Portland Grassroots Media Camp

The Media Camp was very successful, with nearly 50 participant-focused media skills training workshops. About 150 attended at least one workshop, and several people came from as far away as Seattle and Hood River. 8 community and alternative media organizations in Multnomah County allowed us to use their space to hold workshops.

Listen to the KBCS feature for an overview of the media camp, produced by attendee Kathryn Higgins

Listen to the KBOO feature for more in-depth interviews and examples from the media camp, produced by Circle A Radio.

Click here for the class schedule (.pdf) or read below is a list of many of our workshops and examples of the skills participants have learned. Please contact us at pdxmediacamp(at)gmail.com if you have content from previous camps that you would like us to link to.

Workshop Gallery

• A blog created in the How to Create a Blog class.
• The HTML workshop share’s its students’ work.
• The Videoblogging class made this video
• Sample podcasts from the podcasting class

Events

In this video of the community dinner and discussion on Saturday, a member of Las Mujeres del Brazalete speaks about their struggle and how they are using media.

More Coverage
Below are more links to how the camp was reported:

• Notes From the Hardcore Edge blog entry

2007 Participating Organizations

• Bolivarian Media Exchange
• Free School Portland
• Independent Black Producers Organization
• Independent Publishing Resource Center
• Jobs with Justice
• KBOO Radio
• Multnomah County Cultural Coalition
• Oregon Oaxaca Solidarity
• PCUN/KPCN-LP 96.3 Woodburn
• Portland Alliance
• Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
• Portland Community College Multimedia Department
• Process Space
• Sisters in Action for Power
• Sisters of the Road
• Street Roots
• Theater for Change/ Teatro por un Cambio
• TK Artist Collective
• Write Around Portland