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AHA MEDIA’s Interview with Scott and his rickshaw of Peace at Victory Square at the beginning of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside neighborhood.
In this video, April of AHA MEDIA speaks with Scott’ who talks about his journey and about his rickshaw of peace. He speaks lovingly of his faithful companion, his dog. This was filmed in Victory Square at the beginning of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside neighborhood
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.
In this video, April of AHA MEDIA scans Scott’s Rickshaw while reading all his signs of Peace. This was filmed in Victory Square at the beginning of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside neighborhood
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.
AHA MEDIA is exploring more livestreaming software and platforms to increase our mobile media production in Vancouver and Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
We at AHA MEDIA are striving to be even more mobile with our media production.
We have been busy testing and exploring different livestream software and platforms with cameraphones and laptops.
Among the following software and sites we’ve explored or will be testing…
Qik – http://www.qik.com/ahamedia
Bambuser – http://www.bambuser.com/channel/ahamedia
12 seconds – http://www.12seconds.tv/channel/ahamedia
Livestream – http://www.livestream.com/ahamedia
Ustream – http://www.ustream.tv/ahamedia
We livestream during many events – art shows, music performances, social media meetings, business functions, community gathering for ourselves, our friends, and our colleages in Vancouver
Our ongoing professional contracts are with
Fearless City Mobile http://www.fearlesscity.ca/mobile
W2 Community Media Arts http://www.creativetechnology.org.
AHA MEDIA got our start with Fearless City Mobile and W2 Community Media Arts as they peer trained us in learning about mobile technology and helped us bridge the digital divide in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES ) – a marginalized inner- city of Vancouver.
Please see AHA MEDIA’s livestream site for updates
AHA MEDIA noticed the sign of BC Collateral Loan Brokers LTD, 77 East Hastings coming down in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA noticed the dismantling of the sign of BC Collateral Loan Brokers LTD in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
AHA MEDIA attended the Neighbourhood-Based Solutions to Homelessness Forum at Plaza 500 in Vancouver
Neighbourhood-Based Solutions to Homelessness Forum. Please join us Wednesday July 8th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at the Plaza 500 (500 W. 12th Avenue) for a “how to” forum to discuss neighbourhood-based solutions to homelessness.
Below is a photo of Hendrik Beune, Director of AHA MEDIA with Vancouver City Councillor Kerry Jang in the background.
Below is a photo of Peter Davies, Reporter of AHA MEDIA with Vancouver Councillor Ellen Woodsworth
The goal of this “how to” forum is to provide a sample of the types of neighbourhood initiatives that are currently under way, in order to generate ideas and interest for other neighbourhoods to organize similar projects and events to raise awareness about and find ways to address homelessness during Homeless Action Week, October 11-17, 2009 (www.stophomelessness.ca).
Following presentations, participants will be asked to break out into smaller groups to network with others from their neighbourhood and discuss the kinds of action oriented projects and events they might want to organize for Homeless Action Week 2009 or more generally in their communities.
Below is a photo of Peter Davies, in front of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games sign at Vancouver City Hall.
AHA MEDIA hopes to be able to welcome Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES )
During the upcoming ROYAL visit from Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko of Japan to our area, the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, we at AHA MEDIA will be hoping to be lucky and honored enough to be able to film and take photographs as we welcome the Royal couple to our neighborhood! 🙂
This will be a historical moment in time!! 🙂 What a great honor! 🙂
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Below is text from :
Rod Mickleburgh
Vancouver — From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Jul. 08, 2009 04:40PM EDT
It’s been a long time – if ever – since a prominent royal visited the city’s notorious Downtown Eastside, even in its former, more benign status as Skid Road.
But that’s where the 75-year-old Emperor of Japan and his 74-year-old wife will come calling during their three-day stop in Vancouver.
The rare royal foray into the area by a frail couple, from whom aides warn reporters to expect very, very slow movement, did not land on their agenda easily. It took weeks of intense, behind-the-scenes lobbying to overcome initial resistance to the idea of Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko venturing through neighbourhoods few tourists see.
In the end, history won out. The streets of the Downtown Eastside were not always rife with the boarded-up businesses and daily horrors we see today. Once, this was the heart of Japantown, a thriving ethnic community every bit as significant as nearby Chinatown, before internment scattered the residents and delivered their businesses and possessions into the hands of others.
Please see the rest of the story at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/the-downtown-eastsides-royal-visitors/article1208588/
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