If you have seen KNEE DEEP you know these folks and champion their cause

The Center in the Park Senior Environment Corps is holding their
Third Annual Environment Day Celebration
Thursday, September 30, 2010 (10am-4pm call to confirm)
Center in the Park
5818 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19144

Keynote Speaker – Melinda Hughes-Wert from Nature Abounds
Drew Brown from the Philadelphia Water Department will make an afternoon presentation
exhibitors – vendors – films – door prizes

For further information contact:
Fred Lewis or Edward Chun 215-848-7722 Ext.218

There is one remaining broadcast of KNEE DEEP on WHYY 12.3 this April.

Sunday April 25th at 1pm

Wallow in the wonders of the Wissahickon, the charming humanity of the Senior Environment Corps and get goosed into action by knowledge of the on-going contamination of our precious watersheds. It’s our world, the only one. (Oh, that we know of…)

WHYY aired KNEE DEEP on the following schedule but they don’t typically inform us. And when I searched on their site earlier this month for broadcasts, I did not find these air dates. I understand the new buzzword is ‘find’, not ‘search’. Right.

Friday April 23rd 10a – 4p – 6p – 9p

Saturday April 24th 2a

Sunday April 25th 1pm

If you are in another market, check your local listings, as KNEE DEEP is often programmed around Earth Day. It’s a good thing.

Further research finds more 40th Anniversary of Earth Day screenings of KNEE DEEP.

WHRO in Norfolk, Virginia will air KNEE DEEP on:

• Monday April 12    8am – 2pm – 7pm
• Tuesday April 13    12am
• Friday April 23    10am – 6pm – 9pm
• Saturday April 24    2am – 1pm

Not only will KNEE DEEP be airing in Boston on Friday April 23rd at 10am, 4, 6 + 9pm, it will also be airing on WGBH World on Saturday April 24th at 2am and Sunday April 25th at 1pm. Let all your Boston friends know!

I’ve found KNEE DEEP with a similar schedule on Iowa Public Television

• Mon, April 12, 7:00 AM on IPTV World
• Mon, April 12, 1:00 PM on IPTV World
• Mon, April 12, 6:00 PM on IPTV World
• Fri, April 23, 9:00 AM on IPTV World
• Fri, April 23, 3:00 PM on IPTV World
• Fri, April 23, 5:00 PM on IPTV World
• Sat, April 24, 1:00 AM on IPTV World
• Sun, April 25, 12:00 PM on IPTV World

I think this indicates that the satellite feed is at this time nationwide. I’ll keep scanning for more scheduled airings. Good deal!

A few more upcoming broadcast sightings, if you are in the middle of the country…

Milwaukee Public Television – MPTV 36.3
April 12 7am – 1pm – 6pm – 11pm
April 23 9am – 3pm – 5pm – 8pm
April 24 1am

Idaho Public Television – WORLD (MT)
April 12 6am
April 23 8am – 2pm – 7pm
April 24 12am
April 25 11am

Go! Corps!

The 40th anniversary of Earth Day is a good time to re-visit KNEE DEEP. And it seems that many PBS stations nation-wide feel that way. WGBH World will be airing KNEE DEEP Friday April 23rd at 10am, 4pm, 6pm and 9pm. Can’t miss it!

We’ll keep you posted as air times in other markets become known to us.

On the Monoshone Creek much remains the same. While some improvements have occurred, there are still too-high fecal counts at Outfall 5. Chris Robinson of Northwest Greens community organization keeps me on his list-serve and I pass along here some of his reports.

After a 6 month study by the Army Corps of Engineers, a report has been issued and a subsequent community meeting covered by the Mt. Airy Independent. As usual, Chris Robinson kept everyone honest with an Op-Ed. I think it’s safe to say that the combined impact of individual and community vigilance is having an impact.

I have recently crossed paths with several members of the Senior Environment Corps and can report that they are still at it… sampling water, providing special sessions to schools & community groups and taking care of themselves and each other. Always good to see those folks.

I remember the sense of hope that accompanied the early Earth Days and want to remind us all to actively fight for and protect our planet.

I hope it will survive our current assault.

If we can all brave the aftermath of our 4th big snowstorm, there will be a stellar panel to discuss Mirror Dance at Foulkeways this Saturday evening, February 27. Ann Tegnell will introduce producer-directors Frances McElroy and María Teresa Rodríguez who will be joined by the film’s subjects, Margarita de Saá White and John White. It will be quite a treat for us all to be together again, as it simply doesn’t happen often. There will be much to talk about, as the documentary story stops after their visit to Cuba in early 2004. 6 years of personal and political growth and change…

PEW Fellowships in the Arts has recently re-worked their website, along with their selection processes. So, they’ve removed from the new site all the wonderful glennfilms produced and Ann Tegnell edited portraits of the 2007 & 2008 Fellows. Well, they ARE up in cyberspace on the PEW Fellowships in the Arts YouTube channel. Go! Check ‘em out. Have some fun and hope that you, too, may some day be so rewarded.

2010 UPDATE!ed website is here. Go to the 2008 + 2007 portraits to see Ann’s work.

glennfilms has let us know that spark., the little video that could, was a recently featured artsJournalvideo. Arts Journal is a daily arts news site that collects, writes about and offers discussion on a full range of arts subjects. A site to bookmark, for sure. spark. may only be up on their site for a few weeks, but connects to a good-quality YouTube version posted by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

Now would also be the time to note the passing of Peggy Amsterdam, long-time champion of the arts in Philadelphia and beyond. She was a participant in spark. and glennfilms put together a bit more of her appearance for a memorial to her on December 30th.