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Black Strathcona Black Strathcona Interactive Project a production by Creative Cultural Collaborations Society in par

Canada, 2014, Digital, 10 films x 3 minutes

Writer/Director: Gordon McLennan
Producer/Researcher: Esther Rausenberg
Consultant: Wayde Compton
Featuring: Reese Alexander, Kevan Cameron, Bertha Clark, Marquisse du Monde,
Carrie Gibson, Dana Matthews, Teeanna Munro, Adrian Neblett, Vanessa Richards, Storma Sire

From the early 1900s to the 1960s, the East Side neighbourhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community. The ten video stories of the BlackStrathcona media project celebrate some of the remarkable people and places that made the community vibrant and unique. Stories like Jimi and Nora, featuring musician Jimi Hendrix who as a boy lived in Strathcona with his grandmother in the late 1940s, and Vie’s Chicken and Steaks, featuring Vie Moore who ran a soul food haven on Union Street frequented by both locals and big name celebrities like Billie Holiday and Sammie Davis Jr. The stories of BlackStrathcona can be accessed via the website, or they can be experienced interactively by visiting the Strathcona neighbourhood. By using the website to display a map and by following markers, the video stories can be downloaded to a mobile device and viewed where the stories took place and where they were recorded.

06/26/2020

Canada's new $10 bill featuring Nova Scotia human rights icon Viola Desmond has been named banknote of the year.

06/25/2020

THANK YOU | Thanks to your help, we are proud to have donated $1000 in proceeds from Madame Roxanne to the Hogan's Alley Society (.alley).⁠
*The Hogan’s Alley Society “an advocate for Black Vancouverites who have endured the legacies of urban renewal and their erasure from the official historical narrative".⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

06/13/2020

A member of the award-winning gospel trio The Sojourners, he has insight into the ongoing fight for equal rights in the U.S. and Canada.

06/07/2020

Guiding us through Black Strathcona is Kor Kase, Co-Founder of Afro Van Connect (AVC), who gives us an overview of Black history in Vancouver and introduces ...

06/07/2020

Hot Air has been on the air since 1947, making it CBC's longest running program. Host Margaret Gallagher covers jazz from all eras with a particular focus on B.C. artists.

06/06/2020

Author Lawrence Hill shares his thoughts on racism in Canada and the U.S. after George Floyd’s death and what needs to be done to end the cycle of racial inj...

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