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AHA MEDIA’s Media Coverage of the 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival of Vancouver at Capone’s Restaurant in Yaletown
AHA MEDIA attended the 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival of Vancouver at Capone’s Restaurant in Yaletown.
http://www.caponesrestaurant.net/2009/04/13/wine-and-jazz-festival/
While our focus is being hyper local citizen journalists from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES ), we are learning to become social media event reporters for Vancouver’s technology, social media and twitter world.
We were proud and thankful to be invited by Graham Lloyd, Account Manager, 99.3 The FOX ! http://www.cfox.com 🙂 and Daniela Vecchione, Marketing Manager of Capone’s Restaurant.
Below is a photo, Peter Davies, Reporter for AHA MEDIA and Lorraine Murphy of Raincoaster Media http://www.raincoastermedia.com at the opening of the festival.
Capone’s welcomes us with printed materials of the week long Wine and Jazz festival and upcoming events 🙂
Here is a photo of Capone’s upon walking in. A lively vibrant place! 🙂
Below is Raul Pacheco of http://www.hummingbird604.com grins his very charming smile for AHA MEDIA, while Lorraine Murphy looks on and smiles 🙂
Two of the Wine Merchants giving away wine tastings. Very Crowded around the wine tasting area! 🙂
Below is a photo of John Chow of http://www.johnchow.com as he contemplates the “rose” wine swirling in his glass 🙂
The 1st Annual Wine and Jazz Festival in Vancouver was completed by the fantastic jazz played by Legendary Jazzman Wes Mackey !! 🙂 He will be having his new CD Launch party at Capone’s Restaurant soon! Stay Tuned! 🙂http://www.wesmackey.com
Thanks to Capone’s Restaurant for putting on a fabulous event for us to enjoy! 🙂
http://www.caponesrestaurant.net
More photos on our Flickr Page 🙂http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157616797757099/
AHA MEDIA is proud to be Media Sponsors for Tony Chisholm, of DTES Re-Cycles! – Custom-made Re-Cycling Trailers!!
* This is just an audio recording – No imagery. *
In this video, April Smith records a camera shy Tony Chisolm’s voice speaking about his vision to build custom- made Re-Cycling Trailers to help clean up the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)! 🙂
He envisions building a social enterprise to help others like himself in the Vancouver Downtown (DTES) get into the Green movement and help with recycling and cleaning up our neighborhood of popcans, empty bottles, old clothing etc.
He is looking for sponsors in either business development, funding, materials, space, guidance to help him realize his dream of cleaning and greening the Vancouver Downtown Eastside! 🙂
Tony’s dream is to build custom-made Re-cycling trailers that attached to the back of electric bicycles or regular bicycles and use that for working on Reducing, Reusing and Recycling! 🙂
He even has a special place where one can drain bottles and can upside down to get rid of any liquid remaining in the containers!
AHA MEDIA is proud to help Tony Chisholm, our DTES neigbor by giving media sponsorship and coverage through a site we will be building for him 🙂 ( Soon to come! )
Tony Chisholm writes: “I think my site would be beneficial to are community. I like the site to benefit people with a purpose .and the monies to go to a purpose to keep are east side clean and green by recycling goods”.
A Clean, Green DTES to come! 🙂
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This was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone. April is passionate and skilled in making Nokia films by exploring mobile media production through the camera lens of a cellphone. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
Plan-It Hastings – 2 Events for the DTES on Thursday April 16th
AHA MEDIA’s April Smith’s 5 Question Video for KontentCreative.com
AHA MEDIA’s April Smith is lucky and honored to be the very first video interviewee for http://www.KontentCreative.com
This interview at http://kontentcreative.com/blog/ was filmed on a Nokia N95 Cameraphone. 🙂
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April Smith
Co-Founder and Producer of AHA MEDIA
youtube.com/AHAFILM
ahamedia.ca
twitter.com/aprilfilms
April Smith is an avid mobile new media livestreaming videographer/photographer using HTC Touch Pro and Nokia N95/N77 cameraphones.
She is a W2 Community Media Arts Centre Programming Assistant and a Project leader/Cheerleader for Fearless Media and for the Fearless City Mobile Project
April Smith is a Co-founder and Producer of mobile media production group AHA MEDIA.
At AHA MEDIA, we are emerging independent mobile social media event reporters and new media hyper local citizen journalists. Based in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we cover community news and special events & functions with our ongoing learnings of technology, mobile media production and cameraphone capacity in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
1) What’s the one piece of online or offline technology that you can’t live without?
My Nokia Cameraphone, specifically my Nokia N95 (which filmed the 5 Qs video), N77 and HTC Touch ( where I can livestream content)
2) What is your favourite online resource?
Twitter! It’s a fantastic tool where my friends and supporters can talk and meet! I get to find out information in real time, real opinions from real people. I would have to say that I use it alot more than Google 
3) How many e-mails do you get in a day?
50-60 emails a day and that’s not including all the DM (Direct Messages) or @AprilFilms messages on Twitter. There’s lots of information going back and forth within my day!
4) Tomorrow there is no internet. What do you do?
I would do what I do every day and that’s go out and film with my cameraphone Whether it be in the DTES down an alley covering a new story or to cover a very special social media or twitter event in Vancouver
5) Are you followed or are you a follower?
Both! I follow lots of different people, all sorts of people that are very interesting and I hope to be followed also:) I hope that in this regard, people can share all sorts of information and if you can be the follower and the followee, you’re definitely doing the best of both of both worlds!
Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen at Life Skills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
5 Days of free hot food April 14 to 18
Guru Nanak’s Free Kitchen
Tuesday 14th to Sat 18th April
From 11 am to 4pm
Life Skills Centre
412 East Cordova Street Vancouver
This poster was taken through a window, hence the reflective look to it! 🙂
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