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February 2019 Program Guide February 2019 Program Guide Black HISTORY MONTH SPECIALS YOUR WTVP PROGRAM GUIDE IS A BENEFIT OF MEMBERSHIP. THANK YOU! Romance February 9, 2019 7:30 PM Peoria Civic Center Theater George Stelluto • conductor Geoffrey Duce • piano Todd Kelly & Friends Central Illinois Ballet Butler Ryan • Concert MC “Duke” Ellington: Piano Concerto Geoffrey Duce Todd Kelly Mendelssohn: Rondo brilliant Strauss: Sweetheart Waltz, Beautiful Blue Danube, Wine, Women, and Song Copland: Selections from Rodeo Dvorak: Slavonic Dance No. 1 Join us in the lobby for our annual Romance AFTER PARTY featuring Judy Page & Friends! SPONSORS: RLI Additional support of the 121st Symphony Season provided by PNC. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. Tickets start at $25 • $10 Students peoriasymphony.org • 309.671.1096 2 2 BLACK HISTORY MONTH PBS has a range of programs celebrating Black History Month. Black Memorabilia For more (INDEPENDENT LENS) Monday, February 4, 9 PM information, From the South to Brooklyn to China, meet the people who reproduce, consume and reclaim please visit black memorabilia, racially-charged objects often wrapped in the protective embrace of antiquity Wwtvp. org and historical preservation. Pipeline (LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER) Friday, February 8, 8 PM Lincoln Center Theater’s acclaimed production of Dominique Morisseau’s riveting new play follows Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher who is desperate to give her son opportunities her students will never have. When a controversial incident at his private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. Will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away? Hale County This Morning, Sammy Davis Jr.: Charley Pride: I’m Just Me This Evening I’ve Gotta Be Me (AMERICAN MASTERS) (INDEPENDENT LENS) (AMERICAN MASTERS) Friday, February 22, 8 PM Monday, February 11, 9 PM Tuesday, February 19, 8 PM Explore the complicated history of Visit the world of Hale County, Explore the entertainer’s vast talent the American South and its music Alabama. Composed of intimate and journey for identity through the through the life of country star and unencumbered moments in shifting tides of civil rights and racial Charley Pride. Raised in segregated the lives of people in the community, progress during 20th century America. Mississippi, his journey shows the ways that artistic expression can the film offers a richly detailed glimpse Directed by Sam Pollard. at life in America’s Black Belt. triumph over prejudice and injustice. Directed by Barbara J. Hall. For complete listings information, please visit wtvp.org 3 3 WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD Daytime Schedule Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 5:00 BBC World News 5:30 Arthur 6:00 Ready Jet Go! 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:00 Nature Cat 7:30 Curious George 8:00 Let’s Go Luna 8:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:30 Feburary 1st ‐ 28th Pinkalicious & Peterrific 10:00 Sesame Street 10:30 Splash and Bubbles At Issue 11:00 Dinosaur Train Martha Stewart's How to Cook Well Best of Sewing with 11:30 Make It Artsy Garden Smart Townhall One Hour Cooking School with Rory O'Connell Nancy Special: The Opioid Crisis Thursday, February 21st 12:00 Globe Trekker Antiques Roadshow Finding Your Roots NOVA City in the Sky 8 - 9 PM 12:30 Destination Craft with Growing A Greener 1:00 Market to Market Simply Ming Feb. 1 ‐ 15 Jim West World Lawrence Welk Show Paint This with Jerry The Best of the Joy of 1:30 Motorweek Home Diagnosis Yarnell Painting 2/20: Illinois 12:00 Lawmakers Earth's Natural Globe Trekker Antiques Roadshow NOVA Wonders 2/27: Finding Your 12:30 An Original Roots Destination Craft with Growing A Greener 1:00 Market to Market Simply Ming Feb. 18 ‐ 28 Jim West World WTVP Production Lawrence Welk Show Paint This with Jerry The Best of the Joy of The Peoria Players 1:30 Motorweek Home Diagnosis Yarnell Painting Premiere Screening 2:00 Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique Tuesday, February 5, 7 PM at Peoria Players Theatre 2:30 Wild Kratts 4300 N University St 3:00 Wild Kratts Peoria, IL 61614 3:30 Odd Squad 4:00 Odd Squad Three locations, the great 4:30 Arthur depression, two major wars, 5:00 DW News and over 1000 productions... Feburary 1st ‐ 28th 5:30 Nightly Business Report Journey through 100 contin- uous years of Peoria Players 6:00 PBS NewsHour Theatre, as WTVP presents, “The Peoria Players.” 