We are so honored to share the cultural stories, performances and conversations for the OCEANIA CELEBRATION digital events centering the Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian People. NOVEMBER 20OPENING WELCOME  The Oceania Celebration opened with a welcome by honoring Native American Heritage Month.  Producers Dmae Lo Roberts and Samson Syharath have an enlightening talk with visual artist Greg […]

MediaRites and Theatre Diaspora have partnered to present a virtual celebration of Pacific Islander performing arts in “Oceania Celebration” on two Saturdays, November 20 and November 27, 2021, from noon to 4pm online for families and youth.  The celebration’s mission is to bring families together to engage in the stories of Pacific Islanders and to […]

Refugee Dreams Revisited Produced by MediaRites Productions. Starting with the fall of Saigon in April 1975, refugees from Vietnam awaited approval to move to the US and other countries. By 1979, there were almost 62,000 Vietnamese in refugee camps, with more than 140,000 people displaced from Cambodia and Laos. Portland, Oregon, was one of the […]

On Saturday, August 6th, MediaRites held an event at IRCO to celebrate the completion of ‘Refugee Dreams Revisited.’ It was an art show, music performance, craft workshop, and luncheon all in one. Over 150 people from many ethnic backgrounds attended.

MediaRites presented arts outreach in partnership with SAFES, Survivors for An Effective System and Act For Action, to 40 survivors of crime and violence. We spent nearly six months planning the workshops and the outreach to SAFES members with Arwen Bird of SAFES and Jeannie LaFrance of Act for Action.We offered these workshops to survivors: […]

The Legacies Intergenerational Project initially began as a multi-disciplinary project that would work with 100 youths and elders to partner for a year-long project in creative writing, audio production, interviewing, oral history and visual art. Participants would create a book of writing and art and a CD of audio stories that would be presented to […]

MediaRites was one of three non-profits in Oregon to garner the prestigious National Endowment for the Arts Creative Links Program award. During Fall 2000, MediaRites brought an after school class in radio production and graphic design to Roosevelt High School.

Streaming Audio Clips Sorting Through Shadows – Promo 1 Sorting Through Shadows – Promo 2 BOOK – $9.95  With more than 25 contributors from all over the country and world, Sorting Through Shadows: Youth Speak Out on Mental Health is a beautifully illustrated collection of personal stories from youth ages 13 to 23 from the […]

Hope: The Youth Radio / Literacy Project  In ’97-’98, MediaRites taught residencies to 40 of the 8th grade English as a Second Language students at Binnsmead. The students represented 17 different countries and nationalities and this project provided the only arts program at their school.

This program is also available for sale as a download. Click here for more information. The Breast Cancer Monologues is a one-hour collage of women’s stories produced by Dmae Roberts and the Breast Cancer Radio Arts Project and intricately woven from interviews, readings and dramatizations about how breast cancer has affected the lives of women in […]

On Saturday, August 6th, MediaRites held an event at IRCO to celebrate the completion of ‘Refugee Dreams Revisited.’ It was an art show, music performance, craft workshop, and luncheon all in one. Over 150 people from many ethnic backgrounds attended.