October 13, 2010
Busy Times! A few events, launches and reminders!
By
Katherine Dodds
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.
NATIONAL
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.
VANCOUVER
THURSDAY OCT 14, 2010: Our own LACE campaign volunteer party, Media Democracy Day Fundraiser, and the International symposium on women in media SexMoneyMedia opens (runs also the 15th and 16th)....On SATURDAY OCTOBER 16 2010 - There is a breakfast screening of Tapped at 5th Ave Cinemas, and in the evening, at the Bell Centre in Surrey is Health For Humanity's benefit concert! Read on...LACE CAMPAIGN
If you are one of our Vancouver volunteers we are having a packing party on Thursday Oct 14, to get our LACE gift bags, Mink chocolates, LACE of course and other treats out to the clinics and volunteers across BC who are participating in Pap Awareness Week. If you don't know what this is -- and if you are a woman due for a Pap - from October 24 - 30, at participating clincis you can drop in for a Pap, no appointment necessary. The cool google map on LACE campaign site shows you where. There are going to be treats too, and rumour has it Ethical Bean is making doughnuts now and is on board as our official LACE doughnut supplier (cuz your cervix looks like a doughnut...; ) If you want to get involved email Lizzy: outreach@LACEcampaign.com
MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY - PULL THE PLUG FUNDRAISER- OCT 14
We donated a Corporation set (DVD, Book & Tee) as a prize for this event. It's at the Railway club - 579 Dunsmuir at 8:30 -- check it out! We'll also have Hello Cool World table at Media Democracy Day itself on November 6, 2010.
Co-hosted by MEDIA DEMOCRACY DAY VANCOUVER and VANCOUVER IS AWESOME.COM
Featuring the wicked music of:
JASPER SLOAN YIP
YES NICE
41ST AND HOME
DOOR PRIZES AND GIVEAWAYS FROM:
Hello Cool World
Rain City Chronicles
Rhizome Cafe
BC Book Publisher's Association
Intersections Film Club
The First Weekend Club
Vancouver is Awesome.com
DOORS: 8:30, MUSIC: 9:30, TEN DOLLARS AT THE DOOR.
All proceeds go to fund Media Democracy Day Vancouver this year, and into the future. This year, MDD will play host to nearly 30 local media and activist organizations, panel discussions and workshop sessions led by some of the province's leading authorities on media issues, and a keynote address by Tony Burman, senior executive of the Americas for Al Jazeera English! Free and open to the public! So amazing it's just plain nutty! For a full listing of speakers and exhibitors, visit our MDD event page .
TAPPED
Check out the offical film site.
We're excited to be a community partner for Projecting Change's Screening of Tapped on Saturday morning at 5th Ave Cinema. (there's breakfast included!) Check out the trailer!
Water rights issues are something I've felt passionate about - we hope to do something around the films that are taking on water issues. We're giving away a copy of the DVD Blue Gold which we carry on our webstore as a draw at the screening.
SEXMONEYMEDIA
This international symposium takes on an extremely important topic -- women in the media. Put on by Women in View -- whose goal is to recharge the issue of gender equity; and to develop contemporary, action-based strategies that can be implemented across a broad spectrum of production, policy and artistic arenas. Read more about Women in Views mission and mandate on their site.
HEALTH FOR HUMANITY
We love H4H! Since we worked with them last year we have been following their work in Guatmala and the Philippines. Their benefit concert was sold out last year, so don't delay and get your tickets now!
Besides doing the surgeries in these countries, they are exploring creative ways to promote public heatlh. Co-founder Cindy Masaro, who is also a nurse at the BC CDC STI clinic, has been coming to our HCW theory salons, and we are exctited to be also working with her to provide web tools for her PHD research around women in Canada and risk taking behaviour. Stay tuned in the new year for more on that project!
OK that gets us through the weekend... more on Monday!
Tag(s):
Cervical Cancer Screening Program Campaign,
Environment,
Film Launch,
Gender,
Health/Health Advocacy,
Local Events and Parties,
Media Democracy Day
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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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