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AHA MEDIA is very pleased to see: W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House during 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver
As reported in the Globe & Mail and by Bob Mackin in 24 Hours, W2 will open its doors to independent journalists and bloggers from around the world—and around the corner. The program will be launched the first week of January 2010 and feature 3-floors of media production resources and an epic mix of daily programming highlighting Vancouver’s diverse cultural scene. Participants can expect media events, receptions with international artists, screenings, live video streams from throughout the city, workshops, performances, conferences, and more from inspiring journalists and international artists in residence!
W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House – a 24 hour/day media centre for non-accredited bloggers and journalists to share their perspective on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with the world.
The W2 Culture + Media House offers something for everyone, with three levels of engagement (Public, Basic Media Access, and Full Media Access). The services packages include a public access cultural space during the day, transformed each night for 40 different live shows and receptions. Registered individuals and media organizations have access to the upper 200 and 300 levels offering daily morning press briefings, high-speed wireless internet (upto 25Mbps), meeting space, complimentary Salt Spring Island coffee, fully wired computer work stations, broadcasting systems, and access to W2 silkscreening and printing services.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/profiles/blogs/launch-date-010110
http://www.creativetechnology.org/page/2010-media-house-1
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Online registration will open in January with a mix of Vancouver and international media outlets already confirmed to occupy space in the 10,000 sq ft heritage venue. The registration fees will provide participants with robust wireless, Salt Spring Coffee Co. beverages, daily press briefings by local and international NGOs, access to video editing resources, shipping and office support services, onsite letterpress/silk-screen/digital printing, access to media production equipment, interpretation services, knowledgeable local hosts, and tickets for conferences and festivals. It opens in January and will be at full capacity from February 12—28, 2010. A separate initiative focusing on the social media scene during the Olympics is being headed up by our friends at the True North Media House (TNMH)—which is not affiliated with the W2 programs. TNMH is “a media collaboration campaign to encourage social coverage of major events, highlight emerging media and provide a venue for discussing the increasing use of social media… at events of like the 2010 Winter Olympics.”
The W2 Culture+Media House operations are in addition to the busy work W2 is doing building a permanent community media facility across the street at Woodward’s—set to open in the Spring of 2010. While the Woodward’s heritage building construction will not yet be finished for the Olympics, W2 will present Fearless City Mobile screens at our future W2 Cafe site in the Woodward’s Atrium. This living streaming video wall will be operational throughout February and is located just 100 feet distance across Hastings Street from the W2 Culture+Media House.
For partnership and sponsorship inquiries contact:
W2 Executive Director irwin@creativetechnology.org
W2 Administrative Director lianne@creativetechnology.org or phone 604.689.9896.
Registration Inquiries
We invite your questions and interest in the W2 Culture + Media House.
Please direct your inquiry to:
Irwin Oostindie
Executive Director
Toll-free: 1-877-689-9896
Local: 604.689.9896
Skype: irwin_oostindie
Twitter: @W2Woodwards @FearlessCity
2010 Media House – Registration Inquiries
W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House – a 24 hour/day media centre for non-accredited bloggers and journalists to share their perspective on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with the world.The W2 Culture + Media House offers something for everyone, with three levels of engagement (Public, Basic Media Access, and Full Media Access). The services packages include a public access cultural space during the day, transformed each night for 40 different live shows and receptions. Registered individuals and media organizations have access to the upper 200 and 300 levels offering daily morning press briefings, high-speed wireless internet (upto 25Mbps), meeting space, complimentary Salt Spring Island coffee, fully wired computer work stations, broadcasting systems, and access to W2 silkscreening and printing services.
Local and international media already registered to use W2 Culture + Media House during the 2010 Games include: CJSF Radio, CFRO Radio, 24 Hours, Fresh Media, The Tyee, Open Media, and Rabble.ca. W2 is currently fielding registration inquiries from media organizations as far away as USA, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK.
