It's all business on this week's A Lively Experiment (9/30 at noon)

Panel
Dyana Koelsch – moderator
John Simmons – executive director, RI Public Expenditures Council (RIPEC)
Mark Murphy – editor, Providence Business News
Dr. Edward Mazze – former dean, URI College of Business Administration
Joseph Paolino, Jr. – businessman; former state development director

Topic

• The RIPEC report on the Economic Development Corporation and recommendations for promoting  Rhode Island’s commerce

 Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 P.M., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1).

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon FiOS 08 / 508HD, and Full Channel 08; in Massachusetts: Comcast 819HD adn Verizon FiOS 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on Cox 808; Verizon 478; Full Channel 109; and Comcast 294 or 312.

Can't get to the TV? Watch the episode online anytime and anywhere on our YouTube channel. Episodes of A Lively Experiment are generally available to watch on the next business day. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and YouTube will notify you when a new episode is uploaded.

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Rhode Island Stories: Laff in the Dark Encore

On Saturday nights, Rhode Island Stories kicks off a month of creepy, scary, fun, and always informative documentaries for Halloween.

This Saturday, September 29, at 7 P.M., we kick off the creeps with Laff in the Dark: Behind the Scenes of an Amusement Park Dark Ride. Click here for a full description of the documentary.

A Lively Experiment (9/21 at 8:30PM and 9/23 at noon)

Panel
Dyana Koelsch – moderator
Wendy Schiller – Brown University political science professor
Tim White – WPRI Target 12 investigative reporter
Jim Hummel – The Hummel Report investigative reporter
Maureen Moakley – URI Political Science Professor

Topics

• Central Falls Mayor Charles Moreau’s resignation and guilty plea to federal corruption charges 
• Former Governor Carcieri’s interview with WPRI about the 38 Studios failure  
• Political ramifications of Mitt Romney’s off-the-cuff remarks 
• Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren 
• Cranston School Department’s banning of father-daughter and mother-son dances 

 Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 P.M., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1).

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon FiOS 08 / 508HD, and Full Channel 08; in Massachusetts: Comcast 819HD adn Verizon FiOS 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on Cox 808; Verizon 478; Full Channel 109; and Comcast 294 or 312.

Can't get to the TV? Watch the episode online anytime and anywhere on our YouTube channel. Episodes of A Lively Experiment are generally available to watch on the next business day. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and YouTube will notify you when a new episode is uploaded.

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Wake of '38

Marking the Anniversary...

Every year, we receive several requests to air this documentary! Produced by WSBE ("Channel 36" then, "Rhode Island PBS" now), Wake of '38 tells the story of the hurricane that struck southern New England on September 21, 1938, using archival newsreel and home movie footage, and contemporary interviews with eyewitnesses and survivors. 

The hurricane was estimated to have killed between 682 and 800 people, damaged or destroyed over 57,000 homes, and caused property losses estimated at US$306 million ($4.7 Billion in 2012 dollars). Downtown Providence still has buildings that are scarred by the water lines, some 13 feet above ground level.

This annual "favorite" was filmed in 1978 and won an EMMY(R) Award for WSBE. We proudly air it on Thursday, September 20 at 9 P.M. on Learn.

Death and the Civil War: American Experience

With the coming of the Civil War, and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before -- permanently altering the character of the republic and the psyche of the American people.

Contending with death on an unprecedented scale posed challenges for which there were no ready answers when the war began. Americans worked to improvise new solutions, new institutions, and new ways of coping with death on an unimaginable scale.

Tune-in Monday, September 24th at 9 P.M. for the Rhode Island PBS broadcast of American Experience: Death and the Civil War a film produced and directed by Ric Burns, based on the book,  This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (January 2008) by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust, a civil war historian and professor of history. Click for more information and video.

Downton Abbey Season 1 Encores September 28

Rhode Island PBS presents Season 1 of Downton Abbey on Masterpiece Fridays at 9 P.M., beginning September 28. We will encore Season 2 at the end of November.

Downton Abbey was nominated for 12 Emmy awards and won four - including Outstanding Miniseries - in its first season. It has been nominated for a staggering 16 Emmys for its second season.

