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Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023, at 6 p.m. Former President Jimmy Carter has brought national attention to hospice care. On this Health Matters: Mental Health Edition, host Jenny Gregorio talks with Amanda Gardner, with Christus Hospice Shreveport-Bossier, about the support hospice care provides to patients and families and the potential benefits of entering hospice care earlier rather than later. -
Each year the Louisiana Department of Education in partnership with Dream Teachers acknowledges competent, qualified, and motivated teachers through its Teacher of the Year Recognition Program. On this episode of Teach, Reach, Inspire, we will be joined by three local teachers who were recognized as state finalists.Janet McCrevan, teacher at South Highlands Elementary in Caddo and Louisiana TOY State FinalistCamille Cole, teacher at Platt Elementary School in Bossier and Louisiana New TOY State FinalistBrad Winstead, teacher at Airline High School in Bossier and Louisiana New TOY State Finalist.
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Airs Wednesday, September 20, 6 p.m. This edition of Conserving Earth, hosted by Janice Bezanson, features a conversation with Jenny Sanders, coordinator of a grassroots coalition of hunters, landowners and conservationists in Texas
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Thursday, Sept. 20, 2023, at 6 p.m. Dr. Patrick Lavo will be joined by Dr. Michelle Yetman, Clinical Psychologist at Children’s Center at LSU Health Shreveport; Dr. Laura Cassidy, Co-Founder and Board Chair of Louisiana Key Academy; and Pamela Barker, Principal at Louisiana Key Academy’s Caddo Campus to talk about the reading disorder dyslexia, how it is diagnosed and the resources available to help. Questions will be taken at 1-80-552-8502.
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Shreveport Symphony
Host Kermit Poling speaks with Michael Butterman, music director of the Shreveport Symphony, and Simone Porter, the featured guest artist for the upcoming season opening concert by the symphony.
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The first event in the return of the University Series at Stephen F. Austin State University will be a performance by Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Ruthie Foster at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 12, in the newly renovated Turner Auditorium in Griffith Fine Arts Building.
Raised in a family of gospel singers, Foster performs blues, jazz, folk, soul and gospel, often being compared to Bonnie Raitt and Aretha Franklin.
Single event tickets are adult, $35; senior (62 or better), $30; SFA faculty/staff, $18; non-SFA student/youth, $15; SFA student, $3. To purchase tickets, call the Fine Arts Box Office at (936) 468-6407 or (888) 240-ARTS, or visit sfasu.edu/boxoffice. The Fine Arts Box Office is located in the second floor lobby, Griffith Fine Arts Building, SFA campus. -
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and SFA’s filmmaking program will present the premiere of its summer film project, “CUT!,” at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 27, in Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.
Written and directed by filmmaking Professor Brad Maule and guest directed by Derek Wayne Johnson, “CUT!” is about a struggling film school in East Texas that hires a Hollywood filmmaker, Skippy Digler III, to direct a student feature film, “Massacre in the Pines.” The students get more than they bargained for when they realize Skippy isn’t all he’s cracked up to be.
Admission to the premiere of “CUT!” is free. For more information, contact the School of Art at (936) 468-4804. -
Join us this Fall as we host our 5th annual Minden Maker’s Fair Saturday, October 14th at The Farm of Cultural Crossroads (419 East Union) in Minden, LA.
When you attend Minden Maker’s Fair you’ll find artisans selling their handmade goods, culinary artists with plenty of treats to take home, & food vendors!
Demonstrations:
Pottery with Mandie Ebarb
Glass Blowing with Ivy Woods
LSU AgCenter Webster Parish
TurnUp Dance Fitness Workshop
Free Make & Take Art provided by Webster Parish Libraries.
Free:
Free Face Painting
Free Balloon Art
(By LAFF-CO Home of Jelly the Clown)
Free Henna Tattoos
(By CreateItHannah)
On display: Art at the Farm Student Works Gallery
To apply as a vendor, volunteer, or demonstrator use this link:
www.mindenmakersfair.com/vendorregistration
Sponsors make it possible for us to provide all the free elements of the event!
Corporate Sponsors:
Catherine C. Hunt of LaState Realty
Gibsland Bank
Speer Roofing & Construction, LLC
B1 Bank
Home Federal Bank
Friends of The Farm:
Minden Family Dental
Supporting Sponsor::
Bobbies Hobbies
Mike’s Hometown Sprits
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Enjoy an evening of student improvisational theatre featuring different games, themes and show structures sponsored by Alpha Psi Omega.
News Feed
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Black holes may contain the masses of more than a billion suns, but they also hold a few lessons that we humans can apply to everyday life.
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Federal workers across the country are bracing to lose pay indefinitely. Many have weathered shutdowns before and some face losing income at particularly inconvenient times in their lives.
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Protests continue in the Armenian capital Yerevan after the collapse of the breakaway government of ethnic Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh.
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The new film THE CREATOR takes place in a future war raging between humans and AI. Director Gareth Edwards says he wrote the film when technology was viewed in a much more positive light.
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The annual butterfly migration is underway. For decades scientists have relied on volunteers to tag butterflies to provide details about their journey.
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Heavy rains closed roads and flooded subways in New York City today. New York Governor Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in several counties in the metro area.
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Authorities in Nevada announced today that arrest has been made in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with former Congresswoman Jane Harman, who was a longtime friend and colleague to Diane Feinstein, about the late senator's life and legacy.
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Government funding runs out at the end of the day tomorrow and Congress seems resigned to dragging the spending fight past the deadline for a shutdown.
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NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Olivier Bancoult, leader of the Chagos Refugee Group. Fifty years ago, the UK forced the Chaggosians off their land to make room for a US military base.
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