Apr 09 2010
Vancouver is No Fun City?
I couldn’t fathom this when I heard about it.
Vancouver has long been known as the “no fun city” but below the no fun veneer is a dedicated music scene that’s loud, experimental, and innovative, but has few venues in which to be heard. Many of Vancouver’s musicians are forced to play in undisclosed and illegal venues such as warehouses, basements and parking lots, whilst legal venues are constantly fighting city regulations to stay open. This creative community is based in the Downtown Eastside, a neighborhood that is faced with the harsh reality of addiction and poverty; these worlds collide to create a unique and often misunderstood part of the city.
No Fun City will premiere at the DoxFestival May 10, I for one am on the edge of my seat for a Montreal screening.
Look Ma! A comment!
Looks like a cool documentary, we should definitely hit it up if it comes here.
Holy shit!
That looks fantastic!
Can’t wait.
The Harsh Reality of Drug Addiction richardmclaughlin007 — January 18, 2009 — after 11 months of sobriety from drug addiction, in 7 short days this man hits the depths of despair and insanity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNWCPDrJsM
This video was shot in Vancouvers downtown eastside by the narrator it is quite extreme, It shows how common place and and readily available drugs are and how people can succomb to a extreme physical reaction from lack of sleep, nutrition and dehydration. This video was made for many different reasons, one being educational the other as mentioned earlier it’s common place here in Vancouver, in any other city or town in North America this man would have recieved immediate medical attention but here in Vancouver both the police and ambulance just drive by. If you do not belive me come on down and see our little human circus slash “HARM REDUCTION EXPERIMENT”
This man was spotted two hours later sleeping on a concrete curb as his pillow.
Both the narrator and producer of this video have had spent many years struggling with addiction and have spent hard time in Vancouvers “NOTORIOUS” downtown eastside.
Today they have escaped and are clean and sober and now dedicate there lives to those who still suffer from “THE HARSH REALITY OF ADDICTION”
I interview a young man who has used Heroin most of his life he recently relapsed after eleven month’s clean time this video is quite graphic
The Harsh Reality of Drug Addiction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNWCPDrJsM
Next we have a woman named Lisa she has been on all the current Harm reduction program’s available in Vancouver’s Downtown eastside
this is a sad sad story this poor woman only has her addiction to look forward to in her life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuNWCPDrJsM
Last but not least we interviewed more woman who talk about the pro’s and con’s of Heroin vs. Methadone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7mAvgPz_4
You be the judge the whole reason for these videos is to bring some truth out about the addiction support services that are in use here in Vancouver. My research has been on a personal level for over twenty five years in addiction as well as these and many more video interviews. Thank you recovered addict
Heya!
No fun City finally in Montreal + Afterparty at Vinyl
INFO:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156374704380420&ref=ts
http://www.blue-sunshine.com/music-scene-reader/events/film-pop-presents-no-fun-city.html
Hope to see ya there!