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AHA MEDIA volunteered at Work Less Party on Saturday June 6th
AHA MEDIA worked hard while volunteering to do Coat Check at a past Work Less Party party event at Japanese Language School on Saturday June 6th
Work Less party website is http://www.worklessparty.org
Below is a photo of Peter Davies, Hendrik Beune and April Smith of AHA MEDIA waiting for the Party to start.
Below is a photo of the Carnival Band giving a live performance to electrify the evening !
Below is a photo of Paul Preibisch dropping off his coat with us. Paul is a very dynamic man ! http://www.youtube.com/Fire2006
AHA MEDIA is luckily very open minded and we always do our job to the best of our ability 🙂
Below is a pair of boxer briefs that were checked in with us! The owner assured us that they were very clean! 🙂
Since the Work Less Party events are always a costume party – the followoing photo shows a man dressed up as “Drunk and Arrested B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell in Hawaii” complete with Beer can. What a parody!
Below is a photo of fantastic drummers enticing people to dance to their beats
The Work Less Party always throws an amazing party for Vancouver to enjoy! 🙂
AHA MEDIA was pleased to attend What about Love?: Out of the Rain Group Exhibition
AHA MEDIA was very pleased to attend the
What About Love? : Out of the Rain Group Exhibition
Opening: Friday June 5th, 2009, 6:00pm-10:00pm.
June 5th to 28th, 2009
Artists: Sue Blue, Wendy Chew, Bob Fiddler, Angel Gaeta, Ray Grabelle, Victor Jean, Montana King, Priscillia Tait, Garnet Tobacco, Adam Warne, Johnney Watts, and others.
Artists from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside show new work produced during this fourth annual Out of the Rain program.
Out of the Rain supports artists who face challenges to maintaining regular art practice but who, in spite of these challenges, persevere to make art as a means of survival and self-expression. This year’s twelve artists were provided with art supplies and a street level arts studio to make work for the group exhibition. These artists were selected from over 50 interested and qualified artists.
This year, Out of the Rain is made possible through financial support from Edgewater Casino’s Social Responsibility Fund (through the City of Vancouver), Direct Access Grant funding, a generous contribution from John Casablanca Institute (via the Community Arts Council of Vancouver), and the provision of subsidized street level work space (Flack Block, 175 W Hastings) thanks to The Salient Group.
We would also like to thank Opus Framing and Arts Supplies for assistance with supplies, and the DTES Community Arts Network for early project support and partnership
AHA MEDIA wishes to thank
Lianne Payne, Ali Lohan, Quin Martins of Gallery Gachet for leading the Out of the Rain project and for such a welcoming opening and reception 🙂
Lani Russwurm of DTES Community Arts Network for his ongoing support 🙂
Tom Quirk – for documenting the Opening Night 🙂
To see more photos, please see our Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157619358649675/
W2 info night on June 4, 2009 at Flack Block in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
Interested in W2 and the community? Want to get involved to make a positive and lasting change?
Come to the W2 info night, held on Thursday, June 4th at 7PM. This is an free and informal event open to everyone. Food and drinks will be served.
Thursday night is a community meeting for our supporters. We will be doing Info Sessions every week on key subjects, but this meeting is aimed at updating our active community on challenges we are having with City negotiations, as well as recruiting more volunteers.
The W2 Info Night will be held in W2’s new offices at the Flack Block building at 163 West Hastings from 7-10PM on June 4th.
A W2 staff member will be waiting out front of the building to let guests inside.
Future topics include Social Enterprise Incubator program
W2 Youth Media Arts Lab apprenticeship program recruitment
Intro to our tv/radio programs
Youth program
Disability arts program
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org
To see 68 photos, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157619314534906/
Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA attended Pacificthorn Launch Party
| ::Pacificthorn:: Spring/ Summer 09 street release – Fall/ Winter 09 preview
Following up our private launch event last week, the Pacificthorn showroom is now open and will be hosting a public reception and preview of our seasonally self titled fall line (the Fall) and street release of our spring line (ATLANTIS). The concept for our spring collection is informed by Christian Nicolay’s gallery exhibit of the same name, which provocatively questions the loss of personal freedoms and examines the potential fall of the American nation-state in the contemporary milieu. From its initial reception on Nov .08 at Winsor Gallery, the ATLANTIS exhibit has extended itself to a variety of expressions, each differing only slightly between venue, This June ATLANTIS finds itself uniting with its cross referenced clothing line. Featured artist Christian Nicolay , extends himself, producing a third and final installation in conjunction with the Pacificthorn showroom tying the very conceptualization of the spring line together in cross reference to his gallery project. -Neal Nolan Pacificthorn.com
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Spring/ Summer 09 street release – Fall/ Winter 09 preview::
Thursday, June 4,
7pm – 12am
110 E. Hastings at Columbia.
Please see artist’s statement (attached) in compendium to this event.
ATLANTIS.
Christian Nicolay.
2009
ATLANTIS is a protest of the erosion of the US Constitution, which was formed as a safeguard against tyranny by the Government.
ATLANTIS deconstructs American Flags and reconstructs them into art objects and not willingly destroyed or desecrated for that purpose.
ATLANTIS draws attention to the pitfalls of the globalization, the instability of the international markets and corrupt financial institutions.
ATLANTIS represents not only the fall of a great nation, but also the fall of basic rights and freedoms.
ATLANTIS combines ubiquitous and mundane materials such as ‘Made in China’ labels, plastic toys and USD One-Dollar Bills with the intensely symbolic American flag. The subsequent re-presentation is a timely commentary on national self-image and its inherent fragility.
ATLANTIS represents the global economic crisis we are currently in and “change” needed to stay afloat and navigate through troubled waters.
Not all is lost,
because hope floats.
the war on terror,
is the war on your freedom
fighting terrorism
by creating it
less they forget
we’ll remind.
c.nicolay 09
To see 95 photos, please see our flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157619218649520/
AHA MEDIA with Rob Jones, Vancouver Music Writer at Mojave CD Release Party at Cafe Deux Soleils in Vancouver
April Smith of AHA MEDIA was honored and pleased to be a mobile new media photographer, videographer, and live twitter caster for Rob Jones ( @Clippernolan) a Vancouver Music Writer at Mojave CD Release Party at Cafe Deux Soleils on Commercial Drive in Vancouver on May 30, 2009
Below is a photo of Paul Jarvis of Mojave http://www.myspace.com/mojave and Rob Jones http://www.clippernolan.wordpress.com
” Anomalous Disturbances” was also featured during the evening perfomance.
For a full review of Mojave CD Release Party, please read Rob Jones’ article at http://kl.am/tBv 🙂
To see 36 Mojave photos, please see our Flickr http://tinyurl.com/mot64n
To see 6 Mojave Videos, please see http://tinyurl.com/c3clyd
It was a memorable Mojave evening! 🙂
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