Thank you to Nick Haines and Laurie Arbore, our live night hosts, The Daughters of the British Empire, our phone bank volunteers, and The Aladdin Hotel’s Sarah DuVault and Chef James. We had a lovely time encouraging viewers to support KCPT’s British Comedies and attend the 2012 Brit Com Tea Party at The Aladdin on January 21, 2012.
You’ll see photos of some of the delicious food Chef James brought, this is just a small sample of the food we’ll be served at the Brit Com Tea Party.
Join KCPT for a day of exploration and surprises. Support KCPT and you and a companion can bring up to 3 items for evaluation and appraisal on Saturday, April 21, 2012 at the Overland Park Convention Center. Choose morning or afternoon sessions and begin looking around the house and Aunt Mildred’s for items to learn more about.
KCPT’s 2012 PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest encourages kids to GO! Write! KCPT is once again encouraging elementary school students to stretch their creative wings by hosting the contest in the Kansas City region. For more than 15 years thousands of kids in grades K-3 have participated in this annual local and national contest. Stories can be mailed to the station or submitted online. Contest deadline is April 10, 2012. Local winners will be announced in late April and national winners will be announced in July.
Learn more about the contest guidelines and how to submit your story.
To interrupt violence in Kansas City, Aim4Peace believes that you must have your doctorate in “Streetology.” This means that with training and a research-based approach, the best people to intervene and prevent violent crime are those who were once the perpetrators.
This method of violence prevention is profiled in the Frontline documentary The Interrupters, which aired on KCPT on February 14, 2012. The film follows the courageous work of the CeaseFire violence prevention project, which treats the violence plaguing some of Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods like an infectious disease. The Interrupters illustrates that much like a major health epidemic, shootings and retaliatory violence can spread through a community infectiously.
In many US cities, violence is considered a major public health issue for urban areas where homicide is a leading cause of death and portions of the population even expect that they will die as a result of violent crime.
CeaseFire uses the following three-pronged approach, which is akin to public health methods of controlling diseases:
Using this public health approach, CeaseFire has effectively been able to reduce the number of homicides and shootings in several of Chicago’s roughest neighborhoods. Kansas City’s Aim4Peace, which was founded in 2008, uses the CeaseFire model and focuses its efforts on the approximately 30 square-mile area of the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department’s East Patrol. For the past 20 years the East Patrol has had the highest number of violent crimes, drive-by shootings and homicides in the city. Currently Aim4Peace has five mediators, who work directly to interrupt violence. Last November, Aim4Peace lost one of their own when, according to an article in the Kansas City Star, Aim4Peace mediator Terrance Jackson was gunned down while working.
Aside from Chicago and Kansas City, the only other city with a violence prevention group using the CeaseFire approach is Safe Streets project in Baltimore.
Learn more about Aim4Peace, volunteer opportunities and sign a commitment to peace on their website.
The tallies are in for the 2012 KCPT PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest! This year there were a total of 45 stories entered.
The contest, presented locally by KCPT with national funding support from Studentpublishing.com, encourages children in grades K-3 in the Kansas City region and in communities across the country to celebrate the power of language and creativity by creating and submitting original stories and illustrations. KCPT was one of sixty-three public television stations across the country that participated in this year’s contest.
All first place winners from KCPT’s contest will be entered into the national PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest, where they will compete against area winners from across the county.
KCPT’s 2012 PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest First Place Winners
Kindergarten – Furry Cat Has a Birthday Party by Alex Beeman
1st Grade – My Baby Sister by Estelle May
2nd Grade – The Cat Who Wanted to Fly by Keagan Iris Bailey
3rd Grade – The Waterfall by Amelia Kline
Second Place Winners
Kindergarten – The Butterfly at the Farm by EmmaLyn Burnett
1st Grade – The 3 Pigs Return by Maureen Tuohey
2nd Grade – The Pet Shop by Jillian Staver
3rd Grade – Farmer Boys by Daniel Sliker
Third Place Winners
Kindergarten – The Owl by Autumn Ferrante
1st Grade – If I Was by Gracelynn Xia
2nd Grade – The Soap Story of Natalie Soap by Natalie Thompson
3rd Grade – The Storm by Tanner McDaniel
Honorable Mention
Kindergartern – Pluto Got Sad by Aubrey Pritchett
1st Grade – Boomer and the Cave Mystery – Elizabeth Place
2nd Grade – The Alien by Akerth Jain
3rd Grade – The Mean Mirror by Makayla McClenahan
The PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest is produced annually by PBS KIDS and managed and created by WNED-TV Buffalo/Toronto, and is a part of PBS KIDS Raising Readers, a national initiative that uses the power of public media to build the reading skills of children ages two to eight. More information on PBS KIDS Raising Readers and the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest can be found at pbskids.org/read.
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Women, War and Peace: I Came to Testify Screening and Discussion
Date: October 5th | 5-7pm
Location: Offices of Lathrop & Gage | 2345 Grand Blvd. Suite 2200 Kansas City, MO 64108
Witness the remarkable courage of 16 Bosnian women, who broke the decades long silence of rape and war-crimes on October 5 and join us for a special screening and discussion of part one of the five-part PBS series Women, War and Peace. I Came to Testify is the moving story of how a group of 16 women who had been imprisoned and raped by Serb-led forces in the Bosnian town of Foca broke history’s great silence – and stepped forward to take the witness stand in an international court of law. Their remarkable courage resulted in a triumphant verdict that led to new international laws about sexual violence in war.
Watch the full episode. See more Women War and Peace.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with military and international human rights experts Bill Eckhardt, Rana Lehr-Lehnardt, and Fred Green.
Women, War & Peace, a bold new five-part PBS mini-series, is the most comprehensive global media initiative ever mounted on the roles of women in peace and conflict.
This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. RSVP to reserve your seat.
This event is co-sponsored by: 
There are still tickets for the March 8, 2012 Station Visit, Meet and Green and Studio Audience experience. 2 of the lads from Celtic Thunder (we won’t know which 2, it’s a surprise) will be at KCPT, you’ll have a chance to get photos, autographs and watch the craziness of a live night of pledge AND see the premier of Celtic Thunder Voyage, the latest pledge concert that was filmed at the Oct. 18 concert at the Midland by AMC here in Kansas City.
Call 816-398-4259 for more ticket information and availability.
Join us at KCPT on Thursday, March 8, 2012 from 7-10:30 pm for a fun evening with 2 of the guys from Celtic Thunder and participate in a live pledge night as our studio audience! We’ll premier the new Celtic Thunder Voyage pledge program filmed at the Oct. 18, 2011 concert at the Midland by AMC here in Kansas City!
Please call 816-398-4259 for ticket availability. Seating is limited.
Check, Please! Kansas City is KCPT’s restaurant review show where host Doug Fost sits down with regular viewers like you dine and dish on their favorite local eateries.
Each episode features three guests; each recommends his or her favorite restaurant. The other two guests then go and experience it for themselves. After the guests have experienced each other’s recommendations they meet at KCPT’s studio to discuss their experiences. The reviewers are not affiliated with any restaurant, nor are they food experts. They come from all walks of life—attorneys, scrub techs, self-proclaimed media darlings—and the list goes on. They live all over the metropolitan area, including one intrepid soul who trucks in to work every day from Baldwin City, Kansas. The one thing the guests do share is their passion for food and for their chosen restaurant.
Get tickets to KCPT Night on the Town in Independence.
