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Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) November 8-11 at W2
COAST SALISH TERRITORIES (Vancouver) – The Second Annual Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival (VIMAF) will be showcasing the best of cutting-edge Indigitized artists and their works November 8-11 at a handful of venues on Coast Salish Territories.
VIMAF brings together special guests from across Turtle Island, including Alanis Obomsawin, who will be presented with VIMAF’s Lifetime Achievement Award. She will be joined by directors and producers from Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg and BC. Their works will be shown at the West Coast’s only Native media arts festival, including a variety of mediums such as short films, music videos, documentaries, video art, animation, feature length films, interactive media, video projection, and broadcasting.
Programming at the weekend festival will celebrate a number of trailblazing artists from around Turtle Island with Gala and Conference events, interactive installations, National Film Board (NFB) feature film premieres, and evening musical programs, all meshing traditional and contemporary experiences of Indigenous Peoples. A number of prominent featured installations and films will be making their west coast debut at VIMAF, including NFB/imagineNATIVE partnership De Nort, an online interactive journey and onsite installation from the Winnipeg/Montreal ITWĒ Collective exploring life and experiences on a northern Manitoba reserve and how through forced reservation traditional memories and knowledge are being replaced.
“Presenting web-based work alongside radio, television,and cinema really show the multi-platform storytelling strategies being used to tell our stories,” said Ronnie Harris, member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee. “Using digital tools is a popular strategies for Indigenous storytellers on the West Coast.”
NFB Film premieres include Director Alanis Obomsawin’s The People of the Kattawapiskak River, returning Residential School lens We Were Children, West Coast Smokin’Fish, Every Emotion Costs, and others. VIMAF and W2 Community Media Arts Society resident media artist, Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), will also be projecting, Wuulhu – To Fuse Together, a series of digital installations throughout Festival home venue, W2, for the weekend. Musical offerings fuse traditional sounds with cutting edge electronic-influenced sets provided by the East Coasts’ A Tribe Called Red, and locals Skookum Sound System, as well as DJ’s Annashay, Vancouver DMC Finalist DJ Krisp, and others.
The 2012 Festival will be headquartered at W2, with other events taking place at SFU Woodward’s Cinema, National Film Board – Pacific Region, and Fortune Sound Club. “Anchoring the Festival in Vancouver’s original settlement is fitting,” says Harris, “we are using the Woodward’s media hub which is made up of W2, SFU and the NFB, to bring a focal point for understanding what is Indigenous culture today in the centre of the city.”
For more information and the full schedule of events visit www.vimaf.com
Media Contacts: Ronnie Harris (Sto:lo), Member, VIMAF Coordinating Committee
Eugene Boulanger (Sombah K’e, Denendeh), VIMAF Coordinating Committee
eugene@creativetechnology.org /
Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv-Klahoose), VIMAF Media Artist-in-Residence
bracken.hanuse.corlett@gmail.com /
Visit W2: Community Media Arts Vancouver BC at: http://www.creativetechnology.org/?xg_source=msg_mes_network
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival 2012 in Vancouver
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 8th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from pre-festival events starting Mon Oct 15, 2012 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 24 – Sun Nov 4, 2012.
See AHA MEDIA’s coverage of last year’s Heart of the City Festival 2011 in reverse chronological order.
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA holding the Brand New Heart of the City Festival 2012 Festival Program guide
The 9th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday 24 October to Sunday 4 November, 2012
Over 120 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
Welcome to the 2012 Heart of the City Festival
The Downtown Eastside is our home, a home we share with thousands of other diverse people who deeply love this community. The poet Muriel Marjorie (Williams), who graces the cover of this year’s program guide, shouts it out so eloquently: “I love the Downtown Eastside because of its beauty and its strength, its refusal to SHUT UP and its insistence upon justice.”
This line of fiery poetry exemplifies the theme of this year’s festival: Voices from the Heart.
Here you will hear voices that inform, raise awareness and educate about the stories, concerns, values, heritage, art forms, community plans and exciting art generated in Vancouver’s founding community.
