June Highlights | June 2024

Survival expert Les Stroud takes us through the stages of preparing, surviving and recovering from any natural disaster. Free from hyperbole and sensationalism, this heavily researched program covers the basic rules for safely facing hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, floods, blackouts, blizzards — and, yes, pandemics.
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions
is teetering on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection
of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from
disappearing forever.
A half-hour documentary about the volunteers who run an animal rescue farm in Gasport, NY, specializing in rescuing donkeys from the U.S. "kill farms," where the creatures are gathered after purchase from auctions and then transported to Mexico to be butchered for their skins and their meat. The volunteers rescue these beautiful, sweet creatures from horrible, unregulated treatment.
The Met presents a vital new production of one of opera's most enduringly powerful works. This invigorated classic story uses staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds the issues at the heart of the drama that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and the desire to break through societal boundaries.
We visit the seaside home of famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli in Tuscany to learn how this region has influenced Bocelli's life and music, exploring his deep faith and love of dogs.
The Isabella Indian Reservation is located near Mount Pleasant, Michigan, in Isabella County. Discover the nature trails within the area and learn about the heritage, traditions and regalia at the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe's Annual Pow Wow. Haylie deepens her understanding of Indigenous culture and joins in an intertribal dance.
A devoted yet stubborn priest discovers the best way to reach a 1960s audience is with a fictional television series that launches the careers of many famous actors. But when he falls in love with a nun and his show gets canceled, Fr. Bud Kieser engages with the suffering of the poor, and his career turns in a new direction.
In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America's first EMT service. \Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city's Hill District neighborhood, the paramedics of Freedom House Ambulance became trailblazers in providing pre-hospital and CPR care. Freedom House was initially conceived to respond to the needs of Pittsburgh's African American community during emergencies.
A catholic Sister serves gay men with HIV in NW Ohio when carrying the virus meant certain death and unbearable stigma. In 1987, Sister Eileen Schieber began groundbreaking work as Vicar for religious within the city's catholic dioceses. A few months into her residency, she fostered relationships with gay men who have HIV and established the region's only grassroots care and hospice facility.
Learn more about the 19th-century naturalist John James Audubon, known \for his mammoth book, The Birds of America. Unlike the naturalists of his time, Audubon painted and published life-size drawings of birds, depicting them in their natural habitats while they engaged in natural behaviors. His work initiated a new standard of realism to ornithological depictions.