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AHA MEDIA is very proud to be MEDIA SPONSOR of Vancouver Blogathon at Workspace in Gastown, Vancouver on July 25 for 24hrs!
Vancouver Blogathon is an event on July 25 where local bloggers blog for charity for 24 hours straight! The event will be held at Workspace in Gastown, where bloggers can share ideas and keep the momentum going during the course of a whole day and night.
During the blogathon, participating bloggers are to publish posts every half hour for 24 hours straight.. that’s 48 posts in total! Along the way they are encouraged to collect pledges (using the Blogathon.org pledge system) in order to raise funds for the non-profit of their choice.
AHA MEDIA’s charity is for Community Education Resource Society aka Co-op Radio Station at 102.7 FM http://www.coopradio.org/
Vancouver Co-operative Radio, CFRO, 102.7 FM is a non-commercial, co-operatively owned, listener-supported, community radio station.
Located in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Co-op Radio is a voice for the voiceless that strives to a provide space for under-represented and marginalized communities.
You can sponsor us by : http://www.blogathon.org/?page_id=683
How do I sponsor?
- Go to the list of bloggers, and when you find someone you’d like to support, click the sponsor this blogger link.
We are listed as
April Smith aka @AprilFilms of AHA MEDIA
Blogging for:
Community Radio Education Society (CRES)
The fastest way to find us to to the Alphabetical section of the Blog List http://www.blogathon.org/list.php?sort=alpha
- If you’re logged in, you’ll go right to the amounts page. Otherwise, you’ll be given the option to sign up or log in.
- Choose how much you’d like to sponsor for, and whether it’s a lump sum, or an hourly amount.
- Decide how you’d like to appear on the site, and to your blogger. You can be completely open, or completely anonymous. Either way, your email address is never published on the site. See our privacy policy for details.
- Watch the event! Well, as much as you can stay up for.
- After the event, you’ll receive two reminders directing you to your blogger’s charity to fulfill your pledge. If you have already donated, just disregard the email.
This year, Kontent Creative Group volunteered to design a new badge for the event. Local bloggers who wish to participate can visit Miss604’s blog to download a badge.
As always, AHA MEDIA will provide viewers media rich, compelling community content both in our Media Sponsorship of Vancouver Blogathon and through our own posts showcasing other bloggers and their very worthy causes! 🙂
Come and support all of us local participants in the Blogathon for Charity!
Sponsor us to help Co-op Radio 102.7FM from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside http://www.coopradio.org/
http://www.blogathon.org/login.php?action=pledging&blogid=189
AHA MEDIA is exploring more livestreaming software and platforms to increase our mobile media production in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
We at AHA MEDIA are striving to be even more mobile with our media production.
We have been busy testing and exploring different livestream software and platforms with cameraphones and laptops.
Among the following software and sites we’ve explored or will be testing…
Qik – http://www.qik.com/ahamedia
Bambuser – http://www.bambuser.com/channel/ahamedia
12 seconds – http://www.12seconds.tv/channel/ahamedia
Livestream – http://www.livestream.com/ahamedia
Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/ahamedia
We livestream during many events – art shows, music performances, social media meetings, business functions, community gathering for ourselves, our friends, and our colleages in Vancouver
Our ongoing professional contracts are with
Fearless City Mobile http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org.
AHA MEDIA got our start with Fearless City Mobile and W2 Community Media Arts as they peer trained us in learning about mobile technology and helped us bridge the digital divide in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) – a marginalized inner- city of Vancouver.
Please see AHA MEDIA’s livestream site for updates
AHA MEDIA hopes to be able to welcome Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
During the upcoming ROYAL visit from Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we at AHA MEDIA will be hoping to be lucky and honored enough to be able to film and take photographs as we welcome the Royal couple to our neighborhood! 🙂
This will be a historical moment in time!! 🙂 What a great honor! 🙂
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Below is text from :
Rod Mickleburgh
Vancouver — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 04:40PM EDT
It’s been a long time – if ever – since a prominent royal visited the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside, even in its former, more benign status as Skid Road.
But that’s where the 75-year-old Emperor of Japan and his 74-year-old wife will come calling during their three-day stop in Vancouver.
The rare royal foray into the area by a frail couple, from whom aides warn reporters to expect very, very slow movement, did not land on their agenda easily. It took weeks of intense, behind-the-scenes lobbying to overcome initial resistance to the idea of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko venturing through neighbourhoods few tourists see.
In the end, history won out. The streets of the Downtown Eastside were not always rife with the boarded-up businesses and daily horrors we see today. Once, this was the heart of Japantown, a thriving ethnic community every bit as significant as nearby Chinatown, before internment scattered the residents and delivered their businesses and possessions into the hands of others.
Please see the rest of the story at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/the-downtown-eastsides-royal-visitors/article1208588/
PIVOT’s Hope In Shadows Top 40 photographs! Come Out to Vote!
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Director, Hope in Shadows
AHA MEDIA attended The Miss Guide’s “Walking the Ruins: Fragments of Vancouver
April Smith and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA on behalf of W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org attended the “Walking the Ruins: Fragments of Vancouver with commentary by The Miss Guides made up of a art collective of Natalie Doonan, Katharine Somody and Sean George .
AHA MEDIA found the walk a delightful blend of a historical tour and a theatrical performance. It was like taking part of a National Film Board of Canada documentary but in real time and experience 🙂
A unique blend of historical tour and street theatre, this one hour walk will make you experience Vancouver as though for the first time. Using the city as their stage, The Miss Guides will lead you through the gritty underbelly of a city teeming with secrets.
From glamour to grime, Walking the Ruins explores four surprising urban sites, drawing unexpected connections between the forgotten past and overlooked present.
Audiences are limited to 12 adults, and groups meet on the Northwest corner of Granville and Hastings Streets, in front of Sinclair Centre, rain or shine ( bring an umbrella )
Walking the Ruins runs July 9 – August 1: Thursdays + Fridays at 7pm; Saturdays at 2pm.
Tickets $20 ( includes entry to Harbour Center’s The Lookout, valued at $13) available through: http://www.themissguides.com
or http://www.tickettonight.ca or 604.684.2787
Intro to the Miss Guides Walk in Vancouver
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give intro commentary during their performative and historical walk in Vancouver
Going up in elevator at Harbour Centre as part of Miss Guides Walk
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give commentary during their Performative and historical walk while going up in the elevator in Harbour Centre.
Going Down in Elevator in Harbour Centre as part of Miss Guides Walk
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give commentary during their Performative and historical walk while going down in the elevator in Harbour Centre.
These videos were filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of these videos, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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