Taking fondness for Downton Abbey a grand leap forward, Rhode Island PBS is working with Collette Vacations on a customized 11-day tour of British landscapes that includes a visit to the real-life Downton Abbey - Highclere Castle, the sumptuous home of Earl and Countess of Carnarvon where the Downton Abbey series is filmed. Read more here.

Broadway or Bust: Do They Have What It Takes?

Do They Have What It Takes?

Broadway or Bust tracks the real life stories of America's top high school musical performers vying in the ultimate competition to find the nation's best young theater stars.

It's non-stop drama when 60 talented teens - chosen from a nationwide casting call of over 50,000 students - descend on New York for an intensive week of "theatrical boot camp" and a shot at stage stardom and scholarships. The annual event, held each summer, is filmed for the first time ever and airs three consecutive Thursdays at 10 P.M. beginning September 20, on Rhode Island PBS.

Part competition, part performance and part non-fiction drama, Broadway or Bust is the first-ever TV series to capture the behind-the-scenes coaching, grueling rehearsal schedule and highly charged atmosphere leading up to the National High School Musical Theater Awards (NHSMTA). Popularly known as "The Jimmy Awards" - named in honor of renowned Broadway theatre owner and producer James M. Nederlander - this national competition plunges the country's top teens into the eye of the theatrical storm for one intense, make-it-or-break-it week in New York City. The whirlwind competition culminates in an awards event on a Broadway stage in front of a live audience and a panel of high-profile judges.

Broadway or Bust airs as part of the PBS Arts lineup, a multiplatform commitment to make the arts accessible to all.

Inside scoop:

Deborah Cox and Constantine Maroulis, featured in Broadway or Bust, will be in Providence when they appear in the show, Jeckyl and Hyde, coming to the Providence Performing Arts Center in January.

This week on A Lively Experiment (9/16 at noon)

Panel
Dyana Koelsch – moderator
Ian Donnis – Rhode Island Public Radio political reporter
Maureen Moakely – URI political science professor
Donna Perry – GoLocal Prov.com columnist
Jim Hummel – The Hummel Report investigative reporter

Topics

• Winners and losers from the state’s primary elections 
• Former Governor Carcieri’s interview with WPRI about the 38 Studios failure  

 Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 P.M., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1).

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon FiOS 08 / 508HD, and Full Channel 08; in Massachusetts: Comcast 819HD adn Verizon FiOS 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on Cox 808; Verizon 478; Full Channel 109; and Comcast 294 or 312.

Can't get to the TV? Watch the episode online anytime and anywhere on our YouTube channel. Episodes of A Lively Experiment are generally available to watch on the next business day. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and YouTube will notify you when a new episode is uploaded.

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The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work (Sept. 17)

Richard Yeagley, a 20-something first-time documentary filmmaker, astutely observed at his young age the blue collar workforce was vanishing. He wondered why - when these are the men that makes things work. In his words: 

“I was raised in a place called ‘Charm City’ – most know it as Baltimore. Growing up, I vividly remember the blue-collar nature of the individuals and the city itself. At this point in my life I no longer have a daily connection to the blue-collar worker, and I have lost touch with the very essence of my upbringing and the people who occupy my childhood and adolescent memories. 

“After graduating from college, moving away from my hometown, and entering the workforce, I began to notice a pervasive bias against work that required any form of manual labor and described as blue collar. In principle, this sentiment without any firsthand experience was unfair and disparaging towards tradesmen and their work. But why are such attitudes ubiquitous within our current cultural landscape? Where does the current cultural bias come from? Is it influenced by technological advances and novel opportunities in other occupations? Or opinions of limited financial prosperity in trade-work, and the potential for higher wages in other fields? Or is it inherent in the current educational curriculum and paradigm? I wanted to produce a documentary which sets out to explore the questions.”

The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work is that exploratory social documentary. It will engage the viewer as they watch the vocational lives of several tradesmen and will discuss the issues encompassing the trades in contemporary America. The documentary is a real and unflinching look at the lives and work of the modern tradesman and is an exposition into the socioeconomic topics related to the modern blue-collar craftsman.

“The people who do not value and acknowledge the intellect inherent in this type of work are the individuals who have never performed this type of work on a large scale. Anyone who has ever monitored a skilled tradesman at work and immersed in the task at hand, would quickly realize that there is a skill set and know how that is accumulated through copious experience and intangible knowledge. 

