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AHA MEDIA was very pleased to attend Dr. Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University luncheon to introduce SFU’s new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology DR. CHERYL GEISLER

September 13, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA was very pleased to attend Dr. Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University luncheon to introduce SFU’s new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology – DR. CHERYL GEISLER

Below is a photo and 3 videos of Dr. Michael Stevenson, President and Vice-Chancellor speaking about SFU and introducing new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology – DR. CHERYL GEISLER

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We were treated a delicious roasted chicken breast for our luncheon at the Segal Centre room in Harbour Centre 🙂

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Below is a photo and 5 videos of SFU’s new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology – DR. CHERYL GEISLER

AHA MEDIA is very excited to welcome Dr. Cheryl Geisler and is excited to hear her thoughts on new media and community engagements.

AHA MEDIA is a mobile new media + social media making team that creates compelling user generated media with our community engagements!

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Dessert was a yummy fresh fruit tart with custard 🙂

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Below is a photo of Munro Vescera, SFU’s Director of Special Projects, Fundraising, Arts and Culture with Vancouver City Councillor Andrea Reimer

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Below is a photo of Dr Cheryl Geisler, New DEAN of Communication, Art and Technology of SFU with AHA MEDIA’s mentor Lorraine Murphy http://www.raincoaster.com

To see all 45 photos of the Luncheon for Dr, Chery Geisler, please see our Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622230031195/

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Citizen Journalism, Community Engagement, Hastings Street, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Lorraine Murphy, Media Coverage, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, New Media, Nokia N95, SFU Simon Fraser University, Social Media, Twitter, Vancouver

AHA MEDIA is pleased to attend the luncheon for the introduction of DR. CHERYL GEISLER, SFU’s new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology in Vancouver

September 9, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

SFU

Dr. Michael Stevenson
President and Vice-Chancellor
Simon Fraser University

is pleased to invite you to a luncheon for
special friends of the university
to introduce

DR. CHERYL GEISLER

SFU’s new Dean of Communication, Art & Technology

Wednesday, September 9, 2009
11:45 am to 1:30 pm

Segal Centre room, Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Downtown, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Hastings Street, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, New Media, Nokia N95, SFU Simon Fraser University, Social Media, Twitter, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Women, Youth

AHA MEDIA is very proud to have Derrick Simms as their newest team member

September 8, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA is very proud to have Derrick Simms as their newest team member!

Derrick is a longtime Vancouver Downtown Eastside resident and will be assisting AHA MEDIA with tech support 🙂

Below is a photo of Peter Davies, Reporter for AHA MEDIA with our newest AHA MEDIA member Derrick Simms 🙂

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Citizen Journalism, Derrick Simms, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Hastings Street, Hyper Local Citizen Journalism, Interviews, Main Street, Mobile Cameraphone Film and Video, Mobile Media Production, Nokia N95, Peter Davies, Social Media, Twitter, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside

AHA MEDIA at Press Conference on Golden Crown SRO Hotel Illegal Tenant Evictions in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )

September 6, 2009 ahamedia Leave a comment

AHA MEDIA was at Press Conference on Golden Crown SRO Hotel Illegal Tenant Evictions in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)

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Below is a photo and video of Kim Kerr, Executive Director of DERA speaking about the illegal tenant eviction notices issues by the Golden Crown SRO in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

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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Below are photos and video of Kim Kerr introducing Ellen Woodsworth, City Councillor of Vancouver to speak

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Below is a photo and video of William Walton and other affected tenants of Golden Crown SRO Hotel speaking. Wendy Pedersen of CCAP is also present in the video.

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Below is a photo of the inside of William Walton’s Single Room at the Golden Crown SRO Hotel

Below is a video of inside William Walton’s room

Below are photos of Paulina Walton, Wife of William Walton speaking on the bug infested conditions and her feelings on being illegally evicted at Golden Crown SRO Hotel in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

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Below is a photo of Kim Kerr speaking with William Walton

Below is a video of Kim Kerr and Ellen Woodsworth talking with William Walton and Paulina Walton, tenants of Golden Crown SRO Hotel who have been issued an illegal eviction notice

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Below is a photo and video of Paulina Walton speaking on her situation at the Golden Crown SRO Hotel

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Below is a photo of William and Paulina Walton, remaining hopeful that their situation at the Golden Crown SRO Hotel will be helped.

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Below is a photo and video of Kim Kerr and Sabrina Driuna of DERA speaking with Pat, Front Desk Worker at Golden Crown SRO Hotel about Illegal Tenant Evictions in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES

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To see all 104 photos of Press Conference at Golden Crown’s Illegal Tenant Evictions on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622265577188/

April Smith of AHA MEDIA was very pleased and honored to work with mentor Mo Simpson – award-winning freelance director, cinematographer and editor !

August 30, 2009 ahamedia 1 comment

April Smith of AHA MEDIA had the great exclusive opportunity to work as a sound recordist with mentor Mo Simpson on her documentary on Design Nerds http://designnerds.ca at W2 Community Media Art Gallery Space at 175 West Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

Below is a photo of Mo Simpson holding a Sennheiser Microphone unit

Recently, Sennheiser Sound Team toured W2 Community Media Arts Centre. Below is a closeup of Mo Simpson’s Sennheiser Microphone Unit

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Moira Simpson’s work as an award-winning freelance director, cinematographer and editor spans 30 years and encompasses many National Film Board, independent and television documentaries. Simpson has often combined filmmaking with teaching, giving workshops throughout BC as well as the Western Arctic, Newfoundland and Alberta. She has also taught at the University of British Columbia and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In 1995 Simpson was honoured for receiving one of the best student evaluations that year at the Institute. She currently gives workshops regularly and has mentored a number of developing filmmakers.

The subjects of Simpson’s documentaries range from Canada’s Political Economy, youth and drug addiction, the creation of a national women’s monument remembering the 14 women murdered in the Montreal Massacre, an international peacebuilding mission on the frontlines of war-ravaged Kosovo, to the complexities of offering aid to Africa.

Last fall Simpson returned from giving a joint NFB-UN Habitat workshop in Nairobi, Kenya with young media activists from Slum TV, Hot Sun and The Ghetto Club, three grassroots video groups in Nairobi’s vast slums that have become models of self-empowerment in a society besieged by political disillusionment. Called the “free media”, their work is being shown online and informally throughout communities, involving the Kenyan people in a debate over the future of their country and giving them nonviolent avenues of expression

Mo was recently DOP and location sound recordist on the National Film Board’s Finding Dawn on the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada. As filmmaker in residence with Fearless City Mobile and W2, she has been exploring the use of mobile phone video technology, including livestreaming, with residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

This spring Simpson was honoured with the Kodak Image Award of Excellence from Women in Film and Television. Over the next year she will be directing, shooting and editing stories for the National Film Board’s GDP, an interactive webdocumentary that will measure the human side of the Canadian economic crisis. Filmmakers and photo essayists across the country will give a voice to the men and women who through resilience and ingenuity have become “change makers” in their communities.

mosimpson@uniserve.com