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02/01/2025

WXXI celebrates Black History Month with special programming on air and on-demand throughout February and beyond. Explore and learn more with films, stories, and voices centered around Black history and culture.

Explore the WXXI Black Heritage and Culture site: Your resource and guide to the films, stories, and voices centered around Black history and culture, current events, and issues. And be sure to visit WXXINews.org for coverage of community events and issues that are important to Rochester and bey...

01/31/2025

WXXI was proud to be the media sponsor for yesterday's Division of Diversity & Inclusion - RIT Expressions of King's Legacy featuring Deborah Archer! Ms. Archer shared an excellent and timely discussion about the work of the ACLU "Defending the rights of all people nationwide" and how these rights relate to Dr. King's vision and legacy.

01/30/2025

✨ Unwrap the literary gifts of 2025! We’re starting the with Remarkably Bright Creatures, the clever and imaginative novel by American author Shelby Van Pelt.
This award-winning debut novel tells the story of a friendship between a giant Pacific octopus named Marcellus and a 70-year-old widow who cleans at the aquarium where Marcellus lives. And catch new heartwarming animal stories in the new season of PBS All Creatures Great and Small!
Join us in 2025 for new plot twists, discussions, and surprises! 🎁

01/29/2025

Today on WXXI Classical 91.5 with Steve Johnson from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

01/27/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out to Al Sigl Community's Golisano Campus last Saturday to celebrate PBS KIDS's "Carl the Collector" with us. We had so much fun and we hope you did, too.

01/25/2025

Rashaad Newsome is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blends several practices — collage, sculpture, video, music, computer programming, and performance — to form an altogether new field. He seamlessly merges art, code, film, and community-building to create immersive experiences that explore the intersections of Blackness, queerness, and futurism. Using the equalizing force of sampling, he crafts compositions that surprise in their associative potential and walk the tightrope between identity politics, social practice and abstraction.
Assembly, his groundbreaking exhibition and film, brings together dancers, artificial intelligence, animation, collage, sculpture, holography, and soundscapes to reimagine collective liberation. Central to this work is Being, the Digital Griot — an AI-powered entity that embodies radical storytelling. Acting as both mirror and provocateur, Being demonstrates AI’s potential as a tool for liberation rather than control.
Newsome will offer an in-depth exploration of the conceptual frameworks and processes behind Assembly and Being. He will discuss how his work dismantles systems of oppression and reimagines physical and digital spaces as arenas for liberation. Through dynamic storytelling, dance, and the collaboration between human and non-human performers, Newsome pushes artistic boundaries while sparking critical conversations about how art and technology can shape futures beyond binary thinking, paving the way for a more liberated world.
Newsome has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world, including The Whitney Museum, Brooklyn Museum, MoMA PS1, SFMOMA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture. He has received multiple honors and awards for his work, including a 2014 Headlands Center for the Arts Visiting Artist Residency, and a 2011 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
In tandem with Newsome’s appearance in the Penny Stamps Series, the Institute for the Humanities is hosting Chimera, an immersive exhibition built around a newly commissioned film of the same name. This exhibition reflects a bold shift in Newsome’s practice toward sci-fi filmmaking, layering the architecture of film, movement, and world-building to probe themes of identity, resistance, and creation. Chimera opens directly following this event at the Institute for the Humanities gallery with an opening reception and artist meet and greet. Chimera will be on view from January 16 through February 28, 2025 at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery.
Presented in partnership with the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities. This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan.
Series presenting partners: Detroit PBS, ALL ARTS, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.

01/24/2025

WXXI puts a spotlight on the work of Rochester Institute of Technology film and animation students with "RIT Shorts: Musicals," airing TONIGHT (1/24) at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app.

"RIT Shorts" is a bi-annual series that showcases the work of some of RIT’s most impressive student filmmakers, offering these young producers a platform to share their films to a broader audience while offering WXXI viewers the chance to see the incredible talent that RIT is cultivating.

Can catch it tonight? It repeats Saturday, January 25 at 5 p.m. and Sunday, January 26 at 3 p.m., and Thursday, January 30 at 5 p.m. on WXXI-TV.

RIT College of Art and Design

01/23/2025

Join WXXI Kids and Al Sigl Community for a fun-filled afternoon celebrating “Carl the Collector" this Saturday (1/25) from 1- 3 p.m. at Al Sigl’s Golisano Campus (1000 Elmwood Avenue). Kids and their grownups will enjoy episodes of “Carl the Collector” plus Carl-inspired activities and games. The event is free and open to the public, but reservations are suggested. Click the link below to learn more and register.

