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AHA MEDIA hopes to be able to welcome Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
During the upcoming ROYAL visit from Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we at AHA MEDIA will be hoping to be lucky and honored enough to be able to film and take photographs as we welcome the Royal couple to our neighborhood! 🙂
This will be a historical moment in time!! 🙂 What a great honor! 🙂
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Below is text from :
Rod Mickleburgh
Vancouver — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 04:40PM EDT
It’s been a long time – if ever – since a prominent royal visited the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside, even in its former, more benign status as Skid Road.
But that’s where the 75-year-old Emperor of Japan and his 74-year-old wife will come calling during their three-day stop in Vancouver.
The rare royal foray into the area by a frail couple, from whom aides warn reporters to expect very, very slow movement, did not land on their agenda easily. It took weeks of intense, behind-the-scenes lobbying to overcome initial resistance to the idea of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko venturing through neighbourhoods few tourists see.
In the end, history won out. The streets of the Downtown Eastside were not always rife with the boarded-up businesses and daily horrors we see today. Once, this was the heart of Japantown, a thriving ethnic community every bit as significant as nearby Chinatown, before internment scattered the residents and delivered their businesses and possessions into the hands of others.
Please see the rest of the story at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/the-downtown-eastsides-royal-visitors/article1208588/
AHA MEDIA’s designed 3 new sites for Kashube Art, Sun Eagles and Up Words in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA has designed and developed 3 new sites as part of our skills portfolio.
http://www.kashubeart.wordpress.com <– Paintings by Ken F. Glofcheskie
http://www.suneagles.wordpress.com <– Vancouver Downtown Eastside Homeless Street Soccer
http://www.UpWordsMagazine.wordpress.com <– UpWords Magazine by Stimulant Discussion Group at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
J Hock and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA speak about Sun Eagles in Carnegie Centre Gym in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)
In this video, April Smith films J-Hock and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA speaking about Sun Eagles, Vancouver Downtown Eastside Street Soccer team in need of support, a new coach, team managment, new members to join, food and clothing donations to the team.
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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Sun Eagles, last year called ( Dream Catchers) just came back from Toronto’s Homeless Street Soccer World Cup and are rebuilding again after unsuccessfully defending their National Championship where they won Gold last year.
The team known as the Dream Catchers renamed the Sun Eagles will now build on this defeat with an eye for recapturing the championship.
Their dream is to make the Sun Eagles soar again and bring Homeless Street Soccer World Cup to Vancouver to host!
AHA MEDIA attended The Miss Guide’s “Walking the Ruins: Fragments of Vancouver
April Smith and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA on behalf of W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org attended the “Walking the Ruins: Fragments of Vancouver with commentary by The Miss Guides made up of a art collective of Natalie Doonan, Katharine Somody and Sean George .
AHA MEDIA found the walk a delightful blend of a historical tour and a theatrical performance. It was like taking part of a National Film Board of Canada documentary but in real time and experience 🙂
A unique blend of historical tour and street theatre, this one hour walk will make you experience Vancouver as though for the first time. Using the city as their stage, The Miss Guides will lead you through the gritty underbelly of a city teeming with secrets.
From glamour to grime, Walking the Ruins explores four surprising urban sites, drawing unexpected connections between the forgotten past and overlooked present.
Audiences are limited to 12 adults, and groups meet on the Northwest corner of Granville and Hastings Streets, in front of Sinclair Centre, rain or shine ( bring an umbrella )
Walking the Ruins runs July 9 – August 1: Thursdays + Fridays at 7pm; Saturdays at 2pm.
Tickets $20 ( includes entry to Harbour Center’s The Lookout, valued at $13) available through: http://www.themissguides.com
or http://www.tickettonight.ca or 604.684.2787
Intro to the Miss Guides Walk in Vancouver
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give intro commentary during their performative and historical walk in Vancouver
Going up in elevator at Harbour Centre as part of Miss Guides Walk
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give commentary during their Performative and historical walk while going up in the elevator in Harbour Centre.
Going Down in Elevator in Harbour Centre as part of Miss Guides Walk
In this video, April films http://www.themissguides.com give commentary during their Performative and historical walk while going down in the elevator in Harbour Centre.
These videos were 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 these videos, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
Stephen Hill and April Smith were doing experimental aerial videography through kite flying for Fearless City Mobile and W2 at Crab Park on Canada Day
Stephen Hill and April Smith were doing experimental aerial videography through kite flying for
Fearless City Mobile http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org
Stephen Hill’s first test of Nokia N95 in kite holder during Canada Day Celebrations at Crab Park to begin to experiment with aerial videography through Kite Flying
In this video, April Smith films Stephen Hill doing a test flight with the Nokia N95 in the Kite holder to see if the Kite can bear the weight of the cameraphone ( The Nokia N95 was NOT recording during this time)
April Smith films a second cam documentation of Nokia N95 recording and doing experimental aerial videography with a Kite during Canada Day Celebrations at Crab Park
This video is a second cam documentation by April Smith with another camera of the Kite holding the Nokia N95 as it RECORDS during the short flights off the ground
Stephen Hill puts the Nokia N95 into Kite holder to RECORD while doing experimental aerial videography through kite flying at Crab Park on Canada Day in Vancouver
April Smith’s Nokia N95 while RECORDING, gets placed into the kite holder by Stephen Hill at Crab Park during Canada Day Celebration.
One can see the unique perspectives of the Nokia N95’s recording during the short flights with the Kite off the ground at Crab Park!!!
This is a very wonderful way to experiment creative and technological ways of filmmaking 🙂
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