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Day 3 of Street Soccer Vancouver Women’s team – PORTLAND PHOENIX practicing in Vancouver Downtown Eastside

November 4, 2010 ahamedia 2 comments

Day 3 of the new Street Soccer Vancouver Women’s team Portland Phoenix in Vancouver Downtown Eastside brought out sunny weather, smiles and sportmanship !!

Livestreaming Videos of our Soccer practice and games from a Nokia N97 mini cameraphone

Please see at http://www.qik.com/AHAMEDIA for live coverage for certain events

Below is a photo of Sarah Blyth of Vancouver Parks Board scoring a goal!!

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Livestreaming, Nokia N97 mini, Portland FC, Portland Hotel Society, Portland Phoenix, Sarah Blyth, Street Soccer Canada, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Women

Recruiting for Women’s Street Soccer team in Vancouver Downtown Eastside (DTES)

October 24, 2010 ahamedia Leave a comment

Women of the Downtown Eastside Community…..

Street Soccer needs you!!

The guys of Vancouver’s Street Soccer teams have been having a great time; now we’re starting up a WOMEN’S TEAM

No experience or skill needed; everyone is welcome!

Meet new people….Learn a fun team sport…Get fit!

WHERE: Andy Livingstone Park ( Columbia St. & Union St.)

WHEN: Every Thursday at 10:00 a.m. ( rain or shine )

If you’d like to play but need help with running shoes or exercise clothing, come out to the next practice ( or contact Heather: 604-734-9394, hburt@telus.net), and we’ll get you set up with whatever gear you need. Children are welcome, too. Older ones can play soccer, and we have volunteers who can help look after little ones.

We hope to see you soon!

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Street Soccer Canada, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Women

AHA MEDIA filmed at Downtown Eastside March for Women’s Housing on Sat Oct 2, 2010

October 2, 2010 ahamedia Leave a comment

ANNUAL DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE MARCH FOR WOMEN’S HOUSING

SATURDAY OCT 2 @ 2 PM AT DTES WOMEN’S CENTRE (302 COLUMBIA)

October 1 2010, Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories- In response to the persistent violence of poverty and homelessness, women in the Power of Women Group of the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre are organizing the “4th Annual March For Women’s Housing” to demand safe and long-term affordable housing.

According to Priscillia Mays, an organizer of the march “There is a perception that governments are now dealing with the homelessness crisis, but the recent solutions are all band-aid ones. All of us are someone’s sister, someone’s daughter, someone’s mother. We have the right to safe and affordable housing, not just shelter beds. Without safe and affordable housing, many women are forced into unsafe and violent situations, leading to the ongoing unacceptable tragedy of women being murdered.”

A report released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and Social Planning and Research Council of BC earlier in September 2010 found that, according to BC Housing’s own service plans and data, there an overall net increase of only 280 new social housing units over the past five years. Over 1550 of the so-called “new” supportive housing units are actually renovations and replacements of existing housing stock rather than additional low-income housing.

According to Beatrice Starr, an Indigenous elder and organizer of the march “We call on the municipal, provincial, and federal governments to commit to ongoing funding for new social housing; to place a moratorium on low-income housing conversions to condos in the DTES; to stop criminalizing the poor through police harassment and aggressive ticketing; and to put our needs for basic survival before corporate developer profits.”

In the midst of this housing shortage and affordability crisis, community groups are redoubling efforts to secure the promised affordable units at the Olympic Village (Millenium Water). While the initial development plan promised that 66% of the units would be affordable, that number has now been reduced to less than 10% and a majority of the promised units remain empty. In the lead-up to February 2011, the one-year anniversary of the Olympic Tent Village established at 58 West Hastings, a separate campaign will work to attain a moratorium on the sale of the promised units and will openly establish a Tent City at the Athletes’ Village under a general call to “Reclaim Housing.”

Anne-Marie Monks, a 60-year old woman with disabilities, states, “Why is it so hard to treat us as human beings? The government has the ability and the capacity—but not the political will—to ensure the elimination of poverty. I challenge any politician to switch places with me. Sleep in the alley, stand in a food line, and live off $6 a day; then perhaps you will understand our pain. No more empty talk.”

Harsha Walia and young friend

http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/4749

Categories: AHA Media, April Smith, Community Engagement, David Murray, Downtown Eastside, DTES, Gastown, Gentrification, Hendrik Beune, Homelessness, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Women

AHA MEDIA filmed at DTES Smudge Ceremony 2010 at Main and Hastings in Vancouver

June 19, 2010 ahamedia 1 comment

The Downtown Eastside Smudge ceremony came to be through a vision and has been carried out by a very dedicated group of women. The Aboriginal Women’s Working Group is made up of traditional ceremonial women and men that work within organisations in the helping field. Over the past two times the smudge was carried out WAVAW took the lead to help with the organising of the ceremony, the working group has many partners and this year we are proud to say that the Pacific Association of First Nations Women is taking the lead with the organising. These women are taking leadership with the help of our men to bring this ceremony to the people to pray for the healing of the world and to bring an end to violence against women beginning with mother earth.

Each direction will have a youth to lead the way bearing the sacred flag, a traditional firekeeper bearing medicines to cleanse the sacred mother earth, one ceremonial man and women of each of the sacred races in the east yellow, the south black, in the west red, and north white. Also in each direction there will be four aboriginal ceremonial women and four aboriginal ceremonial men. These people are all known to the people as our helpers and healers. The drummers are also in ceremony and a sundance drum is used. The traditional people of these territories have given permission to do this work and all protocol of ceremony is followed for the entire ceremony from the first offering of tobacco to the closing.

Below are photos of the DTES Smudge Ceremony from an aerial view perspective

Below is a video of Sacred Races in the west Red marching to Main Street in DTES Smudge Ceremony 2010 in Vancouver

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 or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms

Below is a photo of Jenny Kwan, MLA

***Additional photo and video footage of this event is available upon request***

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Below are photos taken by Hugh Lampkin at National Aboriginal Day Celebration at Oppenheimer Park

Below is Rockin’ Randy giving a Big Smile

Categories: Aboriginal, AHA Media, April Smith, Community Engagement, Downtown Eastside, DTES, DTES Smudge Ceremony 2010, First Nations, Hastings Street, Hugh Lampkin, Main Street, Native, Vancouver, Vancouver Downtown Eastside, Women, Youth

AHA MEDIA at Army & Navy Legendary Shoe Sale in Vancouver April 21, 2010

April 21, 2010 ahamedia 2 comments

AHA MEDIA at Army & Navy Legendary Shoe Sale in Vancouver April 21, 2010

http://www.armyandnavy.ca

http://www.armyandnavy.ca/flyer_index.cfm

“LEGENDARY SHOE SALE!!

Canada’s Largest Shoe Sale returns Wednesday April 21st…doors open at 8:00AM, all locations open till 9:00 Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Shoe Sale runs until May 2nd, with new shoes arriving daily! Don’t be late!!”

“The lineup started forming at 6 a.m., and the doors open in just a few minutes. The annual Army & Navy shoe sale starts at 8 a.m. today at the Hastings Street store.

They’ve got over 100,000 pairs of shoes to clear out in the annual sale, including designer brands that can sell for up to $300 full price. The store is open until 9 p.m., and expect it to be hopping busy all day — last year they sold 75,000 pairs of shoes in 12 days.”

Source: News 1130

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In this video, is a walk through Army & Navy store during the Legendary Shoe Sale in Vancouver, Canada on Wednesday April, 21, 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