Birds in Art - April 8

Monday, April 8, 2024

Today is Draw A Bird Day, Buddha Day, Zoo Lovers Day, and National Empanada Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Birds in Art
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ON THIS DATE

• 1513 -  Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain.
• 1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
• 1913 - The 17th Amendment, requiring the direct election of Senators, becomes law.
• 1952 - In an attempt to stop a steel strike, President Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills.
• 1975 - Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1886 - Playwright and author Margaret Ayer Barnes
• 1892 - Actor and producer Mary Pickford
• 1912 - Figure skater Sonja Henie
• 1918 - First Lady Betty Ford
• 1940 - Basketball player John Havlicek
• 1941 - English fashion designer Vivienne Westwood
• 1943 - Choreographer Michael Bennett

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Beatles - Blackbird- LISTEN
• Nelly Furtado -  I’m Like a Bird - LISTEN

POEM OF THE DAY 
Emily Dickinson - A Bird Came Down the Walk

THEME:  BIRDS in ART

• Grades 2-12 - Museum of American Bird Art - VIEW and READ
• Grades 4-12 - Smithsonian American Art Museum - The Singing and the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art - VIEW and READ
• Grades 5-12- Audubon - How to Draw a Bird - READ and DO
• Grades 5-12 - National Gallery of Art - John James Audubon - READ and VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - Picturing America: John James Audubon (6:31) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Poetry in America - The Gray Heron (7:07) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Birding and the Photography of Elizabeth Boehm (27:07) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

ELTON JOHN & BERNIE TAUPIN: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG
Monday, 4/08 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
The incomparable, trail-blazing talents of songwriting duo Elton John and Bernie Taupin are celebrated in Washington, DC's historic DAR Constitution Hall during an all-star tribute concert. Hosted by Billy Porter, the lineup includes artists spanning the generations that followed in Elton's and Bernie's footsteps, including Joni Mitchell, Garth Brooks, Brandi Carlile, Annie Lennox, Metallica, Maren Morris, Charlie Puth and Jacob Lusk of Gabriels, culminating with a showstopping performance from Elton John. GERSHWIN PRIZE Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE - 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

GREAT PERFORMANCES - Now Hear This Andy Akiho Found (His) Sound
Monday, 4/08 from 12-1 pm NH EXPLORE
Experience the creation of music from this Japanese American composer with host Scott Yoo using "found" instruments. To develop a music video, the two visit New York City and explore the creative process with an interactive light show and more. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

GREAT PERFORMANCES - Now Hear This Albeniz: Portraits of Spain
Monday, 4/08 from 1-2 pm NH EXPLORE
Discover the inspirations Spain provided composer Isaac Albeniz with host Scott Yoo and Scottish GRAMMY-winning guitarist David Russell along with musicians from Albeniz's birthplace in the Pyrenees mountains as well as Sevilla, Mallorca, and more. GREAT PERFORMANCES Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

POETRY IN AMERICA - The Language of the Brag and the Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters
Monday, 4/08 from 2-2:30 pm NH WORLD
Sharon Olds’s “The Language of the Brag” and Bernadette Mayer’s “The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters” are exuberant, boisterous tributes to motherhood. Both poets join host Elisa New, actor Donna Lynne Champlin, writer Emily Oster, activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, obstetrician Lorna Wilkerson, and co-founders of Our Bodies Ourselves to explore the miracle, and mess, of creating new life. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

POETRY IN AMERICA - Rabbits and Fire and Bear Fat
Monday, 4/08 from 2:30-3 pm NH WORLD
Two poems, by Linda Hogan and Alberto Ríos, follow wolves, jackrabbits, and other animals across the harsh Great Plains and Sonoran Desert. Both poets join wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, film director Chris Eyre, Native American scholars Philip Deloria and Stephanie Fitzgerald, and a chorus of students to discuss how the poems call back difficult histories of human migration in the American West. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

POETRY IN AMERICA - Sonnet IV, I Shall Forget You Presently, My Dear
Monday, 4/08 from 3-3:30 pm NH WORLD
In 1920s Greenwich Village, Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote Shakespearean sonnets that toppled clichés of love and romance. To probe this unsentimental break-up poetry, host Elisa New speaks with musician Natalia Zukerman, poet Olivia Gatwood, New York Times advice columnist Philip Galanes, writer Leslie Jamison, scholar of Greenwich Village Jeffery Kennedy, and a chorus of National Student Poets. POETRY IN AMERICA  Streaming Video

P.O.V. - Fire Through Dry Grass
Monday, 4/08 from 3:30-5 pm NH WORLD
Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets don't look like typical nursing home residents. In Fire Through Dry Grass, these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, using their poetry and art to underscore the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased. P.O.V. Streaming Video

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