The Community Idea Stations (WCVE PBS, WHTJ PBS), along with our Ready To Learn program, held its annual PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest designed to promote the advancement of children’s literacy skills through hands-on, active learning. Children in kindergarten through third grade were invited to enter the contest by illustrating and writing original stories. Local winners were selected in the spring of 2013 and each winner recorded their stories in front of a studio audience of friends and family.

Join us Thursday, May 2nd for “Behind the Scenes with Public Radio,” an event marking the start of WCVE Public Radio’s year-long 25th Anniversary Celebration. Meet your local radio hosts as well as special guest, Audie Cornish, host of NPR’s All Things Considered.

Come and hang out with your public radio station, serving listeners in the Richmond area since 1988:
When: Thursday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Modlin Center for the Arts, University of Richmond
Tickets: $25 per person. Tickets may be purchased at the Modlin Center Box Office (Hours 10:00-5:00 p.m.) by calling 804.289.8980 or online at modlin.richmond.edu. Or make a $365 donation to WCVE Public Radio’s Spring Pledge Campaign and get 1 pair of tickets as a Thank-You gift. Tickets are limited.

The PBS Online Film Festival returns for a second year, beginning March 4, 2013, and WCVE PBS is one of six PBS members stations selected nationwide! The festival will showcase 25 short films from PBS member stations and media partners, that feature a diversity of subjects, voices and viewpoints. The films will be accessible via all PBS digital platforms, YouTube and PBS social media channels.

People who attended the “Shakespearean Night of Bard Bits”--a special event held recently at the studios of WCVE PBS--were delighted and entertained by baroque era selections performed by members of Three Notch’d Road, which featured David McCormick on the baroque violin and Anthony Harvey on the theorbo (a type of lute).