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AHA MEDIA filmed at Bosman Hotel Community Welcome Celebration in Vancouver on Monday Aug 23, 2010
AHA MEDIA filmed at the At Home/Chez Soi Vancouver Bosman Hotel Community Welcome Celebration on Monday August 23, 2010. It was a great celebration for all to see as AHA MEDIA remembers when we attended the Development Permit Board and Advisory Panel meeting at Vancouver City Hall that considered PHS to change Bosman Hotel into supportive housing back in October 2009.
Below is a photo of all the residents at the Bosman Hotel
Restful green space for the residents to relax with their neighbours
Water and Coffee available by the Front Desk
Bistro dining!
Relaxing painting to soothe the soul
Clinic on site at the Bosman Hotel
Amenities Room at the Bosman Hotel
Office and Case Workers space at the Bosman Hotel
Resident sitting
Photos and Video of a Room at the Bosman Hotel
Welcome Basket at the Bosman Hotel
Computer and Telephone Access
Enjoying Pancake breakfast
Cupcakes and more to celebrate the Bosman Hotel Welcome Celebration
Dr. Kerry Jang of Vancouver City Council
Dr. Jayne Barker, VP Research Initiatives, MHCC shaking hands with Hon. Moira Stilwell, Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, Province of BC
In this video, Emcee Dr. Jayne Barker, VP Research Iniatives, MHCC has welcome remarks with Chief Ian Campbell, Squamish Nation leads a prayer and song with Oceanside Dakota Drum Group
In the next 2 videos, Ms. Louise Bradley, President & CEO, MHCC speaks
In this video, Nicola, resident of Bosman Hotel Community speaks
In this video, Liz Evans, Executive Director of PHS Community Services Society speaks
In this video, Ultan Kampff, President, DVBIA speaks
In this video, Dr. Kerry Jang, Vancouver City Councillor speaks
In this video, Dick Vollet of StreetoHome speaks
In this video, Honorable Moira Stilwell, Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development, Province of British Columbia speaks
In this video, Emcee Dr. Jayne Barker, VP Research Initiatives MHCC gives closing remarks
Nicola with Jodyne Keller, VPD’s homeless outreach coordinator
Jeff and Bruce of Bosman Hotel
AHA MEDIA is proud to see Jorge Campos, Pete Bunting, Pechan and Robert Milton of LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA is proud to see Jorge Campos, Pete Bunting, Pechan and Robert Milton of LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside! 🙂
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Below is a photo of Jorge Campos showing an illustration he did of Lesley Ewen – our Story Box Facilitator at LifeSkills Centre
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Below is a photo of our Artist Facilitator Pete Bunting creating a beautiful and imaginative collage with his dog Pechan in the Art Room of LifeSkills Centre
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Below is a photo of Jorge Campos and Robert Milton holding illustration including one of Robert who participates in our StoryBox Project at LifeSkills Centre
AHA MEDIA is very pleased to meet Lesley Ewen a facilitator for Story Box Project at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Lesley Ewen is a Theatre, Film and TV Artist
A 2005 Moffat/LIllo prize winner and two time Jessie Theatre Award nominee, Lesley has lived in Englad, Australia and Canada, graduated from the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School under David Latham and has contributed to Vancouver’s cultural milieu since 1977.
As an artist who responds to the world via diverse media, Lesley’s created an array of theatrical/art/events, videos, music and has over 150 professional film/tv/theatre acting, directing and producing credits. She works as an wholistic dramaturge and has written 4 plays, with her latest, Camera Obscura (Love. Murder.), featured at Factory’s ’05 Crosscurrents and in PTC’s inaugural Playwright’s Colony. Assorted modes of live performance include: Shakespeare at the Bristol Old Vic and Stratford, conventional theatre with most major and many smaller theatres throughout Canada, new circus and independent live art here and in Europe.
Things I’ll bring to Story Box:
– an understanding of and an ability to support the diverse components and modes of creation within the group
– the ability to recognize and nurture things before they’ve sprouted, helping them to cultivate ground within which they can grow
– recognizing and en-couraging the quieter voices in the group being fearless
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In this video, Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA reads a poem called Worms for Story Box Project, facilitated by Lesley Ewen at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA is very proud to attend 5 Zeros – A screening of new video works by LifeSkills Collective at 7pm on Thurs March 11, 2010 in Pigeon Park, Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA congratulates the LifeSkills Collective for 5 Zeros – A screening of new video works!
TL Frederick
Ali Lohan
Quin Martins
April Smith
Juliet Van Vliet
and Christoph Runné & Allison Laing!
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AHA MEDIA is very proud to present at 5 Zeros – A screening of New Video Works in Pigeon Park on Thurs March 11, 2010
The 12 Days of Olympics (2010)
Digital Video, Colour, 8:39 minutes
The 12 Days of Olympics is a short video presented in two parts, both of which offer differing social reactions and unresolved political anxieties associated with poverty, community representation, and the 2010 Winter Olympic Games held in Vancouver, Canada.
Formulated around the familiar Christmas carol, “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” this project anticipates and contextualizes urban-specific dilemmas that pose the greatest threat to some of the most vulnerable members in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Highlighting issues such as budget cuts, heightened security, seemingly never-ending road closures, corrupt Olympic games, and an “eternal” deficit, while also providing a balancing viewpoint of friendly sports competition and world – wide happy camaraderie that is both insightful and inspiring, this project – which was shot just a few months before the Winter Games – offers two competing and humorous perspectives associated with living in a city that is about to host the Winter Games.
To be sure, the Olympics are not designed for marginalized communities such as Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, but it is through their unrestrained opinions and curiously contagious enthusiasm that the viewer can acknowledge the inherent contradiction made obvious by the Olympic games themselves: despite attempts to unify the world, this large-scale event, by its very nature, has the reverse effect, because it excludes the majority of the population (most specifically, the poor) from its celebration.
April Smith is a Vancouver-based videographer and documentarian who lives and works in the Downtown Eastside. Through art, music, and community promotion, she is a self-taught advocate for social outreach and neighborhood unity. Using social media, new media, mobile technology, and video, she concentrates on sharing the stories and voices of an otherwise-silenced community with a global audience.
Co-founder of AHA MEDIA, her practice includes educational and political cartooning, facilitating social, new and mobile media literacy workshops, as well as recording subversive and situational observations of her own community. Most recently, her work was published in Megaphone Magazine.
Photo of April Smith by Simon Hayter
April Smith of AHA MEDIA on SWISS TV on how PHS and Woodwards Housing helps her and others with housing, employment and life opportunities in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
In this photo and video, April Smith of AHA MEDIA speaks with SWISS TV on how PHS and Woodwards housing helps her and others in Vancouver Downtown Eastside by providing housing, employment and life opportunities.
April’s interview highlights the new Woodwards Housing run by PHS and also AHA MEDIA’s new videos ” The 12 Days of Olympics” about life in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) and how residents are affected by it
The original link to the story on SWISS TV is here
http://tinyurl.com/yg9cdrl
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA (off the Swiss TV website online http://www.rsi.ch) on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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