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Television Highlights in March
It’s a global sensation! See the rich traditions of classical Chinese dance on stage with Shen Yun! Dazzling costumes, the orchestra’s exquisite melodies, the singers’ soaring voices, and the dynamic animated backdrops transport you to another world. Experience 5,000 years of civilization reborn! Experience Shen Yun on Tuesday, March 5, at 9 pm CT. Celebrate the iconic singer/songwriter’s 75th birthday with Great Performances—Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration. Musicians Graham Nash, James Taylor, Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, Emmylou Harris, Seal, and Rufus Wainwright, among others, all pay tribute to Joni against the backdrop of her photos and paintings. Joni is in the audience, and you can be, too, on Saturday, March 2, at 8:30 pm CT.
You won’t want to miss Josh Groban Bridges: in Concert From Madison Square Garden—his critically acclaimed, sold out performance that recently marked the end of his “Bridges” tour. Joining him on stage at this very special concert is Tony Award-winning Idina Menzel as well as Grammy Award-winner and Billboard chart topper Jennifer Nettles. You have front row seats on Monday, March 4, at 8:30 pm CT.
tly and carry a good boo f o s k a k Spe Our 26th president Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was a lauded statesman, orator, and storyteller. To commemorate him and his North Dakota legacy, Roosevelt scholar and re-enactor Steve Stark has made selections from his speeches, books and letters for a special Dakota Datebook radio series. In 2019, listen for Dakota Datebook: Remembering Theodore Roosevelt once a week in the regular Dakota Datebook timeslots. This special series is made possible with support from the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation.
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The Dakota Datebook radio series has been edifying us with daily doses of North Dakota history since October 2003. The short features air several times a day, are archived and available online anytime, and are popular on Prairie Public’s social media pages. Now, Dr. David Haeselin’s “Practicum in Writing, Editing, and Publishing” students at UND have taken on the task of compiling those thousands of essays into a book. The book will be available free to download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, and we’ll use printed copies as membership drive gifts. Book release events are being planned for mid-May in Grand Forks, Fargo, and Bismarck. The award-winning Dakota Datebook series is authored by a variety of writers, fact-checked by the State Historical Society of North Dakota, and supported with generous funding from Humanities North Dakota.
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Public radio listeners take uncommon pleasure in the world of ideas. How do children come to love spicy foods? Why do religions exist? What’s the best way to get people to be honest on their taxes? Hidden Brain explores questions like these that lie at the very heart of our complex and changing society. Hosted by NPR social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam, Hidden Brain uses science and storytelling to link research from psychology and neurobiology with findings from economics, anthropology, and sociology—revealing the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.
Antiques Roadshow
is coming to North Dakota on June 1 In anticipation of Antiques Roadshow’s visit on June 1, 2019, we’re rebroadcasting the three episodes from the series’ stop in Bismarck in 2014! Tune in Mondays at 7 pm CT beginning March 4. Antiques Roadshow’s free ticket drawing ended in February, and those who won tickets should have been notified by now via email. Visit pbs.org/roadshow if you are unsure if you won tickets.
You still have two options to attend the show if you didn’t receive tickets in the drawing. • Contribute to Prairie Public, and we’ll thank you with a pair of tickets to the show and a meet and greet reception on May 31. • Be a volunteer! We have a limited number of volunteer opportunities for this event. You must commit to a training session on May 31 and to work all day on June 1. You’ll receive an Antiques Roadshow shirt, breakfast and lunch, and you can bring in two items for appraisal. Visit prairiepublic.org to sign up.
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Last election cycle, Sam Sanders emerged as a fresh voice and fan favorite as co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast. Now he’s bringing the same energy and enthusiasm to It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders. ‘It’s been a minute’ is another way of saying ‘let’s catch up,’ and in his new show, Sanders does just that in conversations about the news, culture, and everything in between. And not just what happened each week, but how it felt. Sam Sanders is at once incisive, inviting, and entertaining—and so are his guests. The world is complicated, and people are too— and sometimes, you just need to talk it out.
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is now available in Canada Prairie Public is committed to transforming learning! PBS LearningMedia offers direct online access to thousands of classroomready, curriculum-targeted resources for all educators: preK-12 teachers, homeschoolers, childcare providers, and museum educators. The resource builds on the strength of public media and is designed to improve teacher effectiveness and student achievement. Resources are aligned to U.S. standards and include videos and interactives, as well as audio, documents, and in-depth lesson plans. Browse by standards, grade level, subject area, and special collections. You can also favorite and share resources with your class and colleagues. Best of all, you can access it free at prairiepublic.pbslearningmedia.org.
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And get your imagination in gear, because Prairie Public is hosting the PBS Kids Writers Contest to promote reading and writing skills through hands-on, active learning. Children in grades K-3 can submit their own original stories. Visit prairiepublic.org to find the contest rules and entry forms. There you’ll also find a writer’s guide that discusses brainstorming, plots, setting, character development, word choices, and more! The deadline for submissions is March 22, 2019. We will award “First Place” and “Red Ribbon Favorite” prizes to children in each grade level, and every child who submits a story will receive a certificate of participation and personal, positive feedback from our story evaluators.
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