Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa with a Indiegogo campaign was filmed recently by AHA MEDIA with ACCESS TV under Direction of Waterline Productions
Mothership Stories Society is a non-profit society that asks people to write the story of their mother’ lives. From these stories we have created theatre, books and an online Archive.(http://www.mymotherstory.org) We want to share and celebrate the extraordinary lives of ordinary women with the world.
My Mother’s Story, the theatrical version of our project was created by Marilyn Norry (actor, dramaturg and Mothership Artistic Director) and Jenn Griffin (award winning playwright and actor). Under commission from a professional theatre we custom make a script from lifestories written by women in a community about their mothers. Help us share the extraordinary lives of ordinary women by getting us to the Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa!
Please donate to Mothership Stories Society: My Mother’s Story Indiegogo campaign to go to Magnetic North Festival in Ottawa!!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/telling-women-s-history-one-mother-at-a-time
Below is a behind the scenes video clip of the filming of Mothership Stories Society for their Indiegogo campagign promo video filmed by AHA MEDIA with ACCESS TV under Direction of Waterline Productions
W2TV: February 16, 2013 – Celebrating the Lunar New Year
W2TV: February 16, 2013 – Celebrating the Lunar New Year
Online now (links included) and premiere television broadcast at 2pm on Saturday February 16, repeated Sunday at 10pm and Tuesday at 2am (early Monday eve) on Shaw cable 4 community channel in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley.
The show opens (Part 1) with W2TV co-hosts April Smith and Hendrick Beune welcoming the Lunar New Year of the Snake and introducing show line-up. They are also with AHA Media, which field produced the short reports this segment about Downtown EastSide Literacy, the remarkable practice of Packour and the aboriginal celebration of Hobiyee.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-1-4
In Part 2, guest interviewer Sid Tan chats with Faye Leung, business woman and community trailblazer, about Chinese New Year traditions and celebrations. The ageless timeless Faye is best known as Vancouver’s hat and Chinatown’s grand lady. Part 3 features Hendrik chatting with Scott Clark, executive director of ALIVE (Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement), and indigenous cultural activist Lou-Ann Neel about the Idle No More movement and it’s leadership of youths through claiming traditions, art and cultural practices. AHA Media field reports this segment include Legend of the White Snake/Luminara, excerpt from CBC radio program On the Coast with Stephen Quinn with panel on Chinatown gentrification.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-2-4
Part 3 features Hendrik chatting with Scott Clark, executive director of ALIVE (Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement), and indigenous cultural activist Lou-Ann Neel about the Idle No More movement and it’s leadership of youths through claiming traditions, art and cultural practices. AHA Media field reports this segment include Legend of the White Snake/Luminara, excerpt from CBC radio program On the Coast with Stephen Quinn with panel on Chinatown gentrification.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-3-4
Part 4 features guest interviewer Sid Tan chatting with Larry Wong, a public historian, about the Pender Guy legacy project and Vancouver Foundation. Interesting tax details explained with humour. Segment opens with AHA Media report with Wendy Pederson on social housing and closes with Ta’Kaiya Blaney performing at the Save the Salish Sea Festival at Waterfront Park, North Vancouver, September 2, 2012.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-4-4
NOTE: Video quality result of copying without time-based corrector and haste to upload. Should not distract viewing.
April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA are very proud to be Hosts of W2TV – Chinese New Year 2013 episode
April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA are very proud to be Hosts of W2TV – Chinese New Year 2013 episode.
Highlights were Sid Tan interviewing Honoured guests Larry Wong on Living a Legacy and Faye Leung speaking about old traditions to celebrate during the Chinese New Year!
Many thanks to Deborah Angrave for Directing and Don Walchuk for support!
