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Illinois’ PBS Station WQPT Bringing Back Ready To Learn Early Childhood Conference

March 8th, 2023
Illinois' PBS Station WQPT Bringing Back Ready To Learn Early Childhood Conference

WQPT, Quad Cities PBS is bringing back the “Ready to Learn Early Childhood” Conference. The event is offered in partnership with Star Net regions I and III, Western Illinois University, with support from the Grad Center – providing current and relevant information on a variety of topics related to early childhood education, including Equity and Access and is scheduled for Saturday, April 29. The “Ready to Learn Early Childhood” conference was last offered in 2018. WQPT’s director of educational outreach, Melissa Gravert – a former teacher – wanted to relaunch the conference to provide... Read More

WQPT Holding Auction At Your House Event

January 26th, 2023
WQPT Holding Auction At Your House Event

WQPT, Quad Cities PBS is holding their third on-air/online  “The Auction is at Your House.”  The event will air on WQPT January 26 from 8 to 10 pm, while bidding starts on-line January 17. Items can be viewed before the on-air portion of the auction by visiting wqpt.org/auction. Bidders need to sign up before they can begin bidding. Click on an item and a link will pop up. It’s very easy – people bid using their phone placing bids in real time. Some of the highlighted items include artwork by Spike O’Dell, an autographed football from Chicago Bears defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad,... Read More

Find Cool Events This Week In Illinois And Iowa In The FUN10!

January 22nd, 2023
Find Cool Events This Week In Illinois And Iowa In The FUN10!

Looking for FUN in Illinois and Iowa this week? Well, look no further! Check out the Fun10 for the Quad-Cities of Illinois and Iowa! Fun10 — ten ways for you to have fun in the Quad-Cities, this week and every week, running every Sunday, only on your site for fun, free, local entertainment, QuadCities.com! Every Sunday, we drop a new Fun10, to give you a head start on your week and a heads up on what’s going on over the coming seven days. Check out Fun10 every Sunday for the details on ten awesome events happening around town. It’s a cool read, and a great way to get started planning your... Read More

Davenport Central Marching Band Featured In London New Year’s Day Parade

December 15th, 2022
Davenport Central Marching Band Featured In London New Year's Day Parade

WQPT will air the London New Year’s Day Parade live on January 1 2023 at 6:00 am to 9:00 am, featuring Davenport Central High Schools Blue Devils Marching Band. The Marching Blue Devils were formally invited on February 13th, 2020 to perform in the 2023 London New Years Day Parade. The Blue Devils will join 8000 performers, including the students, traveling to London from all over the world to march in the 36th annual New Year’s Day parade. To see the running order of the parade you can check out https://lnydp.com/lnydp-runningorder/. The parade will also be streaming on the WQPT PBS Video... Read More

WQPT Airing ‘My Brother’s Gift’ Holocaust-Themed Production

November 14th, 2022
WQPT Airing 'My Brother's Gift' Holocaust-Themed Production

In September 2022, The Black Box Theatre performed “My Brother’s Gift,” as a part of the Out of Darkness: Holocaust Messages for Today initiative. The play is based on the remarkable true story of Heinz Geiringer, neighbor and friend of Anne Frank. The production will air on WQPT on November 17 at 8:00 pm and will be followed by a short documentary on the Anne Frank Exhibit in Danville, Iowa. Heinz, a trained musician at only 15, was forced to live in hiding and silence in Nazi occupied Amsterdam. He turned to painting and poetry to express his everyday terror, but also his hope for the future.... Read More

Moline’s WQPT Holding Virtual Screening Event For Mental Health Documentary

August 30th, 2022
Moline's WQPT Holding Virtual Screening Event For Mental Health Documentary

WQPT, Quad Cities PBS will be holding a virtual screening event featuring excerpts from the documentary “Scattering CJ” on Thursday, September 1 at 7:00 pm. Following each excerpt there will be a panel discussion about the film and suicide prevention. “Scattering CJ” explores the devastating effects of suicide, the extraordinary generosity of strangers and one troubled family’s attempt to finally find peace. Following the loss of her son to suicide, Hallie Twomey reached out to people far and wide to help scatter CJ’s ashes around the world. The panel discussion that follows the film... Read More

WQPT Bringing Molly Of Denali To Iowa And Illinois Libraries This Week

July 11th, 2022
WQPT Bringing Molly Of Denali To Iowa And Illinois Libraries This Week

MOLINE, ILLINOIS – WQPT is bringing Molly of Denali to area libraries July 11 through 15. Molly of Denali is an animated children’s television series that airs on WQPT at 11:00 am Monday through Friday. The program was created by Dorothea Gillim and Kathy Waugh and produced by Atomic Cartoons and WGBH Kids for PBS Kids and CBC Kids. The series is the first American nationally distributed children’s show to feature an Alaska Native as the lead character. The series won a Peabody Award in the Children’s/Youth category in 2020. Molly will be appearing at the following libraries: Moline... Read More

WQPT, Illinois PBS, Debuting New Documentaries This Week

July 5th, 2022
WQPT, Illinois PBS, Debuting New Documentaries This Week

WQPT will air a number of documentaries by area filmmakers during July.  “One of the best parts of my job is working with filmmakers and finding documentaries that tell our area’s stories,” said Lora Adams, Director of Marketing and Local Content for the station. New to the lineup will be a film by Stephen Folker titled “Tragedy on Highway 74,” which tells the story of a Cedar County, Iowa business owner who was deputized to help track down robbers and lost his life. The film is scheduled for July 7 at 8:00 pm and will be followed by two short subject films by WQPT videographer Chris... Read More

Moline’s WQPT Welcomes Melissa Gravert To Fill Educational Outreach Position

June 13th, 2022
Moline's WQPT Welcomes Melissa Gravert To Fill Educational Outreach Position

WQPT is excited to welcome Melissa Gravert to fill our vital educational outreach position. Melissa will oversee our outreach initiative and activities, Summer of Possibilities library visits, First book Club, Ambassador program and community outreach. Ms.Gravert brings a wealth of experience to WQPT. She received her Master of Science Education in Elementary Education from Marshall University in West Virginia, and also has degrees from Western Illinois University and Scott Community College. Most recently she was a teacher and librarian at Washington Elementary in Moline. In 2012 she served as... Read More

Controversial Iowa Actress/Activist Jean Seberg Documentary to Have Broadcast Premiere on WQPT-PBS March 27

March 9th, 2022
Controversial Iowa Actress/Activist Jean Seberg Documentary to Have Broadcast Premiere on WQPT-PBS March 27

The award-winning documentary “Jean Seberg: Actress Activist Icon” will have its broadcast premiere on WQPT-Quad Cities PBS and screen one time on Sunday, March 27 at 7 p.m. The film was produced by Mid-America Emmy Award winners Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, and Regional Emmy-nominated filmmaker Garry McGee of McMarr, Ltd. Selected from 18,000 aspiring actresses world-wide at age 17, Marshalltown, Iowa’s Jean Seberg made her acting debut in Otto Preminger’s 1957 Saint Joan and starred in Hollywood films Lilith with Warren Beatty, Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood,... Read More