Gen Why Media Parties with Vancouver's Most Engaged Millennials

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• Hilary Henegar

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'Collaboration is key' say the filmmakers behind Vancouver's Gen Why Media Project

This Saturday, the dynamic duo behind Vancouver's Gen Why Media Project are putting on their first party.

Featuring innovative speakers from across many sectors, musical performances, local artists and artisans, DIY magic and a room full of the city's most engaged Millennials, the Why We Do It Party is a chance to meet and mingle. It's also a forum for making the kind of partnerships that turn into lasting collaborations on projects that make the city a better place to live. Unfortunately, it's also already sold-out.

Granville Online is media sponsor for the event and is proud to support such a rad project.

Former film school classmates Fiona Rahyer and Tara Mahoney started the Gen Why Media Project in 2010 as a way of creating a narrative around the tremendous paradigm shift they see occuring as the largest, most diverse, most connected, most well educated generation in history enters the adult world of getting stuff done. What they see are powerful, positive initiatives taking hold all over the globe, driven by the zealous idealism and enterprising creativity of a "hero generation."

The two spoke at the recent TEDxVancouver event about the five factors that make Generation Y a game changing generation. Read about it or watch the video.

From the Gen Why Media Project blog:

Gen Why Media Project is a series of crowd-sourced, collaborative productions articulating the massive social paradigm shift currently taking place. We explore how our generation’s collective beliefs, shared responsibility and irresistible desire to change the world will be what saves the planet and brings humanity together.

So here’s what we’re going to do: create a crowd-sourced story of future. As a feature-length documentary film, web-series, blog and series of live events, WE ask YOU to tell us the destiny of Gen Why.

If you believe in Gen Why and want to be a part of it, please contact us about getting involved. Whatever your field, we’ll find a way to collaborate.

Check out the video they created for their TEDx presentation, featuring Vancouver artists, photographers, filmmakers, activists, students and other Millennials:

Look for future posts on Granville Online about the collaborations that take hold at the party on Saturday.