Get your picture with Buddy from Dinosaur Train and take the Dinosaur Train Discovery Tour through Sea Life Aquarium! On the self-guided tour, you’ll learn about the prehistoric ancestors of sharks, crabs and more.
Buddy will be at Sea Life Aquarium on Saturday, January 26th from 10am to 3pm. Tickets for admission to the aquarium are required and can be purchased through Sea Life Aquarium’s website. It is highly recommended that you purchase your tickets online and in advance of January 26th.
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.
Author Christopher B. Leinberger describes how government policy over the last 60 years – driven by the auto and oil industry – has encouraged suburban sprawl with its strip malls and isolated housing developments. The result: decline of community, urban decay, pollution, and a rise in obesity and asthma. But there’s a new approach (or perhaps it’s an old approach) in which citizens live, work, and play within easy walking distance.
Developer and educator Leinberger is a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and is director of the Graduate Real Estate Program at the University of Michigan.
Make Your Reservation
Christopher B. Leinberger: The Option of Urbanism
April 18, 2012 – Reception: 6pm — Program: 6:30pm
Location: Central Library, Kansas City Public Library, 14 West 10th Street, Kansas City, MO 64105
Tickets were mailed on May 3. Please contact Carrie at chabib@kcpt.org or call 816-398-4259 with any questions.
Performances on Sunday, May 15 at the Sprint Center at 1 pm and 5 pm.
This February marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Clifford, the Big Red Dog by Norman Bridwell. That means Clifford is about 350 in dog years!
Celebrate Clifford the Big Red Dog’s 50th birthday with KCPT on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at KCPT Kids on Ice. To mark this MONUMENTAL occasion, you can skate with Clifford, sign his BIG birthday card and enjoy some special birthday treats.
Event Details
Saturday, February 23, 2013 | 10am – 1pm
Crown Center Ice Terrace
Tickets only available day of the event, RSVP here.
Admission & Skate Rental:
Adults and kids over 4 years old – $6.00
Children 4 and under – FREE
Over age 60 – FREE
Skate Rental – $3.00
Join KCPT and Tivoli Cinemas for the first in a series of monthly Community Cinema screenings. On Saturday, September 10 at 11am we’ll watch and discuss a documentary from the upcoming PBS series Women, War & Peace which looks at conflict across the globe from the perspective of women. Peace Unveiled is the third part of Women, War & Peace and follows three women in Afghanistan who risk their lives to make sure women’s rights don’t get traded away in peace negotiations with the Taliban.
Watch the full episode. See more Women War and Peace.
The screening is free and open to the public.
Community Cinema is a groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative featuring free monthly screenings of films from the Emmy Award-winning series Independent Lens. Community Cinema is on location in more than 95 cities nationally, bringing together leading organizations, community members, and public television stations to learn, discuss, and get involved in key social issues of our time.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Reception 6pm | Program 6:30pm
Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library
Join KCPT and the Kansas City Public library for a special community conversation about the civil rights movement in Kansas City. A panel moderated by Nick Haines will discuss civil rights activism past and present as well as what role individuals and groups have to play in addressing current civil rights issues.
Selected clips from Freedom Riders — a new documentary describing the experiences of 400 black and white Americans that rode buses into the deep South in defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1961—sets the stage for the community conversation.
RSVP here!
The event complements the Freedom Riders exhibit on display in the Central Library.
Learn more about KCPT’s presentation of Freedom Riders
Local Support for Freedom Riders is provided by:
Over one hundred people came out to see the sneak-peek of Homeland: Immigration in America, a three part documentary co-produced by the Nine Network and KCPT for PBS’ 2012 Election Coverage.
Attendees viewed the second part of the documentary titled “Enforcement”, which illustrates the lengthy process of attaining citizenship legally, the inconsistencies in the legal system, and policemen who have to choose between enforcing the law and building trust with documented and undocumented immigrants in integrated communities.
The policemen in the documentary are two of Kansas City’s own. Police officers Matthew Tomasic and Chato Villalobos, who work in the Westside, were in attendance and answered people’s questions about their work in one of KC’s largest Hispanic neighborhoods.
Comments about the film included concerns about the use of the term “illegal”, pride in the police officers compassionate and community approach, and stories about prejudice against Hispanics in other areas of Kansas City.
