In these photo, AHA MEDIA reporter Peter Davies looks at the many bags of bread given out in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. One thing is for certain, one will never starve in our neighborhood! 🙂
Join visionaries from games and digital entertainment, social media, interactive design, and animation and VFX from May 11-14, 2009 in Vancouver. Get access to international business match-making, big picture conference sessions, high-level seminars and workshops, as well as loads of networking parties.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Brought to you by the People from Cossette West.
A gathering of digital-savvy marketing and communications thought-leaders from across North America sharing ideas on how to stay competitive in the ever-shifting digital landscape. This year we focus on digital branding through social media and why you should integrate it into your marketing strategy…starting now.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Want to meet key influencers in the music industry, advertising and broadcasting fields? Then join nextMEDIA to explore the importance of brands, bands and audiences. Find out how modern technologies can help you to connect with your audience in a meaningful way. Understand what it takes to successfully promote and market brands and artists in the 21st century. Sessions will be followed by plenty of discussion and interaction, plus networking drinks.
May 12-13, 2009
The Game Developers Conference® Canada (GDC Canada) is a forum for Canadian developers to share best practices for fostering ingenuity and quality games. GDC Canada emphasizes studying the challenges and opportunities of creating games with long production cycles, large development teams, and multi-platform releases. Produced by Think Services and Reboot Communications Ltd.
May 12-13, 2009
The VIPF is an exclusive event offering your company the opportunity to meet industry veterans and decision-makers, cutting edge creators and emerging players in digital media through networking sessions and hand selected one-on-one meetings. Presented by New Media BC.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The People’s Choice PopVox Awards honour the best and brightest in BC’s digital media sector. Join us at Gastown’s Workspace to celebrate the winners, meet the Individual Stand Out Award Finalists and enjoy a drink or three with all your new Vancouver Digital Week friends! Hosted by Buzz Bishop.
Thursday May 14th, 2009
Representatives from Vancouver’s gaming and digital entertainment industry, university researchers, policy makers and regulators will meet to begin a conversation on the needs of the interactive gaming sector with respect to innovation and talent development.
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Get your digital black belt during a day of intensive training and workshops at the Centre for Digital Media (CDM). Bringing together experts and leaders from an array of sectors in digital media, this workshop helps inspire new ideas and provides tools to develop them into realizable goals. Participants will be treated to insider techniques for the conceptualizing, visualizing, prototyping and pitching of ideas, as well as insights into current industry trends and technologies. This is your opportunity to get a crash course in digital martial arts – Register Today!
The following photos show the opening of Carnegie Centre, a community centre at the corner of Main and Hastings in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES).
Folks from all around use the City-Operated Facility which includes a music room, theatre, gymnasium, library, learning centre, computer room, senior lounge, weight room, cafeteria, pool room and much more! 🙂
The following photos are AHA MEDIA’s short stoll through the streets of Strathcona area of Vancouver during a fine Spring day! 🙂
Vancouver – May 1st thru May3rd, 2009 – The West End Community Centre invites you to Art in the City, a visual art show and sale featuring over 65 local artists from Vancouver, BC and beyond. Admission is free at this three-day event showcasing paintings, drawings, illustrations, pottery, carvings, photography and sculptures by local artists and artisans.
http://vancouver.ca/parks/cc/westend/website/West_End_Coal_Harbour_CC/Art_in_the_City.html The West End Community Centre is located at 870 Denman Street with parking available off Haro Street.
Saturday, May 2nd – 10:00am – 8:00pm
Sunday, May 3rd – 10:00am – 4:00pm
In this photo, Dory Lanenter, President of the West End Community Centre, Rob Jones and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA welcome you to the Art in the City 2009
In this video, food and refreshments were served at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In the following photo, Rob Jones, Bob Patterson and Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA all smile at the Art in the City 2009 event.
In this video, Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA introduces the event, while Dory Lanenter then comes to introduce Jody Billingsley Artist in Residence 2008 at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, Rob Jones and Jody Billingsley http://jodybillingsleyart.com/ chat about his beautiful and whimsical art of Vancouver at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre 🙂
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, Rob Jones comments at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, Dylan Schultz – featured artist talks at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
More about Dylan Schultz :
http://vancouver.ca/parks/cc/westend/website/West_End_Coal_Harbour_CC/Feature_Artist.html
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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In this video, Raul Pacheco, Ross and Gus F. wrote down their names for door prizes at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, a 2 minutes to art auction announcement was made at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this video, announcements were made before the start of the Art Auction at the Art in the Cty 2009 show at the West End Community Centre in Vancouver.
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 thisvideo, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter.
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In this photo, Pamela Flatekval speaks to the happy crowd! 
“This is our fourth annual Art in the City event; we are excited to host an eclectic and incredibly talented group of local artists and artisans along with over 2,000 art lovers who come out to appreciate and purchase art. We are offering a special door prize this year which will be awarded at 3:00pm on Sunday. This year’s prize is artwork “Urban Legend” by feature artist Dylan Schultz. Art in the City is an event you don’t want to miss!”
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The West End Community Centre is operated by the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation in partnership with the West End Community Centre Association (WECCA). WECCA is a community-based organization of volunteers whose mission is to enhance the quality of life of the West End and Coal Harbour communities by providing recreational, educational and social activities and services which are accessible and responsive to the changing needs of the communities.
In this photo, April Smith of AHA MEDIA and Raul Pacheco of http://www.hummingbird604.com smile at the Art in the City 2009 🙂
84 photos of Art in the City 2009 can be found on our Flickr! 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157617600381442/
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