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AHA MEDIA is very pleased to see: W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House during 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver
As reported in the Globe & Mail and by Bob Mackin in 24 Hours, W2 will open its doors to independent journalists and bloggers from around the world—and around the corner. The program will be launched the first week of January 2010 and feature 3-floors of media production resources and an epic mix of daily programming highlighting Vancouver’s diverse cultural scene. Participants can expect media events, receptions with international artists, screenings, live video streams from throughout the city, workshops, performances, conferences, and more from inspiring journalists and international artists in residence!
W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House – a 24 hour/day media centre for non-accredited bloggers and journalists to share their perspective on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with the world.
The W2 Culture + Media House offers something for everyone, with three levels of engagement (Public, Basic Media Access, and Full Media Access). The services packages include a public access cultural space during the day, transformed each night for 40 different live shows and receptions. Registered individuals and media organizations have access to the upper 200 and 300 levels offering daily morning press briefings, high-speed wireless internet (upto 25Mbps), meeting space, complimentary Salt Spring Island coffee, fully wired computer work stations, broadcasting systems, and access to W2 silkscreening and printing services.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/profiles/blogs/launch-date-010110
http://www.creativetechnology.org/page/2010-media-house-1
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Online registration will open in January with a mix of Vancouver and international media outlets already confirmed to occupy space in the 10,000 sq ft heritage venue. The registration fees will provide participants with robust wireless, Salt Spring Coffee Co. beverages, daily press briefings by local and international NGOs, access to video editing resources, shipping and office support services, onsite letterpress/silk-screen/digital printing, access to media production equipment, interpretation services, knowledgeable local hosts, and tickets for conferences and festivals. It opens in January and will be at full capacity from February 12—28, 2010. A separate initiative focusing on the social media scene during the Olympics is being headed up by our friends at the True North Media House (TNMH)—which is not affiliated with the W2 programs. TNMH is “a media collaboration campaign to encourage social coverage of major events, highlight emerging media and provide a venue for discussing the increasing use of social media… at events of like the 2010 Winter Olympics.”
The W2 Culture+Media House operations are in addition to the busy work W2 is doing building a permanent community media facility across the street at Woodward’s—set to open in the Spring of 2010. While the Woodward’s heritage building construction will not yet be finished for the Olympics, W2 will present Fearless City Mobile screens at our future W2 Cafe site in the Woodward’s Atrium. This living streaming video wall will be operational throughout February and is located just 100 feet distance across Hastings Street from the W2 Culture+Media House.
For partnership and sponsorship inquiries contact:
W2 Executive Director irwin@creativetechnology.org
W2 Administrative Director lianne@creativetechnology.org or phone 604.689.9896.
Registration Inquiries
We invite your questions and interest in the W2 Culture + Media House.
Please direct your inquiry to:
Irwin Oostindie
Executive Director
Toll-free: 1-877-689-9896
Local: 604.689.9896
Skype: irwin_oostindie
Twitter: @W2Woodwards @FearlessCity
2010 Media House – Registration Inquiries
W2 Community Media Arts Society presents W2 Culture + Media House – a 24 hour/day media centre for non-accredited bloggers and journalists to share their perspective on the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver with the world.The W2 Culture + Media House offers something for everyone, with three levels of engagement (Public, Basic Media Access, and Full Media Access). The services packages include a public access cultural space during the day, transformed each night for 40 different live shows and receptions. Registered individuals and media organizations have access to the upper 200 and 300 levels offering daily morning press briefings, high-speed wireless internet (upto 25Mbps), meeting space, complimentary Salt Spring Island coffee, fully wired computer work stations, broadcasting systems, and access to W2 silkscreening and printing services.
Local and international media already registered to use W2 Culture + Media House during the 2010 Games include: CJSF Radio, CFRO Radio, 24 Hours, Fresh Media, The Tyee, Open Media, and Rabble.ca. W2 is currently fielding registration inquiries from media organizations as far away as USA, Japan, the Netherlands and the UK.
Full Media Access Pass
Application required* for 24/7 access to levels 100, 200 and limited 300
- Recommended for individuals and teams who are looking for a home-base during the 2010 Olympics and require secure and dedicated media production supports and want complete 24/7 access to all media, cultural and social events to connect with media makers, artists and journalists. Add some serious bandwidth to a rich mix of work and socializing
- 1. Reserved access (includes complimentary beverages) to daily Cinq à Sept Receptions featuring guest hosts and daily speakers (from the sport, culture, media, NGO, and technology communities), live music and DJs, fresh video feeds, hors d’ouevres, and beverages. Cinq à sept refers to “five to seven”, pronounced “sank-ah-set,” is a Québec French term for a time in the afternoon intended to be spent with friends and colleagues.($180 value)
- 2. Complimentary guest passes for your friends and colleagues to daily Cinq à Sept Receptions ($120 value)
- 3. Reserved ticket to more than 24 separate evening events on 100 level ($300 value)
- 4. Reserved ticket to W2’s Social Media & The Olympics conference. Launching Jan 15, 2010! ($40 value)
- 5. Souvenir shwag! Bring home your choice of souvenir W2 Culture+Media House Tshirt and buttons! ($25 value)
- 6. Access to all levels of the House: 100, 200, and 300 levels. This includes exhibitions by: Dustin Rivers (Squamish Nation), fifty artists in the Hot One Inch Action button show, neighbourhood artists featured in the Downtown Art Walk, and many more!
