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AHA MEDIA mentioned in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper’s article “Hyper Local Bloggers document life” on June 23, 2010
Recently AHA MEDIA was mentioned in The Vancouver Courier Newspaper’s article “Hyper Local Bloggers document life” on June 23, 2010 by Megan Stewart, Staff Writer
Irwin Oostindie, the executive director of W2 Community Media Arts Society, said media diversity is good for audiences and democracy. Online publishing atomizes the media landscape by splintering a few news sources into many, and this diversity, he says, helps residents makes sense of their city and gives voice to those who otherwise remain unheard.
Oostindie points to AHA Media, which began with three self-described citizen journalists covering the East Side and now offers media consulting to residents and organizations across Vancouver.
“They’re a great example of how social media breaks the divide, providing a voice to people who would not normally have a voice.
“Bloggers have the opportunity to use their neighbourhood as a platform to engage in a meaningful way,” he said.
Read more: http://www.vancourier.com/news/Bloggers+hood/3200690/story.html#ixzz0s2RdmXHR
The Minotaur Dream – The Downtown Eastside Labyrinth Project
Free Workshops! Volunteer Opportunities!
Three Performances!
Direction: Varrick Grimes
Masks and Puppets: Cathy Stubington
Music: Beverly Dobrinsky and Joseph Pepe Danza
Lights: Itai Erdal
Performers: Sarah May Redmond, Tom Jones
and members of the DTES community
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
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile warmly welcomes Omari Newton as our Story Box Project Facilitator at W2 Storyeum
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile warmly welcomes Omari Newton as our Story Box Project Facilitator at W2 Storyeum
Omari Newton
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Omari Newton Artistic Associate |
Montreal-born actor Omari Newton is a professional actor whose work can be seen on television, film and stage. He is fluently bilingual in both French and English and has performed in both languages. His stage work in Québec has earned him a number of favorable reviews and awards. Some career highlights include a best supporting actor nomination for his work in the Centaur Theatre’s production of Joe Penhal’s Blue Orange(soirée des masques). The play also went on to win best English production. Now a resident of Vancouver, Omari recently appeared in Joe Calarco’s critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s R & J and on an episode of the Spike TV series Blade.
http://urbanink.ca/?page_id=104
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Below is a photo from left to right, Hendrik Beune, J-Hock, Kevin King of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile with our new Story Box Project facilitator Omari Newton
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The Story Box Project
at Vancouver Society of Storytelling’s Storytelling Festival June 13th
FREE
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden 578 Carrall St., Van.
Public multi-media presentation in August TBA
At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various voices which are intermingled to create a new and visceral experience. The Festival offers great new beginnings for some multi-faceted dialogue.
Participating Organisations are:
Vancouver Society of Storytelling; Portland Hotel Society; Raycam Community Centre; W2 Culture and Media Centre; Musqueum Nation Writers Group; DTES Women’s Writing Group; Carnegie Centre’s Thursday Writing Group; Native Court Workers, vancouver moving theatre
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Below is a photos of our Story Box Project meeting with discussion of creating our stories though oral, visual, written and a new media, social media and digtial documentation format with cameraphones!
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Below is a photo and video of Omari Newton sharing his ideas for our Story Box Project at W2
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. Both AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile 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
AHA MEDIA doing Community Engagement with Story Box Project at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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Below is a photo of Van Jensen wearing a Story Box T-shirt
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