Think you’ve got special roots? Have some hidden gems in your family’s history? A New PBS series, GENEALOGY ROADSHOW wants to know. The show will shoot in Nashville on JUNE 30, and its producers are looking for local residents with interesting stories for the national broadcast. Everything you need to know is below. Visit http://www.wnpt.org/grshow [...]
NPT, together with Nashville and country music lovers everywhere — and all music lovers, really — mourn today the passing of legend George Jones at age 81. Much will be written and said about Jones today and in the days and weeks ahead, but one of the first things we thought of this morning when [...]
President and CEO to be honored for her contribution to film community Beth Curley, president and CEO of Nashville Public Television (NPT), will receive The Nashy Award — given to an individual each year for his or her Outstanding Contributions to the Growth of the Nashville Film Community — at the annual Nashville Film/Television Town [...]
Scarritt-Bennett Center and Nashville Public Television (NPT) invite the community to a free screening of the NPT “American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen” documentary NPT Reports: Translating the Dream on Friday, February 22 at 7:00 p.m. at Scarritt-Bennett Center’s Fondren Hall. The screening is open-to-the-public and will be followed by a panel discussion led by [...]
I got my most recent copy of The Contributor from Don at the Corner of Broadway and 13th Street in downtown Nashville, as soon you exit off Interstate 40. He wished me and my mother a blessed day, and when I immediately got caught up reading the cover story, informed me that the light had [...]
We are proud to announce that NPT productions picked up seven nominations when The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS )announced the Midsouth Regional Emmy® Award Nominations tonight at the Music Row offices of Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI). Among productions scoring nominations were NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis: Sexuality, Visions of the American West, Tennessee Civil [...]
Join us here on Wednesday, November 7 at 9:15 a.m. for a real-time live blog of the Women’s Fund Forum on Human Sex Trafficking in Tennessee. Even though registration for the event at the First Amendment Center is now closed, you can follow along here, as well as by following the Women’s Fund Forum on [...]
One our favorite cultural events of the year takes place this weekend, October 12-14 at the Legislative Plaza. The Southern Festival of Books is a free event that offers “readers and writers an opportunity to interact, and create a public community that promotes and celebrates the joy of reading and of lifelong learning.” In short, [...]
We are very proud to announce that Nashville Public Television board member Crissy Welhoelter is an honoree at this year’s Model Behavior event, presented by NFocus Magazine. The cocktail party and runway show at the Noah Liff Opera Center on October 12, this year featuring the designs of Christian Siriano, winner of hit TV show, [...]
Philanthropist Ann Carell, who along with her late husband Monroe Carell, Jr., made the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Medical Center possible, passed away yesterday at age 77. Carell was a supporter of numerous charitable causes in Nashville, many involving education, including the underwriting of NPT’s “A Word on Words with John Seigenthaler,” the [...]
