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The About Faith panel discusses the role of women in various faiths. Original airdate March 26, 2023 at 1 pm. The participants are: Rabbi Dr. Jana De Benedetti, Father Jason Foster, Rabbi Judy Caplan Ginsburgh (Rabbi Temple B'nai Israel), Kimberly Long (DRE St. Mary of the Pines), Ashish Modi, Father Mark Watson -
Imagine a school setting where children ages 2-21 receive both therapeutic and educational services that enhance their quality of life. A place where 2-minute hugs are the norm, and where homemade cookies and ice cream are made and shipped all over the country. That place is Holy Angels located right here in Shreveport. Hear how Holy Angels is teaching children, reaching families, and inspiring communities.Guests include:Laurie Boswell, Chief Executive OfficerRandy Davidson, Chief Operating OfficerKelly Rouse, Director of Community School
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Wendy Coker, Assistant Director of the Deaf Action Center in Shreveport, and LaToya Foster, Independent Living Specialist with New Horizons Independent Living Center, will join our host, Jenny Gregorio, LMSW, to talk about services available for the deaf and hard of hearing community. Questions will be taken at 1-800-552-8502.
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Conserving Earth's host Rebecca Triche talks about the benefits of national wildlife refuges for conservation with Terri Jacobson, ranger with Red River National Wildlife Refuge, Leo Gustafson, refuge manager with Neches River National Wildlife Refuge and Skipper Dickson, Shreveport businessman, conservationist and first board chairman for The Nature Conservancy Louisiana.
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Host (and conductor) Kermit Poling speakers with the Shreveport Symphony's guest artist "Caesar" about his Nat King Cole program on March 25.
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The conducting talents of Oliver Yan, graduate student in the School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University, will be spotlighted when the Symphony Orchestra performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 24, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
Yan, who is from Hong Kong, is earning a master’s degree in conducting from SFA. The program will include three major works: “Der Freischutz” Overture by Carl Maria von Weber; “Les Preludes” by Franz Liszt; and L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 by Georges Bizet.
Concert tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. To purchase tickets, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit finearts.sfasu.edu. For additional information, contact the SFA School of Music at (936) 468-4602. -
The A Cappella Choir at Stephen F. Austin State University will present the concert program “The Spark Within Us” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 21 in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
The program features music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Moses Hogan, Wolfram Buchenberg, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Dan Forrest and more. The SFA Repertory Dance Company will also perform.
Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. To purchase tickets, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit finearts.sfasu.edu. For additional information, contact the SFA School of Music at (936) 468-4602. -
The School of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University will present “Celleuphoria” featuring Dr. Evgeni Raychev at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 19, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.
Raychev, cello instructor at SFA, will be joined on stage by colleagues Jennifer Dalmas, violin; Minhae Lee, piano; Melissa Nabb, viola; and Brad Mayer, percussion. Some of Raychev’s current and prospective cello students will also perform. The concert features compositions from the Baroque, Romantic and post-Romantic periods, as well as the 20th and 21st centuries.
Recital tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $3 for students and youth. To purchase tickets, call the SFA Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or visit finearts.sfasu.edu. For additional information, contact the SFA School of Music at (936) 468-4602. -
The PIANO SHOWCASE is a music fundraiser event sponsored by the Nacogdoches Symphony Club to help with scholarships for SFA voice, string and piano students (both college level and Prep Division students). The performance will feature solo piano performances by SFA pianists: (alphabetically) Dr Mario Ajero, Martha De Luna, James Faucett, Jina Jeong, Dr Minhae Lee, Dr Andrew Parr, Professor Emeritus, and Linda Parr. Music of Albéniz, Hamelin, Mozart, Schubert, Copland, Debussy and Liszt.
Established in 1904, the Nacogdoches Symphony Club is the 2nd oldest member club of the Nacogdoches Federation of Women's Clubs.
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Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagThe Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a case about whether a federal law that prohibits inducing unlawful immigration violates the First Amendment. -
U.S. sales of heat pumps overtook sales of gas furnaces in 2022. But what is a heat pump? And why do some call it a key climate solution?
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The world's tropical rainforests are still getting hit hard by deforestation. Now, scientists are finding that's having an expected impact: causing droughts.
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Eight California counties are creating "Care Courts" for people with untreated severe mental illness. A judge may order treatment that counties must fund. Civil liberties groups have sued to stop it.
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Travel to the U.S. for performing artists could get more expensive after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed doubling the cost of visa applications.
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When their rare Siberian tigers proved to be "just friends," the National Zoo turned to artificial insemination in hopes of creating a next generation.
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A 100-year-old church in Rolling Fork, Miss., was decimated by tornados. Parishioners are already in the process of rebuilding their congregation.
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The next few nights, five planets will line up in the sky: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Mars.
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Facing protests that had shut down much of his country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's delaying a vote in parliament that could give his coalition more power over choosing judges.
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NPR's Adrian Florido talks with Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro about demonstrations in Israel around Netanyahu's controversial plan to reform the judiciary.
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