- 7. Salt Spring Coffee fair-trade organic coffee – unlimited fuel
- 8. Daily press briefings between 9am and 12noon from local and international NGOs, with updates from Cultural Olympiad international and local artists and cultural presenters
- 9. Rendezvous and meeting space
- 10. Secure high speed internet (upto 20 Mbps
- 11. Dedicated fully wired computer work stations
- 12. Printing 5 cents/page b+w, 35 cents/page colour
- 13. Zip Courier service (at-cost rush courier to local and international destinations)
- 14. Photography and scanning service
- 15. In-house silkscreening print services (caps, patches, tshirts,..)
- 16. Final Cut Pro editing suites
- 17. In-house Technical support
- 18. Access to W2 TV broadcasting platform
- 19. Access to video footage from our 8 camera HD and mobile W2 TV crews
- 20. Interpretation services (Chinese, French, Spanish, Dutch…)
- 21. Local guides familiar with the Cultural Olympiad, socio-economic issues of the Downtown Eastside, and major issues of the 2010 Olympics.
- 22. Ticketing service for Cultural Olympiad events
Photo from December 30 and we are currently setting up the level 300 Final Cut Pro editing area and work-stations.
Operations: The W2 Culture + Media House operations are being scaled up throughout January with full media operations running throughout February, and basic media services during March.
Participation Fees
Daily $ call for details
Week $ call for details
Month $ call for details **
* Full Media Access Pass requires application and approval by W2.
**Sponsorship and barter exchanges available, please inquire.
For partnership and sponsorship inquiries contact:
W2 Executive Director irwin@creativetechnology.org
W2 Administrative Director lianne@creativetechnology.org or phone 604.689.9896.
Registration Inquiries
We invite your questions and interest in the W2 Culture + Media House.
Please direct your inquiry to:
Irwin Oostindie
Executive Director
Toll-free: 1-877-689-9896
Local: 604.689.9896
Skype: irwin_oostindie
Twitter: @W2Woodwards @FearlessCity
Revival of weekly Fearless City meetings, Wednesdays at W2 Culture + Media House
Orientation Meeting: Wednesdays 1-3 PM W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings @Abbott
Fearless DTES residents are invited!
http://ow.ly/QM7n
W2’s Fearless City Mobile is recruiting DTES residents and artists for an exciting mobile video streaming showcase of ideas and views from our neighbourhood. VJs (video jockeys) will remix live videos created by participants and project a mashup on giant screens from the large window facade of the new W2 Cafe site inside the Woodward’s Atrium. W2 is slowly opening in stages in the heart of the Woodward’s project with the Cafe opening first.
Fearless City Mobile has a successful track record of empowering local residents with access to technology, and helped launch other projects in the neighbourhood like AHA Media. Funding for this February program is from CODE Live (Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition) and the City of Vancouver’s Bright Lights. For project background, check out these samples of previous test events: showing Fearless participants learning about mobile video and VJing are Vision Division; with mobile streaming from DTES locations and our shopping cart screen; mixing it up with VJs and DJs at Tech Forms; in Ottawa for BC Scene with VJs remixing streaming connections from seven galleries and layered social media together.
Orientation Meeting: Wednesdays 1-3 PM W2 Perel Gallery 112 West Hastings @Abbott. Weekly Fearless City Mobile training and peer support sessions (lunch included) every Wednesday. We will be providing an honorarium for Fearless City Mobile Project participants and we especially encourage our original 2008 Fearless City crew to come and work and create again.
Thank you for reading my recent article “April’s Story” by Gillian Shaw – Digital Life Writer of the Vancouver Sun
Merry Christmas Everybody!