“Moreover, since there has been this new movement towards so-called knowledge industries, there has been a pervasive disdain for any industry perceived to be industrial, and by extension – antiquated. Somehow, educators – and a majority of the population as a whole – feel that these types of ‘industrial’ jobs do not require a skill set worthy of teaching and acknowledging, and that are youth shall not be tracked or “nudged” into such professions. Essentially, parents and educators are reinforcing such negligence of intelligence in the work. 

“Furthermore, most Americans equate occupational desirability with social prestige and/or income, and since there is currently an ethos of undesirability within these jobs, there will irrefutably be condescension of the intelligence behind such work. In summation, the ‘college for all’ movement in the advanced world, and being that most trades do not require a college degree, has exacerbated this sentiment.”

WSBE Rhode Island PBS is proud to encore The Tradesmen: Making an Art of Work on Monday, September 17 at 9 P.M. 

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WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on RI cable services: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon 08 / 508HD, Full Channel 08; MA cable: Comcast 819HD, Verizon 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on cable: Cox 808, Verizon 478, Full Channel 109, Comcast 294 or 312.

Radiohead Opens 38th Season of Austin City Limits

Put October 7 on your calendars for the Austin City Limits season 38 premiere with Radiohead.

And while you’re at it, you can also bookmark the exciting behind-the-scenes look at the episode by Austin City Limits videographer Jonathan Jackson. Other great videos may be posted, too, as the new season approaches.



Here is our full Austin City Limits schedule for October and November:

Sundays at 10 P.M.
October 7 – Radiohead
October 14 – Bon Iver
October 21 – Bonnie Raitt / Mavis Staples
October 28 – The Shins / Dr. Dog
November 4 – The Civil Wars / Punch Brothers
November 11 – Tim McGraw
November 18 – Austin City Limits Presents: Americana Music Festival (highlighted performances from the
                        Americana Music Festival in Nashville)


Saturdays at 11 P.M.
October 6 – Radiohead
October 13 – Bon Iver
October 20 – Bonnie Raitt / Mavis Staples

Austin City Limits airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS on Sundays at 10 P.M. with rebroadcast of the same episode on Tuesdays at 2:30 A.M. Austin City Limits airs on WSBE Learn on Saturdays at 11 P.M. (Austin City Limits episodes airing on Learn may be pre-empted due to extended episodes of  Great Performances, which air at 8 P.M.)

Talking Pictures

Art Rhode Island's Martina Windels will host two public screenings of episodes from the new season of Art Rhode Island (Art RI), followed by conversations with the audience.

Please note the start time has changed to 7 P.M. for both screenings.

"Art Education" will be screened on Wednesday, September 12, at the Chace Center at the RISD Museum. In the episode, three art educators introduce their programs and discuss art education in Rhode Island. They take a look at the role art education plays in teaching subjects other than art, such as the development of essential skills and creative problem solving skills. Art education is often cut from public school budgets because it is not part of the core curriculum, but are non-profit arts organizations in Providence and beyond equipped to provide an appropriate substitute for the missing art education in public schools? Paul Sproll explains RISD’s President John Maeda’s STEAM* (versus STEM) initiative. Guests are:

• Sarah Ganz Blythe, director of education at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum of Art
• Barbara Wong, the executive director at City Art and member of the Providence school board 
• Paul Sproll, Professor at RISD, Department of Teaching and Learning in Art and Design

*Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics


On Wednesday, September 19, at the Granoff Center for the Arts at Brown University, "Art Museums and Art Centers" examines the role of art museums in the community and in the larger context of the role of art in our lives, and why art matters. Guests are:

• John Smith, director of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art 
• Lisa Goddard, director of the Newport Art Museum 
• Richard Fishman, director of the Brown University Creative Arts Council.

 Both events are free and open to the public. Bring your friends, colleagues, family ­– spread the word.

A Lively Experiment 9/7 at 8:30PM (9/9 at noon)

Panel
Dyana Koelsch – moderator
Joseph Trillo – RI State Representative and RI G.O.P. Delegate
Scott MacKay – political analyst, Rhode Island Public Radio
Rob Horowitz – columnist, golocalprov.com
Maureen Moakley – URI Political Science Professor

Topics 

• The impact political conventions have on undecided voters 
• Governor Lincoln Chafee’s speech at the Democratic National Convention 
• The rising stars in each political party 

 Lively Experiment airs on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1) Fridays at 8:30 P.M., with rebroadcasts on Saturdays at 7 P.M. on WSBE Learn (36.2), and Sundays at noon on WSBE Rhode Island PBS (36.1).

