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DNC – Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council’s DTES Street Market at Pigeon Park in Vancouver on Sunday June 20, 2010

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DNC had its second DTES Street Market recently at Hastings and Carrall in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

Thanks to Hugh Lampkin for providing some of the following photos. Please click on any of the photos below to see FULL size.

In this video, Wendy Pedersen of DNC speaks on DNC’s DTES Street Market at Pigeon Park in Vancouver

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 or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

In the next video, Richard Cunningham of DNC speaks on DNC’s DTES Street Market

Below is Hugh Lampkin, Clyde Wright and Rob Vincent providing a supportive presence for DNC Street Market

Below is Richard Cunningham displaying some jewelry and trinkets

The DNC Street Market is held every Sunday from 12 – 5pm at Pigeon Park in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Community Engagement, DNC- Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood Council, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Hugh Lampkin, Pigeon Park, Social Justice, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Wendy Pedersen

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)

March 9, 2010 ahamedia 2 comments

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

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Christoph Runne, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, PHS, PHS Community Services Society, Pigeon Park, Vancouver, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Games, Vancouver Downtown Eastside

AHA MEDIA is pleased to attend Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009

December 16, 2009 ahamedia 2 comments

AHA MEDIA is pleased to attend Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009

Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation
www.vancouverparks.ca

“The fences are coming down”

The Pigeon Park renewal project is substantially completed, The removal of the fencing represents the return of this important public space to the community.

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In this photo and video, Sarah Blyth of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation welcomes us to Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Tuesday Dec 15 2009

This 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

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In this photo and video, A speech is given where Beverly Dobrinsky and Carnegie Village Choir are invited to sing at Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Tuesday Dec 15 2009

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In this photo and video, Beverly Dobrinsky and Carnegie Village Choir sing at Pigeon Park’s Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Tuesday Dec 15 2009

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In this photo, Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA and Ellen Woodsworth – Vancouver City Councillor watch the performance by Carnegie Village Choir

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In this photo and video, Terry Hunter, Joseph Pepe Danza and DTES Samba Band play at Pigeon Park Grand Re-Opening in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) on Tuesday Dec 15, 2009

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In this photo, Dalannah Gail Bowen of Downtown Eastside Centre for the Arts sings

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In this photo, Andrea Reimer – Vancouver City Councillor chats with Constance Barnes – Vancouver Park Board

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Hungry Folks line up for Chili, Cheese Scones and Hot Chocolate at Pigeon Park

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In this photo, Garvin Snider gives his thoughts on the new Pigeon Park

Please see all 35 photos on our Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/7215762288446

AHA MEDIA attends part of the Sites of Empowerment Tour by CCAP in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday Oct 31, 2009

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AHA MEDIA attends part of the “Sites of Empowerment Tour” by CCAP in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday Oct 31, 2009

Walking Tour

SITES OF EMPOWERMENT
with CCAP

Saturday October 31, 11:30am1pm
Meet at steps of Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main

This tour with researcher Wendy Pedersen and volunteers of the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP) will start at the front steps of the Carnegie Centre and visit some of the best loved places in the area according to the stories of low-income DTES residents.

Contemplate how these key sites give us clues as to how to build a vision for a safe, healthy and affordable low-income neighbourhood and how this future is threatened by gentrification.

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Below is an aerial photo of the tour of about 50 people which included Vancouver City Councillor George Chow while they stopped at the corner of Hastings and Carrall Street in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside

CCAP is building consensus within the low-income community for a vision of the Downtown Eastside that hopefully the city will adopt. Visioning reports and information on gentrification can be found on their blog:http://www.ccapvancouver.wordpress.com. All proceeds to CCAP. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents

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Below is a close up of an aerial photo of the tour of about 50 people which included Vancouver City Councillor George Chow while they stopped at the corner of Hastings and Carrall Street in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside

Part of the Heart of the City Festival in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com/festival-09/october-31/

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In the next photos and video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA and Wendy Pedersen of CCAP speak at Sites of Empowerment tour in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday, Oct 31, 2009

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 or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

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In this video, Wendy Pedersen of CCAP and Ann Livingston of VANDU speak at Sites of Empowerment tour in Vancouver Downtown Eastside on Saturday, Oct 31, 2009