On TV This Weekend: Hemingway’s Michigan and The Great Michigan Read

(LANSING)----The Michigan Humanities Council (MHC) announces that a television feature about The Great Michigan Read will premier this weekend on WFUM-TV, Michigan Public Television in Flint. The feature is the latest of 13 television “interstitials” from the Matrix Arts & Humanities television series, produced as a partnership between the MHC, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, and Michigan Public Media. Each interstitial is three minutes long and designed to be broadcast between public television programs.

Currently scheduled broadcast times for the video interstitial on WFUM-TV are:

• Saturday, October 13: 11:56 a.m., 1:56 p.m.
• Sunday, October 14: 11:55 a.m., 3:56 p.m., 10:26 p.m.
• Monday, October 15: 1:26 p.m., 11:56 p.m.

Future broadcast times will be scheduled on WFUM-TV over the next month. It will also be shared with other Michigan public broadcasting stations to air periodically over the next year, depending on each station’s broadcast schedule. The Great Michigan Read interstitial will be archived online at www.greatmichiganread.org.

“We invite the public to watch the video on Michigan Public Television to receive a visual glimpse into The Great Michigan Read and Ernest Hemingway’s Michigan experiences,” said Janice Fedewa, executive director of the MHC.

The Great Michigan Read is a statewide literary reading initiative to engage all Michiganians in reading The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway. The MHC is the first organization to implement a program for an entire state to read one of Hemingway’s works. To date, 150 cultural organizations participating in The Great Michigan Read. Additional organizations are welcome to join the program and participate at anytime until July 2008. Reader’s guides, bookmarks, posters, and other resources are available to participating organizations. Additional resources include radio features, podcasts, speakers bureau, driving tours, and grant programs to help engage communities in reading and rediscovering literature. A pair of touring exhibits, Up North with the Hemingways, will visit 28 sites in Michigan through July 7, 2008. Many more events for The Great Michigan Read are scheduled and available online at www.greatmichiganread.org.

The Michigan Humanities Council, founded in 1974, is the state’s independent, non-profit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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