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” Block Party” at Hastings Folk Garden in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on August 18 – 19, 2009
Student volunteers are organizing the building of a garden shed out of compressed earth block (CEB).
“We want to give people an opportunity to learn how they can build this way, and also to learn about the great advantages of building with earth. Folks who come out to volunteer with us on Tuesday Aug 18 and Wednesday Aug 19 will be guided through the blending, forming and curing processes of CEB, and can contribute to the Folk Garden by making some earth blocks for its new shed.
After the blocks have been cured for about a week, we will be having another work party to assemble the building… there will be another announcement for that next week.
We are doing this project with the support of The Hastings Folk Garden Society and Building Opportunity for Business, in part as a way to investigate the possibility of developing this technology as a new branch of social enterprise in the Downtown Eastside.
We are doing this project with the support of The Hastings Folk Garden Society and Building Opportunity for Business, in part as a way to investigate the possibility of developing this technology as a new branch of social enterprise in the Downtown Eastside.
We are hoping to bring lots of people out for a couple of cheerful work party days in the garden.
Hope to see you there!
AHA MEDIA presents Justice Rocks – fusing pop culture and social change at Strathcona Park, Saturday August 29, 2009
Justice Rocks – fusing pop culture and social change
Strathcona Park, Saturday August 29, 2009
Time: 2 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Description
On-site skate demos, silk screening and of course some of the hottest music on the scene… Featuring Jess Hill, Cris Derksen, BMP (Rup Sidhu, Nadia Chaney, Tarun Nayer), The Living Room, The Beauties, Greenbelt Collective, The Heard and more…
visit www.justicerocks.org
AHA MEDIA has a new Mascot – Buddy the Cat!
In AHA MEDIA’s new office, the neighbor’s cat Buddy is a very friendly young cat. He loves to come and visit AHA MEDIA to inspire more great work to be done in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside.
Since he is very affectionate cat especially when we feed him…AHA MEDIA has a new mascot – Buddy the Cat!! He’s a good luck mascot! 🙂
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.
AHA MEDIA supports local Vancouver Downtown Eastside Street Artists
AHA MEDIA supports local Vancouver Downtown Eastside Street Artists
AHA MEDIA is extremely grateful and thankful to Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for his very generous gift of his old URL http://www.downtowneastside.com to us!!
AHA MEDIA is extremely grateful and thankful to Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University for his very generous gift of his old URL http://www.downtowneastside.com to us!!
Today is a day of blessed miracles!! AHA MEDIA became ‘ Official ‘ today AND we received an unexpected gift of the URL of http://www.downtowneastide.com which will be forwarded to us at http://www.ahamedia.ca
Below is a photo of Bob Basil’s Twitter page where he “tweets” …
” My old url now http://www.downtowneastside.com
now points to the wonderful new mobile social media event website http://www.ahamedia.ca Yay!
Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and AHA MEDIA are talking of exploring joint educational projects together 🙂
Bob Basil, Professor of Applied Communications at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (shown with superb former student Elaine Chan, above, at Kwantlen’s recent convocation), is President of Basil Communications Inc., a private Vancouver firm, founded in 1996, that provides high-end marketing, strategic planning, and multimedia services for public and private companies in Canada and the United States. The company’s current clients are in the natural-resources sector. “Essentially what I do is stop pages from being blank,” he says.
Basil received his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, at SUNY/Buffalo, and received a graduate degree at Stanford University, where he also taught American Literary and Political Culture Studies (1993-1996). Basil has been a professional writer and editor for 29 years. He has contributed dozens of articles to books and journals – and has served as Executive Editor for Free Inquiry Magazine (1985-1989) and as the Acquisitions and Senior Trade Books Editor for Prometheus Books, Inc. (1990-1993). His two essay collections, Not Necessarily the New Age and On the Barricades, received critical praise and wide attention. Basil has been interviewed by more than a hundred radio and television programs, including “Larry King Live,” and has been quoted as a communications and cultural expert in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and many other newspapers.
In 1997 Basil launched Ellavon: An Ezine of Basic Culture, an internet publication that has won plaudits for its articles, interviews, fiction, columns, and virtual art and photo exhibits.
A patron of the arts, Basil plays some jazz piano and has become quite the photo enthusiast since moving to North America’s most beautiful city a number of years ago.
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Basil on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
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AHA MEDIA is very excited about its future!
Thank you very much Bob Basil for blessing us with your support and excellent ideas!!! 🙂
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