NASA engineer and space exploration advocate Kobie Boykins presents EXPLORING MARS: THE NEXT GENERATION.
National Geographic Lecture: Kobie Boykins Event on 5/14/2013 at Helzberg Hall
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Black Blizzards: Jay Antle and The Dust Bowl
The name Ken Burns has become synonymous with some of public television’s biggest blockbuster documentaries.
The Civil War. Baseball. Jazz. The National Parks. This Sunday night on KCPT and PBS stations around the country, watch Ken Burn’s latest documentary epic, The Dust Bowl, a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us–a lesson we ignore at our peril.
You can watch the first installment of Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl this Sunday night at 7 p.m. here on KCPT. One of our metro’s most knowledgeable experts on that slice of our nation’s history, Professor Jay Antle, who is executive director of the sustainability center at Johnson County Community College, sat down with Randy Mason to give a local perspective on The Dust Bowl and to talk about what it means for us today.
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The Dust Bowl
Survey the causes of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when the frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. See vivid interviews with 26 survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom-seen movie footage, that bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible perseverance. The documentary is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us — a lesson we ignore at our peril.
Ken Burns will be on:
• The Colbert Report: November 12, 2012
• FOX Business Network TV: Ken will do a live, in-studio segment on November 13, 2012
• Morning Joe: interview scheduled for November 16, 2012
The Great Plow Up – Part One, Sunday, November 18 @ 7 & 9pm
In the first episode of Ken Burns’s THE DUST BOWL, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and heavens seemed to turn against them.
Reaping the Whirlwind – Part Two, Monday, November 19 @ 7 & 9pm
In the second episode of Ken Burns’s DUST BOWL, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts — and a break in the drought in 1939 — eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations.
Watch The Dust Bowl Preview on PBS. See more from The Dust Bowl.
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Going Blind
What does a filmmaker do when he finds out he is losing his eyesight but his doctors don’t want to talk about what his future might be? In filmmaker Joe Lovett’s case, you take to the streets. It’s there he meets others who have lost their sight, chronicling their struggle and films efforts to save his remaining vision. Going Blind is a unique documentary film that increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision, issues that profoundly affect the lives of thousands of people here in our metro and those who love them.
Director Joseph Lovett has glaucoma, a disease that robs 4.5 million people worldwide of their vision. After years of slowly losing his sight, Joe decides to take action: to investigate how people all over the country respond to vision-loss. His search begins small, with people Joe meets on the streets of his hometown New York City and gradually leads him to places and people around the country, of all different ages and backgrounds. Each has a fascinating story about dealing with the vision loss caused by sight-robbing diseases, infections and accidents. Going Blind interweaves Joe’s story with that of his fellow subjects and invites us into the intimate spaces of the visually impaired and blind. As a filmmaker, Joe uses the tool he knows best to gather information, to connect with individuals and to find answers to share with the world.
Funding generously provided by:
Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
Pfizer Ophthalmics
Gibney Family Foundation
Allene Reuss Memorial Trust
National Eye Institute
Allergan Foundation
Fred A Lennon Charitable Trust
Rudin Foundation
May & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation
Reid Williams Foundation
