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Vancouver Design Week Reception at W2 Storyeum in Vancouver tonight Wed April 28, 2010
Vancouver Design Week Reception
Event Details
Time: April 28, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova
City/Town: Vancouver
Latest Activity: Apr 11
Event Description
Live performance by Australian artists ’26’, DJs, VJs in W2 Storyeum’s 31,000 sq ft of space. Fine Australian wines. International cuisine. Join us for the party!
Positive and forward-thinking, generous and optimistic, Brisbane is Australia’s new world city… and in October 2010, the city will host Optimism: Icograda Design Week Brisbane. Dynamic and down-to-earth, Brisbane loves a celebration.
Hosted by the Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA). This event made possible through the generous support of Queensland Government, Brisbane Marketing, 26 and W2.
See more at http://bit.ly/9Tm3Is
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More volunteers are needed for tonight’s BIG Show at W2 – please show up at 151 West Cordova or Contact Hywel directly to help out: hywel@creativetechnology.org
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile warmly welcomes Omari Newton as our Story Box Project Facilitator at W2 Storyeum
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile warmly welcomes Omari Newton as our Story Box Project Facilitator at W2 Storyeum
Omari Newton
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Omari Newton Artistic Associate |
Montreal-born actor Omari Newton is a professional actor whose work can be seen on television, film and stage. He is fluently bilingual in both French and English and has performed in both languages. His stage work in Québec has earned him a number of favorable reviews and awards. Some career highlights include a best supporting actor nomination for his work in the Centaur Theatre’s production of Joe Penhal’s Blue Orange(soirée des masques). The play also went on to win best English production. Now a resident of Vancouver, Omari recently appeared in Joe Calarco’s critically acclaimed Shakespeare’s R & J and on an episode of the Spike TV series Blade.
http://urbanink.ca/?page_id=104
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Below is a photo from left to right, Hendrik Beune, J-Hock, Kevin King of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile with our new Story Box Project facilitator Omari Newton
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The Story Box Project
at Vancouver Society of Storytelling’s Storytelling Festival June 13th
FREE
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden 578 Carrall St., Van.
Public multi-media presentation in August TBA
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 Festival offers great new beginnings for some multi-faceted dialogue.
Participating Organisations are:
Vancouver Society of Storytelling; Portland Hotel Society; Raycam Community Centre; W2 Culture and Media Centre; Musqueum Nation Writers Group; DTES Women’s Writing Group; Carnegie Centre’s Thursday Writing Group; Native Court Workers, vancouver moving theatre
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Below is a photos of our Story Box Project meeting with discussion of creating our stories though oral, visual, written and a new media, social media and digtial documentation format with cameraphones!
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Below is a photo and video of Omari Newton sharing his ideas for our Story Box Project at W2
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. Both AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile Volunteers help to move W2 to Storyeum on Sat April 17, 2010
In next photo and video, Richard Czaban, Peter Davies and Kevin King of AHA MEDIA and Fearless City Mobile wait for Lianne Payne of W2 to back the moving truck to begin moving on a very rainy Saturday
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. 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 Irwin Oostindie, Executive Director of W2 chatting with some volunteers
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In this video, Volunteers help move W2 building and its contents to our new home at Storyeum in Vancouver on a very rainy Saturday, April 17, 2010
This video was filmed by April Smith of AHA MEDIA on a New Media camera – Panasonic DMC-ZS3. AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of this video, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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Moving Volunteers are still needed for today April 20, 2010 – noon to 8pm!
If you have some time the rest of the week as there is much work to be done organizing Storyeum and making sure we leave 112 in a clean state.
Thanks in advance – we couldn’t do this without you!
AHA MEDIA is proud to help announce the screening of “Copyright Criminals” at W2 Storyeum, Sunday April 18, 7-10pm
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS
April 18, 7 – 10 p.m. at W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova
Screening with filmmaker Kembrew McLeod (7pm)
Discussion (8pm)
Remix Meetup 9-10pm. Show n share your remix works.
$10 at door (includes complimentary beverage)
Copyright Criminals is a riveting and expansive documentary about the history of music sampling, charting the movement from its inception during the rise of hip hop to the legal battles that dominate the practice today.
Artists’ Legal Outreach (ALO), W2 and Emily Carr University will present two screenings of this work, April 16 and 18, with the film’s executive producer Kembrew McLeod taking part in a post-screening Q&A at the April 18 event.
April 16 / Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
12 noon / Room 301
April 18: Screening, Q&A and After Party
7 – 10 p.m. at W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova
$10 donation at the door
Q&A with Kembrew McLeod, the film’s executive producer, writer and music consultant. Stay for remix music, video and drinks.
Copyright Criminals examines the creative and commercial value of musical sampling, including the related debates over artistic expression, copyright law, and (of course) money.
This documentary traces the rise of hip-hop from the urban streets of New York to its current status as a multibillion-dollar industry. For more than thirty years, innovative hip-hop performers and producers have been re-using portions of previously recorded music in new, otherwise original compositions.
When lawyers and record companies got involved, what was once referred to as a “borrowed melody” became a “copyright infringement.” The film showcases many of hip-hop music’s founding figures like Public Enemy, De La Soul, and Digital Underground—while also featuring emerging hip-hop artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more.
It also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been sampled, such as Clyde Stubblefield (James Brown’s drummer and the world’s most sampled musician), as well as commentary by another highly sampled musician, funk legend George Clinton.
As artists find ever more inventive ways to insert old influences into new material, this documentary asks a critical question, on behalf of an entire creative community: Can you own a sound?
Copyright Criminals features:
Public Enemy
De La Soul
Mix Master Mike
Clyde Stubblefield
George Clinton
DJ Spooky
El-P
Mr. Len
AND ALSO
Harry Allen
Anthony Berman
Jeff Chang
Cibo Matto
Coldcut
Danger Mouse
Pam the Funkstress
Eyedea & Abilities
Ken Freundlich
Bobbito Garcia
Kid 606
Matmos
Mr. Dibbs
Qbert
Pete Rock
Prefuse 73
Sage Francis
Tom Silverman
Greg Tate
Siva Vaidhyanathan
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