AHA MEDIA, Fearless City Mobile and W2 at Fair in the Square 2010 in Victory Square, Vancouver

May 19, 2010 ahamedia Leave a comment

The Board of Directors, Management and Employees of Central City Foundation and Vancouver Community College are pleased to present Fair in the Square 2010.

The purpose is to celebrate our neighborhood, share food, listen to local musical artists, support a community trade show, eat cupcakes and dance.

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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie and Lianne Payne of W2

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Below is Irwin Oostindie with Holly Boyd of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile

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Below is a photo of Lianne Payne in the band Sambata

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Below is some of our great AHA MEDIA, Fearless City Mobile and W2 Crew with friend Kat

Peter, Clyde, Irwin, Alvin, April, Darryl, Kat and Lianne

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Below is Darryl, Paul, Clyde and Alvin of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Crew trying to make a W2 with their fingers

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Below is Irwin Oostindie sharing a laugh with Central City Foundation member

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Below is Alvin Clayton of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile holding the Summer program guide for W2

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Below is Irwin Oostindie speaking with Andrew “Muskie” McKay – formerly of BOB

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Below is a photo of Miriam, Shawn with Alvin, April and Eric doing great community engagement and outreach of W2 during Fair in the Square 2010

Categories: AHA Media, Alvin Clayton, April Smith, Clyde Wright, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Fearless City Mobile Project, Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Victory Square, W2, W2 Community Media Arts, W2 Events, W2 Storyeum

AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Volunteers help to move W2 to Storyeum on Sat April 17, 2010

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In next photo and video, Richard Czaban, Peter Davies and Kevin King of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile wait for Lianne Payne of W2 to back the moving truck to begin moving on a very rainy Saturday

This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2 chatting with some volunteers

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In this video, Volunteers help move W2 building and its contents to our new home at Storyeum in Vancouver on a very rainy Saturday, April 17, 2010

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Moving Volunteers are still needed for today April 20, 2010 – noon to 8pm!

If you have some time the rest of the week as there is much work to be done organizing Storyeum and making sure we leave 112 in a clean state.

Thanks in advance – we couldn’t do this without you!

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Fearless City Mobile Project, Irwin Oostindie, Lianne Payne, W2, W2 Community Media Arts, W2 Storyeum

AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile was glad to help W2 Community Media Arts move into Storyeum on Sat April 10, 2010

April 13, 2010 ahamedia 1 comment

Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile documented the move from W2’s present location of 112 West Hastings to W2’s new location at Storyeum at 151 East Cordova through the photos below.

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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie – Executive Director of W2 looking on while Clyde Wright and Jennifer Wallington of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Project places boxes of gear to their new home at Storyeum! 🙂

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Below is a photo of Richard Czaban and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile in front of W2’s current location

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W2 has four floors and a basement. Lots of walking up and down stairs with our elevator experience technical difficulties!

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Below is just some of the items on one of the floors of W2 that has to move into Storyeum

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Please click on any of the following photos to enlarge

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A view of W2 at 112 West Hastings from outside Woodwards Atrium

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We’re still moving furniture and gear this Saturday April 17^th, we’ll be working throughout the day from 11am-6pm. If moving isn’t your bag we also need help cleaning up, designing and setting up new spaces. Contact Hywel directly to help out: hywel@creativetechnology.org

We have plenty of volunteer opportunities in the coming months including: committee work, venue staffing, gallery sitting, media lab attendants, event production and working with us on committees.

Irwin Oostindie (Executive Director) with W2 Community Media Arts speaks about W2 running from the Storyeum building in Vancouver between April 15 to Sept 15, 2010

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Hi! I’m Irwin Oostindie (Executive Director) with W2.

We’re in the Woodward’s complex and the Woodward’s Complex is a major project that W2 is a part of. We’ll be delivering a community amenity space – a community media centre, a community radio and tv station, and it’s still an active construction site…so we’re not done yet.

I don’t think W2 will be moving into Woodward’s until about September 2010… so we’re working with the City of Vancouver and behind me is the Storyeum site. What we’re looking at is running W2 from the Storyeum building on Cordova, on 151 West Cordova between April 15 to Sept 15th.