Full Media Access Pass
Application required* for 24/7 access to levels 100, 200 and limited 300
- Recommended for individuals and teams who are looking for a home-base during the 2010 Olympics and require secure and dedicated media production supports and want complete 24/7 access to all media, cultural and social events to connect with media makers, artists and journalists. Add some serious bandwidth to a rich mix of work and socializing
- 1. Reserved access (includes complimentary beverages) to daily Cinq à Sept Receptions featuring guest hosts and daily speakers (from the sport, culture, media, NGO, and technology communities), live music and DJs, fresh video feeds, hors d’ouevres, and beverages. Cinq à sept refers to “five to seven”, pronounced “sank-ah-set,” is a Québec French term for a time in the afternoon intended to be spent with friends and colleagues.($180 value)
- 2. Complimentary guest passes for your friends and colleagues to daily Cinq à Sept Receptions ($120 value)
- 3. Reserved ticket to more than 24 separate evening events on 100 level ($300 value)
- 4. Reserved ticket to W2’s Social Media & The Olympics conference. Launching Jan 15, 2010! ($40 value)
- 5. Souvenir shwag! Bring home your choice of souvenir W2 Culture+Media House Tshirt and buttons! ($25 value)
- 6. Access to all levels of the House: 100, 200, and 300 levels. This includes exhibitions by: Dustin Rivers (Squamish Nation), fifty artists in the Hot One Inch Action button show, neighbourhood artists featured in the Downtown Art Walk, and many more!
- 7. Salt Spring Coffee fair-trade organic coffee – unlimited fuel
- 8. Daily press briefings between 9am and 12noon from local and international NGOs, with updates from Cultural Olympiad international and local artists and cultural presenters
- 9. Rendezvous and meeting space
- 10. Secure high speed internet (upto 20 Mbps
- 11. Dedicated fully wired computer work stations
- 12. Printing 5 cents/page b+w, 35 cents/page colour
- 13. Zip Courier service (at-cost rush courier to local and international destinations)
- 14. Photography and scanning service
- 15. In-house silkscreening print services (caps, patches, tshirts,..)
- 16. Final Cut Pro editing suites
- 17. In-house Technical support
- 18. Access to W2 TV broadcasting platform
- 19. Access to video footage from our 8 camera HD and mobile W2 TV crews
- 20. Interpretation services (Chinese, French, Spanish, Dutch…)
- 21. Local guides familiar with the Cultural Olympiad, socio-economic issues of the Downtown Eastside, and major issues of the 2010 Olympics.
- 22. Ticketing service for Cultural Olympiad events
Photo from December 30 and we are currently setting up the level 300 Final Cut Pro editing area and work-stations.
Operations: The W2 Culture + Media House operations are being scaled up throughout January with full media operations running throughout February, and basic media services during March.
Participation Fees
Daily $ call for details
Week $ call for details
Month $ call for details **
* Full Media Access Pass requires application and approval by W2.
**Sponsorship and barter exchanges available, please inquire.
For partnership and sponsorship inquiries contact:
W2 Executive Director irwin@creativetechnology.org
W2 Administrative Director lianne@creativetechnology.org or phone 604.689.9896.
Registration Inquiries
We invite your questions and interest in the W2 Culture + Media House.
Please direct your inquiry to:
Irwin Oostindie
Executive Director
Toll-free: 1-877-689-9896
Local: 604.689.9896
Skype: irwin_oostindie
Twitter: @W2Woodwards @FearlessCity
Revival of weekly Fearless City meetings, Wednesdays at W2 Culture + Media House
Orientation Meeting: Wednesdays 1-3 PM W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings @Abbott
Fearless DTES residents are invited!
http://ow.ly/QM7n
W2’s Fearless City Mobile is recruiting DTES residents and artists for an exciting mobile video streaming showcase of ideas and views from our neighbourhood. VJs (video jockeys) will remix live videos created by participants and project a mashup on giant screens from the large window facade of the new W2 Cafe site inside the Woodward’s Atrium. W2 is slowly opening in stages in the heart of the Woodward’s project with the Cafe opening first.
