Banff New Media Institute upcoming programs

5 02 2010

And the Cultural Olympiad Digital Edition, which I find out about precisely one day too late to go to the launch of. And don’t tell me about dangling my participles! Where I come from, it’s a competitive sport!

The Banff Centre Banff New Media Institute
Multimedia Web Magazine Launch
and Upcoming Programs
Horizion Zero
The Banff New Media Institute launches a new issue of HorizonZero as part of CODE: the Cultural Olympiad’s digital edition
Join us online on Thursday, February 4, for the launch of HorizonZero — Issue 19: BRIDGE. The launch of this issue will coincide with the launch of CODE Live, an 18 day event with interactive art and cutting-edge music at the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad. Featuring work by Stephen Kovats, Louise Poissant, Zainub Verjee, and Caroline Langill, Issue 19: BRIDGE is a space for you to explore and interact with the idea of bridging.

HorizonZero is an interactive web production that released 18 issues between 2002 and 2004. The production started as a creative collaboration between the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) at The Banff Centre and the Culture.ca gateway.

This issue of HorizonZero has come together with the generous support of CODE: the Cultural Olympiad’s digital edition. CODE stakes out a space in the digital realm where audiences and artists can connect, create, and collaborate.

Visit the CODE website
Cultural Olympiad's Digital Edition - LEdition Numerique de Olympiade Culturelle

Upcoming programs at the BNMI

Video 2.0: Do-it-yourself videos and social media marketing
Program dates: March 4 – 7, 2010
The BNMI, in partnership with Digital Alberta, will present this two-day introduction to the production and distribution of short-length videos. Learn how to apply videos to your company’s social media efforts. More

Interactive Screen 1.0: Beautiful Lives
Program dates: August 14 – 21, 2010
Mark your summer calendar for Interactive Screen 1.0: Beautiful Lives, the 15th installment of our acclaimed new media summit. Each year, leaders in the field connect in Banff to share their ideas, projects, and visions of the future of new media. Keep checking our website
for more information.

Self-directed Co-production Residencies
The BNMI invites artists, producers, content creators, and researchers working with form, content, and themes that connect with the field of new media to submit project proposals for Self-directed Co-production residencies. We provide the time and space for focused work in
a retreat setting.

Design your own residency. Projects in all stages, from experimentation to production,
are welcome. More

Find out more about programs at the BNMI
For more Information please contact:

1-403-762-6180
arts_info@banffcentre.ca
www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi

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Categories : Artist Calls, Artist Residencies, Conferences Unconferences and Retreats, Cultural Olympiad, Film and Video, Olympics, Social Media, Technology, art, computers, education, workshops

The 5 Ways to Become a Social Media Douchebag

3 02 2010

And listicles. Listicles are HUUUUUUUUUGE.

Seriously, could this be any more brilliant? Particularly the “I just retweet Mashable” comment? That happens to remind me of one of my pet peeves: people who just rt stuff they themselves never bother to read, just so they look smart.

Let’s face it: nobody goes to Twitter to find 600-word articles to read. They go to Twitter to have a quick distraction from work that doesn’t take up too much mindshare, to read some jokes, to see if there are any natural disasters happening right now, and to post links to things that make them sound smart.

Duh.

Now, what goes on Twitter again?

Better! You’re learning.

Related: The Janet Jackson Rule of Twitter

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Categories : Etiquette, Facebook, Followers, Social Media, The Janet Jackson Rule, Twitter, Videos, YouTube, blogging, humour, popularity, trolls

Vintage Clothing Sale at W2

2 02 2010

Demicouture Vintage Clothing Sale flyer

Demicouture Vintage Clothing Sale flyer

Attention Alcoholic Fashionistas! You’ll want to check out this super-affordable, super-rad sale downtown at W2’s boho digs on Hastings, across from the Woodwards building. I’m probably going, because at least my head and my feet are still model-sized! And even I can afford those prices.

Deets:

The clothing sale is happening at W2 this Sunday February 7th.  This is clothing that was mine, has been used in shoots and is generally awesome.

