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AHA MEDIA at Gastown Farmers Market in Vancouver
Visit the Gastown Farmers Market in the on 200 block Carrall Street, Sundays throughout August and September
The following text is from http:/www.vancouver.ca/summerspaces
Join neighbours, friends and visitors at the Gastown Farmers Market held Sundays, 11am – 3pm on Carrall Street near Gassy Jack Square. The market will feature only locally grown and harvested produce, meat, seafood, baking, preserves, snacks and more! Enjoy lunch at one of several cafes adjacent to the market or grab some groceries and head out to discover the many great local shops in the area. Its Sunday – slow down and enjoy Gastown and the Gastown Farmers Market.
Get in touch
Visit: http://www.eatlocal.org/
Visit: http://www.gastown.org/
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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This video showcases Chris Croner and his delicious blueberries from Matsqui Blue Farms at Gastown Farmers Market.
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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Below is a photo of Maddy and Honey Mae of W2 Community Media Arts standing in front of Klippers Organic Acres
Support our local Vancouver Farmers Markets! 🙂
Please see all 82 photos of Gastown Farmers Market on our Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622078860013/
April Smith of AHA MEDIA was very pleased and honored to work with mentor Mo Simpson – award-winning freelance director, cinematographer and editor !
April Smith of AHA MEDIA had the great exclusive opportunity to work as a sound recordist with mentor Mo Simpson on her documentary on Design Nerds http://designnerds.ca at W2 Community Media Art Gallery Space at 175 West Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Below is a photo of Mo Simpson holding a Sennheiser Microphone unit
Recently, Sennheiser Sound Team toured W2 Community Media Arts Centre. Below is a closeup of Mo Simpson’s Sennheiser Microphone Unit
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Moira Simpson’s work as an award-winning freelance director, cinematographer and editor spans 30 years and encompasses many National Film Board, independent and television documentaries. Simpson has often combined filmmaking with teaching, giving workshops throughout BC as well as the Western Arctic, Newfoundland and Alberta. She has also taught at the University of British Columbia and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In 1995 Simpson was honoured for receiving one of the best student evaluations that year at the Institute. She currently gives workshops regularly and has mentored a number of developing filmmakers.
The subjects of Simpson’s documentaries range from Canada’s Political Economy, youth and drug addiction, the creation of a national women’s monument remembering the 14 women murdered in the Montreal Massacre, an international peacebuilding mission on the frontlines of war-ravaged Kosovo, to the complexities of offering aid to Africa.
Last fall Simpson returned from giving a joint NFB-UN Habitat workshop in Nairobi, Kenya with young media activists from Slum TV, Hot Sun and The Ghetto Club, three grassroots video groups in Nairobi’s vast slums that have become models of self-empowerment in a society besieged by political disillusionment. Called the “free media”, their work is being shown online and informally throughout communities, involving the Kenyan people in a debate over the future of their country and giving them nonviolent avenues of expression
Mo was recently DOP and location sound recordist on the National Film Board’s Finding Dawn on the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women across Canada. As filmmaker in residence with Fearless City Mobile and W2, she has been exploring the use of mobile phone video technology, including livestreaming, with residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
This spring Simpson was honoured with the Kodak Image Award of Excellence from Women in Film and Television. Over the next year she will be directing, shooting and editing stories for the National Film Board’s GDP, an interactive webdocumentary that will measure the human side of the Canadian economic crisis. Filmmakers and photo essayists across the country will give a voice to the men and women who through resilience and ingenuity have become “change makers” in their communities.
mosimpson@uniserve.com
April Smith of AHA MEDIA together with Lianne Payne of W2 Community Media Arts are interviewed and filmed by Kaleidoscope
Recently, April Smith of AHA MEDIA with Lianne Payne of W2 Community Media Arts were filmed by Kaleidscope Video Production team on their thoughts of arts, culture and people’s perception of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
http://www.findingyourway.ca/index.php?id=38
Project Activities
Digital video production skills
All the basics, including concepts, tools and techniques essential to get started in video production without prior knowledge or experience.
- Develop leadership and workplace essential skills
The essential skills employers are looking for regardless of your position on the corporate ladder - Develop a greater understanding of community and your place in it
Produce a video around issues or community services of interest to your small team - Get valuable work experience
Work placement with a local employer is added to your experience on the Kaleidoscope production team
contact
604-303-9025
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Below is a photo of Producer Randy Keats and Kaleidoscope Video Production team getting set up at W2 Community Media Arts Gallery Space at 175 W. Hastings in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
Below is a photo of the team getting ready to film
Below is a photo of Lianne Payne of W2 Community Media Arts
Below are photos are the new W2 Community Media Arts Centre beng built at the corner of Hastings and Abbott in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
http://www.creativetechnology.org
AHA MEDIA visits Quest Food Exchange Store on Hastings Street in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA visits Quest Food Exchange Store on East Hastings Street by Gore in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES). It is a very affordable place to buy groceries. For example, a bag of buns is only 10 cents! One must have a Quest membership card to be able to shop at Quest and most shoppers are referred by Welfare or other social service agencies.
