We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention our current passion, the Red-tailed Hawk nest at the Franklin Institute. You gotta see it!
Please ignore the advertising – it comes with the territory, I guess…
The Red-tailed Hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is the most common hawk in North America. It is a large bird with a broad, red tail. The female is usually larger than the male. It appears that a male and a female are co-constructing the nest at The Franklin Institute.
It’s a shame, really.
KNEE DEEP has been distributed nationally by American Public Television for several years. We love it! But we NEVER know where it will be on air, or when.
Even in our own home town we find out by chance when it will air. Well, I was pouring over the website stats and saw that Georgia Public Television is not only broadcasting KNEE DEEP but promoting it.
Go GPT! and thank you!
Friday, May 8th at 7pm, at the Scribe Video Center.
As spring beckons, enjoy a program of river stories all from the banks of the Schuylkill and Wissahickon. Hooked: Philly’s Urban Anglers (2008, 14 min), co-directed by Shannon Kane Meddock, Mike Attie and Andrew Schwalm, is an intimate, funny and touching glimpse into the little known world of urban fishing. When a good day fishing has come and gone, Philadelphia’s waterways yield a bounty far more valuable than the fish themselves. Free the River Park (2008, 15 min) by Evolve Strategies chronicles the protracted fight against CSX Railroad’s effort to block the community access to the Schuylkill River. The doc inspires other groups on how to successfully wage grassroots organizing campaigns to improve and protect their communities. Community organizers from Manayunk reveal their “Precious Place” in Manayunk Canal: Past, Present and Future (2009, 10 min). Ann Tegnell and Sharon Mullally’s Knee Deep (2004, 30 min) follows volunteers from the Center in the Park Senior Environment Corps of Germantown who have all taken on the task of sampling and testing water of regional creeks leaving a generation of long-term data they have collected is the joyful legacy of education and commitment to the environment.
Scribe Video Center is at 4212 Chestnut Street 3rd Floor in West Philadelphia
Tickets are $5 and it is FREE to Scribe members.
Come on out!
We’ve recently posted STRATHMERE on the GFEM database. GFEM’s primary mission is to encourage their grantmaker colleagues to consider funding, or to increase their funding of, compelling, innovative social issue media as a field. We think STRATHMERE just might be one of these projects.
We are posting a new clip of our Strathmere project. In partnership with Shirley Road Productions, we keep plugging away on this pretty little piece about a precious place under pressure. Click on the photo to take a look! It’s a larger video file, so be patient.
Set your calendar alarms! Spring brings out the KNEE DEEP re-broadcasts from WHYY Ch12 Philadelphia.
April 19th Sunday at 10.30pm after Masterpiece Classic ‘Little Dorrit’.
April 24th Friday at 5.30am after Frontline ‘Poisoned Waters’.
If you haven’t seen it yet, or want to wallow again in the waters of the Wissahickon, tune in!
Somehow, I’ve tended to end up at this wonderful garden in the summer. Experiencing it’s spring wonders left me, nearly, speechless. A few snaps.
