Lisa and her crew doing the material thang.

we watch this video sooo much. people keep coming to the workshops and asking to see this again, we love it and we lovvve you!!!! you rock girl!

What is this exactly? and what does it have to do with homelessness?

The video that use to be here, but went missing from the site was collaboration amongst participates of the Oppeneheimer Park/Homelessnation workshop. The workshop was organized to invite the street and homeless population in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to get involved with the media and encouraged self-expression and self-representation. Lisa, a First Nations long time dtes home girl who had endured homelessness, addiction and poverty and who at the age of 31 passed away last Saturday initiated this video (RIP Lisa). She had no previous experience in media arts and was not using the Internet prior to this/her project. She loved to sing and was a regular at the Health Contact Centre’s karaoke night. She wanted to make a music video and together with some friends we made a really cool video for fun, to learn new skills…and for community sake. Not only did the video act as an entry point to the site for her friends, but it was really important to them to come watch it during times while Lisa was in hospital and they missed her.
There are a lot of personal testimonies on this site and that’s good thing, but there are other ways to empower and give back to communities and this video was one of them.
Ali
Ps Thanks again James Ash

Brett found the missing video!
great to see it again, really great to see Lisa. I felt bad about writing all that above on her behalf, but i think it is important to just be really straight up sometimes...that background is a big part of what the video is exactly.

Thanks for that, I was kind of curious. I know there are other ways to give back ti the community. My mom and her friends were apart of the Living Rock which was a street ministry. We got services from the place, and so did many others. There were Jam nights and Coffee Nights (in fact it was called a Coffee House), and stuff like that. So yeah, just wanted to know the story behind this. Thanks.