KCPT Services

Community & Meeting Rooms

KCPT provides meeting room facilities to outside organizations during normal business hours, Monday through Friday 9am to 5pm. Exceptions can be made. Technology services are available: computer with Internet, VHS, Beta, and connection for laptop via a projection system and drop down screen. This room can accommodate a maximum of 100 people. There is a nominal charge for room use.

For more information, contact Sandy Woodson at 816.756.3580 ex. 4298.
Tours

KCPT is happy to offer group tours of the broadcast facility for both adult and children’s groups on the first Monday of the month between the hours of 1pm – 5pm.

Contact: Sandy Woodson
816-756-3580 x4298
swoodson@kcpt.org

Group Size: At least six (6) and no more than twenty-five (25) (one (1) adult for every ten (10) children)

Age Limit: No younger than six (6) years of age

Time Length: Approximately one (1) hour
Tour Leaders must provide the following:

Tour leader’s name and phone number
Number of people in the group
The ages of those taking the tour
Any special needs of those in the tour group
The optional dates that you would like to tour

You will be contacted when your tour is booked. We are looking forward to having you tour our facilities and learn more about KCPT.

Please note: All tours are subject to cancellation due to studio scheduling. We will make every effort to give you 24 hours notice of cancellations.

The Shocking Truth Storyboard Contest – Extended to 9/30/11

Create a storyboard illustrating the importance of electricity and win a chance to see your idea turned into a spot on KCPT!

Summary and Guidelines:

Student(s), Contest extended to Sept 30. grades 6 thru 12, will work to develop a story regarding electricity
Student(s), grades 6 thru 12, will submit an essay describing their story, thinking in terms of scenes, and how much time for each scene, remembering you only have 15-30 seconds to tell your important story!
One winner will be selected from the submitted essays to work with a KCPT producer and produce a 15-30second segment which will air at least 60 times during KCPT’s PBS KIDS GO! block.
The winning piece will be available through KCPT’s website and KCPTKids.org; social networking sites such as a Facebook, MySpace, iTunesU and YouTube and through www.learn360.com an educational video streaming service provided by KCPT to over 100,000 students and 7,000 teachers in both Kansas and Missouri.

The Storyboard must relate to one of the following two categories:
1) Innovations, important figures or careers in the Electrical Industry
Questions to consider: Why were they critical or important? How did the person or innovation change the electrical industry or society? How might society be different without this innovation or person’s discovery? What is interesting or remarkable about this career or position in the industry?

2) Electrical Safety
What to cover: Define the topic and/or problem. Identify the dangers and/or potential problems. Explain how to be safe in each situation. Include what visuals you may use or what you may demonstrate.

Instructions:

Submit completed entry, with Official Entry Form by September 30. All forms are available at www.electricleague.org/safety
All entries must include required documents, as instructed on the Official Entry Form (list of participants,bibliography and essay).

Direct all contest materials and questions to:
Jane Male, CAE, Executive Director
Electric League of Missouri & Kansas
PO Box 419264
Kansas City, MO 64141
816.561.5323
jmale@swassn.com

Tags: Conservation & Nature, Contests, Electric League, Nature

In Performance at the White House

Tribute to Burt Bacharach & Hal David Monday, May 21, 2012 at 8pm.

Enjoy a star-studded tribute to the songwriting team who penned such classic tunes as “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love” and “Walk on By” and “Alfie.” Composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David’s extraordinary collaboration has produced numerous hits and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, with songs featured in the Austin Powers films and on an episode of “Glee.”

Watch Monday, May 21, 2012 at 8pm.

Tags: Music

$5 Turns Into $75,000 in Minneapolis

The Wabasha Street Caves provide the perfect noir background for host Mark L. Walberg and appraiser Simeon Lipman to discuss the history and collecting of flashlights. Highlights include an 1863 Ulysses S. Grant letter; a circa 1950 Charles Shulz Li’l Folks original cartoon; and two paintings — one by Victor Higgins, the other by Spencer — purchased together for $5, but valued at $75,100-$75,200.

Watch Antiques Roadshow Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7pm.

Tags: Antiques, Antiques Roadshow, History

The Local Show: May 17, 2012

This week: The Charlotte Street Foundation, Starlight Theatre's Denton Yockey, Cristo Rey and the Black Archives of Mid-America

This week on The Local Show, we continue our performARTS series with a look inside The Charlotte Street Foundation. With the new season just around the corner, we talk to Denton Yockey, the head of Starlight Theatre, about what’s in store for theater and concert goers this summer under the stars. As part of our Difference Makers series, we profile Cristo Rey, a four-year Catholic college prep high school where students help pay for their education by working a job once a week. And we get a look at the new Black Archives of Mid-America which is set to reopen in the 18th & Vine Jazz District on June 16.

