AHA MEDIA is very proud to have their photo featured in the Vancouver Sun newspaper article “Arts take over Downtown Eastside – Heart of the City Festival shows off community culture and character” by Graeme McRanor
AHA MEDIA is very proud to have their photo in the Vancouver Sun newspaper in “Arts take over Downtown Eastside – Heart of the City Festival shows off community culture and character” article by Graeme McRanor !!
Below is Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA holding the Vancouver Sun paper where a photo of Clyde Wright, Alvin Clayton, April Smith and Hendrik Beune of AHA MEDIA is featured
To many people the Downtown Eastside is an intimidating place: a dangerous, dirty, drug-infested ‘hood patrolled by pimps, pushers, prostitutes and police.
But there are also poets, painters and patrons of the arts in the mix. And spend some time chatting with residents in the area’s animated streets and you’ll discover a tenacious camaraderie unmatched in the Lower Mainland.
Celebrating that community’s culture, heritage and distinct character, the seventh annual Heart of the City Festival — running from today to Nov. 7 — features 80 events at more than 25 venues throughout the neighbourhood. Festival artistic producer Terry Hunter likens it to an open house. And if that makes him a de facto sales agent, well, he knows every nook and cranny: as a DTES [Downtown Eastside] resident and executive director of the Vancouver Moving Theatre, Hunter has lived and worked in the area since 1975.
“It’s a great community with a great spirit,” he says. “It’s a community that’s always fought for its rights … there’s a quote in the program guide where one of the poets [Na, Megwich] says, ‘I love the Downtown Eastside community because of its beauty and its strength, its refusal to shut up and its insistence upon justice.’
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
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AHA MEDIA thanks Tom Hall of WomWorld Nokia London and W2 Community Media Arts for Nokia N97 mini
AHA MEDIA thanks Tom Hall of WomWorld Nokia London and W2 Community Media Arts for the Nokia N97 mini! With their generous tech support, AHA MEDIA is grateful for the opportunity to be able to provide mobile media event coverage throughout Heart of the City Festival happening Oct 27 – Nov 7, 2010
AHA MEDIA ‘s members are very proud users of Nokia Smartphone technology!
Below is a photo of a Nokia N97
Below is a photo of a Nokia N97 with a Nokia N86
Below is Tom Hall helping to set up the Nokia N97 mini
Below is a Nokia N97 mini installing apps
Peter Davies of AHA MEDIA is happy to see the Nokia N97 mini
Below is Tom Hall using his Nokia N97 to help set up the new Nokia N97 mini
A family of Nokia cellphones !! – Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia N86 and Nokia 3500cb
Getting Home screen tips for the Nokia N97 mini from Nokia Love website
April holding Nokia N97 mini and Program Guide of Heart of the City Festival with Tom Hall
Below is Tom Hall, Richard Czaban, Peter Davies and Lani Russwurm – Coordinator of the DTES CAN and Program Guide Contributor to Heart of the City Festival
AHA MEDIA humbly thanks Tom Hall of Womworld Nokia London and W2 Community Media Arts for making it possible for us to do more mobile media in Vancouver!
AHA MEDIA is very proud to help provide social media coverage of the 7th Annual Downtown Eastside Heart of the City Festival in Vancouver from Pre festival events starting Wed Oct 20, 2010 through to the Main Festival during Wed Oct 27 – Sun Nov 7, 2010
http://www.heartofthecityfestival.com
AHA MEDIA is about exploring mobile media production through New Media cameras. For a better quality version of video or for additional footage, please DM April Smith @AprilFilms on Twitter or Facebook.com/AprilFilms
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Vanessa Richards and the Woodwards Community Choir in Vancouver
The Woodwards Community Choir is conducted by Vanessa Richards.
Rehearsals are at Woodwards SRO, 131 West Hastings, 10 floor ( 6pm-7:30pm) every Thursday
A dose of collective joy, they sing songs in the oral tradition of blues/gospel/folk/popular tradition
Below are photos and videos of a recent rehearsal at Woodwards SRO
Below are videos of the choir singing “Dark as a Dungeon” in honor of the Chilean Miners
Vanessa Richards says
This Thursday (Oct 28, 2010) we will have a very special guest at our Woodward’s community choir. Su Hart, will be teaching us songs from the Baka people of Cameroon where she has been working with the Baka to create a cultural centre and recording studio.
BC211 service Official Launch on Tuesday November 2, 2010 in Woodward’s Atrium in Vancouver
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BC211 would like to invite you to its inaugural launch on November2nd 2010
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The Launch of 211 The United Way of the Lower Mainland andBC211 are pleased to announce that 211 service will officially launch November 2nd2010 for the Metro Vancouver, Fraser Valley and Squamish-Lillooet Regional Districts. 211 is a new and easy to remember telephone number that links people to a full range of community, social and government services. A trained staff person answers 211 calls, listens to the caller, and connects them to the right resources to meet their needs. Join us at the Woodward’s Atrium on November 2nd to celebrate the launch of this new and vital service. Enjoy coffee and refreshments and talk with our Board and staff team. Celebrate this great occasion with us and discover what 211 can mean to you! We hope to see you there. Myrna Holman
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Woodward’s Atrium
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R.I.P Lenore Herb aka Doreen Grey – Activist and Vancouver Punk scene photographer/filmmaker
Lenore Herb recently passed away of pancreatic cancer. She will be remembered by many in our Vancouver community and will be greatly missed. R.I.P Lenore !
About Lenore
Lenore Herb has been practising eco-social art for more than 30 years.
She is a pioneer of poetry, music and environmental videography,
filmmaker, curator, producer, poet and serious environmental advocate.
Working with a coalition of environmental groups,
in 1989, aided in successfully stopping the
Ashcroft / Cache Creek hazardous waste incinerator.
Co-wrote with Dermot Foley “Garbage War on the Future”
supported by Vancouver Citizens Action Network
the Yalakom Ecological Society, Western Canada Wilderness Society,
Cache Creek Area Citizens United, Catalyst Eduction Society,
Greenpeace, Cache Creek Landfill Legal Defense Fund
and which is as true today as it was then,
due to the prolific waste and resource greed of our society.
From 1989 – 1990, Waste Management Director (S.P.E.C.)
1990 – 1995 President of SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation)
See more of Lenore here
AHA MEDIA most memorably remembers Lenore as a very active participant in our Fearless City Mobile Project of W2 Community Media Arts
Thank you Lenore for everything you did! We miss you!
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