The sale is from 11 – 5PM, has ample parking at the Gastown parkade and is super easy to reach by foot, bike or hovercraft. [also dead easy via transit, as there's a bus stop practically outside the front door and you can walk from Skytrain or Seabus].

I have clothing and shoes for men and women in varying sizes and styles.. this is a sale for those with no budget, those who need a breath of fresh style and those who love the thrill of the find.  Trust me, all this stuff is mega rad (I picked it out myself).

I want to see you there.

RSVP on Crackbook!

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Categories : Downtown EastSide, Fashion, Lower Mainland, Vancouver, W2, bargains, creativity, events

Poverty Olympics Torchbearers Wanted

31 01 2010

Poverty Olympics

Poverty Olympics

The Poverty Olympics are an annual event in Vancouver that leverages the media and public attention paid to the Olympics to draw attention to the ongoing, systemic problems of the inner city environment of the Downtown Eastside. The picture of Vancouver that outsiders have is often skewed, and the Poverty Olympics organizers seek to generate awareness on the part of the rest of the world and action on the part of politicians locally.

If you’d like to volunteer as a torchbearer, here are all the details:

**Please distribute widely**

Torchbearers Needed for Poverty Olympics Torch Relay

through Metro Vancouver (Feb. 2-7)

Call for volunteers to walk in a relay that travels through 10 communities in 6 days

Torchbearers in the first ever Torch Relay through Metro Vancouver will walk with the 10-foot Poverty Olympic Torch from Langley to Vancouver. This journey will take place from February 2 to 7 through ten communities and is the last stage of the province-wide Poverty Olympics Torch Relay. Its purpose is to raise awareness about poverty and homelessness within Metro Vancouver, and to build media and public support toward the Poverty Olympics on Feb. 7.

The relay needs only 3 people per day, each walking for 3 hours (6km) on sidewalks, highway shoulder, or lane where necessary. When the Torch reaches the centre of each municipality there will be a short Community Celebration involving engagement with local residents: leafletting, a hockey shoot-out game (“Shoot to End Poverty”), photos with mascots (Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach, Chewy the Rat), and more.

Volunteers are needed for the Relay and the Community Celebrations. Please contact Trish at t_garner@sfu.ca if you are interested in taking part or for more details about the route and schedule.

Municipalities included: Langley, Surrey, New Westminster, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Port Moody, Deep Cove, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, and Vancouver.

Major routes: Fraser Highway (Langley), 56th Ave. (Langley/Surrey), King George Highway (Surrey), Patullo Bridge, Columbia St. and 6th St. (New West.), Kingsway, Willingdon and Lougheed Hwy (Burnaby), North Road (Coquitlam), Marine Drive (North and West Van), Lions Gate Bridge, Georgia, Hastings (Vancouver).

Thank you, supporters of ending poverty!

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Categories : Downtown EastSide, Festivals, Fraser Valley, Homelessness, Justice, Lower Mainland, Nonprofit, Olympics, Politics, Vancouver, Volunteer, events, socioeconomics

Havana Theatre Available for Bookings

28 01 2010

FYI another from the SEARCHgrads list. The Havana Theatre has been home to some outstanding productions and is a terrifically intimate room connected with the bustling Havana Restaurant on the Drive. They favour avant-garde works over yet another staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Havana Theatre by Nep

Havana Theatre by Nep on Flickr

The Havana theatre would be available on the following dates for any kind
of performer/s who would like to showcase their work: Feb 2-6 and the 9th.
For various reasons we had to cancel the production of the play CLOSER
which was supposed to go up at the Havanna Theatre next month. We booked
the theatre for nine nights and now we are only able to fill the space with
an alternative theatre production for four nights. I would love to share
the space with another theatre company and/or solo performer. If you are
interested please get back to me asap.
Best,
Marcell Rentemeister
cell# 778 233 6205

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Categories : Artist Calls, Lower Mainland, Opportunity, The Drive, Theatre, Vancouver, art, call to action, community

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