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Etch-A-Sketch Art: John Raux

Artist John Raux shares how he turned a classic toy into his canvas of choice.

At one time or another, many of us fondly remember playing with an Etch a Sketch. It’s a classic holiday toy. Before we leave you this week, we want introduce you to John Raux who’s currently artist in residence at BNIM Architects. Raux, who lives in Kansas City’s Hyde Park neighborhood, just spent two weeks capturing life on the New York City Subway using only an Etch-a-Sketch for his canvas.
Artist John Raux holding up Etch-A-Scetch artwork
Artist John Raux shares how he turned a classic toy into his canvas of choice while sketching our very own Nick Haines.

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Ethical Conundrums: Myra Christopher & Medical Science Dilemmas

Nick Haines talks to Myra Christopher from the Center for Practical Bioethics about some of the new ethical questions that arise with new advancements in medicine.

Sometimes medical breakthroughs can also bring up nagging ethical questions such as who has access to the data and how much do we want to know if the news about our future is bad?

These kinds of quandaries weigh on the minds of the staff at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, formerly known as the Midwest Bioethics Center. They also tackle aging and end of life issues as well as disparities in health care. Myra Christopher led the organization since its launch in 1984, at least until recently when a rare form of ovarian cancer forced her to step down as the center’s CEO. She joined Nick Haines to discuss some approaches to these issues.

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Examining Education: Steve Green and the Challenges of Paving A Path to Success

Nick Haines sits down with KCMO School Superintendent Steve Green to get his reaction and response to the upcoming documentary 180 Days which explores the challenges in urban school districts.

Next week on KCPT, you’ll have the rare chance to take an intimate journey inside an American high school. With unprecedented access to students and teachers, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School explores a public school in Washington DC, one where only 7 percent of the students are deemed proficient in math, and the dropout rate is through the roof. Kansas City school superintendent Steve Green is facing many of the same challenges, and we’ll hear his reaction to this PBS series. But first here’s a sneak peek.

The two-part series, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School, airs Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 8pm.

Watch 180 Days preview cut on PBS. See more from 180 Days.

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Farm to Table: JCCC’s Center for Sustainability

Journalism and film students from Johnson County Community College show how their campus is involved in the “Farm to Table” and urban farming movement with its Center for Sustainability.

The Kansas City Star reported this week that the head of Johnson County Community College is retiring. We’re trying to book Terry Calaway on The Local Show. Along with increased enrollment during his five year tenure, Calaway is credited with bringing a lot of novel programs to JCCC which is consistently ranked as one of the best community colleges in the country.

People no doubt have heard about the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art which was added during his watch, but also, according to the article, they’ve also now got an on-campus farm. It supplies food for the campus cafe and its culinary program. And produce grown there also is sold to the community.

It’s part of the President’s big push to be more environmentally friendly including adding sustainability programs to the curriculum at the college.

As part of a new partnership of our own here at KCPT with broadcast students at JCCC, we get to take you to the farm this week.

This segment is the work of executive producer Amy Follmer and videographers Jordan Renzelman, Matt Lepley, Elizabeth Seidel, and Josh Browning.

If you would like to get your hands dirty, learn from urban farmers or lend a hand to your local farm, there is a community event on Saturday, November 10 from nine until noon. The location is the Gibbs Road Farm at 4223 Gibbs Road in KCK. Contact ami@cultivatekc.org for details.

Student working with a post hole digger in a field Student in a kitchen with fresh vegetables on display

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You?

What does KCPT mean to you? To celebrate KCPT's 50th Birthday, we have asked viewers to share what KCPT means to them.

You may not be aware of it, but KCPT is 50 years old. The official birthday year began last spring. You could be forgiven for not knowing. Perhaps because of the poor economy and so many other things going on, we haven’t been making a big splash of it. Some of our pledge drives featured a 50th anniversary t-shirt. Certainly we didn’t do any birthday cakes or parties. You may have seen a couple of spots on the air that mentioned our history, but that’s been about it.

At the end of last year here on The Local Show, in the spirit of turning 50, we invited 50 viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. After all, this station is about you. Starting today and over the next couple of weeks, you’ll see what people had to say and we invite you to join them.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email us a photo to The Local Show website. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1961…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You? Part Three

To mark KCPT's 50th birthday, we’ve asked 50 viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. We leave you this week with more of YOUR creative messages.

Throughout Janaury we’ve been celebrating KCPT’s 50th birthday on The Local Show. Did you know, by the way, our station’s original licensee was the Kansas City Missouri School District and the Kansas City, Missouri School Board?