Fearless City Mobile has a successful track record of empowering local residents with access to technology, and helped launch other projects in the neighbourhood like AHA Media. Funding for this February program is from CODE Live (Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition) and the City of Vancouver’s Bright Lights. For project background, check out these samples of previous test events: showing Fearless participants learning about mobile video and VJing are Vision Division; with mobile streaming from DTES locations and our shopping cart screen; mixing it up with VJs and DJs at Tech Forms; in Ottawa for BC Scene with VJs remixing streaming connections from seven galleries and layered social media together.
Orientation Meeting: Wednesdays 1-3 PM W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings @Abbott. Weekly Fearless City Mobile training and peer support sessions (lunch included) every Wednesday. We will be providing an honorarium for Fearless City Mobile Project participants and we especially encourage our original 2008 Fearless City crew to come and work and create again.
AHA MEDIA from Vancouver Downtown Eastside is very proud to be featured in Robert Matas’ article “Clustering In Action” in “The Globe and Mail” National newspaper
Clustering in action
Robert Matas
Vancouver — From Saturday’s Globe and Mail Published on Friday, Dec. 18, 2009 10:13PM EST
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/clustering-in-action/article1406276/
AHA Media is a struggling new company incubated in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by a government-funded agency that turned to theories of a Harvard University professor more often associated with Silicon Valley and Hollywood than with revitalization of urban slums.
April Smith, one of the company’s founders, drifted into the Downtown Eastside after a serious car accident left her with severe memory loss and other injuries. With no money, she ended up living in temporary shelters and hotels dominated by predator pimps and drug addicts, she said recently in an interview.
Her life changed after she began cartooning to tell the stories of people she met at the hotel and on the street. A local community group inspired her to think about reporting activities in her neighbourhood without going through traditional media. She became part of an apprenticeship program developed by a cluster of local companies. After completing the program, she worked with others to open a new business in the area, AHA Media.
Prof. Michael Porter has written extensively about the advantages of clustering as an approach to economic development. Concentrating interconnected companies, specialized suppliers and associated educational institutions in the same geographic area fosters increased employment, productivity and innovation, he said. The clusters become a catalyst for innovation that feeds economic growth
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Building Opportunities with Business, a government-funded agency, dedicated to revival of the local economy, embraced clustering at the suggestion of an ex-board member who had studied at Harvard.
Ms. Smith was part of a training program developed by a cluster that included Bell Canada, the FireHall Arts Centre, a local digital filmmaking program that works with youth at risk called Intersections Media, a B.C. government employment program called BladeRunners and a non-profit group working in social media called W2: Community Media Arts.
The training program “gave me a big, big start,” she said. “It gave me a sense of direction.”
Ms. Smith is now on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr. She describes herself as a mobile new-media videographer and social media content-producer. She shoots camera-phone videos and live-streams events onto the Internet.
To speak with April Smith more personally
http://www.facebook.com/AprilFilms
http://www.twitter.com/AprilFilms
http://www.twitter.com/April
To see more of AHA MEDIA:
http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
http://www.twitter.com/AHAMEDIA
http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/AHAMEDIA/sets
Clustering pushes local businesses to think how they can work together, BOB’s chief executive officer, Shirley Chan, said. But, unlike Silicon Valley, the Downtown Eastside businesses do not have resources to carry out many of their ideas.
“Many employers here are marginal, they do not have a lot of money. That is why they are here. The rent is cheap,” she said. “ Without finding sources of funding, there is not a lot that can be created.”