4 4 WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD WTVP 47.1 HD Weekend Schedule Saturday Sunday Saturday Sunday 5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood Mister Rogers' Neighborhood 11:30 Mid‐American Gardener SciGirls 5:30 Splash and Bubbles Splash and Bubbles 12:00 America's Test Kitchen Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 6:00 Sesame Street Sesame Street 12:30 This Old House To The Contrary 6:30 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 1:00 Ask This Old House Market to Market 7:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific Pinkalicious & Peterrific 1:30 American Woodshop Firing Line 7:30 Curious George Curious George 2:00 The Woodwright's Shop Moveable Feast Fine Cooking ** 8:00 Let's Go Luna! Let's Go Luna! 2:30 Woodsmith Shop Nigella: at My Table *** 8:30 Nature Cat Nature Cat 3:00 Milk Street Television 9:00 It's Sew Easy Ready Jet Go! 3:30 Dining with the Chef 9:30 Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting Wild Kratts 4:00 Cook's Country See page 8 for schedule lisitng 10:00 Quilting Arts Odd Squad 4:30 Pati's Mexican Table 10:30 P. Allen Smith's Garden Home Arthur 5:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 11:00 Growing A Greener World Cyberchase 5:30 Motor Week* * 02/23 Adventure Sports Outdoors ** 02/06 Around The Farm Table *** 02/17 New Scandinavian Cooking Alexandra Fisher Good Morning Bedlam Ignite Peoria Upstate State & Water warms up your February Saturday nights with these cool musical acts. Check out these talented artists that record live from the WTVP studio. Saturday, February 2 10 PM Alexandra Fisher, Part 2 Saturday, February 9 10 PM Good Morning Bedlam, Part 2 Saturday, February 16 10 PM Ignite Peoria, Part 2 Saturday, February 23 10 PM Upstate, Part 2 For complete listings information, please visit wtvp.org 5 5 WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP is proud to announce the launch of Reel Midwest, a new independent film series that aims to find the best in features, documentaries, and short films in Illinois and across the Midwest. Reel Midwest continues public media’s long-standing commitment to independent film and rivals other powerful and established film series, such as POV and Independent Lens. However, Reel Midwest’s primary goal is to showcase the heartland of our country along with the history, struggles, art, and issues that bind us as a region. In the Game Sunday, February 3, 10 PM Follow a girls soccer team on Chicago’s south side as they face problems at home, uncer- tain futures, discrimination, and poverty. However, thanks to their team camaraderie and dedicated coach, they remain undaunted in their pursuits of higher education. The Way to Andina Sunday, February 10, 10 PM This is a witty and surprisingly comical personal journey that begins with the discovery of a long-lost opera. Led by the composer’s great grandson, who knows nothing about opera, the show will be put on for a world premiere 80 years after it was written. Inquiring Nuns Sunday, February 17, 10:00 PM Two young nuns explore Chicago—from a supermarket to the Art Institute to the front of churches on Sunday—to confront people with the crucial question, “Are you happy?” The answers they get range in sincerity and depth. Diverse Voices Sunday, February 24, 10 PM This collection of short films, created in association with Kartemquin Films in Chicago, follows the life and times of a variety of everyday people, including a shoeshine technician, a magician, a skateboarder, mom-and-pop hardware store owner, and more. Films include: Shinemen, The Amazing Mr. Ash, and Parts and Labor. 6 6 WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP WTVP You don’t want to miss this trip of a lifetime! September 25 - October 6, 2019 “Three Seas Cruise & Veneto Region in Italy” Visit Italy, Greece, Croatia & Montenegro Cruise Adriatic, The iconic photo of a whitewashed church with a blue dome, set Aegean & Ionian Seas. $5,095* per person based on double against an equally blue sea, comes from the small town of Oia occupancy from Peoria. on the Island of Santorini. Sail with WTVP Travels on our fall adventure to Italy, Croatia, Montenegro and the Greek Islands. We leave Peoria September 25 to begin the land portion of our trip with visits to Venice, Padua, Treviso and other picturesque Italian villages. Then we set sail for seven nights aboard the Norwegian Cruise Lines “Norwegian Star”. Our ports of call include Kotor, Montenegro, Dubrovnik, Croatia, and the enchanted Greek islands of Corfu, Santorini, Mykonos and Apostoli. While aboard ship all meals are included. But our special tour also features an ultimate beverage The Doge’s Palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, package and three specialty dinners.