3 - CEO Message 6 - TV Listings 18 - PBS Hawai‘i Passport 4 - Cover Story 10 - Evening Grid 17 - Daytime Grid PROGRAM GUIDE MARCH 2019 VOL. 38 NO. 3 PAGE 4 | MARCH 2019 NĀ MELE Screening Volunteer Turns 100 Community Advisory Board Featuring the Lim Family PBS Hawai‘i helped celebrate Members of PBS Hawai‘i’s statewide longtime volunteer Masako Kawana’s Community Advisory Board recently In Waimea, Hawai‘i Island, 100th birthday. Masako, of Honolulu, convened to give us feedback on supporters of PBS Hawai‘i catch enjoys volunteering because it programming and other community up before the premiere screening allows her to be productive and engagement. Pictured from left: of NĀ MELE: Traditions in keeps her mind sharp. Pictured Marissa Sandblom (Kaua‘i), Momi Hawaiian Song featuring the behind her from left are PBS Hawai‘i Akana (O‘ahu), Chair Karen Knudsen Lim Family of Kohala. Volunteer Coordinator Jill Loving, (O‘ahu) and Cheryl Ka‘uhane Masako’s son Sanford and Lupenui (Hawai‘i Island). daughter-in-law Kathy. ON THE COVER: Two-year old Theo engrossed in a book at the PBS Hawai‘i Keiki Neighborhood Library. GET CAUGHT READING! Find out more on pages 4-5. BOARD OF DIRECTORS MANAGEMENT Chair Vice Chair President and CEO Senior Vice President/CFO Jason Fujimoto Joanne Grimes Leslie Wilcox Karen Yamamoto Secretary Treasurer Vice President, Content Vice President, Advancement Bettina Mehnert Kent Tsukamoto Chuck Parker Christina Sumida Muriel Anderson Joy Miura Koerte Vice President, Communications Director, Learning Initiatives Susan Bendon Kamani Kuala‘au Jody Shiroma Robert Pennybacker Jodi Endo Chai Mary Ann Manahan James E. Duffy Jr. Aaron Salā Chief Engineer Matthew Emerson Julie Shimonishi John Nakahira Jake Fergus Ka‘iulani Sodaro Jason Haruki Candy Suiso Noelani Kalipi Bruce Voss PROGRAM GUIDE Ian Kitajima Editor and Chief Programmer Graphic Artist John Kovacich Randall Choo pbshawaii.org 2 CEO MESSAGE Leslie Wilcox PBS Hawai‘i President and CEO Sharing Book Bliss Remember when reading meant more than checking we’re asking adults and children to read a favorite one’s Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts? passage to fellow Island residents. Thankfully, many people still make time to read whole “How do I pick?” is a typical response. “I have a lot of books, knowing the truth of what Katie M wrote on favorite books.” These are words we love to hear at this @betterbybooks: “Books let you fight dragons, meet educational media organization! the love of your life, travel to faraway lands and laugh Here’s a sampling of the excerpts that Hawai‘i citizens alongside friends, all within their pages. They’re an chose to GET CAUGHT READING: escape that brings you home.” As part of PBS Hawai‘i’s GET CAUGHT READING multimedia initiative, which is launching this month, Honolulu Police Activist and poet University of Chief Susan Mahealani Wendt Hawai‘i Men’s Ballard spoke up of Hāna, Maui Basketball Head for the little guy in read from her own Coach Eran Ganot picking Horton poem, “Voyage,” read The Hears a Who! by inspired by Stonecutter’s Dr. Seuss, with the Polynesian Credo by Jacob Horton musing voyaging canoe Riis: that there just may be a tiny person Hōkūle‘a: “When nothing seems to help, I go atop a speck of dust: “We are brothers in a vast blue look at a stonecutter hammering “Some sort of a creature of a very heaven, windswept kindred souls at away at his rock, perhaps a hundred small size, too small to be seen by an sea. We are the sons of vast night, times without as much as a crack elephant’s eyes...some poor person planets brilliant and obscure, showing in it. But at the hundred- who’s shaking with fear that he’ll blow illimitable stars and somnolent moon. and-first blow, it will split in two. And I in the pool! He has no way to steer! We have loved lash and sail, shrill know it was not the blow that did it... I’ll just have to save him, because, winds and calm, heavy winds driven but all that had gone before.” after all, a person’s a person, no in squalls over turbulent seas. We matter how small.” have lashed our hearts to souls of islands, joined spirits with birds rising to splendor in a gold acquiescence of sun. We are voyagers and sons of voyagers, our hands working the cordage of peace.” We invite you to listen to words of life and imagination and power on PBS Hawai‘i and pbshawaii.org. Join us at read-aloud events at public libraries. And find joy as you GET CAUGHT READING! 