I would like to thank everyone who has read the recent article “April’s Story” in the Vancouver Sun Newspaper by Gillian Shaw, Digital Life Writer
In my article in the Vancouver Sun which came out yesterday, Christmas Eve 2009, I reveal my personal journey of homelessness, struggles, poverty, my efforts to do Citizen Journalism and Mobile Media Reporting with AHA MEDIA and the volunteer mentoring of other folks in basic Media training in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
If you have not read my article in the Vancouver Sun, please click on the link
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/techsense/archive/2009/12/23/april-s-story.aspx
It has been a really tough year for us at AHA MEDIA and we are seeking donations of electronic gear and equipment so we may continue to build our community capacity to do mobile media reporting in Vancover and Downtown Eastside
FIDO Pay as You Go Phone Cards for cell phones,
Digital cameras,
SD memory cards,
Laptops/Desktops,
Video cameras,
Audio equipment
We are also looking for donations of warm clothing and food items for our friends and neighbors in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside at the LifeSkills Centre near Oppenheimer Park where we volunteer at
Wish List of Christmas Donations by members of AHA MEDIA and LifeSkills Centre
If you would like to donate FIDO Pay as you go Phone Cards, Electronic Gear and Equipment, Warm Clothing and Food to us at AHA MEDIA and for other folks in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, please email me
Email: Apr@live.ca or through Twitter or Facebook
Thank you very much and have a Merry Christmas! 🙂
A Table for 2000: Union Gospel Mission partners with a celebrated local restaurant group to host a free gourmet meal for the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
A Table for 2000:
Union Gospel Mission partners with a celebrated local restaurant group to host a free gourmet meal for the Downtown Eastside.
Just in time for Christmas, thousands of Downtown Eastside residents will enjoy the gourmet dinner of the season on Wednesday, December 23rd when Union Gospel Mission hosts A Table for 2000, a free culinary feast that is being made possible by the generosity and volunteer-time of a celebrated local restaurant group. The entire event is designed to give Downtown Eastside residents a unique, fine dining Christmas experience.
To accommodate so many guests, UGM will erect a tent outside of its building on Princess Street between Hastings and Cordova, seating 700 at a time. The spacious environment will ensure that guests don’t feel rushed as they enjoy hand-carved honey glazed ham and oven roasted beef strip loin with traditional festive gravy, buttered vegetables with fresh herbs, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, an Italian pasta bar, fresh baked buns with whipped sea salt butter, and chocolate mousse tarts for desert. The tent will be decorated with festive lights and Christmas trees, and guests will be serenaded by carolers and the Vancouver Firefighters Band. At the end of the evening, guests will depart with a stocking full of goodies to help add some holiday cheer to the Christmas season.
UGM will offer a shopping cart valet service, so that guests can relax and dine leisurely with the knowledge that their belongings are secure. The SPCA will be on-hand to care for and feed dogs.
The Details
What: Union Gospel Mission partners with Glowbal Restaurant Group to present A Table for 2000, a gourmet Christmas feast in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that is free to all.
Where: Princess Street between Hastings and Cordova, beside Union Gospel Mission. The street will be closed to traffic for this event, and guests will enjoy the meal in a heated tent with festive lights and Christmas trees, while being serenaded by carolers and the Vancouver Firefighters Band.
When: Wednesday, December 23, 2009
3:00pm: Priority seating for seniors, families, and those with special needs
4:00 – 7:30pm: event open to the public
Why: The Glowbal Restaurant Group approached UGM with the simple desire to provide a festive, gourmet, free Christmas meal to the Downtown Eastside. About 100 Glowbal employees will be volunteering at the event.
Carts and dogs are welcome; they will be securely cared for.
About UGM
Union Gospel Mission has been reaching the hungry, hurting and homeless for nearly 70 years. Through its 10 locations in Metro Vancouver and the city of Mission, UGM provides counseling, education, safe housing, and alcohol and drug recovery to men, women, youth and children struggling with poverty, homelessness and addiction. The heart of the mission is to demonstrate God’s transforming love, ease the burden of the most vulnerable, rebuild the lives of the broken and offer dignity to those who feel cast aside. UGM is a proud member of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities.
AHA MEDIA is very proud to introduce a new look to AHA MEDIA’s Website
Welcome to the new look for AHA MEDIA online! 🙂
A sleek new design means faster access to what AHA MEDIA is known for primarily…
1) Social Media Content Production, Promotion, Documentation and Archiving of Events, Projects and more
2) Hyper Local Citizen Journalism Coverage – A media outlet for people of Vancouver and Downtown Eastside to help tell their own stories. Through our social media campaigns we aim to bring an awareness to the Social Justice issues that affect our area
AHA MEDIA is proud to be involved in our Vancouver Downtown Eastside Community! 🙂
- Facilitate others in social media literacy and campaign building
- Community engagement and outreach with social media
- Peer advocacy and awareness for our neighborhood residents.
- Active participation in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside
- Media representation and speaking engagements
Three upcoming and ongoing projects that AHA MEDIA is involved in
1 ) Filming 3 satirical/parody remakes of a “Holiday themed” song involving residents of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside.
2) Part of W2 Community Media Art’s Fearless City Mobile Project – helping to do livestreaming and engage with the Downtown Eastside . We will include their personal thoughts and stories in a very participatory way. http://www.CreativeTechnology.org
3) Being filmed and documented ourselves for With Glowing Hearts, an independent film about social justice, social media, Olympics and the Vancouver Downtown Eastside http://www.WGHTheMovie.ca
Thanks everyone for supporting AHA MEDIA! We really appreciate it! 🙂
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