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KNME has many events throughout the year including exclusive events for Leadership Circle donors and special guests. These events range from special programming and concerts to screenings and contests.
We invite you to browse the events below or use the calendar to the left to view information about events on selected days.
KNME Upcoming Events
PBS TeacherS Innovation Awards
January 27th - Entry Begins
March 12th - Entry Ends
April - Winners Announced
America’s teachers innovate every day.
From math and science to music and the arts, your inventive thinking continuously fuels, inspires and engages young minds – and we want to recognize and thank YOU!
PBS and KNME invite you to enter the PBS Teachers Innovation Awards!
Type: Award
Audience: Teachers
Fee: Free
KNME Science CafÉ
March 27th • 10 am to Noon
Auto-Tune
Join us for a discussion with a David Thomas, inventor of the company’s Digital Hybrid Wireless technology to discuss the science behind Auto-Tune.
Location: ¡explora!
1701 Mountain Road NW
Type: Café
Audience: Public RSVP
Fee: Free
KNME Science CafÉ
April 24th • 10 am to Noon
EARTHQUAKES IN THE MIDWEST
Join in a discussion with Dr. John W. Geissman about the New Madrid Seismic Zone and its seismic risk and what seismic hazards exist in NM.
Location: Madeleine’s Place
3824 Corrales Road, Corrales
Type: Café
Audience: Public RSVP
Fee: Free
KNME WINS NATIONAL PBS AWARD FOR INSPIRATION
Presented May 2010
KNME was chosen for this award based on innovative work in successfully spearheading a state-wide on-air campaign with the two other New Mexico PBS stations KENW (in Portales) and KRWG (in Las Cruces).
“... Out of over 300 PBS stations, it’s wonderful to be honored with this award.” Polly Anderson, General Manager and CEO, KNME.
KNME Studio Tours
STUDENTS, GROUPS & ORGANIZATIONS...
Would you like to tour the KNME studios?
High school students learn about the many jobs in television and the skills required. Civic and social organizations gain an understanding of the television industry and how a program gets to your home.
Minimum age for tours is ten. Maximum group size is 25.
For more information call, 277-1240 or email bpinnell@knme.org.
KNME Past Events
KNME WINS 2009 ROCKY MOUNTAIN EMMY AWARDS
October 24th, in Phoenix, AZ
KNME has won *Two* Rocky Mountain Southwest Chapter Emmy Awards. The winners, ARTISODES & THE MUSICAL ADVENTURES OF JOHN DONALD ROBB (web site), were announced at an Awards ceremony, held on Oct. 24, in Phoenix. For details, CLICK HERE.
Faces of America sneak Preview
Feb 19, 2010 4:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Feb 20, 2010 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeff Long, genetic scientist and professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at the Maxwell Museum at UNM.
Location: New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science
Type: Preview
Audience: APS/Pueblo Teachers
Fee: Free
KNME Science CafÉ
February 27th • 10 am to Noon
Magnetic storm
Come to KNME's February Science Café, view a clip of Magnetic Storm from the national PBS series NOVA, and thenjoin in a discussion with a local expert.
Location: Madeleine's Place
Type: Café
Audience: Public RSVP
Fee: Free
KNME Science CafÉ
January 30th • 10 am to Noon
Autism
View a clip of Autism from NOVA scienceNOW, and then join Dr. Julia Stephen, Director, MEG/EEG Core at The Mind Research Network.
THE JANUARY SCIENCE CAFE IS BOOKED BEYOND CAPACITY. PLEASE CONSIDER ATTENDING THE FEBRUARY CAFE.
KNME Booth at the Children's Cabinet
KNME Education and Outreach staff set up a booth during Children's Cabinet
Days at the state capitol during the opening of the 2010 legislative
session.
We talked to legislators and the public about KNME early childhood
and teacher support programs and handed out loads of materials.
The television set up in the booth showed several US Senators talking with Elmo about healthy habits and video tapes of KNME programs like Science Crawl.
KNME Science CafÉ: Sleep and Memory
December 19th
Nearly forty people attended the Science Café at Madeleine’s Place in Corrales. There was lively discussion as Dr. Lee Brown disagreed with the theory proposed by the NOVA science NOW program that there is a direct connection between sleep and memory. Dr. Brown engaged the audience with the current scientific thinking and arguments on both sides of the question.
Painting Taos Documentary PremierE
December 7th
In 1898, two city slickers, Bert Phillips and Ernest Blumenschein, leave New York to head West. It’s not long before their muscles are aching, and their wagon wheels are breaking.
When Blumenschein goes to look for help, he stumbles across the town of Taos. It’s an accident that will change his life-- and the future of New Mexico.
MAJOR CHANGES for THE NEWSHOUR WITH JIM LEHRER
December 7th
* The name of the program changes
from The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
to PBS NewsHour.
* A change from a single anchor to a
dual anchor each evening.
* The addition of a correspondent to
serve as a bridge between broadcast
and digital platforms.
Balloon Fiesta Documentary PremierE
November 30th • 7:00 pmFor nine days in October the KNME crew follows the dynamic story of the Balloon Fiesta.
Photographed in stunning high definition video, enjoy the fabulous mass ascensions, unique specials shapes, fantastic evening “glowdeos,” competitions, and the characters that make the Fiesta come alive.
Invisible Children Documentary
Nov. 20th • New Mexico in Focus
Private screening and discussion with members of New Mexcio government and CYFD officials on Nov. 13th.
The Documentary airs on New Mexico in Focus on Nov 20, 2009.
"Their parents committed the crimes, not them. So why are so many New Mexico children paying the price?
Their voices, their stories."
SESAME STREET – 40th New Season!
November 10th
The world’s largest informal children’s educator, celebrates its 40th birthday on Nov. 10, 2009, (the exact day the series debuted on TV 4 decades ago), with everything you love about it & more: new block format, new show open, & new nature curriculum!
NATIONAL PARKS PREVIEW SCREENING
September 25th
Over 170 people attended the preview screening of Ken Burns' The National Parks: America’s Best Idea.
Participants had a chance to preview the 12-hour series at this event at the NM History Museum.
Watch the Preview of The National Parks: America's Best Idea
