Community Cinema
How do you bring community members together to talk about big ideas and timely issues? Wichita has a suggestion: Go to the movies. Now through March, monthly Community Cinema events at the Orpheum Theatre engage audiences in community conversations.
Presented by KPTS Public Television, each event features a documentary screening from the PBS series Independent Lens followed by a discussion about the ideas raised in the film. Each discussion is facilitated by a panel of humanities professionals and community experts.
Dr. Gretchen Eick, professor of History at Friends University, moderates the discussions. According to Eick, the post-film discussion "unpacks the significance of the films and opens new ways of 'seeing' the culture or subject."
The next Community Cinema event will take place December 5 at 2 PM at the Orpheum Theatre in Wichita. The Calling, a film following seven young Americans on their journey to become members of the clergy, will be followed by a discussion with an interfaith panel of community religious leaders. View a trailer for The Calling.
For more information about Community Cinema, visit the KPTS website.
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Fort Riley and World War I
Fort Riley was established in 1853 to protect railroad workers and settlers moving west. By the 1890s, it functioned as a military school for cavalry and light artillery. But after the U.S. declared war against Germany in 1917, Fort Riley took on a new role: the training and deployment of troops. Because of this, Kansas soldiers traveled throughout the state, went overseas, sent letters home, and changed the world-view of generations of Kansans. Sandra Reddish leads an examination of Fort Riley and its soldiers on December 16 at the Prairie Museum of Art and History in Colby.
Fort Riley and World War I is one of over 70 Kansas-themed presentations available in KHC's Statehood Speakers Bureau catalog.
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