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2010 Vancouver Homeless Connect Event at W2 Storyeum in Downtown Eastside (DTES)
W2 was proud to support the 2010 Vancouver Homeless Connect Event in the Downtown Eastside!
Irwin Oostindie and Will Stacey of W2 Community Media Arts welcomes folks to W2 Storyeum
April and Russell of LifeSkills Centre at their table with free pamphlets and cookbooks to give away
Russell and Paula of LifeSkills Centre having fun eating grapes
Paula and Russell of LifeSkills Cente doing foot soaks for people
Garvin Snider of Megaphone Magazine
J-Hock, Supervisor of the Peer 2 Peer Outreach Program
Mayor Gregor Robertson speaks at 2010 Homeless Connect event at W2 Storyeum
Jenny Kwan speaks at 2010 Homeless Connect event at W2 Storyeum
Russell with Mayor Gregor Robertson
Terry Hunter and Savannah Walling of Vancouver Moving Theatre and DTES Heart of the City Festival
2010 Homeless Connect Events in Vancouver
October 10 – 16 is the fifth annual Homelessness Action Week
World Homeless Day is October 10. Add your voice to the call for a national, affordable housing strategy and contact your MP.
Check out the calendar of events for the week. Here are a few highlights:
- Join us and Be a Champion to Stop Homelessness on Tuesday, October 10th.
- The City of Vancouver is sponsoring a Homeless Connect Event at W2 Storyeum on October 15.
- A Homeless Connect Event is planned in New Westminster and the week will end with the annual fundraising dinner hosted by the New West Homeless Coalition. Click here for more information.
- Burnaby is planning events every day from Sunday to Thursday. Click here for more information
- The Tri-Cities is hosting a World Café – Homelessness in the Tri-Cities on October 14.
October 13th
What: The Gathering Place Homeless Connect
Where: 609 Helmcken Street
When: 11pm – 2 pm
Homeless Action week provides a unique opportunity to educate and make people aware of the issues around homelessness including the impact of living with mental health and addictions. Our main focus during this week is to host a one-stop shop called Homeless Connect where hundreds of individuals are connected directly with service providers and activities such as haircuts, foot soaks, hearing tests, gently used runners and much more.
For information about this event please call 604-665-2391
October 14th
What: Broadway Youth Resource Centre’s 11th Annual Open House
When: 1:00pm to 5:00 pm
Where: 691 East Broadway Street, Vancouver
This year’s celebration coincides with Vancouver’s Homelessness Action week, and we’re asking those attending to bring a non-perishable food item, or a pair of new socks.
Come out and celebrate 11 years of service at Broadway Youth Resource Centre.
October 15th
What: Vancouver Homeless Connect Event
Where: W2 Storyeum, 151 W Cordova
When: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Come out and be connected to services related to health, housing, employment, tenants rights, and income assistance. Enjoy the live entertainment and stay for haircuts, massages, foot soaks, acupuncture, food and much more!
W2 presents: The With Glowing Hearts UnFestival 2010
Attention World!! You are invited to join us at the With Glowing Hearts Unfestival 2010 presented by W2 Storyeum!
What’s an Unfestival? Well, we’re giving you a chance to see a “work-in-progress” cut of the film, as well as getting involved in some fundraising to help us complete it. We’ll have an exciting variety of silent auction items for you to bid on, as well as an opportunity to become a ‘producer’ on the film and have input into the final version!
With Glowing Hearts, is a feature length documentary which focuses on the way activists and artists in Vancouver used social media during the Olympics to affect social change and bring down barriers.
April Smith, with mobile media reporters Hendrik Beune (left), Ken Glofcheskie and Peter Davies Photograph by: Bill Keay, PNG
We are in our final stage of post production and need to prepare for broadcast and distribution. We have managed to get to this point with many contributions from numerous people but still have a few hurdles like insurance, music rights, publicty and people’s wages which are hard cash costs that can’t be avoided.
Unfestival Schedule:
- 4 pm free community screening, all are welcome
- An evening fundraising screening starting at 7pm, which includes silent auction and the opportunity to become a ‘producer’. The price of your admission will also get you listed the film’s credits as a producer, but the more you contribute the larger your name will appear.
- Silent auction and door prizes
- There will be a producer/director Q & A after the screening, which will give you the chance to ask questions of the filmmakers, and provide feedback as we move forward to the film’s final cut!
- Cash bar will be available, as well as delicious snacks
- Music from DJs Kid Knowledge and Haze, and more!
Got a great prize you’d love to donate to the auction? Email us.
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It’ll be awesome fun. See you there!
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Crew helps load speakers for John Lee’s Wailing Wall of Sound from W2
It’s almost show time for August 10 Free Preview Downtown YVR @ Granville & Georgia 3 to 8pm and AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Crew helped to load speakers for John Lee’s Wailing Wall of Sound from W2
Part of Surge Festival of W2 Community Media Arts
THE WAILING WALL OF SOUND LIVE/ONLINE Exhibition
Below are photos and livestream videos from a Nokia N97 of the experience our strong men had while moving equipment into a truck
John Lee and Friend, Ben Rampre and Clyde Wright
Friday August 13 Live Soundstage Gig @ W2 151 W. Cordova 7 to 11pm ; $ 7
Journey into a unique, Sound-Art & Music Adventure with The Wailing Wall Of Sounds’ online and live event on Friday, August 13th, 7-11pm, at W2 Storyeum.
A free preview showing will also take place on Granville Street on Tuesday, August 10 from 3pm.
The show will be an interactive, all-ages music/art/tech performance showcasing sound submissions from local and international artists. The WWOS Expo presents an opportunity for audiences and artists to listen and interact in a creative sound environment using a forty-foot, 168-speaker wall – the largest guitar amp in the world. Entrance to the August 13 show is $7 from 7 to 11pm.
Guest Soundsmiths & DJs from 8pm – B-Monster @ 9pm & 10:30.
To Submit Song or Sound-Art for the WWOS Expo please visit;
twitter.com/wailwallofsound
Guest Soundsmiths & DJs from 8pm – B-Monster @ 9pm & 10:30
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile films people’s thoughts of Story Box projects at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside
At the heart of the City’s Great Beginnings Initiative is the desire to go back to its roots and give each of the founding neighborhoods something to talk about. In one such community, the DTES Story Box Project highlights its rich and storied cultural diversity through oral and written tradition. Unique object/artifact boxes illustrate stories from various voices which are intermingled to create a new and visceral experience.
The Storybox Project at the Surge Festival is the sensational finish to a process that involved over eighty members of DTES community based writing groups who developed their individual stories utilizing personal artifacts as inspiration and illustration. The manifold stories held common threads bound to universal themes. StoryBox at Storyeum presents five such themes as representative of the powerfully spoken words by the most demo-diverse voices working in concert with some of Vancouver’s brightest lights in media arts.
In this video, Irwin Oostindie, Stephen Lytton and Councillor Heather Deal speak on Story Box Project in Surge Festival at W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune and Anne Marie Slater view projections at Story Box Project in W2 Storyeum
In this video, Hendrik Beune is a featured interview in a movie at Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver DTES
Below is a photo of Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd standing in front of Story Box description on the wall
Below is a photo of Jorge Campos, Quest Kabuki, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd in front of W2 Storyeum
In this video, Erin de Zwart shares her thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Clyde Wright and Holly Boyd shares their thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
In this video, Sid Tan shares his thoughts on Story Box project at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)
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