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CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CHOIR for 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival 2013 in Vancouver on Oct 29 2013
Song
CARNEGIE COMMUNITY CHOIR
Tuesday October 29, 5:15pm – 6:30pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main
Come along to the Carnegie Community Choir’s regular session and join in the fun! Enjoy a safe place to sing original and international a capella arrangements, play with group vocal improvisation, and experience techniques to free your natural voice. The choir is led by music and theatre facilitator Metta Paterson, who creates safe spaces where groups are able to revel in creativity, spontaneous play, empathic connection and powerful communication. Everyone welcome. Arrive on time! Free
This event was on Day 7 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday October 23 to Sunday November 3, 2013
Over 80 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 9 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.
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ABORIGINAL FEAST for 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival 2013 in Vancouver on Oct 28 2013
Cultural Sharing
ABORIGINAL FEAST
Monday October 28, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main
See below for ticket information
Culturally specific events bring a sense of belonging and camaraderie to an otherwise isolated and disenfranchised Aboriginal population. Carnegie’s weekly Cultural Sharing Program, now in its twenty-fifth year, offers First Nations people from across North America an opportunity to share cultural events such as Pow Wows, cultural trips, singing and drumming, and to make arts & crafts. The Carnegie kitchen is cooking up a delicious menu for the feast, and the Festival presents singers and drummers from the Coast Salish Territory and beyond: Sam George will welcome us to Coast Salish territory, and special guests Git Hayetsk Dancers led by Mike Dangeli will share traditional feast songs of the Northern Nations of the Northwest Coast. Admission is free but you will need a ticket for the dinner. Tickets are available on a first-come first-serve basis at the Cultural Sharing group on the afternoon of Monday October 21. On Monday October 28 only, the day of the Feast, the remaining tickets will be available from the Carnegie third fl oor program office. After 4:30pm on Monday, any remaining tickets will be available at the door of the Theatre on a first-come, first-serve basis. Free
This event was on Day 6 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday October 23 to Sunday November 3, 2013
Over 80 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 9 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!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
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PAPER DECORATIONS with Isabel Ramirez for 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival 2013 in Vancouver on Oct 28 2013
Workshop
PAPER DECORATIONS
Monday October 28, 4pm – 6pm
DTES Neighbourhood House, 573 E. Hastings
Isabel Ramirez, Mexican folklorista and energetic advocate for the Downtown Eastside community, leads a workshop for the family drop-in program at the DTES Neighbourhood House. For special Day of the Dead celebrations Isabel will help participants make tissue paper flowers and other decorations to wear and to decorate the Neighbourhood House. Free
This event was on Day 6 of the 12 Days of the Heart of the City Festival. Please check the website for more events!
The 10th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival
Wednesday October 23 to Sunday November 3, 2013
Over 80 events at over 25 venues throughout the Downtown Eastside
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
On page 9 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!
AHA MEDIA Twitter @AHAMEDIA @AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA Facebook http://www.facebook.com/AHAMEDIA
AHA Media YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/AHAFilm
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Woodward’s Community Fall Harvest Dinner on Sunday Oct 27, 2013
An elegant catered dinner featuring a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings and mouth watering pumpkin pie!
The Woodward’s Atrium was packed with happy DTES community residents dining and laughing together as one big happy family!
Thank you to the sponsors especially Nester’s Market, London Drugs, JJ Bean and Gregory Henriquez! 🙂
AHA MEDIA is very proud to support DTES Street Market’s Indiegogo campaign in Vancouver
PLEASE SUPPORT THE DTES STREET MARKET’s Indiegogo campaign !!
The DTES Street Market takes place at Pigeon Park every Sunday from 11am to 5pm.
It is a volunteer run non-profit enterprise that started as a protest against the vending tickets being handed out in the DTES (Downtown Eastside of Vancouver) by the Vancouver Police.
The market provides free vending space for the most marginalized and impoverished groups.
One third of our vendors are women, many current or former sex trade workers, one half are native, a significant minority are from the Chinese retirement community, and many are either homeless or under-housed in the infamous nearby SROs (Single Room Occupancy Hotels).
Over the course of a year, on Sundays only, the market provides over $500,000 of direct economic injection into this low income population by merely providing a free place for them to sell their binned items.
We also estimate that over 20 tonnes of waste is removed from landfills by the recycling efforts of Vancouver’s industrious binners.
Below is the DTES Street Market promo video that AHA MEDIA produced 🙂
What We Are Asking for: We want to expand the market to more days per week at our new location at 62 East Hastings. The City of Vancouver has provided us with a lot, but no additional funding to run a market there. 
We estimate that it will cost an additional $700 per day to run the market at 62 East Hastings. This will provide a minimal stipend for the volunteers to work at the market, picking up trash, registering vendors and setting up the tents and tables. It will also pay for portable bathrooms for the site, as well as garbage pickup. Here is a detailed breakdown of our estimated expenses:
| 62 East Hastings | $693.90 |
| weekly | |
| Coordinators | $210.00 |
| RPICs | $189.00 |
| Marshalls | $49.00 |
| Tent Crew | $40.00 |
| Sandwiches + Coffee | $40.00 |
| Garbage | $45.45 |
| Bathrooms | $120.45 |
The Impact: This budget of $693.90 would pay for one day of operation per week. We would like to go for 3 days per week for a trial period of six months. This takes us to $18,000 total cost ($693.90 X 4.33 X 6). Thank you for Supporting the Street Market
Please click here to donate to DTES Street Market’s Indiegogo Campaign
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