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The Pacific Baroque Orchestra Brings Music to the Downtown Eastside – and it’s Free! – Friday March 19, 7:30pm St James Anglican Church, 309 East Cordova Street, Vancouver Downtown Eastside
The Pacific Baroque Orchestra Brings
Music to the Downtown Eastside – and it’s Free!
The Pacific Baroque Orchestra (PBO) is recognized as one of Canada’s most exciting and innovative ensembles performing “early music for modern ears”. The only professional period-instrument orchestra west of Toronto, this group of world-class musicians brings the music of the past up to date by performing with cutting edge style and enthusiasm.
During the 2005-2006 season, the PBO began a series of free-to-the-public concerts in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The concerts are performed several times a year on Friday evenings at St. James Anglican Church (Gore and East Cordova). About 200 highly enthusiastic audience members attend each concert. We believe in the power of music to uplift, restore, and inspire, and are committed to making classical music accessible to the Downtown Eastside community.
The 2009-10 season begins a new era for the PBO, with Alexander Weimann leading the orchestra as its new artistic director and keyboardist. Alex Weimann is recognized world-wide as a leading interpreter of Baroque repertoire and is one of the most sought-after ensemble directors, soloists and chamber musicians of his generation.
We invite you to join us for Alex’s next imaginative program!
Zimmermann’s Coffeehouse: Volume I
Friday March 19, 7:30pm
St James Anglican Church,
309 East Cordova Street, Vancouver
In the 17th century, the popularity of coffee was on the rise, and coffee houses became centres of music and art. In Germany, Zimmerman’s Coffeehouse was famous for its weekly concerts, and featured the premiere of J. S. Bach’s celebrated Coffee Cantata. While most of Bach’s orchestral writing is lost, we do know what Bach liked to program for the audiences at Zimmermann’s: Cantatas by Handel and Porpora, the Parisian Quartets by Telemann, and other works, including his own compositions. This program is the first installment in an ongoing series devoted to Bach’s programming at Zimmermann’s while he was director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig during the 1730s, a period which will provide plenty of material for many exciting volumes to come. Savour this music like a fine cup of coffee!
For more information, contact Deirdre at:
604-215-0406 admin@pacificbaroque.com www.pacificbaroque.com
Kaleidoscope – celebration of the art, culture, and entrepreneurial spirit of Vancouver’s historic Downtown Eastside March 27th, 2010
Kaleidoscope is a celebration of the art, culture, and entrepreneurial spirit of Vancouver’s historic Downtown Eastside. Taking place at the newly reopened Rickshaw Theatre on March 27th, 2010. It will feature live music, art, prize draws featuring local business sponsors and speakers from two non-profit organizations that have worked diligently in the DTES (Downtown Eastside). The efforts of both the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) and Building Opportunities with Business (BOB) have been focused on the health and continued rejuvenation of our historic inner-city.
All proceeds from the show will go towards supporting their important work. This will be an early show, doors at 7pm, with after-parties at local pubs and restaurants to follow.
Artists performing at this benefit will include:
• Rodney DeCroo And His Convictions
http://www.myspace.com/wartornman
• Boombox Saints
http://www.myspace.com/theboomboxsaints
• Spoon River
http://www.myspace.com/spoonrivertheband
• The Left
http://www.myspace.com/thelefttheband
Tickets available in advance at Red Cat Records, Scratch Records and Zulu Records for $10.00
ADMISSION IS BY DONATION ON NIGHT OF THE EVENT.
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Prizes from several sponsors will be raffled off between sets.
Prizing Includes:
* $250 gift card from John Fluevog and
* $160 Tattoo Time from Sacred Heart Tattoos.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON KALEIDOSCOPE EMAIL:
KaleidoscopeVancouver@gmail.com
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to learn how to create Experimental Film loops from Filmmaker David Rimmer – Pioneer of moving images at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to learn how to create Experimental Film loops from Filmmaker David Rimmer – Pioneer of moving images at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
David Rimmer http://www.DavidRimmerFilm.com
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Below is a photo of James Diamond, Frederick Cummings learning to splice 16 mm films from our teacher David Rimmer 🙂
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In this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA is helped by Frederick Cummings, James Diamond, Christoph Runne with stretching out a very long loop of 16mm film with our teacher David Rimmer sitting and looking on.
(No Audio in this video)
This video was filmed by Richard Czaban of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera Fujifilm S200EXR. 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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In this video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA learns how to splice 16mm film by Frederick Cummings, James Diamond, with our teacher David Rimmer sitting and looking on.
This video was filmed by Richard Czaban of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera Fujifilm S200EXR. 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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In this photo, is Frederick Cummings with James Diamond making experimental film loops with 16mm films.
AHA MEDIA is very proud to attend 5 Zeros – A screening of new video works by LifeSkills Collective at 7pm on Thurs March 11, 2010 in Pigeon Park, Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA congratulates the LifeSkills Collective for 5 Zeros – A screening of new video works!
TL Frederick
Ali Lohan
Quin Martins
April Smith
Juliet Van Vliet
and Christoph Runné & Allison Laing!
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AHA MEDIA is very proud to present at 5 Zeros – A screening of New Video Works in Pigeon Park on Thurs March 11, 2010
The 12 Days of Olympics (2010)
Digital Video, Colour, 8:39 minutes
The 12 Days of Olympics is a short video presented in two parts, both of which offer differing social reactions and unresolved political anxieties associated with poverty, community representation, and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games held in Vancouver, Canada.
Formulated around the familiar Christmas carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” this project anticipates and contextualizes urban-specific dilemmas that pose the greatest threat to some of the most vulnerable members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Highlighting issues such as budget cuts, heightened security, seemingly never-ending road closures, corrupt Olympic games, and an “eternal” deficit, while also providing a balancing viewpoint of friendly sports competition and world – wide happy camaraderie that is both insightful and inspiring, this project – which was shot just a few months before the Winter Games – offers two competing and humorous perspectives associated with living in a city that is about to host the Winter Games.
To be sure, the Olympics are not designed for marginalized communities such as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but it is through their unrestrained opinions and curiously contagious enthusiasm that the viewer can acknowledge the inherent contradiction made obvious by the Olympic games themselves: despite attempts to unify the world, this large-scale event, by its very nature, has the reverse effect, because it excludes the majority of the population (most specifically, the poor) from its celebration.
April Smith is a Vancouver-based videographer and documentarian who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside. Through art, music, and community promotion, she is a self-taught advocate for social outreach and neighborhood unity. Using social media, new media, mobile technology, and video, she concentrates on sharing the stories and voices of an otherwise-silenced community with a global audience.
Co-founder of AHA MEDIA, her practice includes educational and political cartooning, facilitating social, new and mobile media literacy workshops, as well as recording subversive and situational observations of her own community. Most recently, her work was published in Megaphone Magazine.
Photo of April Smith by Simon Hayter
April Smith of AHA MEDIA on SWISS TV on how PHS and Woodwards Housing helps her and others with housing, employment and life opportunities in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
In this photo and video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA speaks with SWISS TV on how PHS and Woodwards housing helps her and others in Vancouver Downtown Eastside by providing housing, employment and life opportunities.
April’s interview highlights the new Woodwards Housing run by PHS and also AHA MEDIA’s new videos ” The 12 Days of Olympics” about life in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) and how residents are affected by it
The original link to the story on SWISS TV is here
http://tinyurl.com/yg9cdrl
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA (off the Swiss TV website online http://www.rsi.ch) 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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