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By David Ng On April 09, 2014 | 0 Comments
Hello Cool World is proud to be a partner for Pink Shirt Day!
For those who don't know - Pink Shirt Day originated in Nova Scotia, where a student was bullied for wearing pink. The friends of the student that was bullied, David Shepherd and Travis Price, distributed pink shirts to grade 9 students who wore them in support of their friend who was bullied. Since then, pink shirt day is celebrated all over the world as a statement against bullying and homophobia.
We love this demonstration of solidarity against bullying!
One of my favorite campaigns that we did a few years ago was called the "Super Power Project" where we used video to help youth tell stories about gender oppression and violence against women. What was interesting, was that we were able to engage with boys about how to be allies to people around them that might be having difficult experiences. While we may not share the same experiences, the great thing about solidarity is that we can still support those around us, and build a community of caring, empathetic, loving people. Pink shirt day is great example of how we can do that!
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David Ng is a Hello Cool World veteran with experience going back a decade. David first worked with us when he was just 14 years old as a participant in the youth advisory group for the sexual health education program Condomania. Now an accomplished videographer passionate about the issues of gender and power, he is currently on sabbatical in South Africa while he pursues a Masters in Gender Studies with a focus on international development.
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By Bella Sie On May 10, 2011 | 0 Comments
On November 4 2008, Proposition 8 was passed in the state of California to ban same-sex marriages. Considering that same-sex marriages were legalised merely 5 months prior to the Prop 8 amendment, you can imagine how the LGBT community reacted, and no, they were not stoked.
The NOH8 Campaign was created by celebrity photographer Adam Bouska and his partner Jess Parshley to silently protest Proposition 8 with a series of photos. You may recognise these photos featuring subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 and similar legislation around the world, with "NOH8" painted on one cheek.
By holding open photo shoots around the world, the NOH8 Campaign has grown exponentially since its grassroots beginnings uniting over 13,000 faces to the social cause. This weekend NOH8 will be in New York City to host yet another open photo shoot, but to also fundraise for AIDS Walk NY. With a social agenda to end discrimination in all its forms, this cause couldn't be more important to me, a fellow gay.
My dear friend (and Hello Cool World's Media Buyer) Kevin Young will be flying out of Vancouver on his own bill to volunteer at this NYC event, and we couldn't be more proud of him. Best of luck Kev! You're gonna do big things :)
Bella is the newest addition to Hello Cool World, enlisting for the cause at the end of 2010. A graduate of BCIT's Broadcast Communications for TV program, she's worked in all aspects of production and has a knack for new media & technology.
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By David Ng On October 23, 2010 | 1 Comments
Women in a Changing Downtown Eastside website launch last night was a huge success! Thank you for all who came out!
By Katherine Dodds On October 13, 2010 | 0 Comments
I've been blogging about most of this stuff, but here's a re-cap of what's going on with Hello Cool World friends, colleagues and cohorts this weekend, click on the links for the full blog post.
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Sities the elephant, still from For the Love of Elephants, check out Trailer.
For the Love of Elephants, my dear friend Lynn at Make Believe Media's fiim about orphaned baby elephants is on CBC's The Nature of Things Thursday October 14, 2010. It's narrated by David Suzuki ... and speaking of DS...
FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE: A Film By Sturla Gunnarsson NOW PLAYING in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. Opens in Vancouver and select theatres in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Halifax and Vancouver on Friday, October 15, 2010. eOne is proud to announce our special initiative whereby the company will donate a $1 per ticket sale to the David Suzuki Foundation in the first two weeks of the film’s theatrical run.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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By Katherine Dodds On October 06, 2010 | 0 Comments
How come women are still such a small minority in our powerful media industries?
OCTOBER 14 - 16: Women in View Takes on the gender divide with their symposium: SexMoneyMedia.
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