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AHA MEDIA is pleased to introduce a Benefit Concert for DTES NH with Earle Peach and Solidarity Notes Choir – Friday May 29th 7:30pm
AHA MEDIA is pleased to introduce a benefit concert for DTES NH with Earle Peach and the Solidarity Notes Choir http://www.solidaritynotes.ca
Earle Peach is a legendary singer, songwriter, conductor and composer whose political activist work has included the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. He was Carnegie Centre’s band and choir leader until a few years ago. http://www.earlepeach.com/
AHA MEDIA notices No smoking sign at LifeSkills Centre in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
AHA MEDIA upon arriving at the Lifeskills Centre, noticed a big yellow sign of NO Smoking… announcing that Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES) residents have been getting ticketed while doing so!
AHA MEDIA wishes to congratulate Megaphone Magazine on winning two International Awards!
AHA MEDIA wishes to give a big THANK YOU and a huge round of applause to Megaphone Magazine – Vancouver’s Street Magazine! Fantastic work and very prestigious honors! You have represented us to the world in the very best of ways and we are honored to have worked with you! ! 🙂
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Megaphone Wins Two International Awards
On Thursday, May 14th, Megaphone Magazine was the proud winner of two international awards at the International Network of Street Papers (INSP) conference in Bergen, Norway. Functionality‘, which appeared in Megaphone Issue #2.Falling Through the Cracks,’ which was published in The Tyee and then republished in Megaphone Issue #15:The prestigious international judging panel included Martin Wanjala Ocholi, a media consultant from Kenya; Sanjay Suri, editor for Inter Press Service (IPS), Europe-Mediterranean (IPS); Silja J.A. Talvi, an award-winning investigative journalist and author from the United States; and Oddleiv Apneseth, an award-winning photographer from Norway. The awards were chaired by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief of Reuters News and INSP’s Honorary President.Megaphone would like to congratulate Ahmad, Sean and The Tyee for their dedication to raising awareness about poverty and ending homelessness.
Megaphone contributing photographer Ahmad Kavousian won ‘Best Photograph – Evoking deeper perspectives on poverty and injustice’ for his photo, ‘
“A beautifully shot image of a hammock rigged up on a beach debris – as Vancouver’s lack of affordable housing pushes more and more people onto the streets, the photo expresses the lengths to which some are driven just to find a place to sleep.”
And Megaphone Editor-in-Chief Sean Condon won the ‘Special Award for External Press – Advocating for the needs and rights of homeless people’ for his story, ‘
“Paul ‘Duncan’ Geisbrecht, a Vancouver homeless man, suffered from schizophrenia and crack cocaine addiction. When he died last year, he was just one week away from entering supportive housing. Tracing Paul’s life story, this piece illustrates how faults in Canada’s social system can have tragic consequences for society’s most vulnerable.”
“On behalf of all our vendors and volunteers, I would like to express what a great honour it is for Megaphone to win these awards,” said Condon, who attended the ceremony in Bergen with Megaphone editor Darren Atwater. “The International Network of Street Papers is a powerful movement that is reshaping the debate about poverty around the world while helping provide thousands of low-threshold jobs to homeless and low-income people. We here at Megaphone are very privileged to be a part of this movement and thank the judging panel for recognizing our hard work.”
“As a member of the official judging panel for two years running, I can attest to the continuing quality and depth of these entries, across the board–a fact most certainly due to rather than in spite of the diverse contexts, languages and geographies from which they have come,” said Schlesinger.
For more information, contact:
Sean Condon
Editor-in-Chief
778-835-4440
sean@megaphonemagazine.com
AHA MEDIA’s Political Parody and Satire Videos on BC Election in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)
AHA MEDIA created the following Political Parody and Satire videos to demonstrate the voting process in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) on May 12, 2009 for BC Election.
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Parody Video 1 – BC Election – May 12, 2009 – Hendrik Beune Going to Vote with a Jar of Pickles
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHAMEDIA dressed up as a Grim Reaper and satires Gordon Campbell as he goes out to vote even though he feels he’s in a pickle in thinking that voting will change the lives of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Through his acting he hopes to demonstrate how some Vancouver Downtown Eastside residents feel powerless given the choices of our political candidate’s election solutions to solve the issues.
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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Parody Video 2 – BC Election May 12, 2009, Hendrik Beune casts his vote
In this video, Hendrik Beune satires the voting process and Gordon Campbell for the BC Election May 12, 2009 at Ray Cam Community Centre in Strathcona much to the mixed reaction by the polling clerks
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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Parody Video 3 – BC Election May 12, 2009- Hendrik Beune thinks the votes are like a Whoopee Cushion
In this video, Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA activates a whoopee cushion to demonstrate his feelings on how he thinks the votes are counted in the BC Election and how he thinks that Gordon Campbell and the BC Liberals shouldn’t win.
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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Parody Video 4 – BC Election May 12, 2009,Vancouver Downtown Eastside Reaction to Gordon Campbell
In this video, May 12, 2009, Al Tkatch, Co-founder of AHA MEDIA and also of the music duo Rockafellas announces that BC Election results. A bitter woman yelled out Who cares while Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA dressed up as a parody ofGordon Campbell as a Grim Reaper lookalike entertained the laughing Vancouver Downtown Eastside crowd with his antics.
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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