We’ll do our art shows there, we’ll do our youth and children summer camps, we’ll have our offices, our media labs for the community, events… every week we’ll have different events

So look forward to that.. you can check out the Storyeum building.. we’ll be moving in April … and that will be where W2 exists at Woodward’s

So we’re moving from our Perel Building on Hastings, 112 West Hastings, over to Storyeum at 151 West Cordova, then we’re going to end up at the Woodward’s Complex at 111 West Hastings Street

So W2 is moving around but we’re almost there! “

W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org

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Below is a video of Irwin Oostindie ( Executive Director) with W2 Community Media Arts speaking about W2 running from the Storyeum building in Vancouver between April 15 to Sept 15, 2010

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In this video, is a walking tour of the interior of Storeyeum in Vancouver, where the Canadian Artisan Market was at.

* This video has no audio *

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Below are photos of the interior of Storyeum! ( Please click to enlarge )

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W2’s plans for the summer!

Community Meetings:
Thursday April 8^th, 7pm-9pm;
Saturday April 10^th, 10-11am;
Saturday April 17^th, 10-11am

Thank you for all of your help and interest in the operations of W2’s Culture + Media House during February. We presented over 35 events with art exhibitions, conferences, parties and receptions at our 112 West Hastings home, and also produced over 50 episodes of community television through our broadcast program. This was a solid experience as we grew as an organization and we received lots of love and profile from media organizations worldwide. Check out videos about us and our work: the City of Vancouver’s Snap 2010 and a spotlight produced by our broadcast program.

We just received word from the City of Vancouver that our planned Woodward’s opening date has been delayed from April to September 1, 2010. For the next few months, the City has offered us a lease at Storyeum, one of Vancouver’s largest cultural and festival venues a block north at 151 W Cordova.

For the next 5 months we will launch an exciting series of festivals, conferences, and daily programs and we hope you will stay involved.Storyeum’s 31,000 square feet of space will be home to a massive one-night exhibition in June featuring 200 artists, a series of festivals, a major urban art fair, Icograda Design Week Vancouver reception, Future Everything networked event—connecting Istanbul, Tokyo, Sao Paolo, Newcastle, and W2—and the launch reception for Vancouver Interactive Digital Week. And lots more to share with you!

Please join us for community meetings to get the full picture of what we are creating, and signup for new roles in our growing organization. Drinks will be had too from our wine and beer sponsors.

We’ve set two moving dates to move furniture and gear: April 10^th and 17^th, we’ll be working throughout the day from 11am-6pm. If moving isn’t your bag we also need help cleaning up, designing and setting up new spaces. Contact Hywel directly to help out: hywel@creativetechnology.org

We have plenty of volunteer opportunities in the coming months including: committee work, venue staffing, gallery sitting, media lab attendants, event production and working with us on committees.

We are also recruiting for the following committees:

Summer Camp Planning: Week- and Day-long camps for children and youth in July and August. If you have ideas or experience around effective arts-based and creative day or week long camp programming please help us create new programs for young folks in our new media lab, silkscreen and letterpress studios.
Urban Art Fair Planning: During the months of July and August we will feature a major 7 week show with Stencil Art, Urban Aboriginal Art, an Under the Volcano Festival 20-year retrospective, Graffiti Art and more.
Technical Committee: event production, inventory, gear signouts and assessing our needs and systems in the next five months and during our operations at Woodward’s

Members interested in joining our Fundraising or Programming committees should apply with resume and credentials to be approved by our Board to join.

If you’re unable to attend our community meeting please come on Saturday or feel free to contact Hywel directly any time at hywel@creativetechnology.org or call 778-882-7485.

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Arts, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Irwin Oostindie, Media Arts, Social Media, Storyeum, W2, W2 Community Media Arts, Woodwards

AHA MEDIA is very proud to announce Fearless City Mobile Event Coverage of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson at W2 Culture + Media House on Wed Feb 10, 2010 and “Raise the Red Lantern” on Sat Feb 13, 2010

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The Fearless City Mobile Project crew members of W2 were very excited to be do mobile media documentation and helping to archive the historical day through using social media and new media tools to get the word out of all the great arts, cultural and media events happening at W2 Culture + Media House on Wednesday Feb 10, 2010! 🙂

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Below is a photo of Hendrik Beune of Fearless City Mobile Project in front of W2 Culture + Media House at W2

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Below is a photo of Hendrik Beune, April Smith, J-Hock and Peter Davies of Fearless City Mobile Project anticipating our Mayor Gregor Robertson to do the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

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Below is a photo of J-Hock and Richard Czaban of Fearless City Mobile Project discussing camera angles to best cover the event. Fearless City Mobile is alway proud to be part of the action and help support W2 Community Media Arts

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Below is a photo of our Press Conference Stage at W2 Culture + Media House

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Below is photo of Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2 welcoming everyone

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Below is a photo of Irwin Oostindie of W2, together with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson

Fearless City Mobile Project members still remember when Gregor Robertson came out and met with us back when we first started our project a few years ago. Fearless City Mobile is very honored to be recognized warmly by our Mayor and we thank him for his support of us always!