3 COVER STORY Just One More Chapter, I Promise… By Emily Bodfish, PBS Hawai‘i It’s always a rough landing, getting pulled back to reality when you were just immersed in a great book. One minute, you’re saving the known universe with a plucky band of misfits riding mechanical, intergalactic sheep-dragons, and the next, you’re late for your dentist appointment. You got caught reading, and we think it’s a great thing. We want everyone to GET CAUGHT READING! We want everyone to find those books that make you wonder where the hours went, because it’s those stories New Local Multimedia Initiative that we just can’t put down that turn “have to read” into Launching This Month “want to read.” The written word opens doors to adventure, relaxation and knowledge about ourselves, our world and more. Reading brings the world to your fingertips. pbshawaii.org 4 ... a person’s a person, no matter how small. HPD Police Chief Susan Ballard reading from Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! GET CAUGHT READING is a new multimedia initiative goal of GET CAUGHT READING is to engage with rural at PBS Hawai‘i, made up of video stories for on-air and communities, especially on neighbor islands. We plan online, and in-person events. Beginning March 3, you’ll to host events on O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i Island, Maui, see GET CAUGHT READING videos in the intervals Moloka‘i and Lāna‘i. between our regular programs. In these short videos, we State Librarian Stacey Aldrich, who grew up watching highlight the power of words, and the many ways people PBS programs, said that GET CAUGHT READING is get caught reading every day. You’ll hear community “a perfect partnership” between PBS Hawai‘i and the members read passages that hold deep meaning to Hawai‘i State Public Library System. “We know that just them; watch keiki exude excitement talking about their the simple act of reading a book creates strong new favorite stories; witness parents and their grown children connections in our minds and with each other,” Aldrich revisit books they read together years ago. These videos said. We hope to see your budding reader at an event will also be available to watch at pbshawaii.org. near you. Until then – GET CAUGHT READING! In the following months, PBS Hawai‘i will be partnering with Hawai‘i public libraries to host keiki events. We’ll host story time, give away books, and give the children a platform to talk about the books they love. Part of the I felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall ... Retired Hawai‘i Sportscaster Jim Leahey reading from Ron Chernow’s Grant 5 | MARCH 2019 PRIMETIME & WEEKEND LISTING SCHEDULE PBS Hawai‘i is on the air seven days a week from 5:00 am to midnight. Viewers with cable service also have access to overnight programming which is indicated by Cable Only After Midnight. Viewers with cable service and high-definition (HD) TVs may watch PBS Hawai‘i in high-definition on Spectrum Channel 1010 or Hawaiian Telcom Channel 1011. Courtesy of Susan Wilson Courtesy Susan of Over-the-Air Broadcast Channels AMERICAN MASTERS Friday, March 1, 8:00 pm (KHET) Channel 11.1 - 11.2 - 11.3 (KMEB) Channel 10.1 - 10.2 - 10.3 Singer and activist Holly Near Spectrum Basic Cable: Channel 10 1 FRIDAY 2 SATURDAY HD: Channel 1010 PBS Hawai‘i Kids: Channel 443 7:30 WASHINGTON WEEK 12:00 HIKI NŌ (e) 8:00 AMERICAN MASTERS Holly Near 12:30 CLASSICAL STRETCH: BY Hawaiian Telcom Experience the power of song in the ESSENTRICS Back Pain Relief (e) Basic Cable: Channel 11 struggle for equality through the 1:00 DESTINATION CRAFT WITH HD: Channel 1011 PBS Hawai‘i Kids: Channel 96 story of feminist singer and activist JIM WEST Peru Holly Near, who for the last 40 years 1:30 BEST OF THE JOY OF PAINTING All programs have closed-captioning. has worked on global social justice Golden Glow of Morning When possible, encore broadcasts will coalition-building in the women’s 2:00 AMERICAN WOODSHOP be indicated by (e). 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