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AHA MEDIA attended the Plan-It event at Aisle 45 by BOB ( Building Opportunities with Business )
AHA MEDIA attended the event where it was a presentation by UBC students on :
“How can BOB work with the community to revitalize the Hastings corridor between Main and Cambie?”
After an introduction to the evening’s presentations by CEO Shirley Chan of BOB http://www.bobics.org , we heard:
Topics to be presented on:
1) Social Enterprise & Informal Economies
2) Celebrating Community
3) Lighting the Corridor
4) Save on Meats, an institution
5) Using Branding for Revitalization
The highlight of the evening was when Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA won free entry into a golf tournament sponsored by
EMBERS on Thursday, June 25th
for their “Against All Odds”
Golf Tournament Fundraiser
http://embersvancouver.com/golf_tournament_27.html
AHA MEDIA has been invited to the LG Canadian Texting Championships 2009 Vancouver Media Challenge!
AHA MEDIA has been invited to participate in the LG Canadian Texting Championships which is coming to Vancouver this Friday April 17th!
The LG Canadian Texting Championships and Media Charity Challenge is back for its’ second annual competition!
LG Electronics is inviting Vancouver media to compete in the ultimate text message challenge to win $1,000 on behalf of the charity of your choice.
This will be a great chance to show off to your fellow media and compete for your favourite charity. We’ll supply the QWERTY keypads; you just need to bring yourself and your skillz.
As AHA MEDIA, strives to be among the best representatives of Media from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES), we accept the challenge and wish all our fellow media texting competitors good luck!
It’s for charity – Let’s raise some funds! 🙂
WHAT: The second annual LG Canadian Texting Championships and the 2009 Media Competition. Win $1,000 for your favourite charity.
WHERE: Richmond Centre, Centre Court East (Tim Horton’s entrance)
WHEN: Friday, April 17, 2009 from 12:00pm – 1:00pm *Please RSVP so we can pre-register you or arrive by 11:45am for registration.
About the 2nd Annual LG Canadian Texting Championship:
LG Canada will be traveling across the nation to find the 2009 fastest texter. Regional and online qualifying tournaments will take place this spring, leading up to the ultimate showdown in Toronto on June 29th. Finalists will compete head-to-head at the finals with last year’s winner, Mark “Jervy” Breiva and attempt to take the title of Canada’s fastest texter.
The LG Texting Booth will be set-up at the Richmond Centre from Thursday April 16- Sunday April 19 during mall hours:
Wed-Fri 9:30am- 9:00pm
Sat 9:30am-7:00pm
Sun 11:00am-6:00pm
AHA MEDIA’s Media Coverage of the 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival of Vancouver at Capone’s Restaurant in Yaletown
AHA MEDIA attended the 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival of Vancouver at Capone’s Restaurant in Yaletown.
http://www.caponesrestaurant.net/2009/04/13/wine-and-jazz-festival/
While our focus is being hyper local citizen journalists from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES ), we are learning to become social media event reporters for Vancouver’s technology, social media and twitter world.
We were proud and thankful to be invited by Graham Lloyd, Account Manager, 99.3 The FOX ! http://www.cfox.com 🙂 and Daniela Vecchione, Marketing Manager of Capone’s Restaurant.
Below is a photo, Peter Davies, Reporter for AHA MEDIA and Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media http://www.raincoastermedia.com at the opening of the festival.
Capone’s welcomes us with printed materials of the week long Wine and Jazz festival and upcoming events 🙂
Here is a photo of Capone’s upon walking in. A lively vibrant place! 🙂
Below is Raul Pacheco of http://www.hummingbird604.com grins his very charming smile for AHA MEDIA, while Lorraine Murphy looks on and smiles 🙂
Two of the Wine Merchants giving away wine tastings. Very Crowded around the wine tasting area! 🙂
Below is a photo of John Chow of http://www.johnchow.com as he contemplates the “rose” wine swirling in his glass 🙂
The 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival in Vancouver was completed by the fantastic jazz played by Legendary Jazzman Wes Mackey !! 🙂 He will be having his new CD Launch party at Capone’s Restaurant soon! Stay Tuned! 🙂http://www.wesmackey.com
Thanks to Capone’s Restaurant for putting on a fabulous event for us to enjoy! 🙂
http://www.caponesrestaurant.net
More photos on our Flickr Page 🙂http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157616797757099/
AHA MEDIA is proud to be Media Sponsors for Tony Chisholm, of DTES Re-Cycles! – Custom-made Re-Cycling Trailers!!
* This is just an audio recording – No imagery. *
In this video, April Smith records a camera shy Tony Chisolm’s voice speaking about his vision to build custom- made Re-Cycling Trailers to help clean up the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)! 🙂
He envisions building a social enterprise to help others like himself in the Vancouver Downtown (DTES) get into the Green movement and help with recycling and cleaning up our neighborhood of popcans, empty bottles, old clothing etc.
He is looking for sponsors in either business development, funding, materials, space, guidance to help him realize his dream of cleaning and greening the Vancouver Downtown Eastside! 🙂
Tony’s dream is to build custom-made Re-cycling trailers that attached to the back of electric bicycles or regular bicycles and use that for working on Reducing, Reusing and Recycling! 🙂
He even has a special place where one can drain bottles and can upside down to get rid of any liquid remaining in the containers!
AHA MEDIA is proud to help Tony Chisholm, our DTES neigbor by giving media sponsorship and coverage through a site we will be building for him 🙂 ( Soon to come! )
Tony Chisholm writes: “I think my site would be beneficial to are community. I like the site to benefit people with a purpose .and the monies to go to a purpose to keep are east side clean and green by recycling goods”.
A Clean, Green DTES to come! 🙂
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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.
Pedicabs Training in Chinatown ( sponsored by BOB – Building Opportunities with Business )
Sunny Days and sunny smiles! 🙂
Pedicabs and their new tour guides from our local area including the Vancouver Downtown Eastside training and learning many things including:maintenance, customer service, time and small business management and skills and history of both Chinatown and Gastown – our tourists and local citizens are in for a treat! 🙂
In the photo below, Garvin Snider dressed in red is training to be one of the newest Pedicab operators 🙂
The Pedicab project is outlined below and highlights some of the work that BOB is currently doing in our neighborhood 🙂
Pedicabs
A pedicab is a bicycle-rickshaw ridden by a tour guide for hire and usually seats one or two passengers. The pedicab project is led by the Chinatown Business Improvement Association (BIA), with BOB providing a grant to kick-start development of the project.
By providing visitors with an environmentally friendly, fun and novel way of seeing the sights, the BIA expects to boost tourism and employment in the inner-city. Best of all, passengers will find the pedicab experience from the waterfront through Gastown and Chinatown an adventure with knowledgeable guides willing and able to provide a unique and multi-faceted experience.
In the photo below, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA, smiles and waves as he takes a test ride as a new Pedicab tour guide for our two historical neighborhoods – Gastown and Chinatown 🙂
BOB’s BusinessLink program will assist in the recruitment and training of pedicab guides in the inner-city. This project is just another example of how BOB is helping bring positive change to the inner-city.
For more information about this project, please contact Andrew McKay at (778) 328-7672 or email andrew.mckay@bobics.org.
Our new tour guides even get history lessons to help them tell their tales to their adventure-loving passengers!
After all the training and lessons Pedicab guides will be fit and ready to welcome anyone to our area! 🙂
Our summer in our neighborhoods of Gastown and Chinatown are going to get alot more exciting and more friendly with our new PediCab tourguides! 🙂
More PediCab training photos on our Flick :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157616846478525/
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