Media Arts

35 Years of PIFF

Feb 03, 2012 No Comments by Dmae Roberts

Tue 11am 2/7 on KBOO 90.7FM / Sat 11am 2/11 on KZME 107.1 FM, Dmae Roberts talks with Bill Foster, executive director of NW Film Center about the 35th annual Portland International Film Festival. This year PIFF showcases 140 films—93 features and 46 short films—from 36 different countries. We’ll get a sneak peek and best picks [...]

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New Media Seminars

Jan 16, 2012 Comments Off by admin

MediaRites Productions presents two new audio seminars to launch you into the world of professional audio.
Study with Peabody-winning producer Dmae Roberts and engineer Clark Salisbury who have collaborated since 2002 on award-winning feature stories and documentaries.  These seminars are limited to six participants, intensive training at an affordable cost. We’re offering classes monthly that will [...]

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Big Plastic Heroes

Jan 05, 2012 1 Comment by Dmae Roberts

Dmae Roberts  talks with Portland comedian, musician and Fertile Ground/Second City alum auGi and award-winning PBS writer Slash Coleman about Big Plastic Heroes– Warning: Trying to be Your Idol is Dangerous.
Hear some great stories from their monologues and auGi promises to sing live! The production is being presented as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of [...]

 
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The Mystery of Opal Whiteley

Dec 23, 2011 No Comments by Dmae Roberts

Dmae Roberts opens up the audio vault with Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley. This half-hour doucumentary was  first produced in 1988 with playwright Dorothy Velasco and tells the story of a young woman from Cottage Grove, Oregon who became the center of an international controversy when critics declared her diary a hoax.

 
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Robin Lane’s Do Jump + a story by Erin Leddy

Nov 18, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts visits with Robin Lane, the Founder and Artistic Director of Do Jump! Plus a piece by Erin Leddy. This holiday season, Do Jump! presents their new holiday show, Ahhh HA. Dmae will also feature an audio piece from  Hand2Mouth ensemble member Erin Leddy, highlighting her return to Portland after touring to Seattle and New Orleans with [...]

 
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Art That Engages

Aug 26, 2011 1 Comment

Host/Producer Dmae Roberts presents a collage story on Laura Moulton’s Street Books produced by Tali Singer. Later, she revisits socially engaging art with Jen Delos Reyes & Harrell Fletcher of the Art and Social Practice program at Portland State University. Producer Macon Reed gives us a  tour of Portland’s social practice art scene.
Social practice is a [...]

 
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Laura Moulton’s Street Books

Aug 30, 2011 No Comments

On a sunny summer Wednesday, light rail trains roll past the Skidmore fountain in downtown Portland.  Twice a week this summer, Portland artist and writer Laura Moulton has hopped on her decked-out Haley tricycle and headed to downtown Portland. What makes her bike special is that it’s a mobile library. A large pullout drawer is [...]

 
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S. Renee Mitchell & Remembering Carolyn

Aug 13, 2011 No Comments

On this week’s Stage & Studio, writer/artist S. Renee Mitchell talks about the Natural and Proud People Inspiration project, a celebration of natural African-American hair. Mitchell also runs Twysted Healing Systahs, an organization that empowers women of color. And Dmae remembers Carolyn Holzman, a beloved Portland theatre artist and teacher.
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Author Lisa See on ‘Dreams of Joy’

Jun 24, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts talks with acclaimed author Lisa See. Her latest novel, Dreams of Joy debuted  at No. 1 on the NY Times best seller list. See tells us about her extensive research on Mao’s Great Leap Forward that caused the death of up 45 million people  in China from 1958-1961. We also hear about the movie version [...]

 
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Big Animation with Rose Bond & DripDrop

Jul 08, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts talks with veteran media artist Rose Bond about her work on large-scale animations and her teaching of Boundary Crossings’ an institute on animated. Also featured is Daniela Repas of DripDrop Productions. They’re debuting Pre-Nostalgic, DripDrop’s new animated installation of sound, sculpture, and drawing. DripDrop tells us about the installation, which has been two [...]

 
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