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AHA MEDIA attended the Soccer Showdown of the Year between Portland FC and Team Vancouver
AHA MEDIA attended the Soccer Showdown of the Year between Portland FC and Team Vancouver!
This was a friendly soccer match between Downtown Eastside residents from the PHS run shelter at New Fountain and Mayor and City Council! Both teams played extremely well!
For the full article, please see Vancouver Observer
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Below is a photo of Mayor Gregor Robertson and Liz Evans, Executive Director of PHS, sharing a laugh!
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Below is a photo of a Portland FC player with Mayor Gregor Robertson
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Below is a photo of both Portland FC and Team Vancouver after the Big Game!
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Below is a photo of AHA MEDIA celebrating with Liz Evans by enjoying a delicious Turkey lunch with Pumpkin and Whipped Cream!
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Please see all 105 photos on our Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahamedia/sets/72157622455617599/
April Smith of AHA MEDIA is very proud to have an article on social housing on the Front Page of Vancouver Observer
A Public Hearing Meeting at Vancouver City Council for the development permit application for the construction of 139 New Social Housing Units is front page on http://www.VancouverObserver.com
Among the crowd of supporters were Downtown Eastside organizations such as CCAP, DERA, WISH, First United Church, UGM, as well as psychologists and area residents urging the building of 139 units of social housing
Please read the full article at Vancouver Observer http://tinyurl.com/ya6lpqn
AHA MEDIA was pleased to hear Robert Scott Vincent of VANDU ‘s thoughts on IST ( Injection Support Team) in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In the following photo and video is Robert Scott Vincent of VANDU with Raw.Nu ( an AHA MEDIA contributor ) before they speak about IST – Injection Support Team in Vancouver Downtown Eastside ( DTES)
This video 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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Below is a photo of Robert Scott Vincent – Board Member of VANDU, Marion Allaart – Assoc Director of VANDU and Hendrik Beune – Director of AHA MEDIA
AHA MEDIA enjoys working with community organizations such as VANDU to get their thoughts and stories out there for ALL people to hear!
April Smith of AHA MEDIA will be co-presenting W2 Community Media Arts with Irwin Oostindie at BarCamp Vancouver 2009
W2 Community Media Art is set to open in time for the Olympics at Woodward’s, with Fearless City Mobile, True North Media House, and a full slate of social and community media platforms (FM radio, cable TV, satellite TV, fibre optic network, telepresence, mobile, printing, and creative technology incubator) available for the Downtown Eastside, the city, and international partners.
Update on W2 and its Fearless City Mobile social enterprise from Irwin Oostindie and April Smith
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What is Barcamp?
BarCamp is an ad-hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees.
All attendees are encouraged to give a demo, a session, a presentation, or help with one. All attendees are expected to be participants. All presentations are scheduled the day they happen. Prepare in advance, but come early to get a slot on the wall.
Presenters are responsible for making sure that notes/slides/audio/video of their presentations are published on the web for the benefit of all and those who can’t be present.
Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.
Carrall Street Publication and Edition Launch | 6-8pm Wednesday September 30 at ArtSpeak in Gastown, Vancouver
http://www.artspeak.ca/exhibitions/event_detail.html?event_id=234
Althea Thauberger
September 30th, 2009
The Carrall Street publication documents Althea Thauberger’s site-specific work that took place on the 200-block of Carrall Street in front of Artspeak on September 30, 2008. It considered the specificities of the site as a nexus of social, economic, political, and cultural realities.
The block was closed to traffic and illuminated by film lights. Collaborating with local communities, individuals, and organizations, Thauberger invited a diverse group to undertake independent actions or activities within the event’s framework.
Approximately forty performers worked across and through the delineation provided by the block, extending their activities into alleys and bars. The performances ranged from repeated physical actions, oratories, orchestrated conversations, and scripted performances that often occurred at an intimate scale, to reflected or framed quotidian situations.
Because the event encompassed the entire block, the work took on an expanded subject matter that included the attitudes and activities of spectators and passersby, heightened aesthetics and conditions of representation, the street’s physical surroundings and architecture, and transitional moments in the street’s development.
The publication includes commissioned texts, scripts, a partial transcription of the Carrall Street forum, archival documents, and images.
Exhibitions and Events
Carrall Street Publication and Edition Launch | 6-8pm Wednesday September 30
Althea ThaubergerSeptember 30th, 2009
The Carrall Street publication documents Althea Thauberger’s site-specific work that took place on the 200-block of Carrall Street in front of Artspeak on September 30, 2008. It considered the specificities of the site as a nexus of social, economic, political, and cultural realities. The block was closed to traffic and illuminated by film lights. Collaborating with local communities, individuals, and organizations, Thauberger invited a diverse group to undertake independent actions or activities within the event’s framework. Approximately forty performers worked across and through the delineation provided by the block, extending their activities into alleys and bars. The performances ranged from repeated physical actions, oratories, orchestrated conversations, and scripted performances that often occurred at an intimate scale, to reflected or framed quotidian situations. Because the event encompassed the entire block, the work took on an expanded subject matter that included the attitudes and activities of spectators and passersby, heightened aesthetics and conditions of representation, the street’s physical surroundings and architecture, and transitional moments in the street’s development. The publication includes commissioned texts, scripts, a partial transcription of the Carrall Street forum, archival documents, and images.
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