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Tag: Erica Hargreave

  • Our Family is Growing

    Our Family is Growing

    We are very pleased to announce that our family has grown!!!  We have a few new additions to add to the Hargreave / Yearwood team, on top of our wonderful crew of educational and tech based contractors. The first new addition to the family is Liz Kearsley, a photographer and journalist hailing from the UK.…

  • Bluepoint Wins the SCN Licence!

    Saskatchewan Communcations Network (SCN) has always been close to our heart’s here at Ahimsa.  They (and Joanne McDonald) were the first to spot Erica Hargreave’s talents as a creative producer and aired our first educational series, The Magic Backpack.  Therefore, we have kept a keen eye on the bidding process of the network’s license and…

  • Bringing Together Ahimsa’s Education and Broadcast Worlds

    Here at Ahimsa we relish our diverse skillset and now our very own Erica Hargreave has helped us add a new string to our busy bow with the airing of her educational kids science TV show: The Magic Backpack episode The Greenhouse Effect. Whilst Ahimsa Media were co-producers, multi-tasker Erica had a starring role, was…

  • Exciting Times for Media

    Times are a changing in the Media World and we are highly excited by some of the most recent evolutions.   Particularly here in Canada where the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has been announced bringing in an experimental element. This is a perfect opportunity for members of the digital media community to get funding and…

  • A New Classroom & Course for the New Year

    Photo from The Hague’s Nationaal Archief I’m excited to be embarking on a new educational adventure this year! My new classroom will be in the Broadcast Communication Program at BCIT and the Continuing Studies Department at Capilano University.  At both schools I will be teaching Interactive Storytelling.  Not completely sure, but I do think these…

  • Brands Can Be Storytellers too!

    A common misconception that we encounter with people when we tell them that we are interactive storytellers is that we create dynamic stories for children or that we strictly work with traditional stories in the form of books, movies, television series and films to make their stories more dynamic and interactive.  This is a myth…

  • Delta School District = a Social Media History Maker

    Cross-post from DSD Youth Activities Pretty impressed with the forward thinking of the Delta School District, as as far I am aware they will be one of the first school districts in Canada to fully embrace social media this summer, by actually offering students a course in it. That’s right, the Delta School District is…

  • Chicks Who Click Hit Vancouver!!!

    A few of you have been asking about Tris Hussey’s and my upcoming workshops and where you can sign up.  Those are still on the horizon, but in the mean time there is another exciting event coming to town where you can learn the ins and outs of utilizing social media in your storytelling and…

  • The Yorkton Film Festival Goes Interactive

    Most excited to be heading off to the Yorkton Film Festival this week with Tris Hussey (from m2o)  and Emme Rogers. The three of us, along with locals, Richard Gustin, Karen Brownlee, and Lee Robertson will be demoing Interactive Storytelling to the Festival by telling the Festivals story through tweets, snapping pics, blogging and possibly…

  • Launching Ahimsa Media 2.0

    Welcome everyone to the new and improved Ahimsa Media!! As many of you are aware, Ahimsa Media has been undergoing some changes over the past year and a half, shifting our focus from Traditional Broadcast and Video Production to New, Social and Emerging Media Storytelling and we are loving it!  In the busyness, it’s taken…