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Not In Our Town: Come Together to Stop Hate

Join a group of fellow concerned citizens in taking a stand against hate in our community.

Not in Our Town: Light in the Darkness tells the story of residents of a Long Island village taking action after a local immigrant is killed in a hate crime attack by seven teenagers. While starkly revealing the trauma of hate, this powerful documentary encourages viewers to take action and prevent intolerance from turning into violence.

You can join a group of fellow concerned citizens in taking a stand against hate in our community. After a screening of Not In Our Town:Light in the Darkness, U.S. Justice Department Region VII Community Relations Directer Pascual Marquez discussed best practices for addressing and preventing hate-crimes in our community. Much of the discussion focused on anti-immigrant and homophobic attitudes in our neighborhoods, schools and in politics. Marquez proposed creating a task force of citizens and organizations that would be resource for preventing, reporting and reconciliation of hate crimes. You or your organization can get involved here.

In conjunction with the national PBS documentary KCPT’s The Local Show highlights communities coming together to stop hate and features several segments showcasing local efforts to combat acts of hate and bullying in our community.

This event was co-sponsored by: Coalition of Hispanic Organizations, PFLAG-KC and The Kansas City Anti-Violence Project.

Interested in hosting a screening for your group or school?
Contact Lindsey Foat

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September – October Letter from KCPT

It's been a great year...PBS programs have received 43 nominations for this year’s Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.

What a great year for PBS!  I am pleased to report that PBS programs have received 43 nominations for this year’s Annual Primetime Emmy Awards.  This is the largest number of Primetime Emmy nominations our system has ever received, and more than twice the combined total of A&E, Bravo, Discovery, and the History channels.  Masterpiece programs led the way for PBS with a combined 25 nominations.  The 63rd annual Emmys will air September 18 so be sure to watch.

The PBS programs with multiple nominations include Downton Abbey, Upstairs Downstairs, and Any Human Heart (all Masterpiece Classic); Sherlock: A Study In Pink (Masterpiece Mystery!); Freedom Riders (American Experience); and LennoNYC (American Masters).  Paula Kerger recently wrote to all PBS station CEOs noting that these award nominations are a welcome recognition of the steps PBS has taken to strengthen primetime content.

And there’s more good news.  PBS received 32 nominations for the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards.  Programs with multiple nominations include POV, Frontline, Independent Lens, PBS NewsHour, Nature, and NOVA.  This brings PBS’ total Emmy nominations to 121 in the Daytime, Primetime, and News & Documentary categories – our highest ever!

PBS’ children’s programming has a stellar number of nominations as well – Eight Emmy nominations for Sesame Street and three for The Electric Company.

For you Masterpiece Classic fans, Downton Abbey returns with seven new episodes.  Created by Oscar-winning writer Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey depicts the lives of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them.  Featuring an all-star cast, including Hugh Bonneville (Masterpiece Classic “Miss Austen Regrets”), Dame Maggie Smith (Harry Potter) and Elizabeth McGovern.  Tune in to watch these new episodes beginning Sunday, January 8, 2012.

Other PBS programs to watch for – America in Primetime, a four part documentary that explores the history and significance of primetime scripted programs like I Love Lucy, Sex in the City, Man of the House, Beverly Hillbillies, and many more; America Revealed, a four part series with breathtaking aerial and satellite imagery to examine America’s infrastructure from above; The Fabric of the Cosmos (four hours inside of NOVA), which is an exploration of space and time based on Brian Greene’s best-selling book of the same name; and, Prohibition, another great documentary from Ken Burns, which examines the social, cultural, and political forces that converged in the first two decades of the 20th century.

These award nominations underscore that PBS offers fantastic national content with diverse subject matters that both entertain and educate.  Congratulations to all those involved in these exceptional productions!

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Kliff Kuehl
KCPT President and CEO

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KC Week in Review
September 16, 2011

The Greater KC Chamber rolls out the "Big 5" ideas to move the region forward. Host Nick Haines dissects the picks with "Big 5" leaders. Plus, we take you inside the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. And delve into AMC's decision to ditch downtown for Leawood.

The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce rolls out the “Big 5″ ideas to move the region forward. On Kansas City Week in Review we dissect their top picks for the metro. Host Nick Haines pushes aside his regular reporter roundtable to bring you “Big 5″ leaders: Greater KC Chamber head Jim Heeter, Burns & McDonnell CEO Greg Graves, Chamber V-P Kristi Wyatt, and Frank Ellis, President of Swope Community Enterprises.

Also, after years of planning, the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts finally opens its doors. We take you inside. Plus, AMC announces its leaving downtown and moving to Leawood. What happened to all that talk of a cross border tax incentive ceasefire?

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Community Cinema KC Kick-off!

Community Cinema KC will screen and discuss Peace Unveiled on Saturday, September 10 at 11am.

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.

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