Voices that speak to the wisdom and power of our community and the challenges it faces. And voices that celebrate the neighbourhood’s indigenous stories so that old and new community members can draw strength from the community’s heritage, feel pride in its residents and values and understand its roots.
Thank you to our community partners and all those in the community who have helped realize this year’s event, our ninth annual festival. Thank you to our festival team who have worked with such dedication to produce, promote and present the many events throughout our neighbourhood at this year’s festival. And a special heartfelt thank you to Teresa Vandertuin (Associate Artistic Producer) for the passion, commitment, care, thoroughness and sense of humour she pours into the festival.
See you at the Festival everyone! Enjoy!
Terry Hunter
Executive Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre
Artistic Producer, DTES Heart of the City Festival
Savannah Walling
Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving Theatre
Associate Artistic Director, DTES Heart of the City Festival
Visit the Heart of the City Festival website
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 13 of the Festival Program guide, there is a writeup on AHA MEDIA
The Festival is thrilled to partner with the DTES’s AHA Media to provide social media coverage (video/photos/blog) of the Heart of the City Festival. AHA Media gives voice to our local community and provides services for individuals and organizations to share their news and special events on a broader scale through social media. Founded in 2008 by local artists April Smith, Hendrik Beune, and Al Tkatch, AHA Media previously collaborated with Fearless City Media and has an ongoing working relationship with W2Community Media Arts and various other organizations and individuals in the DTES community. The members of AHA Media describe themselves as “definitely not mainstream media”. Based in Vancouver’s DTES, their style is described as non-invasive and unassuming.
Say Hello to AHA Media as they visit the Festival events. They will be happy to chat with you. Stay connected to the festival with AHA’s links – see photos/videos of the festival events you attended; take in a festival event you missed; or follow one festival event while you are attending another!
Follow AHA MEDIA on Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and Flickr!
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Heart of the City Festival 2012
The complete 2012 Festival Program is now available! Go the “Festival Schedule” in the menu above. Check back here at the website for our interactive guide.
Click here for a list of locations throughout the city where you can pick up a guide.
Click here to download a PDF of the festival guide. (It’s large, so it will take a few minutes.)
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And make sure you check out our Festival Picks, a list of some of the anticipated highlights of this year’s festival.
Victory Fitness Day at Victory Square on Thursday Oct 18, 2012 from 3-7pm
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From 3:00 to 5:00 free health and fitness consultations in Victory Square Park, and then from 5:15 to 7:00 it is GO TIME with Kalev Fitness and Academie Duello. Come get a fresh blast of fitness and a free peak into two of the city’s most exciting fitness facilities. Oh and SWORDS! Both Academie Duello and Kalev Fitness are offering their spaces and their expertise for FREE on the 18th so don’t pass up the opportunity (I hear there are also some coupons from local businesses for participants too!)
Personal Trainer Vancouver | Kalev Fitness Personal Training
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Academie Duello Centre for Swordplay and Western Martial Arts
http://www.academieduello.com/
The world’s largest centre for historical European swordsmanship and western martial arts. Rapier, longsword, unarmed, polearms, archery and mounted combat.
Hope In Shadows 2012 Photography Contest Award Ceremony in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Congratulations to all the winners of the 2012 Hope In Shadows Photography Contest! Happy 10th Anniversary!! 🙂
AHA MEDIA’s own Hendrik Beune was the First Honourable Mention Winner!
A big congratulations to this year’s First Place winner – Amy Wilson!
MP StudioWorks Grand Opening Night
A beautiful evening with wonderful artists displaying their spectacular art pieces!
Ghia Aweida and her Poetry of Hope
Ghia Aweida with Adriane Carr, Vancouver City Councillior
Cute Magnets!
Hendrik of AHA MEDIA holds up a Strawberry Magnet 🙂
Matching Mushroom Magnets !! 🙂
Hendrik reads the Program Guide of the evening
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