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W2TV: February 16, 2013 – Celebrating the Lunar New Year
W2TV: February 16, 2013 – Celebrating the Lunar New Year
Online now (links included) and premiere television broadcast at 2pm on Saturday February 16, repeated Sunday at 10pm and Tuesday at 2am (early Monday eve) on Shaw cable 4 community channel in Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley.
The show opens (Part 1) with W2TV co-hosts April Smith and Hendrick Beune welcoming the Lunar New Year of the Snake and introducing show line-up. They are also with AHA Media, which field produced the short reports this segment about Downtown EastSide Literacy, the remarkable practice of Packour and the aboriginal celebration of Hobiyee.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-1-4
In Part 2, guest interviewer Sid Tan chats with Faye Leung, business woman and community trailblazer, about Chinese New Year traditions and celebrations. The ageless timeless Faye is best known as Vancouver’s hat and Chinatown’s grand lady. Part 3 features Hendrik chatting with Scott Clark, executive director of ALIVE (Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement), and indigenous cultural activist Lou-Ann Neel about the Idle No More movement and it’s leadership of youths through claiming traditions, art and cultural practices. AHA Media field reports this segment include Legend of the White Snake/Luminara, excerpt from CBC radio program On the Coast with Stephen Quinn with panel on Chinatown gentrification.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-2-4
Part 3 features Hendrik chatting with Scott Clark, executive director of ALIVE (Aboriginal Life In Vancouver Enhancement), and indigenous cultural activist Lou-Ann Neel about the Idle No More movement and it’s leadership of youths through claiming traditions, art and cultural practices. AHA Media field reports this segment include Legend of the White Snake/Luminara, excerpt from CBC radio program On the Coast with Stephen Quinn with panel on Chinatown gentrification.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-3-4
Part 4 features guest interviewer Sid Tan chatting with Larry Wong, a public historian, about the Pender Guy legacy project and Vancouver Foundation. Interesting tax details explained with humour. Segment opens with AHA Media report with Wendy Pederson on social housing and closes with Ta’Kaiya Blaney performing at the Save the Salish Sea Festival at Waterfront Park, North Vancouver, September 2, 2012.
http://www.creativetechnology.org/video/w2tv-february-16-2013-part-4-4
NOTE: Video quality result of copying without time-based corrector and haste to upload. Should not distract viewing.
Hendrik Beune and April Smith of AHA MEDIA were honoured to be Hosts of W2TV Show on Jan 20, 2013
Under the expert direction of Deborah Angrave and Sid Tan and supported by Don Walchuk, hosts April Smith and Hendrik Beune prep with Irwin Oostindie for the W2TV taping
The show is about popular cultural spaces that are under threat in Vancouver.It airs on Shaw cable 4 for viewing around the Lower Mainland, this Sunday 27 January, with repeat broadcasts until Saturday 2 February
Rolling the DICE: Protecting Vancity Cultural Spaces and #W2Belongs2Me Legal Fund at Waldorf Tiki Bar in Vancouver
| Culture spaces in Vancouver are under attack. Let’s get together to shake down some ideas, build bridges to unite the arts community in the face of a passive City and aggressive developers / gentrification, and shake it on the dance floor withDunks (http://thefunkhunters.com/), Willisist + Eradik (http://Shahdjs.com/), and DJ Don Chow!
Door proceeds support the #W2Belongs2Me Legal Fund! Support a community-run project that needs our love right now as they push back a City eviction notice. With the closure of the Waldorf as we know it, come out and show some love for Vancouver’s independent culture spaces. ENTRY: Roll 2 Dice for cover – roll a 12, get in free! SCHEDULE: THE PLAN: This is followed by a birthday party! And on this sombre information and ideas-generating night, we’re not just celebrating any old birthday party – it’s Art’s Birthday! Performances from a variety of older and newer Vancouver legends provoking #NoFunCity by showing how critical emergent and dynamic culture is, the people and spaces. Then the evening goes off the hook with the Waldorf’s Thursday night full of funk and funk-inspired beats from a cast of Vancouver DJs and cultural promoters who contribute to Vancouver’s dynamic arts community. Hosted by Dunks. OTHER ART’S BIRTHDAY EVENTS ON JAN 17: OTHER LINKS: |
Rolling the DICE: Protecting Vancity Cultural Spaces and #W2Belongs2Me Legal Fund on Thursday Jan 17, Waldorf Tiki Bar in Vancouver
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Culture spaces in Vancouver are under attack. Let’s get together to shake down some ideas, build bridges to unite the arts community in the face of a passive City and aggressive developers / gentrification, and shake it on the dance floor with
Dunks (http://thefunkhunters.com/), Willisist + Eradik (http://Shahdjs.com/), and DJ Don Chow! Door proceeds support the #W2Belongs2Me Legal Fund! Support a community-run project that needs our love right now as they push back a City eviction notice. With the closure of the Waldorf as we know it, come out and show some love for Vancouver’s independent culture spaces. ENTRY: Roll 2 Dice for cover – roll a 12, get in free! SCHEDULE: THE PLAN: This is followed by a birthday party! And on this sombre information and ideas-generating night, we’re not just celebrating any old birthday party – it’s Art’s Birthday! Performances from a variety of older and newer Vancouver legends provoking #NoFunCity by showing how critical emergent and dynamic culture is, the people and spaces. Then the evening goes off the hook with the Waldorf’s Thursday night full of funk and funk-inspired beats from a cast of Vancouver DJs and cultural promoters who contribute to Vancouver’s dynamic arts community. Hosted by Dunks. OTHER ART’S BIRTHDAY EVENTS ON JAN 17: OTHER LINKS: |
Scott Clark and Don Walchuk on ICTV’s After Hours program at Shaw TV Studios in Vancouver
Scott Clark of ALIVE and Don Walchuk of ICTV at ICTV’s After Hours program at Shaw TV Studios in Vancouver
Don Walchuk, Host asks his guest Scott Clark some of the following questions.
1. Tell me a little about yourself and how you got involved with ALIVE?
2. What doe ALIVE stand for?
3. Why was ALIVE formed?
4. What got you into activism?
5. What kind of projects does ALIVE work on?
6. What are some of the challenges urban aboriginals face living in the DTES
7. What changes would you like to see?
8. What current project is ALIVE working on?
9. What is Idle No More? Why is this happening now.
10. Commons Committee on Aboriginal Self Government in 1983 & The Royal Commission on Aboriginals in 1996. Gave Aboriginals the right to self determination
11 What is the connection with ALIVE with W2 at the current time?
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