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Ellen DeGeneres Awarded Prestigous Mark Twain Prize

Tue, October 30th, 2012

Ellen DeGeneres: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize features the presentation of a coveted humor award, with a star-studded cast paying tribute to Ellen DeGeneres, whose distinctive comic voice has resonated with audiences from her first stand-up co...

KUED Empowers Young Women to Tell Their Stories

Writing Workshop Part of Women and Girls Lead Initiative
Mon, October 8th, 2012

Young women selected by the YWCA, Girl Scouts of Utah and the Go-Girlz program facilitated by the Women’s Resource Center, will take part in a one-day intensive writing workshop as part of KUED’s Women and Girls Lead initiative on Saturda...

KUED Hosts Screening, Panel Discussion of "Strong!" 

August 8th, 7-9 p.m. Utah Musuem of Contemporary Art
Fri, August 3rd, 2012

A formidable figure, standing at 5'8" and weighing over 300 pounds, Cheryl Haworth struggles to defend her champion status as her lifetime weightlifting career comes to its inevitable end. Strong!, a one-hour documentary by Juliet Wyman, chronicles...

PBS Summer Arts Festival Explores Music of Havana

Fri, July 27th, 2012

Produced by award-winning PBS filmmaker David Grubin, the new documentary film Havana, Havana! vibrates with the soul and energy of African-Cuban drummers, guajira guitarists, and the pulsing melodies of celebrated Cuban musician Raul Paz.  ...

KUED Explores Life of Martha Hughes Cannon

Physician, Senator, Sister Wife    
Sun, July 22nd, 2012

She was a physician, the first female senator in the United States, an advocate, suffragette and a sister wife.  Martha Hughes Cannon was a remarkable, complicated woman.  KUED tells her compelling story in a new one-hour documentary by Nan...

KUED Takes a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Actor/Playwright John Leguizamo

Fri, July 13th, 2012

Get a behind-the-scenes look at one of the industry's most versatile actors: John Leguizamo when the PBS Summer Arts Festival presents John Leguizamo's Tales from a Ghetto Klown Friday, July 13 at 8:00 p.m. on KUED. The profile of the actor/playwr...

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World

Celebrate a diversity of art created in Islamic culture.  
Fri, July 6th, 2012

Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World, a new documentary from award-winning Unity Productions Foundation (UPF),presents viewers with a kaleidoscope of exquisite works of art – from the opulent Taj Mahal of Agra, India, to written word in t...

KUED Launches Free Film Series

Part of Women and Girls Lead Initiative
Tue, April 3rd, 2012

  KUED kicks off its Women and Girls Lead free film series with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, an official selection of the Sundance Film Festival, on Wednesday, May 9 at 7 p.m. in the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art auditorium.   Part...

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers Returns to KUED

Groundbreaking 6-part PBS Series Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
Sun, March 11th, 2012

When Bill Moyers sat across from Joseph Campbell in the library of George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch a quarter of a century ago to begin a series of conversations that would continue over two summers, neither of them could anticipate the extraordinary im...

Freedoms Promise

KUED Looks at Youth Activism Today  
Tue, November 8th, 2011

While working on Utah’s Freedom Riders earlier this year, KUED producer Nancy Green realized that  most people today have a romanticized notion of the 1960s Civil Rights movement.  “The reality is that it was a tumultuous...

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