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Genealogy Roadshow is Coming Nashville | Wants Your Stories
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 [...]
We Need to Talk: Alive Hospice and NPT Get the Conversation Going on End-of-Life Care
Our friends at Alive Hospice, who deal with end-of-life issues every day, can tell you why you should tune in to our special NPT Reports: Town Hall: End-of-Life Decisions much better than we can. So we’ll just leave it to them. From their blog: It’s like the old saying goes: Nothing in life is certain [...]
Fans and Supporters Celebrate A Downton Abbey Affair at Cheekwood (Photos)
Supporters of NPT and fans of the hit show Downton Abbey gathered in the elegant confines of the Mansion at Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art on Saturday, March 2 to celebrate public broadcasting and bid farewell to the third season. The 140 guests came dressed in their Downton best, many in formal or [...]
Beth Curley Gets Nashy | Mayor Dean Praises `Children`s Health Crisis`
As previously announced, NPT president and CEO Beth Curley received The Nashy Award last week for Outstanding Contributions to the Growth of the Nashville Film and Cultural Community. The award was presented by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean at the annual Nashville Film/Television Town Meeting at the Belcourt Theatre on February 19. Prior to Dean’s comments [...]
NPT Civil War Series Wins Two Regional Emmy Awards
We are proud to announce that two documentaries in our Tennessee Civil War 150 series picked up Emmy® Awards last night when the Midsouth Regional Emmy Awards were announced at Schermerhorn Symphony Center. Crisis of Faith won in the DOCUMENTARY/CULTURAL category, earning statuettes for Justin Harvey, Paul Mojonnier and Kevin Crane, while No Going Back: [...]
Celebrate The Season with a Downton Abbey Affair at Cheekwood
What better way to celebrate the conclusion of Season Three than with a roaring 20s Party at Cheekwood! Join us on Saturday, March 2, from 7 – 11p.m. to enjoy period food, drinks and music in the Mansion. Downton Formal attire or Black Tie encouraged. Tickets are $250 per person ($175 is Tax Deductible) and [...]
Join us for an Online Social Screening of American Graduate documentary `Translating the Dream`
(Updated 1/22/13 at 11:59 to add additional panelist) In advance of the broadcast premiere of our latest American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen documentary, Graduation By The Numbers on Thursday, January 24 at 9:00 p.m., join NPT and Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) for an online-only social screening of our first documentary, “Translating the Dream.” [...]
One On One With `Contributor` Exec Director Explores Success of Nation`s Largest Street Paper
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 [...]
NPT Scores Seven Midsouth Regional Emmy Nominations
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 [...]
LIVEBLOG: Nov 7 | Women`s Fund Forum on Human Sex Trafficking in Tennessee
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 [...]