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AHA MEDIA wishes to thank the following 🙂
Robert Matas, Reporter for Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com
Shirley Chan of BOB ( Building Opportunities with Business ) http://www.buildingopportunities.org
Irwin Oostindie of W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org
Lani Russwurm of DTES CAN ( Downtown Eastside Community Arts Network ) http://tinyurl.com/yaqw5mz
Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media http://RaincoasterMedia.com
AHA MEDIA was pleased to attend BOB’s Christmas Open House 2009 at Main and Pender in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA was pleased to attend BOB’s Christmas Open House at Main and Pender in Vancouver. Their new location was beautifully decorated and very spacious… located right at Main and Pender in Vancouver
Based in Vancouver B.C., Building Opportunities with Business (BOB) is a non-profit organization that is championing an inclusive revitalization process for the inner-city that values existing businesses and residents. BOB is a connector, a resource and a facilitator working to: strengthen the inner-city’s community capacity; identify and build on untapped business opportunities; improve employment opportunities and retention; and increase investment in Vancouver’s inner-city.
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In this photo is Libby Davies – MP for Vancouver East
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In this photo – Shirley Chan – CEO of BOB and husband Steve Hopkins
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In this photo, Andrew “Muskie” McKay – Industry Initiatives Coordinator for BOB
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In this photo, Shirley Chan presents a certificate to London Drugs at Woodwards
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In this photo, Shirley Chan presents to Nester’s Market at Woodwards
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In this photo is Kerry Jang, Vancouver City Councillor and Lorraine Murphy aka Raincoaster http://www.Raincoaster.com
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In this photo, Andrew “Muskie” McKay, Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA, Lorraine Murphy aka Raincoaster
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In this photo, Irwin Oostindie – Executive Director of W2 Community Media Arts, David Lee, Toby Barrazoul and Peter Davies
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In this photo, Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA at BOB’s Christmas Open House
To see all 15 photos of BOB’s Christmas Open House 2009, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/7215762302541
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Co-Working Opportunities are available at BOB.
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To further our mission we would like to make available to select partners, individuals, and businesses the main floor of 163 East Pender Street. We hope that this open shared work space can contribute to the revitalization of the inner-city by providing a space for creative professionals to flourish, for ideas to percolate, to cross pollinate, for businesses to grow, a place where stuff gets done.
What we’re offering is a work surface, be it a desk, a chair, a table, a couch, or the bay window, wherever you’re most comfortable.
Of course we’ll offer wi-fi and other niceties such as an electronic white board and a projector to facilitate discussion and creative thinking. There’s a fridge for your food, a microwave, filtered water cooler, and secure storage for your bike.
The price is a flat $200 per month and includes keyless access.
We’re looking for creative professionals, progressive thinkers, the socially responsible and ecologically conscious who want to be surrounded by others of like mind.
Folks who want more than a cubicle and a 9 to 5 and dream of bigger things and a better Vancouver to call home.
If this sounds like you, contact Andrew “Muskie” McKay 778-328-7672 or write coworking@bobics.org
AHA MEDIA is very proud to present “With Glowing Hearts” – a documentary on social media and W2 Community Media Arts Centre in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Animal Mother Films invites you to join us for a drink and exclusive preview from the film at the official launch party for the website for our documentary project With Glowing Hearts. We continue to capture the pressures facing Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as the city prepares to host the Winter Olympics next February, and how a remarkable group of individuals is using cutting edge social media technologies to empower their community.
WGH-is a story about a revolution, one of social change and a paradigm shift in media representation. Vancouver sets the stage, against the backdrop of the 2010 Winter Games, for our documentary about a marginalized community embracing social media tools to empower, inspire and breakdown the digital divide.
This is a project that Andrew Lavigne is directing and is being produced by animalmotherfilms.com. Shot on various capture devices including the Red, the HVX 200, the 5D MkII and the Nokia N77 cellphone. We began shooting Feb/2009 and will continue through March/2010.
Director Andrew Lavigne and Producer Jon Ornoy are now 9 months into production, charting the inspiring story of the creation of the W2 Media Arts Center as part of the Woodward’s redevelopment and the vital steps towards breaking down the digital divide that will take place within its walls.
With the launch of wghthemovie.ca, our Facebook presence and the Games only a few months away, we’re excited to throw the doors wide open and let you have a look inside.
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