Tuesday, October 23 Artstarts To Host Film Screening
Local Film Screening to Preview Ken Burns documentary, The Dust Bowl
Carbondale, Ill. -- WSIU Public Broadcasting, the public media arm of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and Artstarts in Marion will host a free sneak preview and discussion of Ken Burns' upcoming documentary, THE DUST BOWL, on Tuesday, October 23 at 7pm in the Artstarts building at 104 S. Van Buren in Marion, Ill.
Mindy Scott, District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will facilitate a discussion after the film. Ms Scott has a special interest in the history of the dust bowl and professional experience in conservation practices.
THE DUST BOWL, a new two-part, four-hour documentary by Burns, will air November 18 and 19, 2012 at 7pm on WSIU-TV 8.1 and WUSI-TV 16.1, with repeats the same night at 9pm and during WSIU-TV's overnight schedule on November 19 and November 20 at 12am & 2am, and again on November 21 and November 22 at 2am.
The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history. A preview is available at www.pbs.org/dustbowl.
For more information about this film screening, contact Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org.
Local Film Screening to Preview Ken Burns documentary, The Dust Bowl
Carbondale, Ill. -- WSIU Public Broadcasting, the public media arm of Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), and Artstarts in Marion will host a free sneak preview and discussion of Ken Burns' upcoming documentary, THE DUST BOWL, on Tuesday, October 23 at 7pm in the Artstarts building at 104 S. Van Buren in Marion, Ill.
Mindy Scott, District Conservationist for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), will facilitate a discussion after the film. Ms Scott has a special interest in the history of the dust bowl and professional experience in conservation practices.
THE DUST BOWL, a new two-part, four-hour documentary by Burns, will air November 18 and 19, 2012 at 7pm on WSIU-TV 8.1 and WUSI-TV 16.1, with repeats the same night at 9pm and during WSIU-TV's overnight schedule on November 19 and November 20 at 12am & 2am, and again on November 21 and November 22 at 2am.
The film chronicles the environmental catastrophe that, throughout the 1930s, destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts, and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history. A preview is available at www.pbs.org/dustbowl.
For more information about this film screening, contact Vickie Devenport at (618) 453-6148 or vickie.devenport@wsiu.org.
