Screenings and Events
Explore BT Public Media's roster of upcoming events, learn about our Signature Events like Antiques Home Show & WBFO's Buffalo Blues Bash, and see highlights from past events.
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PBS Food
PBS FOOD unites cooking shows, blogs and recipes from all your PBS favorites including Julia Child, Jose Andres, Martha Stewart, Jaques Pepin and Lidia Bastianich.
Artists & Activists Showcase | Today's Equity Challenges vs 18th Century Thinking
Buffalo Toronto Public Media is partnering with the Buffalo & Erie County Library and The Buffalo History Museum for a community engagement initiative around Benjamin Franklin. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN is a new two-part documentary directed by filmmaker Ken Burns airs on WNED PBS on April 4 and 5, 2022. This community engagement initiative will encourage people to look more deeply into Franklin– his writings, experiments and life, in an effort to promote dialogue about the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Community members are encouraged to create and submit political cartoons, art pieces, short writings, and poetry related to the theme: "Today's Equity Challenges vs. 18th Century Thinking."
Buffalo Toronto Public Media | Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
May – National Mental Health Awareness Month – is dedicated to providing the public with educational and support resources they can use to better understand mental illness, find support or seek help. Buffalo Toronto Public Media understands that mental health is a key part of your day-to-day life and we want to take a deeper dive into mental health awareness and provide programs and resources.
Introducing Reading Rainbow Live
Your favorite childhood show is returning to entertain and educate a new generation of bookworms. Reading Rainbow Live is a fun, interactive experience that utilizes technology to invite viewers into the screen to connect with our cast of Rainbows and each other.
Wait, Wait... don't Tell Me | Live From Shea's Performance Arts Center
Wait, Wait... don't Tell Me
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Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me comes to Shea's Performing Arts Center, Buffalo, New York, April 28, 2022.
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Buffalo Toronto Public Media teams members Amanda & Nate mugging for the camera.
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Panelists Amy Dickinson and Maeve Higgins
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Stars of the show Bill Kurtis and Peter Sagal
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Backstage with Bill Kurtis, Tom Calderone and Peter-Sagal
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The merch giveaway table
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BTPM Director of Corporate Communications at the merch table
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Gift winners at BTPM merch table
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Kermit and friends in the lobby
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BTPM Major Donor guests at the show
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NPR fans happy for the merch they won
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BTPM guests excited for the show
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CEO Tom Calderone welcomes the audience
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Myles Stubblefield, The Worm King of Buffalo, excited to be the special guest
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Myles Stubblefield, The Worm King of Buffalo, excited to be the special guest
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Myles Stubblefield, The Worm King of Buffalo, excited to be the special guest
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The panelists from left to right, Alzo, Amy and Maeve having a blast
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The host, Peter Sagal
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Peter Sagal at the podium
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The Host Peter Sagal
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Peter Sagal shakes hands with Myles Stubblefield
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Stubblefield loving the interview questions
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Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me scene from the audience
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What a great show and great night
Horizons Gallery
Horizons Gallery
Located in the foyer of WNED PBS Studios, Horizons Gallery proudly showcases the work of student and professional artists from Western New York and Southern Ontario.
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WATCH AND EXPLORE
Kleinhans’ Gift to Buffalo | Streaming Now
Learn the story of how a generous gift from Ed and Mary Kleinhans, whose love of music, Buffalo, and each other, led to the building of a world-class concert hall. Hear from historians, musicians, architectural scholars, and community members who have connections to the building. Learn about the design, the architect, and how this concert hall and civic auditorium has become a community asset where family is celebrated and memories are made.
YouTube Series
Compact Science | New YouTube Series
Compact Science is an engaging new YouTube series from WNED PBS and the Buffalo Museum of Science that explores the wonders of science. Host Sarajane Gomlak Green investigates the geology of Niagara Falls, discovers the chemistry at work in sponge candy, learns how density is the key to lake-effect snow, and more. If you’re curious about the world around you, there’s a lot to explore and Compact Science will be your guide.
Geared towards children (grades K-6), their families, and anyone with a curiosity of the world around them, each episode frames a scientific concept with a signature regional connection that celebrates the science and history of the Western New York and Southern Ontario region.
New episodes will be released every other Tuesday at noon beginning March 30 through May 25, 2021. The videos will also be available here on our website along with instructions for the viewer challenge experiments that can be performed at home or in a classroom.
Compact Science is funded by The Joy Family Foundation.
Oasis Under Glass | 3-Part Digital Series | WATCH NOW
Oasis Under Glass | Buffalo's Botanical Gardens
WNED PBS, in collaboration with the Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens, presents a new three-part digital video series, Oasis Under Glass - Buffalo’s Botanical Gardens. Hosted by Tafik Muhammad, this series tells the story of the Botanical Gardens throughout its history and reveals expansion and renovation plans that will continue to serve the people of Western New York for generations to come.
Buffalo Toronto public media Digital ProJect
Making Buffalo Home
An, in-depth Buffalo Toronto Public Media engagement initiative to raise awareness of how immigrants and refugees shape our community.
Buffalo Toronto Public Media Digital project
Reach Out: Recognize Relationship Abuse
One in three teenagers will experience some form of abuse in their dating relationships. Get the tools you need to start a conversation.
WBFO's Mental Health Initiative
Mental Heal Initiative
Through radio reports, digital content, Facebook Live events and other community conversations, WBFO aims to normalize the conversation about mental illness.
WBFO's RAcial Equity Project
Racial Equity Project
Even as our region experiences an economic resurgence, we continue to grapple with problems involving racial inequity. WBFO explores this issue on air and online.
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Relationship Abuse: The Pandemic Within COVID
While the pandemic has not caused abuse, it has exacerbated abusive situations. Measures to keep the community safe, including shut downs and stay-at-home orders, have worsened vulnerabilities of individuals and families in violent and abusive situations.
RAce in America | WNED PBS
Explore films and new specials focused on race
These offerings are resources for everyone, regardless of race, to educate themselves on all of the ways inequality in America shows up in everyday life.
TRAILBLAZERS | A CENTURY OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN | WNED PBS
A Celebration of Trailblazing Women
Join WNED PBS’s 2020 summer-long celebration of women trailblazers in honor of the women’s vote centennial, featuring multi-platform content.
Special Series From NPR
Tools to help you get it together.
NPR's family of podcasts for navigating your life — everything from your finances to diet and exercise to raising your kids.
Interactive Multi-Media Story from NOVA
Restoring Hope | Fighting the Opioid Crisis in Buffalo
Users can watch video interviews with police officers, medical experts, public health officials, and "peers" in recovery and read about the situation in Buffalo.
During this time of uncertainty, Buffalo Toronto Public Media is here for you!
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What You Should Know About the Novel Coronavirus
News, information and coverage from WBFO, NPR and PBS concerning the COVID-19 international pandemic
Chef Christine's Quarantine Kitchen
Watch video's from Christine Cushing, star of the documentary food series Confucius Was a Foodie, to inspire you during these hard times of quarantine and isolation.
Content Series on Caregiving
A project from the ralph c. wilson jr. Foundation
Tight Knit
Tight Knit explores the complexity and joy inherent in providing care for an older family member, looking at the lives of caregivers through podcast episodes and documentaries.
Buffalo Toronto Public Media Celebrates the Centennials
BTPM Celebrates the CENTENNIALS
$1 Million in Awards to Honor Local Change Makers
BT Public Media salutes the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo for helping to ignite change in WNY for 100 years! The Centennials were created to mark this milestone.