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ARTeArizona Public Media™ is in production of the second installment of ARTe, a quarterly series that focuses on Southern Arizona’s vibrant visual and performing arts scenes.
Painter and UA professor Alfred Quiroz and sound sculptor Glenn Weyant are among the renowned local artists featured in the upcoming program. George Hanson, music director and conductor of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, hosts.
Producing the program is our Emmy Award-winner Sooyeon Lee, Southern Arizona’s only full-time broadcast arts reporter.
ARTe will next air in late February 2008
Phoenix Mars MissionVisit the Ashes to Ice page to learn more about this exciting documentary about the Phoenix Mars Lander.
Phoenix Mars Mission sequel
This sequel to Ashes to Ice follows historic mission led by the UA’s Peter Smith. The Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off to the Red Planet in August 2007. The station chronicled its meticulous preparation through blastoff in Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice.
Production has began on a follow-up program. The sequel follows the spacecraft’s journey, risky landing and UA-led scientific research on Mars.
The Phoenix Mars sequel will be broadcast in 2009.
The Desert Speaks – 18th SeasonHost David Yetman takes viewers on another round of bold explorations when The Desert Speaks returns for a spectacular 18th season. Through intriguing storytelling and stunning photography, viewers find out about the people (past and present), plants, animals and archaeology of arid regions throughout the New World.
Expect to see four programs in the deserts of Chile (including the Atacama Desert – the driest place on Earth – where it hasn’t rained a drop in many generations). You’ll also visit Patagonia, Argentina, the Sea of Cortez, and the desert portions of the San Andreas Fault. Yetman and the crew spent much of 2007 traveling to these far-flung locations.
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Tucson RemembersTucson Remembers, Part 3, focuses on the battle in the Pacific during World War II. It follows the highly acclaimed programs Tucson Remembers: The War Years and Tucson Remembers: The Battle for Europe, which premiered in December 2006 and September 2007.
Like its predecessors, the new program illustrates the war through the recollections of Tucsonans telling their intimate stories in the settings of their own homes.
Tucson Remembers Part 3 premieres in March.
