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AHA MEDIA filmed at the Fight HST Rally at Canada Place in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA was invited to go and film at the http://www.FightHst.com Rally on Saturday, Sept 18, 2009 at Canada Place. An estimated 5,000 people showed up to support the cause!
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Speakers included
Tom Shields – M.C. (Former Mayor of Osoyoos)
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Bill Vander Zalm – Host (Former BC Premier)
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Carole James – Leader of the Official Opposition
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Bill Tieleman – No BC HST Facebook Creator / 24 Hours columnist.
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Below is a photo of April Smith of AHA MEDIA with Ellen Woodsworth, Deputy Mayor of Vancouver who gave a rousing speech!
AHA MEDIA wishes to thank Rainer Schmoll of http://www.thinkreferrals.com, Event organizer for the invitation to come and film at the Fight HST rally.
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Below is a twitter update from Lorraine Murphy http://www.raincoaster.com
raincoaster Congrats to @AHAMedia, who made the news on all major networks for their coverage at the anti-HST rally
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Please see http://www.FightHST.com for videos and photos of the rally!
April Smith and Peter Davies are very excited to perform live at Vision Division show at 118 W.Hastings on Saturday Sept 18, 8-10pm
April Smith and Peter Davies recently participated in the Vision Division VJ residency to learn how to remix and repurpose videos and photos with Isadora sotwareinto a live cinematic performance! We are very glad to give a creative and technological spin to our videos we shoot! 🙂
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W2 invites you to VISION DIVISION: Live Cinema with live video mixing, music, and community on Saturday night at W2’s former Launch Pad space across from Woodward’s.
Experience video performances by young local media artists just wrapping up a 4-day video remixing and creation residency with Mia Makela.
Mia is a Finish media artist based in Berlin, and recently spent eight years living in Barcelona.
Saturday night’s free performances takes place in a temporary W2 space at 118 West Hastings, and runs 8-10pm.
The party will bring together good people, cheap bevvies, and a mid-evening celebration in advance of the NFF Saturday night dub event!
VISION DIVISION is copresented with New Forms Festival (September 18-19), with thanks to the Western Front.
Artist-in-residence: Mia Makela (Finland/Berlin)
Participants: April Smith, Peter Davies, Marika Swan, Dustin Rivers, Danielle Sipple.
W2 Mentor: Kris Krug.
Associate Technical Director: Steven Tong.
Executive Director: Irwin Oostindie.
Administrative Director: Lianne Payne.
Volunteer Coordinator: Maddy Kipling.
Follow W2 on Twitter: @W2Woodwards
AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival, hosted at W2 Community Media Arts
AHA MEDIA is very proud to welcome the VISION DIVISION VJ residency of New Forms Festival ( NFF) hosted at W2 Community Media Arts ( W2) ! 🙂
AHA MEDIA and its founding members , first met at Vision Division 2008 ( last year) which prompted our journey into new media, social media and community generated media making!
AHA MEDIA members came from the Fearless City Mobile project and continue to be proud to be camera operators and content producers for Fearless and W2.
Below is a photo of the founding members of AHA MEDIA having fun!
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Below is a photo of us helping to Live VJ at Pop Vox 09
Below is a photo of Live VJ streams on a mobile screen being demonstrated at Convergence during Vancouver Digita Week
AHA MEDIA welcomes the new VISION DIVISION residency of 2009 ! 🙂
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Vision Division Residency: Live Visuals at W2 Community Media Arts
Time: September 15, 2009 at 1pm to September 18, 2009 at 6pm
Location: W2 Flack Block
Street: 163 West Hastings
City/Town: Vancouver
Mia Makela (Finland/Berlin) works with young Vancouver media artists learning to remix video and live streams for site-specific projections. The participants are under-30 marginalized media artists facing systemic barriers to advancing a media arts practice.
Produced by W2 and New Forms Festival, in association with Bladerunners and the Western Front.
Sept 15-18, All day residency workshop (all positions already filled).
Tues/Wednesday 12noon – 5pm; Thur/Friday 1-6pm.
Sept 19, 8-10pm VJ performance by attendees of the workshop (free and open to the public!)
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W2 Community Media Arts (W2) is working with New Forms Festival (NFF) to deliver this program which advances marginalized youth media artists in Vancouver with tools and strategies. Having NFF work with W2 means we can both bring our strengths and resources to the same table and do something twice as impacting.
Mia Makela has just arrived in Vancouver for the week in residence. While the workshop – like last year’s Vision Division – prioritises our W2 DTES community, all NFF fans can check out some of the results and hear from Mia first-hand on Saturday night.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/vision-division-residency-live
http://2009.newformsfestival.com/?p=143
AHA MEDIA interviews folks at VANDU and hear their stories of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA interviewed folks at VANDU and hear their stories of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA was approached by PHS to film a video about “the targeted ticketing blitz by VPD against DTES residents.
This will be part of the press kit, included as a 3-5 minute summary DVD, perhaps with the interviews in their entirety included as well, to be given to the press, at the press release on that subject next Wednesday ( Sept 16, 2009)
The press release will follow the police-board meeting to be held this month at the H.R. Mc.Millan Space Centre. Details of the Police Board meeting can be found here: http://vancouver.ca/police/policeboard/Meetings.htm
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* The following photos and videos in this post were 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
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To give context to our filming of Vancouver Downtown Eastside folks who were ticketed for jaywalking, below are 3 videos of Jay Walkers cross Hastings Street by Carrall in front of the United We Can Bottle Depot, even with a Vancouver Police Car parked on the street in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)
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Below is a video, April Smith chats with Peter Davies and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA while they prepare to do interviews of area residents who have been ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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AHA MEDIA arrives at VANDU to conduct the interviews
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Robert Panteluk and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Patrick Ellis and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Danielle F and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Ken Barnes and hears his story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Diane Tobin and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES
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In the following photo and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA interviews Rose Davison and hears her story of being ticketed by the Vancouver Police Dept (VPD) in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
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Below are photos of Hendrik and Peter in the lobby of VANDU after doing all the interviews
To see all 30 photos, please see our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622238871205/
AHA MEDIA together in Gastown, Vancouver on Sept 09, 2009 — 09 09 09 !
AHA MEDIA is together in Gastown, Vancouver on Sept 9, 2009! — 09 of 09 of 09!
Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA together with camera man Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA stand in the rain while waiting for our first professional contract with a new client to show up!
AHA MEDIA is a hard working new media and social media making team from the Vancouver Downtown Eastside that support our great communities even in the Rain!
Hendrik Beune wishes that we would win the 18 Million Dollar Lottery so that AHA MEDIA could continue to do more great work in Vancouver! 🙂
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Below is a video of Hendrik Beune with Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA looking forward to working even in the rain! 🙂
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.
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