This Week on MNN: Our hats off to you
It’s commencement season, and we’re inspired by college graduates who are entering the work force with newfound knowledge and enlightenment. In their honor, here’s a week full of MNN programming to educate and illuminate. Kick off the week with “The Facts” and Lenore Von Stein’s imaginative take on love in the future. “Royal Lady” takes a more pragmatic angle, with advice on marital communication, while “Gotta Run with Will” celebrates the work of the Run Anyway Foundation. “GingerNewYork” and “The Carmen Mathis Show” tickle your musical fancy, and “Something to Offer” examines pressing environmental concerns through a new children’s book.
“The Facts: Palau from the Future, Part 3”
Tuesday, May 24, 11:30 pm
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Each episode of “The Facts” is either a music-story (using composed and improvised music and story), or a rehearsal for a music-story, or a discussion between scholars and experts. Watch this week’s episode, part 3 of an 8-part music-story using composed and improvised music and words.
Palau brings us forward to the year 3000. In a time when everyone around her is wealthy, young, healthy, and enjoying life, Palau searches for love, friendship and intimacy.
Featuring Lenore Von Stein as writer, singer, and narrator; Andrew Bolotowsky, flute; Beth Griffith, singer, Bern Nix, guitar; and Rachel Evans, viola.
More info:
“The Facts” on the Web
“The Facts” on YouTube
“The Facts” on LinkedIn
“Royal Lady”
Thursday, May 26, 12:30 pm
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Airing weekly on MNN3, “Royal Lady” seeks to empower families in the name of Jesus. On this week’s episode, Pastor David Jenkins, Programming Manager of Bronxnet, talks about the importance of communication in marriage.
“Gotta Run with Will”
Thursday, May 26, 9:30 pm
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In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend “500 for the Fallen” relay, “GRWW” presents an encore performance of the episode that kicked off the show’s sixth season on MNN. The 500+ mile run is the signature annual event sponsored by the Run Anyway Foundation to fund college scholarships for children who have lost a parent in the line of US military duty.
Guest host Lance Svendsen, co-founder of the Run Anyway Foundation, interviews Cynthia Kim, founder of the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, and Colleen O’Hare, whose children have benefitted from the foundation’s efforts.
More info:
“Gotta Run with Will” on Facebook
“Gotta Run with Will” on YouTube
“Gotta Run with Will” on Twitter
“GingerNewYork”
Friday, May 27, 2:00 pm
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Uber fans of “The Fab Faux,” the hottest Beatles tribute band, appear on the next “GingerNewYork” episode this week! For fifteen years, host Ginger Broderick has followed “The Fab Faux.” Fans Antoinette Gelmont and Lorraine Oler pay tribute this Friday.
More info:
“GingerNewYork” on Facebook
“GingerNewYork” on YouTube
“GingerNewYork” on Twitter
“The Carmen Mathis Show”
Friday, May 27, 8:00pm
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Celebrated jazz musician Dr. John “Satchmo” Mannan and Harlem Rennaissance 2.0 join “The Carmen Mathis Show” this Friday to launch your Memorial Day weekend with soul-soothing tunes.
More info:
“The Carmen Mathis Show” on Facebook
“Something to Offer”
Saturday, May 28, 7:30 pm
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Eric Dinerstein, director of biodiversity and wildlife solutions at RESOLVE, devotes his time to the conservation of wild populations of elephants, rhinos, tigers, and other endangered species. Previously chief scientist and vice president for conservation science at the World Wildlife Fund for nearly twenty-five years, he joins host Anne Marie Offer to discuss his new children’s book, “What Elephants Know,” a modern day “Jungle Book.”
More info:
“Something to Offer” on the Web
