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DEET STREET jazz band for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Saturday Oct 30, 2010
Music in the Streets
DEET STREET
Saturday October 30, 12pm & 1:15pm
Starts at Carnegie Community Centre
401 Main
Four years ago, the idea formed to create a local jazz band able to make music outside on sidewalks and in outdoor areas of the ‘hood. That time has arrived! Welcome to the newest band in the DTES – Deet Street (a play on DTES Street), a fun upbeat six-piece with Brad Muirhead on sousaphone, Dennis Esson on trombone, on trumpet Malcolm Aiken and Phil Smith, Mark Boreen on saxophone, and Gary Wildeman on drums. Playing classics, jazz, a little bit of everything. Listen for them coming down the street! Free
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HOMELESSNESS AND GENTRIFICATION Walking Tour with CCAP – Carnegie Community Action Project for 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Saturday Oct 30, 2010
Walking Tour
HOMELESSNESS AND GENTRIFICATION with CCAP
Saturday October 30, 11:30am–1pm
Meet at steps of Carnegie Community Centre, 401 Main
Learn for yourself how gentrification causes homelessness in the Downtown Eastside. Led by Wendy Pedersen and volunteers from the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), this walking tour will go past new market housing that is pushing up land values and rents in 100 year old hotels. Learn how low-income residents are organizing to slow gentrification and preserve the good things about their community while working for more social housing. CCAP is building consensus within the 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: www.ccapvancouver.wordpress.com. $10 for non-residents, pay what you can for local residents
Below is a video of Terry Hunter at Homelessness and Gentrification Walking Tour for Heart of the City Festival 2010
Below is a video of Wendy Pedersen at Homelessness and Gentrification Walking Tour for Heart of the City Festival 2010
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
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The Returning Journey of Dalannah Gail Bown at Centre A for the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver on Thursday Oct 28, 2010
Book Launch
THE RETURNING JOURNERY
Dalannah Gail Bowen
Thursday October 28, 8pm
Centre A, 2 W. Hastings
Join one of Vancouver’s premier vocalists Dalannah Gail Bowen and friends to celebrate the publication of a poetry collection based on the music and songs of her original show The Returning Journey. In 2007, Dalannah and Michael Creber presented a heart-breaking and soul-stirring performance of poetry and song to share her journey through abuse, addiction, homelessness, illness and return. She has now collected that material in book form and invites you to share in the continuing journey. Dalannah, a proud Downtown Eastside resident, revived her singing career in 2003 when she participated in the landmark In The Heart Of A City: The Downtown Eastside Community Play (Vancouver Moving Theatre/Carnegie). Her first CD Mamma’s Got the Blues, of which the title track was a finalist in the 2008 International Songwriting Awards, continues to receive international airplay. Along with readings of some of the poems, this is a great opportunity to hear great music with a great singer accompanied by great musicians, including Michael Creber on piano. (www.dalannahgailbowen.com) Settle in on a cold evening and listen to some fine words and music.
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
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AHA MEDIA filmed at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Opening Ceremonies at Carnegie Community Centre on Wednesday Oct 27, 2010
Special Event
FESTIVAL OPENING CEREMONIES
Wednesday October 27, 2pm sharp
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main
Join friends from the neighbourhood and a very special guest for the grand opening of the seventh annual festival! Hear words of insight into the heart and home of the DTES from guest speakers, poets and artists of this community. Featured local artists include: Sam George (Tse-at-sul-tuxch) of the Squamish Nation who will open with a Welcome Song; beloved DTES poet and activist Bud Osborn; powerful traditional dance and music from Mike Dangeli and Mique’l Askren of Nisga’a, Tlingit and Tsimshian descent; neighbourhood treasure Takeo Yamashiro with his ethereal shakuhachi music; poet and community inspiration Stephen Lytton; the swinging Carnegie Jazz Band led by Brad Muirhead; and the uplifting Carnegie Village Choir led by Beverly Dobrinsky. Pre-ceremony piano entertainment from DTES treasure Stan Hudac. Reception to follow with special guest. Everyone welcome! Arrive early to get a seat as a full house is expected.
