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Towards May 5 Liberation / 5 mei bevrijdingsdag Artist talk & media arts installation by Irwin Oostindie
Artist talk & media arts installation by Irwin Oostindie
Follow a Dutch youth’s 200km journey into hiding from Amsterdam’s Hongerwinter, eventually his life saved by Canadian soldiers on his sixteenth birthday on April 13, 1945.
71 years later, his sixteen year-old granddaughter revisits her Opa’s wartime route with the help of stories, archival images, social media, and live video streaming.
Join a public presentation exploring this media arts project (currently in development) which brings to life memory and archives for a new generation considering WWII, refugee and conflict issues. Today’s conversation will give voice to Elder’s carrying these memories, and consider digital strategies to bring archives and hidden stories to life for a new generation.
Irwin Oostindie is a Vancouver-based Dutch media artist researching occupation, settler and migration issues.
Sponsored by DUDOC and Consul General of the Netherlands.
Cover photos: (L) Leidschegracht, Amsterdam. January 21, 1945. 89924, NIOD; (R) Kijkduinstraat, Amsterdam, June 2015, Google Street View.
Towards May 5 Liberation / 5 mei bevrijdingsdag
Artist talk & media arts installation by Irwin Oostindie
Where: Dutch Urban Design Centre (DUDOC), (former Buschlen Mowatt Gallery) at 1445 West Georgia Street, Vancouver/Coast Salish Territory. Donations welcome.
When: May 5, 6-8pm. Presentation at 6:15 followed by reception with complimentary warm Dutch foods and beverages.
Follow a Dutch youth’s 200km journey into hiding from Amsterdam’s Hongerwinter, eventually his life saved by Canadian soldiers on his sixteenth birthday on April 13, 1945.
71 years later, his sixteen year-old granddaughter revisits her Opa’s wartime route with the help of stories, archival images, social media, and live video streaming.
Join a public presentation exploring this media arts project (currently in development) which brings to life memory and archives for a new generation considering WWII, refugee and conflict issues. Today’s conversation will give voice to Elder’s carrying these memories, and consider digital strategies to bring archives and hidden stories to life for a new generation.
Irwin Oostindie is a Vancouver-based Dutch media artist researching occupation, settler and migration issues.
Sponsored by DUDOC and Consul General of the Netherlands.
Cover photos: (L) Leidschegracht, Amsterdam. January 21, 1945. 89924, NIOD; (R) Kijkduinstraat, Amsterdam, June 2015, Google Street View.
Hendrik Beune and April Smith of AHA MEDIA were honoured to be Hosts of W2TV Show on Jan 20, 2013
Under the expert direction of Deborah Angrave and Sid Tan and supported by Don Walchuk, hosts April Smith and Hendrik Beune prep with Irwin Oostindie for the W2TV taping
The show is about popular cultural spaces that are under threat in Vancouver.It airs on Shaw cable 4 for viewing around the Lower Mainland, this Sunday 27 January, with repeat broadcasts until Saturday 2 February
Premiere of W2TV with interview of AHA MEDIA and Premiere of “Paper Sons and Daughters” Documentary
Vancouver BC – Auspicious circumstance heralds the premiere of W2TV, produced by W2 Community Media Arts (W2) and ACCESS-TV*.
Opening the W2 TV show are hosts Irwin Oostindie and Sid Tan, with interviews with Karen McAthy, chef at W2 MediaCafé, and April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA Media, specialists in social media production. 
In rotation for two weeks beginning 10pm on Sunday June 10, W2TV broadcasts on Shaw cable 4 in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley and repeats Monday midnight (00am Tuesday), Thursday late night (2am Friday) and 2pm on Saturday.
W2’s mandate is to break the digital divide through access to technology and training while promoting full inclusion, encouraging cross-cultural dialogue and advancing issues of redress. W2TV is initiated to engage local media arts practitioners in community television, new media production and storytelling.
The inaugural W2 TV show features the television broadcast premiere of “Paper Sons and Daughters” to mark the 62nd anniversary of the June 9, 1960 announcement which granted amnesty for paper sons and daughters if they confessed to the government.
“Paper Sons and Daughters” is produced and directed by Deborah Angrave with Sid Tan as executive producer. The twenty minute bare bones documentary is compelling storytelling of Chinese immigration and personal family histories.
*Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and Solidarity Society, an associate member of W2 since 2008, is a chapter of the Chinese Canadian National Council (CCNC) which has 27 chapters across Canada. As ACCESS-TV, it produces regularly scheduled community television broadcasts of local, national and international human rights, social justice and environmental concerns for public interest.
W2 and AHA MEDIA at 6th Annual Fair in the Square 2012 in Victory Square, Vancouver
W2 , Fearless City Mobile and AHA MEDIA had an amazing time meeting friends, old and new during the Fair in the Square by Central City Foundation.
W2 drew a lot of attention from interested people who came out to enjoy the day We were able to share a great deal of information about what W2 is all about including upcoming events and summer camps!
It was a beautiful day to be outside and meet other community minded people and organizations who support our neighbourhoods in a positive way.
W2 is all about community and it was wonderful for W2 to be a part of the Fair in the Square!
VCC supplied the amazing BBQ and Cupcakes which everyone enjoyed. Hastings Crossing Business Improvement Association gave out discount passports encouraging folks to explore the neighbourhood!
Highlight of the day was a special performance by Juno Award Winner Moka Only!
The audience was thrilled to see such an excellent high energy music talent play in Victory Square!
Lianne Payne dances with the W2 Sign during Moka Only’s concert
Hendrik Beune and April Smith of W2 and AHA MEDIA with the “Most Fabulous Moka Only!!
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