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Artist Wayne White Engages and Inspires (Unembarrassingly) at Nash-Up Event
By Daniel Tidwell NPT Media Update and NPT Arts Break Contributor Artist Wayne White took the stage on Wednesday at the Frist Center picking a banjo and sporting a Davy Crockett ensemble, complete with coon skin cap. “My Name is Wayne White and I make pictures!” he declared, opening his inspiring, hilarious and profound lecture [...]
2011-12 Season of Community Cinema Nashville Announced
From our friends at Community Cinema: Season Opens Saturday, September 17 with Afghanistan-set “Peace Unveiled.” ITVS, together with partner station Nashville Public Television (NPT) and series partners Nashville Public Library, Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) and Hands On Nashville, is proud to announce the 2011-12 season of ITVS Community Cinema Nashville. Now in its four year, [...]
Welcome to Shelbyville: The Panel Discussion
Part of the NPT co-presented ITVS Community Cinema Nashville series, we screened the Independent Lens documentary “Welcome to Shelbyville” last week at the downtown Nashville Public Library. The film examines a community, 60 miles from Nashville, struggling in an economic downtown with a burgeoning immigrant population. A panel discussion followed with director Kim Snyder and [...]
NPT Invites You to Shelbyville
The Nashville Public Television and national PBS broadcast of Welcome to Shelbyville is just around the corner (Tuesday, May 24 at 9:00 p.m.) But tomorrow, at the Nashville Downtown Public Library, NPT viewers can get a more personal experience with the film. Join NPT and ITVS Community Cinema Nashville at 2:30pm for a free reception, [...]
Screenings and Civil War Songs and More: an Amazing May at NPT
There’s always plenty going on here at NPT, both on and off-air, but May is particularly busy with screenings and special broadcasts. Here’s a quick round-up: May could easily be called “Freedom Riders Month” with the many events going on to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the historic rides. In addition to the national American [...]
`Pushing the Elephant` is a Must Watch Documentary
“There are some strategies that you take, without knowing what they will produce. Life or Death.” – Rose Mapendo By Beth Curley Sometimes I think my life is just one big synchronous moment. Everything is connected in some deep way. Earlier this winter, I attended a staged reading by the Tennessee Repertory Theatre of Lynn [...]
A Teen Facing Life: Thoughts on Cyntoia Brown and Her Story
By Molly Secours Imagine a young girl that has been abandoned early on by her biological mother and grandmother — who both share a history of emotional instability (including drug and alcohol abuse) and several generations of suicidal behavior. In spite of being adopted and nurtured by a loving family, by her teen years she [...]
Why `For Once In My Life` Matters: Especially in Music City
Making the case for why musicians should see “For Once in My Life.”
A Look at the Six Months Ahead at NPT
From new episodes in our Tennessee Civil War 150, NPT Reports: Children’s Health Crisis and Next Door Neighbors documentary projects, to a third volume of our popular 20th Century in Photographs series, to a public screening and event surrounding the Freedom Riders documentary, 2011 is going to be an amazing year of great programming and events [...]
A Christian, a Jew and a Muslim Walk into a Documentary
Watch the full episode. See more Independent Lens. I grew up in an Italian-American Roman Catholic family. Like most good Catholic boys, I at one point in my youth pondered whether I should enter the priesthood. And like most good Catholic families, it would have been an honor for my family if I did. I [...]
