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AHA MEDIA attends the DERA and CCAP Town Hall Meeting at Carnegie Centre
AHA MEDIA attended the DERA and CCAP Town Hall Meeting at Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Kim Kerr, E.D. of DERA speaks then introduces Jenny Kwan, MLA who spoke about homelessness in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside ( DTES) at the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was 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 this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Jenny Kwan listens to the Carnegie Centre folks as they ask her questions.
In this photo, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA listens to Carnegie Centre folks as they wait patiently to speak with Jenny Kwan.
In this video, Kim Kerr, E.D. of DERA speak about housing in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, (DTES) before passing the microphone over to Laura Track, Pivot Legal Lawyer
This was 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 this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Kim Kerr introduces Laura, Track of Pivot Legal Society
In this photo, Laura Track talks about the Government’s definition of Housing.
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA speaks out against SRO hotel in the Vancouver DTES who charge guest fees which are illegal to Laura Track, Pivot Legal lawyer at the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre.
This was 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 this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Kim speaks to the crowd at Carnegie Centre which includes Ellen Woodsworth, COPE City Councillor, dressed in green.
In this photo, Kim Kerr and Ellen Woodsworth share conversation.
In this photo, Ken Glofcheskie, Reporter for AHA MEDIA speaks with Kim Kerr
In this photo, Hendrik Beune gets ready to interview a man in the Carnegie Centre Elevator
In this video ( Part 1 ), Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA decides to interview a Man in the Carnegie Centre elevator about Housing and Renting issues in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) Both men had just come from the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was 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 this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video ( Part 2 ), Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA decides to interview a Man in the Carnegie Centre elevator about Housing and Renting issues in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) Both men had just come from the Town Hall Meeting April 27th at Carnegie Centre
This was 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 this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
Photos of Carnegie Centre at Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Photos of Carnegie Centre taken from across the street at the Ford Building at Main and Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
AHA MEDIA gets interviewed by Animal Mother Films
AHA MEDIA was pleased to be interviewed by Animal Mother Films at One Stop Shop Cards and Games http://www.onestopshopcardsandgames.com in Tinseltown Mall in Vancouver.
Animal Mother Films is a full service film production company based in Vancouver BC, dedicated to making provocative and engaging films that aren’t ashamed to have a social conscience. Working with some of the most creative minds this city has to offer, AMF strives to tell stories that resonate with audiences well past the last frame and compel them to make a difference. http://www.animalmotherfilms.com
AHA MEDIA met Andrew Lavigne and Jon Ornoy of Animal Mother Films during projects for Fearless City Mobile. http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile 🙂
AHA MEDIA wishes to thank Animal Mother Films and crew in interviewing us for their upcoming film 🙂
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Foodline – a map of 2009 Vancouver Downtown East Side locations to eat free and cheap food
Foodline is a map of 2009 Downtown East Side Locations to eat free and cheap food.
Feel free to print it out and distribute it.
It was prepared by the Good Eats peer researchers and artists from the LifeSkills Centre.
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GOOD EATS! 2008
What is it? , What happened? & Who participated?
Was a participatory workshop series about food security in the context of HIV in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver (DTES). After a community mapping meeting with stakeholders on March 19th, 2008 a series of 10 workshops with DTES HIV+ participants generated much knowledge. Participants and facilitators engaged in open and frank guided conversations and mapping of the DTES – what, where and how is possible to find sustenance in the area and related issues (e.g. nutritional value, cost, etc.). The participants – who were offered a gradually ascendant stipend scale – also cooked fresh, inexpensive and highly nutritional meals with local nutritionists and community based cooks and sat to eat as a group. Also, they visited the Quest food exchange www.questoutreach.org, a community garden and a local non-commercial radio show in Coop radio. The group dynamics of a widely varied number of people from rough paths of life attending the Good Eats! workshops was successful; this shows that food is a great socializing agent. To close the series, a final stakeholders/participants meeting was scheduled for June 2008 at the LifeSkills Centre.
What we found out?
Some preliminary findings: women and transgendered persons male to female living with HIV seem to be able to find more food resources available and less sleeping/shelter resources than men. When food is available, participants often do not have the basic facilities to cook and refrigerate/freeze. Individually, eating is difficult to organize in the presence of drug use or poor health conditions (e.g. lack of teeth). The nutrition value per se may take a second place to personal preferences such as convenience of location, how well a person is treated in a free food delivery place, and the value of comfort food (the emotional component of food). Tellingly, one participant told us “they say one cannot live on bread and water, but we do in the DTES”. In many ways, HIV+ persons in the DTES behave much like any regular “consumer” even if there is a cultural expectation that they behave as docile charity recipients. When there is money, HIV+ persons do use low-paid food places that offer good choices. When there is no money to buy food, stealing, “binning” and lining up for food is necessary, sometimes in places where they are “red zoned” by the local police and pulled from the queue if identified. “Binning” is good when food outlets (especially upscale ones) turn a blind eye to city regulations and pack expensive leftovers and leave them strategically to be picked up. Participants identified a few faith-based places they must pray for their meal; coercion may still be a part of social food delivery. Also, participants told us that if they had a chance, most of them would rather work for their food either legally or under the table.
Who worked on this project?
Our Community Based Research (CBR) team: Shane Turner, the LifeSkills Centre Coordinator, Christiana Miewald, Food Researcher at SFU, Tanya Palazzo, Volunteer BCPWA (podcasts and notes) and Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco HIV/AIDS Community Based Research Facilitator (BCPWA). This activity is funded through in-kind work of volunteers, the CBR program, the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at SFU and a Community Based Research grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
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