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KQED Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month May 2011 Program and Resource Guide Programs HD D RR R Photo: Courtesyofmonicalam KQED Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month May 2011 Program and Resource Guide In May, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special lineup on KQED Channel 9 and HD (high-definition channel, Comcast 709, digital 9.1). This guide also lists programs airing on KTEH (Comcast 10, 9.2), World Programs (Comcast 190, 9.3), and Life (Comcast 189, 54.3), available on Comcast cable and/or via a digital receiver. Some programs repeat additional times on these channels. Visit kqed.org/dtv for the complete digital program schedule. The Buddha Photo: Courtesy of David Grubin. PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS World | Newsline Tune in Monday–Thursday Monday 2 q This program is a KQED production at 2pm, 6:30pm, and 11pm. or presentation. 9:30am Life | Rudy Maxa’s World Delhi and Agra, Life | Simply Ming Watch weekdays at 3pm. India. | R (Life) 5/7 4pm H This program (or episode) is airing on KQED or KTEH for the first time. 10:00am Life | Passport to Adventure Sea Kayaking in Southern Thailand. R This program will be repeated on the Sunday 1 date noted. 2:30pm KQED 9 | Forsaken Fields documents what EVENING RR This program is a repeat. See noted happened to the first and second generation 9:30pm Life | Damien This teleplay give an intimate date and time of original broadcast of Japanese American farmers in California view of father Damien de Veuster, a priest for program description. after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. who dedicated his life to Hansen’s disease D Descriptive video information for 6:00pm KQED 9 | Richard Bangs’ Adventures patients at a Hawaiian leper colony. | R (Life) the sight-impaired is available on with Purpose Hong Kong: Quest for the 5/7 10:30pm televisions with stereo capability. Dragon. Explore the dazzling Chinese New HD This program is broadcast in Year festival and streets beneath the Central high definition. District skyscrapers. | HD | R (World) Tuesday 3 5/15 9pm 9:30am Life | Rudy Maxa’s World Rajasthan. Programs are subject to change EVENING EVENING after press deadlines. For the 8:00pm Life | Independent Lens Na Kamalei: 7:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | q | Lu Yi, Diamano Coura latest program information, visit The Men of Hula. Members of the only West African Dance Company, Danny kqed.org/tvchanges or call our all-male hula school in Hawaii prepare to Kalanduyan. | R (KQED 9) 5/4 1:30am, 5/6 11:30pm, 5/7 5:30am; (Life) 5/7 2pm, automated program information compete at the world’s largest hula festival. | R (Life) 5/4 8pm 5/8 6:30pm line at 415.354.8000. If you are recording, allow five minutes for 9:00pm Life | Black Grace: From Cannon’s Creek early starts and late finishes. to Jacob’s Pillow profiles the troupe of Wednesday 4 Maori and Pacific Islander men who rose to EARLY the pinnacle of the international dance world. | D | 1:30am KQED 9 | Spark | q | Lu Yi, Diamano Coura West African Dance Company, Danny 10:00pm Life | Heart Strings: The Story of the Kalanduyan. | R (KQED 9) 5/6 11:30pm, 5/7 Kamaka ‘ukulele A family of businessmen 5:30am; (Life) 5/7 2pm, 5/8 6:30pm and artists work together to preserve a tradition of success in Honolulu. 7:00pm KTEH | This is Us | q | People in Service Cover: Journey of the Bonesetter’s Daughter profiles two remarkable Bay Area people, airs on KQED 9, Sunday, May 8, at 10pm. 10:30pm Life | Global Voices The Flute Player/50/ Tibetan monk Thupten Donyo and (See program listing on page 3 for additional Fifty. A musician tries to rescue traditional repeat dates and times.) Freedom Rider Carol Ruth Silver. Cambodian music from extinction and | R (KTEH) 5/7 1:30pm Photo: Courtesy of Monica Lam. recover his identity. EVENING 11:00pm KTEH | Japanland Suburban Samurai. In a four-part journey exploring both Japan’s 8:00pm KQED 9 | Secrets of the Dead | H | China’s ancient cultural heritage and modern ways, Terracotta Army reveals that the Chinese Karin Muller integrates herself into areas may have had Henry Ford beat by more than of society rarely seen by foreigners and 2,000 years with their own assembly line discovered a complex, often contradictory, used to produce 8,000 lavishly painted land and people. | D | terracotta warriors. | D | HD | R (KQED 9) 5/5 2am, 5/7 6pm; (Life) 5/5 7pm; (World) 5/8 9pm Thursday 5 EARLY Sunday 8 Tuesday 10 2:00am KQED 9 | Secrets of the Dead China’s 1:30pm KQED 9 | Mustang—Journey of EARLY Terracotta Army. | D | HD | RR 5/4 8pm | R Transformation Richard Gere narrates 5:30am KQED 9 | Mustang—Journey of (KQED 9) 5/7 6pm; (Life) 5/5 7pm; (World) the remarkable story of the restoration of Transformation | HD | RR 5/8 1:30pm | R 5/8 9pm a 15th century Tibetan culture. | HD | R (KQED 9) 5/29 2:30pm; (Life) 5/10 10:30pm (KQED 9) 5/9 11:30pm, 5/10 5:30am, 5/29 2:30pm; (Life) 5/10 10:30pm 8:30am Life | Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Friday 6 EVENING The New Hong Kong. 9:30am Life | Rudy Maxa’s World 9:00pm Life | American Masters I.M. Pei: Building 9:30am Life | Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand. China Modern follows noted architect I.M. Andaman Islands. 