November 16, 2016
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Betty Deulen, a Vanport survivor, shares her story with ‘Wake of Vanport’ series producers Vo McBurney and Jonathon Navarro.
The Wake Vanport
Local production
to get big screen
showing Sunday
For the first time, ‘The Wake of
Vanport’ documentary made by local
students with stories told by Vanport
flood survivors will be seen on the
big screen at the Hollywood Theatre,
on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 4:30 p.m.
The 2016 production contains 10
new interviews to provide a spectrum
of Vanport images and experiences
prior to the devastating flood in1948
Eleven new Vanport stories were
shared, fulfilling the project’s goal to
increase knowledge about this histor-
ic event that shapes Portland today.
Naomi Pierce directs the project.
The screening of “The Wake of
Vanport” is free to the public, and
includes surprises, audience discus-
sions and a chance to meet survivors
and producers.
of
that destroyed a multicultural city, a
home to many African American res-
idents who migrated to Portland to
work in the Portland and Vancouver
shipyards of World War II.
The Wake of Vanport is a commu-
nity participation project created in
2011 by The Skanner Foundation’s
Multimedia Training Center in north
Portland. Since then, dozens of sto-
ries have been collected and shared
with the public.
This year, Portland Community
Media, led by production director
and trainer Vo McBurney helped
train 17 students on recording and ed-
iting equipment. Working in teams,
they learned interview techniques
and practiced interviews before in-
terviewing the Vanport survivors.