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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 A coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends Director Bing Liu in their Rust Belt hometown of Rockford. MON FEB 18 | 9:00 pm February 2019 ALSO INSIDE On WTTW and WFMT, we observe Black History Month throughout the month with profiles and documentaries, music, stories, videos, interviews, and more. From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT Dear Member, Renée Crown Public Media Center 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Greetings from WTTW and WFMT. This month, we are excited to bring you Chicago, Illinois 60625 the acclaimed documentary about the life of a public media treasure and icon – Mister Fred Rogers. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? premieres on WTTW11 on Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 February 9. Join us for an in-depth and entertaining look at the life of a visionary Member and Viewer Services who fostered compassion and curiosity in generations of children and families. (773) 509-1111 x 6 February is also Black History Month, and we will celebrate it on WTTW11, Websites WTTW Prime, and wttw.com. You’ll find highlights of this special programming wttw.com on page 7 and at wttw.com/blackhistorymonth. Don’t miss new Finding Your wfmt.com Roots specials, in which Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores race, family, and Publisher identity in today’s America by uncovering the genealogy of Michael Strahan, Anne Gleason S. Epatha Merkerson, and many more. On wttw.com, we’ll have new profiles of Art Director Sammy Davis, Jr., Sam Cooke, and Charley Pride. Tom Peth WTTW Contributors Julia Maish We’ll also observe Black History Month on all of our WFMT platforms with Dan Soles music, stories, videos, interviews, and more. In honor of the 2019 Oscars, Chicago WFMT Contributors Andrea Lamoreaux Tribune film critic Michael Phillips will explore the year’s best movie scores; David Polk Live from Metropolitan Opera will feature favorites Carmen, Don Giovanni, Distribution Manager Pat Sheppard and Rigoletto; and, on wfmt.com, celebrate Valentine’s Day with opera’s most romantic arias. Advertising Sales Thank you for supporting WTTW and WFMT. WTTW Douglas Carleton Sincerely, (773) 279-2128 WFMT Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 Sandra Cordova Micek President & CEO The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) February 2019 Volume 33, Number 249 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: Bing Liu, director of Minding the Gap. Photo courtesy of Bing Liu. Minding the Gap is a Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. co-production of ITVS, local production company Kartemquin Films, and American Documentary | POV; and a co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). 2 FEBRUARY 2019 MEMBER CONNECTIONS Whose Streets?: Screening & Discussion Dark Money: Screening Watch Whose Streets?, a film that tells the gripping story of a WHAT seminal civil rights event in the summer of 2014: the Ferguson, Whose Streets?: Screening & Missouri uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed Discussion by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking WHERE point for St. Louis County and its African American residents. This Chicago Public Library documentary, a tale told Carter G. Woodson from the point of view of Regional Branch the activists and leaders 9525 S. Halsted Street central to the resistance, in Chicago takes an unflinching look WHEN at a community driven Thursday, February 7, over the edge, desperate 4:00 pm Photo: Courtesy of Dark Money, a PBS Distribution release Photo: Courtesy of Dark Money, Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures to assert their right to live. This is a free event; for more information, please visit Activist Alexis Templeton wttw.com/events. Minding the Gap: Screening & Discussion Meet three young Chicagoans from troubled families who bond together over skateboarding in this Investigative Journalist John S. Adams sneak preview of Minding the Gap in advance of its premiere on WTTW11 on February 18. As the film’s subjects face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship. The screening, presented in partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, will be followed by a panel discussion, moderated by Chicago Tonight correspondent Eddie Arruza. WHAT This is a free event; for more information, please visit wttw.com/events. Dark Money: Screening WHERE Oak Park Public Library WHAT Maze Branch Minding the Gap: Screening & 845 Gunderson Avenue Discussion in Oak Park WHERE Photo: Courtesy of Bing Liu WHEN Chicago Cultural Center Sunday, February 