Below is a photo of Stan Hudac playing at Carnegie Centre
Below are photos and video of special guest, The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point coming into Carnegie Centre at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of Carnegie Centre Jazz Band playing at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of Kat Norris giving to The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of Carnegie Jazz Band playing O Canada, Kat Norris speaks, and Sam George at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo and video of Sam George of Squamish Nation playing a Welcome Song in Carnegie Centre at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo of special guest – The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point welcoming folks to the Opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point speaking at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point invites the folks at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver to come to Victoria
Below is a video of Gena Thompson, Terry Hunter, Ethel Whitty, Bud Osborn, Takeo Yamashiro at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo of Bud Osborn, beloved DTES poet and activist
Below is a photo of Takeo Yamashiro with his ethereal shakuhachi music
Below are photos and video of St James Music Academy choir performing at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is Jenny Kwan, MLA for Vancouver – Mount Pleasant speaking at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below are photos of Vancouver City Councillor Heather Deal presenting a City of Vancouver proclamation ” Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Day” to Terry Hunter and Gena Thompson at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo of Ethel Whitty and The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo and a livestream video from a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone of St James Music Academy performing at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video of Dalannah Gail Bowen at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo of the audience at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is photo and video of Git Hayetsk Dancers performing at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below are photos, video and a livestream video from a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone of Stephen Lytton and Carnegie Village Choir perform at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below are photo of April Smith’s hands livestreaming a video using a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone
Below are livestream videos using a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone, videos and photos of Rosanne Gervais and Carnegie Jazz Band at the opening of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below are photos and a livestream video using a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone of Diane Wood and Richard Tetrault presenting to The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a video and livestream video from a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone of Git Hayetsk dancers leading the Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point out of Canegie Theatre at the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver
Below is a photo of Terry Hunter holding the City of Vancouver proclamation “Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival Day”
Below are photos of Jenny Kwan and Terry Hunter being happy
Below is a photo of the Reception
Below is Richard Czaban of AHA MEDIA with The Lieutenant-Governor of BC, the Honourable Steven Point
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
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AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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AHA MEDIA is very proud to have their photo featured in the Vancouver Sun newspaper article “Arts take over Downtown Eastside – Heart of the City Festival shows off community culture and character” by Graeme McRanor
AHA MEDIA is very proud to have their photo in the Vancouver Sun newspaper in “Arts take over Downtown Eastside – Heart of the City Festival shows off community culture and character” article by Graeme McRanor !!
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA holding the Vancouver Sun paper where a photo of Clyde Wright, Alvin Clayton, April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA is featured
To many people the Downtown Eastside is an intimidating place: a dangerous, dirty, drug-infested ‘hood patrolled by pimps, pushers, prostitutes and police.
But there are also poets, painters and patrons of the arts in the mix. And spend some time chatting with residents in the area’s animated streets and you’ll discover a tenacious camaraderie unmatched in the Lower Mainland.
Celebrating that community’s culture, heritage and distinct character, the seventh annual Heart of the City Festival — running from today to Nov. 7 — features 80 events at more than 25 venues throughout the neighbourhood. Festival artistic producer Terry Hunter likens it to an open house. And if that makes him a de facto sales agent, well, he knows every nook and cranny: as a DTES [Downtown Eastside] resident and executive director of the Vancouver Moving Theatre, Hunter has lived and worked in the area since 1975.
“It’s a great community with a great spirit,” he says. “It’s a community that’s always fought for its rights … there’s a quote in the program guide where one of the poets [Na, Megwich] says, ‘I love the Downtown Eastside community because of its beauty and its strength, its refusal to shut up and its insistence upon justice.’
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
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AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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