wttw11 wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt wfmt.com The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Beach Party MONDAY, MAY 27 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM ! May 2019 ALSO INSIDE On WTTW, we pay tribute to our veterans with WTTW’s annual special, The National Memorial Day Concert, live from Washington, DC and hosted by Chicagoans Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise. From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Dear Member, Renée Crown Public Media Center When Memorial Day arrives, you know summer is just around the corner. 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 WFMT will kick off the season in its own unique way with the second annual WFMT Beach Party live from Chicago’s lakefront. Join us at Fullerton Avenue and Main Switchboard Lake Michigan for live performances, quizzes, conversation, and warm weather (773) 583-5000 fun! 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Renowned conductor James WFMT Contributors Conlon hosts Recovering a Musical Heritage to mark the Holocaust remembrance Andrea Lamoreaux David Polk Yom HaShoah. And Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips returns with a Distribution Manager Memorial Day-themed edition of The Film Score. On wfmt.com, preview some Pat Sheppard upcoming summer musical events, check in on Facebook Live with performers at Ravinia Festival, and celebrate the moms in our lives with music for Mother’s Advertising Sales Day. WTTW Douglas Carleton This spring, thank you for your support of WTTW and WFMT. (773) 279-2128 WFMT Sincerely, Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 Sandra Cordova Micek The Guide: The Member Magazine President & CEO for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) May 2019 Volume 34, Number 252 The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL Inside the Guide 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. 3 Member Connections 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid 4 Member Perks 17 Do it Yourself Saturdays POSTMASTER: Send address 5 WTTW11 Listings 19 At-a-Glance changes to The Guide: The Member 6 WTTW Multicast Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Copyright 2018, Window To The World ON THE COVER: Brandon J. Acker is a soloist, collaborator, and lecturer on the classical guitar and early Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. plucked instruments including the lute, baroque guitar, and theorbo. He performed at the 2018 WFMT Beach Party, and we hope to have him return. Photo: WTTW/Ken Carl. 2 MAY 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Meet Nature Cat at Evanston’s YEA! Festival WFMT Memorial Day Meet Nature Cat at Evanston’s Raymond Park as part of Remake Learning Days Chi, the region’s first-ever Beach Party hands-on festival for the future of work and learning. All weekend long, this initiative will turn Chicago and Evanston into an open house learning laboratory through more than 100 fun and free events for youth WHAT of all ages at which fam- Meet Nature Cat at ilies will experience new Evanston’s YEA! Festival technology, art work- shops, science experi- WHERE ments, student films, Raymond Park, outdoor learning, and 595 Lake Street more! Nature Cat will be in Evanston on hand throughout the WHEN morning to help show- Saturday, May 18, case the work and per- 10:00 am formances of the YEA! (Young Evanston Artists) Festival, which promotes the value of arts education. WHAT Leaps of Faiths – Screening and Discussion WFMT Memorial Day Beach Party WTTW, in partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents a WHERE screening and discussion of the new local documentary Leaps of Faiths. Theater on the Lake Love tests faith. Faith tests love. Interfaith marriage - how does that work? What about the in-laws? How 2401 N. Lake Shore Drive to raise the kids? For 30 years, Catholics and Jews in Chicago have found that the answers don’t have to be at Fullerton in Chicago so hard - boundaries can be crossed and divisions healed. And the WHAT kids? This new film follows five who grew up learning both Judaism WHEN and Catholicism from 8th grade through high school, college, and Monday, May 27, Leaps of Faiths – Screening beyond. Their families 10:00 am-4:00 pm and Discussion imagined possibilities WHERE and discovered them. Chicago Cultural Center The screening will be Kick off the summer with WFMT’s 2nd annual Claudia Cassidy Theatre followed by a panel dis- Memorial Day Beach Party! Join our WFMT hosts 78 E. Washington Street cussion moderated by from 10:00 am-4:00 for a lively and fun live broad- in Chicago Brandis Friedman, cast from Theater on the Lake on Chicago’s lake- Chicago Tonight corre- front! Enjoy live performances from some special WHEN spondent and segment guests, summertime music, contests, commentary Saturday, May 18, host. from WFMT personalities, and more! 2:00 pm This is a free event; for more information, please visit This is a free event; for more information, please wttw.com/events. visit wfmt.com/events. Nature Cat at Día del Niño Health Walk & Family Festival Join Nature Cat for an afternoon of fun at the 2019 Día del Niño Family Festival at Pilsen’s National Museum of Mexican Art. This family-friendly WHAT event celebrates “The Day of the Child” Nature Cat at Día del Niño by promoting healthy and active life- Health Walk & Family Festival styles in the community, and guests will enjoy a day filled with physical activity, WHERE art activities, free health screenings, National Museum of wellness education, and performances. Mexican Art Día del Niño is an annual celebration 1852 W. 19th Street in Pilsen that was created in Mexico in 1925 as a WHEN day to honor children. Saturday, May 18, This is a free event; for more infor- 10:00 am-3:00 pm mation, please visit wttw.com/events. 2019 MAY 3 MEMBER PERKS 25% Off Tickets to Red Clay Dance World Premiere Red Clay Dance Company (RCDC) continues its 10th anniversary season with the world premiere of Art of Resilience 2.0, a site-specific, mixed-media, immersive activation of the DuSable Museum Roundhouse choreographed by Founder/Artistic Director Vershawn Sanders-Ward. Using movement, text, vibrant projects, and soundscapes mixed by DJ Sadie Woods, the “Urban Griots” of Red Clay Dance guide the audience through a journey of Chicago’s Black Belt, the “Stroll,” and the Black Arts Movement while disquieting the impact of redlining, restrictive housing covenants, and state violence on black life. Viewers will experience the ancestral practice of occupying and reclaiming space as an act of resil- ience and an expression of humanity. Performances take place Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 at 7:30 pm at the DuSable Museum Roundhouse, 740 W. 56th Place in Chicago. WTTW members may obtain a code for a 25% discount for the May 16 or 17 performance, subject to availability, by calling (773) 624-8411 and mentioning 2-for-1 Tickets to Orion’s WTTW. For more information, visit redclaydance.com. A Brahms Finale The Orion Ensemble’s final concert program 2-for-1 Tickets to Nora and Delia Ephron’s Comedy/Drama of the season, A Brahms Finale, welcomes guest violist Stephen Boe and guest violinist Mathias Love, Loss and What I Wore Tacke. The program features Uhl’s Kleines Konzert The Saint Sebastian Players (SSP) conclude their 38th season with Love, Loss and What I Wore by for viola, clarinet, and piano (1938); Prokofiev’s Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron, writers/directors of such films asYou’ve Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, and Overture on Hebrew Themes for clarinet, string When Harry Met Sally. Based on the bestselling book by Ilene Beckerman, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a quartet, and piano, Op. 34; and Brahms’ Piano play of monologues and ensemble pieces that cover Quintet in F minor, Op. 34. all the important subjects – mothers, prom dresses, Performances take place Sunday, May 5 at 7:00 mothers, buying first bras, mothers, hating purses, pm at Chapelstreet Church, 2300 South Street in and why women wear only black. Though the play Geneva; Wednesday, May 15 at 7:30 pm at the is often presented with cast members sitting on PianoForte Studios, 1335 S. Michigan Avenue in stools and reading the script, SSP offers a fully Chicago; and Sunday, May 19 at 7:30 pm at Music staged production of this bittersweet look at wom- Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 en, clothes, and memory.