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Below is a photo of Mayor Gregor Robertson with April Smith – Fearless City Mobile Project Coordinator

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Below is a photo of Stephen Hill and the rest of Fearless City Mobile singing a rousing and much inspiring Fearless City song!!! Not only does Fearless City Mobile do great mobile media, we can sing too!!

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Below is a photo of Richard Czaban showing the Fearless City Mobile crew photos and videos of local Vancouver Downtown Eastside events

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Fearless City Mobile will be covering “Raise the Red Lantern” event on Saturday Feb 13, 2010 starting from 9pm onwards. Come celebrate with us at W2 Culture + Media House!

Raise the Red Lantern

~ A Tiger’s Tale

Host:	W2 Community Media Arts
Type:	Party – Holiday Party
Network:	Global

Start Time:	Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 9:00pm
End Time:	Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 2:00am
Location:	W2 Culture + Media House
Street:	112 West Hastings
City/Town:	Vancouver, BC
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Feb 13th marks the eve of Valentine’s Day and Chinese/Lunar New Year. Let’s usher in the
Year of the Tiger together amidst all that will be happening in Vancouver on this much anticipated weekend. Please join us at W2 for an evening of offerings.

Some of you may remember the great space(s) of W2 where El Papa Chango played last November. W2 recently celebrated its official opening and will be the first ever independent social media center created to help non-accredited media journalists and bloggers cover the Olympics. Raise the Red Lantern will also be the after-party for Artwalk Vancouver happening throughout the DTES. Sure to be many streams of people creating one very diverse mix.
For more info on W2:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/

We are pleased to announce the performing artists joining us this night.

The players:

Lesley Ewen – thespian extraordinaire
Dawn Zoe – ephemeral chanteuse
Babette Santos & Stephanie Pintar –
fanning the dance

live painting by Jordan Bent:
http://www.jordanbent.com/

more tba

followed by DJs

Deano (Sunshine Coast, BC)

One of Left Coast’s best-kept secrets, Deano is a dj/producer that has been playing shows for the past ten years. He plays eclectic sets that get the party BOUNCIN. He also happens to be
a master carver. We are stoked to have him in Vancity.
http://www.myspace.com/deanowomp

DJ Mazeguider (aka Jeet K)

When not speaking to the Senate and helping to put a stop to absurd legislation, Jeet K can be found behind the decks rockin the electro, techno and glitch hop. Jeet K has been involved in Vancity’s underground music scene as both producer and MC since the 90s and a dj for the past six years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgsCeuFu_M

opening set by Patricia

Patricia played out years before, under the moniker Kriyatrix. For this set, expect something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

Visuals by Sammy Chien & Patricia Kim w/ Fearless City Mobile

Sammy is a media artist, filmmaker and VJ. He has created live visuals for concerts, interactive installations and new media dance performances. He will be performing real-time generative images, triggering by movement and sound.
http://soar.is2.net

*Fortune readings by Dragan. Hidden deep withing the labyrinthine spaces of W2, look for a man with cards (by donation).

doors at 9pm
performance 10-10:30
djs Deano & Mazeguider 10:30 onwards

112 W. Hastings (and Abbott)
$10 (!) at door only
19+ event

“The Tiger is one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, and is feared and revered in equal measure. It features in many Asian cultures as a manifestation of courage, power, passion and royalty. The Tiger symbolizes the female Yin energy as opposed to the Yang male energy of the dragon. Ancient Chinese believe that the markings on the forehead of tigers resemble the Chinese character for “Wang”, or King. In Imperial China, where the dragon is the insignia of the emperors, the tiger is the military emblem of the highest supreme commanders of the army symbolizing fearlessness and victory. The Tiger also represents earth, while the dragon represents Heaven. The powerful and stealth prowess of the Tiger inspire the martial art movements of many Kung-Fu masters.”

Those who are skilled in combat
do not become angered.

Those who are skilled at winning
do not become afraid.

Thus, the wise win before they fight
while the ignorant fight to win.

Sun Tzu, “The Art of War