24, 2:00 pm Claudia Cassidy Theatre 78 E. Washington Street in Chicago WHEN WTTW, in partnership with the League of Women Saturday, February 16, Voters of Oak Park and River Forest, presents a 2:00 pm community screening of the documentary Dark Keire Johnson Money. A century ago, corrupt money swamped Montana’s government, but Montanans weren’t having it; they rose up to prohibit corporate cam- Quest: Screening & Discussion paign contributions. Today, in wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, Montana Join us for Quest, a moving portrait of a North Philadelphia WHAT is once again fighting to preserve open and honest family who saw a pressing need in their community and were Quest: Screening & Discussion elections. inspired to fill it. Filmed with vérité intimacy over almost a decade, WHERE This political thriller examines one of the greatest this epic film that begins at the dawn of the Obama presidency Chicago Public Library threats to American democracy: the influence of follows the journey of Christopher “Quest” Rainey and his wife, Carter G. Woodson untraceable corporate money on our elections and Christine’a “Ma Quest” as they raise a family while nurturing a group Regional Branch elected officials. Travel to Montana – a front line in of hip-hop artists in their 9525 S. Halsted Street the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide – to home basement music in Chicago follow an intrepid local journalist, John S. Adams, studio. It’s a safe space WHEN who goes to extraordinary lengths to expose the where all are welcome, Wednesday, February 20, real-life impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens but this creative sanctu- 3:00 pm United decision, at great personal sacrifice. This film ary can’t always shield uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how them from the strife that American elections are bought and sold, and reveals Photo: Courtesy Colleen Stepanian grips their neighborhood. Quest is a vivid illumination of race and what one man, and other everyday heroes, are doing class in America, and a testament to love, healing, and hope. to put a stop to it. Directed by Kimberly Reed. This is a free event; for more information, please visit Christopher “Quest” and This is a free event; for more information, please Christine’a “Ma Quest” Rainey wttw.com/events. visit wttw.com/events. 2019 FEBRUARY 3 MEMBER PERKS 2-for-1 Tickets to Ananya Dance Theatre The Dance Center of Columbia College presents Ananya Dance Theatre’s work Shyamali: Sprouting Words (“dark green”) which draws a metaphor between the resilience of grass, which springs up when trod upon, and the courage of women who sustain their communities against injustice and refuse to be broken. This company of self-described cultural ac- tivists makes its Dance Center debut with a work exploring how dissent against oppression fuels life force. Poetic, defiant, and transformational,Shyamali: Sprouting Words is a “spellbinding work of strength, agility, concentration, and exotic beauty” (The Maui News). The Dance Center presents Ananya Dance Theatre’s Shyamali: Sprouting Words, Thursday through Saturday, February 14-16, at 7:30 pm at the Dance Center, 1306 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. WTTW members may purchase two tickets for the price of one, subject to availability, for any performance by calling (312) 369-8330 and using the code 28958. 2-for-1 Tickets to International For more information, visit dance.colum.edu. Pianist Inna Faliks Returning to her alma mater with a Chicago 2-for-1 Tickets to World Premiere Little Stones premiere, Music Institute alumna Inna Faliks The Saint Sebastian Players (SSP) continue their 38th season with the world premiere of Little Stones performs her autobiographical concert-monologue by company member Leigh Johnson. In this romantic drama combining notions of reincarnation and Polonaise-Fantaisie: The Story of a Pianist, which fate, a young director and actress rehearsing different plays in adjacent classrooms of St. Bonaventure traces her journey from the former Soviet Union School in the autumn of 2018 find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. Is it merely mutual at- to the freedom of the United States and a life in traction, or is it something deeper, more mysterious music. She tells her incredible story while playing – a possible reconnection of old souls whose past music that spans 289 years, interspersed with her lives were tragically cut short 100 years earli- own writings chronicling her upbringing in Odessa, er? Combining neighborhood history with New Age Ukraine; her musical and romantic awakenings; sensibilities, Little Stones is a made-in-Chicago fable and her immigration to the U.S.