KCPT Public Television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. Our only request was to write it on a sign with a marker in 5 words or less. The only exception to the rule: Figure out a way to show your five words more creatively. Here are some of the responses from your friends and neighbors as we recorded them around the metro.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email a photo to The Local Show. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1983…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You? Part Two

KCPT public television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them.

KCPT Public Television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. Our only request was to write it on a sign with a marker in 5 words or less. The only exception to the rule: Figure out a way to show your five words more creatively. Here are some of the responses from your friends and neighbors as we recorded them around the metro.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email a photo to The Local Show. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1978…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Finding Family for Foster Children: Extreme Recruitment

We share the story of Demaje, a boy who was trapped in the foster care system but was recently reunited with his family thanks to the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association's Extreme Recruitment program.

More than half a million children are currently trapped in the foster care system.
Being removed from a home and placed in foster care is a difficult and stressful experience for any child. Many of these children have suffered some form of serious abuse or neglect.

The Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association based in Independence is going to some extraordinary lengths, including hiring private investigators, to try and locate family members who might be willing to adopt a hard to place child who might otherwise languish for years in the foster care system.

They call their program “Extreme Recruitment” and last year they found homes for 22 foster children, including a home for 10-year-old Demaje, whose mother abandoned him in Kansas City. In January, Demaje’s uncle was awarded temporary custody by Jackson County Family Court. Demaje has returned to his family in California.

The Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association says they hope to find homes for forty children this year as part of their extreme recruitment program.

That segment was produced by Bryan Shepard at LINC, a KCPT partner organization which works to improve the lives of children and families in the Kansas City region.

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Fine Art Frosting: James David Christie Debuts KCPA’s Casavant Pipe Organ

We begin this week by introducing you to the newly installed musical centerpiece inside Helzberg Hall. A pipe organ considered one of the finest concert instruments in the country.

Six months after the opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, one of its most potent acoustic features has yet to be fully appreciated. That is until now.

We begin this week by introducing you to the newly installed musical centerpiece inside Helzberg Hall. A pipe organ considered one of the finest concert instruments in the country.

Crafted in the French romantic tradition, it features close to 6,000 pipes, 79 stops and 102 ranks.

It was built by Casavant, the 125 year old French-Canadian Firm, a company renowned for quality organs that have stood the test of time.

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A Fond Farewell: The Lyric Opera’s Evan Luskin

He has led Kansas City’s foremost opera company for the past 25 years…now he is exiting the stage.

Evan Luskin has announced that he is retiring as general director of the Lyric Opera…just as the company prepares to move to its new performance space at the Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts. Luskin, the Company’s general director since 1998, will be retiring on June 30, 2012. Mr. Luskin’s retirement will come at the conclusion of the Lyric’s first year of residence in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, which will open this fall.

A lifelong fan of opera, Mr. Luskin received an MBA with a specialization in Arts Management in 1977 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He then served as Assistant Director of the Tulsa Opera from 1977 to 1979, Managing Director of the Chattanooga Opera from 1979 to 1982, and Vice President for Finance and Administration of Michigan Opera Theatre from 1982 until coming to Kansas City in 1986. Mr. Luskin joined the Lyric on June 1, 1986 as its managing director, and became general director in 1998. He is looking forward to spending more time with his wife Andrea and his grand children in Topeka and Washington, D.C. He also plans to become involved in volunteer activities with children, take up the piano after a hiatus of many years, and travel.

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City was founded in 1958 by Russell Patterson. In 54 years the Company has produced numerous works including 3 world premiere operas. In the fall of 1998, the Company began performing operas in the original language, a tradition which continues today with all operas being performed in the original language with English subtitles.


On November 4, 2010 the Lyric Opera of Kansas City announced a capital campaign for the renovation of property on 18th and Charlotte in the Kansas City Crossroads Arts District for its new Opera Center.

The Opera Center complex will consist of two buildings: a Production Arts building and an Administrative building with set rental inventory storage. The Production Arts building will include a rehearsal space that will match the footprint of the stage of the Muriel Kauffman Theatre at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The Production Arts building also will house a full wig, costume and set construction shop and facilities for educational and community outreach programs. Such an integrated and dedicated production facility does not exist in Kansas City; the Company envisions the Production Arts building becoming a resource for other local performing arts companies.

The second building on the property will be adjacent to the Production Arts building. It would provide the Company with set rental inventory storage, parking lots and outside green spaces for the Opera Center, and house the administrative staff.

In the summer of 2011, the production and administrative offices of the Lyric Opera will be moving from its home of 40 years at the Lyric Theatre to a temporary home in downtown Kansas City at 1616 Broadway. The production and administrative offices will move to the headquarters on 18th Street when construction is completed in 2012.

Opera lovers can be fans of the Lyric Opera of Kansas City on Facebook or follow us @kcopera on Twitter.

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