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AHA MEDIA is so proud of Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne on their article in The Georgia Straight newspaper “Activist documentary filmmakers get interactive”
AHA MEDIA is so proud of Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne on their article in The Georgia Straight newspaper “Activist documentary filmmakers get interactive”
Many thanks to Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne of Animal Mother Films for the upcoming film “With Glowing Hearts” for all their hard work and REAL care and concern for all the people they interviewed and cultivating a life long working relationship especially for us at AHA MEDIA.
Below is a photo of Andrew Lavigne and Jon Ornoy from their Georgia Straight article written by Shana Myara
Jon and Andrew were the only filmmakers we’ve seen who were dedicated in telling the REAL stories of our lives and other community members in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. We are immensely grateful for their time, patience and care in working with us at AHA MEDIA over the year for their documentary film.
We at AHA MEDIA are very proud to count Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne as mentors, advisors and most importantly friends of AHA MEDIA.
So many people are always interested in what, where and why we do our citizen journalism and social media documentation with cameraphones of events, functions and daily life activities in our community the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. One thing we were most impressed and touched by Jon and Andrew was that they geniunely wanted to KNOW us and be there with us through the good and bad times.
In the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, so much goes on in our community and it’s rapidly changing everyday. We deal with many issues including gentrification, poverty, lack of social housing and during the film process of With Glowing Hearts, we all learned more about ourselves and how we could change things together!!
Thanks to Jon and Andrew for being there for us and helping us tell our story to an international audience. Thank you for encouraging us and supporting our endeavors to tell the stories of the most marginalized people in our City of Vancouver.
Please see Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne of With Glowing Hearts article in this week’s Georgia Straight newspaper http://www.straight.com/node/323597
Mobile Geeks of Vancouver at W2 Storyeum Tuesday May 4, 2010 7pm to 10pm
Time: May 4, 2010 from 7pm to 10pm
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.facebook.com/event…
Phone: 604-689-9896
Event Type: meetup, reception
Organized By: Mobile Geeks of Vancouver
Latest Activity: 1 day ago
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Event Description
Mobile Geeks of Vancouver (#MGoVan) is now a go!
Love your Mobile and Mobile Tech? Live in Vancouver? Join us for chat, discussions and general merriment. We will have regular meets and swap ideas/thoughts/applications etc…
This month we’ll be joined by Samir Agarwal, Head of Nokia’s European Maemo Operations, Mountain View, so there’ll be plenty of chance to chat Maemo/MeeGo. It’ll be a chance to meet like-minded people, chat and maybe find out a thing or two that you didn’t know before.”
For the uninitiated among you, the #MGoVan does exactly what it says on the tin. Whether you work in the industry or not, if you like to get geeky when it comes to all things mobile then MGoV is the place for you. Learn, meet, drink.
So, 7pm at Storyeum on W. Cordova (opposite the Woodwards building). Sign up, bring your Mobile Tech-loving friends. Click n the FB event to RSVP.
From http://www.creativetechnology.org/xn/detail/2128459:Event:37525?xg_source=activity
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile at Story Box Project meeting at W2 Storyeum on Wed April 28, 2010
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile at Story Box Project meeting at W2 Storyeum on Wednesday April 28, 2010
Below is a photo of our Fearless City and W2 Story Box
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Below is a photo of Omari Newton, our Story Box Facilitator speaking about upcoming events
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Below are photos of some of participants including Hendrik Beune, Kevin King, Alvin Clayton, J-Hock, Ben Rampre and even our facilitator Omari Newton sharing their artifacts and stories to put into the Fearless City and W2 Story Box
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Below is a photo of Omari Newton, Diane Roberts and Amita Daniels from Urban Ink meeting our group at W2 Storyeum. We were very pleased to meet them!
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Below is a photo of Omari Newton, April Smith and Diane Roberts
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Below is a photo of Stephen Hill, Hendrik Beune and Ben Rampre looking at cameraphones to do mobile media production and documentation of our Story Box meetings
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Our group is very mobile and even met inside W2 Storyeum Garage to further inspire us
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Below is photo of Peter Davies and Alvin Clayton giving a thumbs up!
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Below is a photo of Richard Czaban, Alvin Clayton and Peter Davies having a mobile meeting at Victory Square with our Story Box
Health Services and supports available in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) include: InSite, OnSite, Washington Needle Depot and DTES LifeSkills Resource Centre
InSite – 139 East Hastings Street
- Hours: 10 am – 4 am daily
- Tel: 604 687 – 7483 (604-our-site)
- Services: supervised injection, wound care, HIV testing, counseling, referrals, access to detox, foot soaks, support
Onsite – 137 East Hastings Street
- Hours: intake every morning from InSite
- Tel: 604 687 – 7483 (604-our-site)
- Services: detox, withdrawal management, transitional recovery
Washington Needle Depot – 177 East Hastings Street (alley side door)
- Hours: 24 hours/day, 7 days/week
- Tel: 604 339 6335
- Services: needle distribution, referrals, support, outreach, alley patrol
DTES LifeSkills Resource Centre – 412 East Cordova Street
- Hours: 10am – 4pm
604 678 8278
- Services: showers, bathrooms, telephones, health, mental health, social services, recreational activities; overnight emergency shelter; peer support for employment and training
AHA MEDIA meets Daniel Thompson, a Mobile Musician and Heliographic Artist in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA meets Daniel Thompson, a Mobile Musician and Heliographic Artist in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Below are photos of Daniel playing on Hastings Street, with a wearable amp on his belt!
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Below are photos of Daniel showing his Heliographic art – using the sun’s rays to etch onto wood to design his “Modern Artifacts”
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Below are photo and videos of Daniel Thompson, speaking about his Heliographic Art with members of LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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The preceding videos were filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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