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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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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 by Dmae Roberts

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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Laura Moulton’s Street Books

Aug 30, 2011 No Comments by Dmae Roberts

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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Refugee Dreams Revisited

May 27, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts and MediaRites present Refugee Dreams Revisted as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. This special is hosted by Margaret Cho and focuses on the experiences of Southeast Asian refugees in Portland, and features Cambodian musician Daran Kravanh.

 
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The refugees who came to America were Vietnamese, Cambodian, Laotian and the ethnic minorities [...]

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Ing ‘Doc’ Hay-Frontier Herbalist

May 12, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts and MediaRites presents Ing ‘Doc’ Hay-Frontier Herbalist as part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.  In in the dry sagebrush hills of Eastern Oregon, a thriving Chinatown emerged, thanks in large part to an unusual doctor named Ing Hay. His medical practice was located in a general store named the Kam Wah Chung in [...]

 
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Mei Mei, A Daughter’s Song

May 25, 2011 1 Comment

As a special program for Asian Pacific American Heritage month, Dmae Roberts presents her 1990 Peabody award-winning documentary“Mei Mei, A Daughter’s Song“ This memoir docu-theatre piece is the personal story of cross-cultural and cross-generational conflict produced by Dmae Roberts.

 
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“Mei Mei”chronicles Dmae and her mother, Chu-Yin, as they travel to Taiwan together.
Interviews and dramatizations weave in and [...]

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Pendulum Aerial Arts

Apr 12, 2011 No Comments

In the second Pushing Boundaries feature piece, Producer Macon Reed presents this sound collage of Pendulum Aerial Arts with artistic director Suzanne Kenney.

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Secret Asian Woman

Mar 03, 2011 1 Comment

Independent Producer Dmae Roberts presents Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years as has identification. In this half-hour  documentary, [...]

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Sakura Festival

Apr 05, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts share sounds and voices from the first annual Sakura (Cherry Blossom) Festival at the Japanese American Historical Plaza in Portland. The festival was created by the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center and this year was a benefit to raise funds for disaster relief in Japan through Mercy Corps for the Oregon Japan Relief Fund.
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