Tags: The Local Show, TLS206

performARTS: Charlotte Street Foundation

This week, in conjunction with KC Studio Magazine, our performARTS Series takes a look at the Charlotte Street Foundation. Named after a house near UMKC where poets, painters and music makers would gather to eat, drink and talk shop, Charlotte Street celebrates turning 15 this year. Randy Mason has more about this unique operation, which through cash awards and other forms of assistance helps the region’s artists do more of what they do best.

Tags: Arts, performARTS, The Local Show, TLS228

Culture Alfresco: Denton Yockey & Starlight Theatre

With the curtain about to rise on another season of top Broadway shows and big name concert performers at Starlight Theatre, we caught up with Starlight's man in charge, Denton Yockey.

A new season of live theater is about to get underway at Starlight Theatre. The Swope Park theater with its iconic towers has been entertaining Kansas Citians under the stars for more than 60 years.

Starlight is one of only three outdoor theatres of its size and type still operational in the United States. The Muny in St. Louis and Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia are the others. With the curtain about to rise on another season of top Broadway shows and big name concert performers, we caught up with Starlight’s man in charge, Denton Yockey.

Here is a look at the upcoming Broadway Shows:

In The Heights
June 5-10

Memphis
July 10-15

Peter Pan
July 24-29

Elton John & Tim Rice’s Aida
August 3-12 at The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

La Cage Aux Folles
August 28-September 2

The 2012 Concert Season is also filling up with artists such as Barry Manilow, James Taylor, Crosby, Stills & Nash, My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses, Phish, B.B. King, Il Divo and many, many more.

Tags: Arts, Music, Musical, Starlight Theatre, The Local Show, Theater, TLS228

Difference Maker: Cristo Rey

As part of KCPT's Difference Maker series, producer Cara Meyers profiles Cristo Rey, a four-year Catholic college prep high school where students help pay for their education by working a job once a week.

Can you imagine an inner-city high school in Kansas City where most of the kids are black and hispanic, almost all come from impoverished backgrounds and qualify for free or reduced lunch and yet nearly everyone graduates and goes on to college? Well, there is such a school. It’s called Cristo Rey, a four-year Catholic college prep high school where students help pay for their education by working a job once a week.

As part of KCPT’s Difference Maker series, producer Cara Meyers profiles Cristo Rey, which you’ll find one block east of Broadway on Linwood boulevard in the heart of the city.

By the way, working one day helps pay for about 60 percent of the students’ education. The rest is picked up through generous scholarships. Most families pay between 10 and 30 dollars a month for their child to attend the school.

Tags: Education, The Local Show, TLS228

Treasure Trove of History: Black Archives of Mid-America

In celebration of the grand opening of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, The Local Show presents a spoken word piece written and performed by Glenn North, poet in residence at the American Jazz Museum. The Black Archives of Mid-America re-opens in the 18th and Vine Jazz District on June 16th.

Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is a ten-part series on PBS that explores the history of America though the lives, families, and DNA of some of its most celebrated citizens. As part of the national outreach for the series and in celebration of the grand opening of the Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City, The Local Show presents a spoken word piece written and performed by Glenn North, poet in residence at the American Jazz Museum. We recorded Glenn at the NEW black archives which opens to the public next month.

The Black Archives of Mid-America re-opens in the 18th and Vine Jazz District on June 16th.

Tags: Black History, History, The Local Show, TLS228

Sherlock Finale Viewing Party at KCPT

Join us at KCPT for the season 2 conclusion as Moriarty poses the “final problem” and a tabloid reporter reveals the “shocking truth” about Sherlock, Sunday, May 20, 2012, 7-9:30pm.

In what may be the climatic case of his career, Sherlock faces Moriarty’s diabolical plot to “get Sherlock,” which begins innocently enough when the criminal mastermind breaks into the Crown Jewels. As the scheme unfolds, Moriarty poses the “final problem,” and a tabloid reporter reveals the “shocking truth” about the great detective.

Join KCPT on Sunday, May 20, 2012 for a fun evening celebrating everything Sherlock as we watch the final episode The Reichenbach Fall on the big screen in KCPT’s Community Room. Vivien Jennings from Rainy Day Books will give a talk about Sherlock Holmes and the ongoing influence of the character in literature.

Sunday, May 20, 2012, 7-9:30 pm

KCPT is located at 125 E 31st Street, Kanas City, MO

Tags: Masterpiece, sherlock

Downton Abbey: Behind the Drama

Watch Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 6:30pm following the conclusion of the Downton Abbey marathon.

The actors talk exclusively about their characters and the gripping story lines across both series. They provide a real insight into the romance and conflict portrayed in the series, how they interact with each other and how they feel filming the crucial scenes for their character.

There is behind the scenes footage at all the key locations, including the historic Ealing Studios in London where all the ‘below’ scenes are shot, the fabulous Highclere Castle in Berkshire, the site of most of the ‘above stairs scenes’, and the show is on location for the dramatic opening scene of the second series, set during the
Battle of the Somme and shot on location near Ipswich.

Watch sunday, May 20, 2012 at 6:30pm.

Tags: Downton Abbey, Masterpiece