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ABOUT QUEST
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The Quest Food Exchange is operated by the Quest Outreach Society, a registered not-for-profit organization founded in 1990. The mandate of Quest Food Exchange is to pick up non-marketable food from every sector of the food industry and redistribute it to those in need, benefiting individuals, communities and the environment. In its 2007/2008 fiscal year, Quest collected $7.12 million worth of food from 343 food suppliers. This rescued food was diverted to Lower Mainland social service agency partners for distribution. Quest now serves more than 244 social service agencies feeding 40,000 people each month.
OUR SERVICES BENEFIT: Individuals: We provide food to kitchens serving homeless and street people in Vancouver’s downtown eastside; we prepare hot meals in our own kitchens that are distributed through various outreach programs; and we distribute low-cost, high-quality food to individuals referred by social service agencies. Communities: We supply food to hundreds of outreach programs ranging from neighbourhood houses, women’s shelters, halfway houses, recovery centres, street youth, and school lunch programs, and more. This not only helps feed the people they serve, but it also enables these organizations to focus on their unique mission to serve the community. The environment: By diverting food from the landfill, Quest prevented the release of 3,290 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents last year. We also recycle food packaging, and help turn food waste into animal feed and compost. AREAS WE SERVE: Quest’s service area in B.C. currently extends throughout the Lower Mainland, including Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, the Tri-cities and Maple Ridge. |
Below are happy testimonials from area residents:
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA enjoying his time at Quest Food Exchange Store
AHA MEDIA went on an exclusive tour of W2 Community Media Arts Centre with the Sennheiser Sound Tour as they visited Vancouver!
AHA MEDIA went on an exclusive tour of W2 Community Media Arts Centre with the Sennheiser Sound Tour as they visited Vancouver!
AHA MEDIA is very proud to be the first mobile new media and social media company from Vancouver to see the very beginning of the W2 Community Media Arts Centre from the ground up!
Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.sennheisersoundtour.com
While you may not have heard about Sennheiser, you soon will. Sennheiser is a famous amongst music professionals for providing the most authentic sound and this summer, the Sennheiser Sound Tour will be spreading the sound about their incredible headphones across North America. With a team of 6 guys and a team of 6 Girls – there is goingto be some fun!
What Sennheiser stands for
We create the greatest and most exciting sound experience for people worldwide – whether at home or out and about; on stage or behind the DJ console; in a museum or in a concert hall. It is our ambition to enable people all around the world to enjoy a unique sound experience. Approximately 2000 Sennheiser employees in 90 countries around the globe work as a team in a constant effort to fulfil this promise.
For more than 60 years the name Sennheiser has stood for the highest quality products and customised solutions across all areas of sound recording, transmission and reproduction. As one of the world’s leading providers of integrated solutions for electro-acoustic products, systems and services we constantly set ourselves the challenge of developing creative answers which satisfy the requests and requirements of our customers.
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Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour, April Smith of AHA MEDIA/W2, Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2 Community Media Arts, Po of Sennheiser Sound Tour, Sid Tan of ICTV/W2
The following videos are by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a Nokia N95 mobile cameraphone generously provided by W2 Community Media Arts. 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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Back: Sid Tan of ICTV/W2, Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour, Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2, Po of Sennheiser Sound Tour
Front: Lani Russwurm of DTES CAN/W2 and April Smith of AHA MEDIA/W2
Below is Po and Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.SennheiserSoundTour.com
Below is Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour, Irwin Oostindie of W2 Community Media Arts and Po of Sennheiser Sound Tour chatting together.
Below is Po and Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour walking through the beginning of W2 Community Media Arts Centre
We thank Po and Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour for touring W2 Community Media Arts Centre 🙂
Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.sennheisersoundtour.com
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.com
Thanks to Po of Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.sennheisersoundtour.com
Thanks to Adrian of Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.sennheisersoundtour.com
Please see all 211 photos of Sennheiser Sound Tour visiting W2 on both our Flickr sets
First set has 163 photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157621993006603/
Second set has 48 photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622116660280/
Thanks to Sennheiser Sound Tour http://www.sennheisersoundtour.com and W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org
AHA MEDIA is pleased to produce mobile media of 6 videos on Youtube and 211 photos on Flickr for you!
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