WTVI Events & Connections

WTVI is more than the station you tune to for engaging, educational and entertaining programming. We’re also home to many community events, which are a unique and fun way to support your local PBS station.
Upcoming events:

Native American Indian Celebration
November 14, 2009, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
The Charlotte Museum of History
3500 Shamrock Dr., Charlotte, NC 28215
Admission is free. The event will take place rain or shine.
Join WTVI to honor our area's American Indian heritage through traditional song, dance, art, and storytelling.
The event will feature the Southern Suns Drummers, Cherokee traditionalist Freeman Owle, Catawba potter Keith "Little Bear" Brown, Lumbee storyteller Barbara Locklear, the Aztec dance group Grupo Painalli, and traditional dancers from regional tribes. Food by Ancient Latin American Food and Original Home Made Food will be available for purchase.

Our Vanishing Americana
Free film premiere
November 21, 2009, 5-6 p.m.
The Gem Theatre, Kannapolis, NC (featured in the film)

The book Our Vanishing Americana: A North Carolina Portrait, by Lee Grant and Mike Lassiter, includes hundreds of photographs from all 100 North Carolina counties. It features general stores and hardware shops, corner drug stores with soda fountains, blue plate diners, hot dog stands, filling stations, barber shops, and single screen theaters; a way of life vanishing from our landscape. Director Scott Galloway is currently editing the film version at WTVI.
The documentary debuts on WTVI, November 25, 8 p.m.

Conversation with Jim Lehrer

from The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
June 2010, Date to be announced
Location: WTVI Studios

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