Hope in Shadows: PIVOT’s 2009 Calendar Award Ceremony

Hope in Shadows
PIVOT’s 2009 Calendar Award Ceremony
  The Award Ceremony will start at 10 a.m. on Thursday October 9. We will play a short 5-minute video made of the camera contest at this time. It was done by Daniel Froidevaux and people can already see it online on VancouverIAM.com.
  The top 40 are then announced, and the people are asked to come to the stage to receive a certificate and an enlargement of their photo: first we give out 24 Honourable Mentions. They all receive $25 each in prize money. Next is the 10 3rd place-getters – they receive $50. Five people receive $100, and finally the winner receives $500.
  The calendar is unveiled also at this time. The top sellers from last year will have already done pre-training for the City of Vancouver Street Licence so they will be able to pick up their free calendars. The top 40 winners also get one free calendar as
their names are in it.
Exhibition
The Hope in Shadows exhibition officially opens that evening at the Pendulum Gallery at 885 West Georgia Street (HSBC Building). The exhibition has the top 40 and all the captions about the photographs. Everyone is invited and winners are invited
to speak about their experience if they want to.
Calendar Street Sale Training
  Training is planned for many venues. Training usually takes about an hour. It is run by an experienced trainer (Garvin Snider). While Garvin does the training on how to sell the calendar and goes over the Code of Conduct, we process the ID cards on a laptop computer and portable printer and laminator. At the end of the training, the person goes away with an official ID card, and one calendar to start them off. If they want to buy more to sell, they have to pay $10 at one of the depots. The main depots in the Downtown Eastside are:
* Pivot Legal Society, 678 East Hastings
* Portland Hotel, 20 West Hastings Street
There are also depots on Commercial Drive (Vancity), East Broadway (Cuppa Joes), and two in the downtown core. Last year calendar sellers made more than $55,000 for themselves from selling calendars.
  The “pre-training” is reserved for top sellers and is on the 8th. Here are the ones booked with local community centres already:
October 10: LifeSkills, 412 E Cordova Street, 11 a.m.
October 10: Gathering Place, 609 Helmcken (Seymour and Helmcken) 2 p.m.
October 15: LifeSkills, 412 East Cordova Street, 11 a.m.
October 17: LifeSkills, 412 East Cordova Street, 11 a.m.
October 20: DTES Women’s Centre, 1:30pm; November 3: DTES Women’s Centre, 1:30 p.m. (all women trainers at both sessions)