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Learning, Freedom & The Web Open Lab Discussion at W2 Woodward’s Open Lab for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Wednesday Nov 3, 2010
Open Lab Discussion
LEARNING, FREEDOM & THE WEB
Wednesday November 3, 11am-2pm
W2 Woodward’s Open Lab,
250–111 W. Hastings
Learn about the open web, how it affects how we learn and explore local solutions such as creating a free community wifi for the DTES. The web surrounds us with a massive and remixable tapestry of perspectives, facts and data. It gives us the freedom to learn whatever we want at our own speed and in our own way. It lets us become our own teachers. Fundamentally: the free and open nature of the internet is revolutionizing learning. Come for a discussion that is also digitally connected to a live dialogue from Mozilla Foundation’s Drumbeat Conference in Barcelona. Free (optional lunch $5)
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
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AHA MEDIA at Woodwards community Thanksgiving dinner where today is proclaimed Vancouver Street Soccer League Day on Mon Oct 11, 2010
AHA MEDIA was pleased to attend the Woodwards community Thanksgiving dinner on Mon Oct 11, 2010
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA with Dennis, a resident of Woodwards SRO
The Woodwards Atrium was beautifully transformed to a gorgeous dining room setting
Irwin Oostindie of W2 Community Media Arts with daughter
Below is Mayor Gregor Robertson with Patrick and Robert of Team Vancouver for Street Soccer
Below is Sarah Blyth with Jim Green speaking about Team Vancouver for Street Soccer that went to Brazil for Homeless World Cup 2010
Mayor Gregor Robertson proclaiming Vancouver Street Soccer League Day on October 11, 2010
W2 Community Media Arts at Under the Volcano 2010 on Sunday Aug 8th in North Vancouver
Please come see Facing the Wind – W2’s Under the Volcano archive and art exhibit at the Festival site today
Make plans to go to North Vancouver for the final (20th) Festival of Art & Social Change http://volcano.resist.ca/ 12-10pm. Bring a light jacket for some drizzle, but otherwise should be sun and clouds. Great music from around the world. Come say hi at the W2 tent (we have it covered) and see some of the Under the Volcano archives on display.
· 12:00pm – 9:00pm
Location Cates Park
Dollarton Highway
North Vancouver, BC
The 20th and FINAL Under The Volcano Festival
After 20 years UTV has decided to close this chapter of our history by making our 20th anniversary our final event. For two decades we have organized in solidarity with local and global social justice movements and have staunchly supported marginalized peoples struggles. We have survived and thrived and now it’s time to say goodbye. Come celebrate cultures of resistance, activism and community!
2010 HIGHLIGHTS:
* Naomi Klein and Arthur Manuel: Paying our Debts, At Home and Abroad: A Discussion with the award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author Klein and Secwepemc Nation activist Manuel, moderated by journalist & documentary film-maker Avi Lewis
* Olmeca: Xicano MC returns in support of new album “La Contra Cultura”
* Plus Joey Only Outlaw Band, Delhi2Dublin, Los Migrantes and lots more!
Plus:
Malcolm Lowry Stage, Dragonfly Kid’s Festival, Artisans Market, Community Info Fair, Workshop Tent, and more…..
Sunday August 8th, 2010
Cates Park (Whey-ah-Wichen) North Vancouver Gates Open @ 12noon.
ADMISSIONS: @ Gate Only (no advance tickets) BY-DONATION $10-$20
Low income admissions by-donation suggested $5 available @ Main Gate ONLY
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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 Storybox Project at the Surge Festival is the sensational finish to a process that involved over eighty members of DTES community based writing groups who developed their individual stories utilizing personal artifacts as inspiration and illustration. The manifold stories held common threads bound to universal themes. StoryBox at Storyeum presents five such themes as representative of the powerfully spoken words by the most demo-diverse voices working in concert with some of Vancouver’s brightest lights in media arts.
In this video, Irwin Oostindie, Stephen Lytton and Councillor Heather Deal speak on Story Box Project in Surge Festival at W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune and Anne Marie Slater view projections at Story Box Project in W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune is a featured interview in a movie at Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver DTES
Below is a photo of Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd standing in front of Story Box description on the wall
Below is a photo of Jorge Campos, Quest Kabuki, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd in front of W2 Storyeum
In this video, Erin de Zwart shares her thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd shares their thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Sid Tan shares his thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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
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