WSBE Rhode Island PBS transmits standard-definition (SD) and high-definition (HD) programming over the air on digital 36.1; on Rhode Island cable: Cox 08 / 1008HD, Verizon FiOS 08 / 508HD, and Full Channel 08; in Massachusetts: Comcast 819HD adn Verizon FiOS 18 / 518HD; on satellite: DirecTV 36, Dish Network 7776.

WSBE Learn transmits over the air on digital 36.2; on Cox 808; Verizon 478; Full Channel 109; and Comcast 294 or 312.

Can't get to the TV? Watch the episode online anytime and anywhere on our YouTube channel. Episodes of A Lively Experiment are generally available to watch on the next business day. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and YouTube will notify you when a new episode is uploaded.

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PPAC Announces Jackie Evancho Will Perform with RI Philharmonic

This just in! Providence Performing Arts Center just announced that Jackie Evancho will perform with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra during her concert in Providence on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 7:30P at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

Tickets go on sale Friday, September 14, 2012 at 10A, but only Rhode Island PBS has the best seats in the house for this concert, plus an exclusive meet and greet reception. Tune in tonight (September 5) at 7:30 P.M. for all the details.

7:30 PM *NEW SHOW* Great Performances Jackie Evancho: Music of the Movies

9:00 PM *ENCORE* Great Performances Jackie Evancho: Dream with Me in Concert


The PPAC news release continues:

Acclaimed soprano prodigy JACKIE EVANCHO will perform with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra (RIPO) at the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC) on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 7:30P.

In 2010, when Jackie was ten years old, she astonished audiences around the world on NBC's "America's Got Talent." Jackie came in second place on the national contest, and since then, Jackie's career has flourished at a very rapid pace. She was named to Billboard's "21 Under 21" list, their annual ranking of the most powerful minors in the music industry. Billboard said her spectacular successes in 2010 and 2011 – including the blockbuster releases of her holiday EP O Holy Night and full-length album Dream With Me, and the artistic triumph of the Dream With Me special and live concert appearances – set her apart from other young performers.

When Jackie’s major label debut O Holy Night was released in November 2010, it became the year's #1 best-selling debut recording with sales exceeding one million. It rocketed into the Billboard 200 at #2, and the EP's chart and sales success secured Jackie's position as the year's top-selling debut artist as well as the youngest female solo artist to debut during the SoundScan era. In addition to its pop chart success, O Holy Night reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart and #2 on the Billboard Holiday Chart.

Dream With Me, released in June 2011, was Jackie’s first studio album and debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #2; it was certified Gold after only four weeks of release. Her follow-up holiday record, Heavenly Christmas, was among the top-selling holiday albums of 2011.

Jackie applies her brilliant voice and extraordinary artistry to an entirely new set of classics with the release of Songs From the Silver Screen, her newest collection for Columbia/Syco Records, on October 2, 2012.

For this album, Jackie collaborated with Grammy-winning producer/engineer Humberto Gatica, whose lengthy and impressive experience in the music industry has seen him work closely with Grammy award winning producer David Foster, as well as with superstars like Michael Bublé, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, and Barbra Streisand.

"No one can sing classical crossover music with the technical precision, emotion, and intelligence that Jackie brings to it," says Gatica. "With the songs we've selected for this album, we can show her fans how her talent has only deepened and matured since Dream With Me, which I think was one of the most outstanding albums of 2011."

Jackie's beauty and poise have also led her in other directions besides music. She was selected by the GUESS Kids clothing line to be in all of their Fall 2012 print advertising. Famed film star/director Robert Redford also requested that Jackie play his daughter in the upcoming film "The Company You Keep."

"I am so happy that Mr. Redford picked me to be in his film. And I was excited to learn from performers that are amazing at what they do," says Jackie, who worked with a star-studded cast that included Susan Sarandon, Shia LaBeouf, Terrence Howard, Anna Kendrick, Nick Nolte, and Stanley Tucci. The film will be released in 2013.

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