10:00am World | History Detectives Monopoly/ Pei as he designs a modern museum to 10:00am Life | Passport to Adventure Kauai— Japanese Internment Camp Artwork/The house the antiquities of Suzhou in his native Hawaii’s Garden Isle. | R (Life) 5/14 3pm Lewis and Clark Cane. | R (KTEH) 5/7 4pm China. | R (Life) 5/10 8pm 10:30am Life | Travelscope | q | Thailand— EVENING 9:00pm KTEH | In Search of Myths and Heroes Rediscovering Bangkok. | D | R (KQED 9) 9:00pm KQED 9 | The Story of India Beginnings. In Shangri-La. A trek through India, Nepal, 5/28 8am; (Life) 5/10 11pm this landmark series, historian and acclaimed and Tibet may reveal the truth of the secret EVENING writer Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling paradise in the Himalayas. | D | 7:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | q | Robert Bechtle, Hung and exciting expedition through today’s 10:00pm KQED 9 | Journey of the Bonesetter’s Liu, Nathan Oliveira. | R (KQED 9) 5/11 India. In the first episode, archaeological | H Daughter | q | Witness the creation of 1:30am, 5/13 11:30pm, 5/14 5:30am; discoveries, DNA, climate science, and oral the San Francisco Opera’s celebrated 2008 (Life) 5/14 2pm, 5/15 6:30pm tales cast light on India’s deep past. | D | production of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, | HD | R (KQED 9) 5/7 3am; (World) 5/11 composed by Stewart Wallace with a libretto 11:00pm KTEH | Journey of the Bonesetter’s 8am, 11am by Amy Tan and based on her best-selling Daughter | RR 5/8 10pm 11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | q | Lu Yi, Diamano Coura book of the same name. | HD | R (KQED 9) West African Dance Company, Danny 5/9 4am; (Life) 5/9 7pm; (KTEH) 5/10 11pm Wednesday 11 Kalanduyan. | R (KQED 9) 5/7 5:30am; 10:00pm Life | Seeking Art in Shanghai EARLY (Life) 5/7 2pm, 5/8 6:30pm American gallery owners explore a booming contemporary art scene in China’s most 1:30am KQED 9 | Spark Robert Bechtle, Hung Liu, cosmopolitan city. Nathan Oliveira. | R (KQED 9) 5/13 11:30pm, Saturday 7 5/14 5:30am; (Life) 5/14 2pm, 5/15 6:30pm 11:00pm Life | Interpreting Ancient Chinese EARLY Fashion San Francisco fashion 8:30am Life | Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 3:00am KQED 9 | The Story of India Beginnings. designers Jude Gabbard and Colleen Taiwan. | D | HD | RR 5/6 9pm | R (World) 5/11 8am, Quen seek inspiration by visiting China. 10:30am Life | Travelscope | q | Thailand—from 11am 11:00pm KTEH | Japanland Spiritland. Golden Triangle to White Sands. | D | R (Life) 5:30am KQED 9 | Spark | q | Lu Yi, Diamano Coura Karin enters as a pilgrim/acolyte and 5/11 11pm West African Dance Company, Danny is quickly introduced to the austere world 11:00am Life | California’s Golden Parks Kalanduyan. | R (Life) 5/7 2pm, 5/8 6:30pm of the mountaintop monks. | D | China Camp. 8:00am KQED 9 | Travelscope | q | Fiji—Island EVENING Hopping. | D | Monday 9 11:00pm KQED 9 | Global Voices China Blue. 9:30am KQED 9 | Simply Ming | H | Lemongrass EARLY Teenage workers struggle in harsh working and Extra Virgin Olive Oil. | HD | conditions in a blue jean factory in southern 4:00am KQED 9 | Journey of the Bonesetter’s 12:30pm World | Maria Hinojosa: One-On-One China. | R (KQED 9) 5/12 5am; (Life) 5/12 Daughter | q | HD | RR 5/8 10pm | R (Life) Lea Salonga. The Filipina singer and actress 10pm; (World) 5/15 10pm 5/9 7pm; (KTEH) 5/10 11pm performs the song “I Would Give My Life for You” from Miss Saigon. 8:30am Life | Burt Wolf: Taste of Freedom Chinese New Year. Thursday 12 | 1:30pm KTEH This is Us | q | People in Service. EARLY | RR 5/4 7pm 9:30am Life | Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Golden Triangle. | R (Life) 5/14 4pm 5:00am KQED 9 | Global Voices China Blue. | RR 2:30pm Life | | | Travelscope q 5/11 11pm | R (Life) 5/12 10pm; (World) 5/15 10:00am Life | Passport to Adventure Rafting Taiwan—City and Culture.
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