Join WXXI and Al Sigl for a fun-filled afternoon celebrating “Carl the Collector.” “Carl the Collector” Community Event at Al Sigl’s Golisano Campus Saturday, January 25 from 1- 3 p.m. at Al Sigl’s Golisano Campus (1000 Elmwood Avenue). Kids and their grownups will enjoy episodes of “C...

01/22/2025

WXXI is proud to be the media sponsor for Division of Diversity & Inclusion - RIT's Expressions of King's Legacy featuring Deborah Archer! Interested in attending? Check it out here >> https://brnw.ch/Expressions

We are excited to share that WXXI News will be our Media Sponsor for Expressions of King's Legacy featuring Deborah Archer! If you haven't registered yet you can do so here: https://brnw.ch/Expressions

01/21/2025

Tonight at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV, Finding Your Roots Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with novelist Amy Tan and poet Rita Dove.

01/18/2025

On January 4, 2025 Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer became the posthumous recipient of The Presidential Medal of Freedom, and to celebrate WXXI is pleased to present an encore of America ReFramed “Fannie Lou Hamer’s America," a film that looks at the remarkable life of a fearless Mississippi sharecropper-turned-human-rights-activist TONIGHT (1/18) at 10 p.m. and again on Sunday (1/19) at 9 a.m. on WXXI-WORLD.

Fun fact: As one of the executive producers who worked on "Fannie Lou Hamer’s America," WXXI President & CEO Chris Hastings attended The Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony. (2nd photo: President Joseph R. Biden, Doris Hamer Richardson, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, Angela Hamer Johnson, Chris and Miles Hastings and Hillary Rosenfeld. Photo courtesy of the White House.)

01/18/2025

Hosted by comedian and disability activist Daryl “Chill” Mitchell, the Media Access Awards ceremony honors artists and film and television projects that are inclusive of disabled talent in front of and behind the cameras.

"2024 Media Access Awards" airs TONIGHT (1/17) at 9 p.m. on WXXI-TV and streaming live on the WXXI app.

The Media Access Awards ceremony took place on October 29, 2024 in Hollywood, CA. The show marks the first fully accessible awards show in history with heartwarming and empowering moments from stars including Michael J. Fox, Selma Blair, Marlee Matlin, and more.

This program is presented as part of Dialogue on Disability, a partnership between WXXI and Al Sigl Community – in conjunction with the Herman and Margaret Schwartz Community Series.

01/16/2025

Join PBS Books as we meet the newest member of the PBS Kids Family Carl the Collector and all his friends with show creator, author and illustrator Zach OHora. This new series, which premiered last fall, is the first PBS Kids program to center on a neurodiverse character. Learn more about Carl and all his adventures while celebrating the diverse way kids think and express themselves.

01/15/2025

Join l PBS on THURSDAY. JANUARY 16 AT 1PM for an adventure into the world of submersibles being designed to explore the deepest parts of the oceans! Register for "Inside a Deep Sea Submersible," a FREE virtual fieldtrip, at the link below!

Featured in NOVA’s "Building Stuff," Triton Submarines is a submersible manufacturing company that designs submersibles used for research, exploration, and even film production. In this virtual field trip, CEO and Co-Founder, Patrick Lahey will take us on a tour of the facility where submersibles are manufactured and explore several of the cutting-edge submersibles in different phases of the build process.

Join NOVA on an adventure into the world of submersibles being designed to explore the deepest parts of the oceans! Featured in NOVA’s "Building Stuff," Triton Submarines is a submersible manufacturing company that designs submersibles used for research, exploration, and even film production. In t...

01/13/2025

Dialogue on Disability, hosted by Al Sigl Community & WXXI kicks off today! The annual week-long initiative presents special programs and events designed to encourage community dialogue around the perspectives and abilities of people with physical, developmental, and intellectual disabilities. Click the link to learn more about the initiative and see what's planned for the week!

Since 2003 WXXI and the Al Sigl Community of Agencies have worked together to help break the ingrained stereotypes about individuals with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities with its week-long initiative, Dialogue on Disability. Held every January, the initiative is designed to s...

01/13/2025

To expand its reach and increase community dialogue around issues that matter most, "Connections with Evan Dawson," WXXI News' daily talk radio show will begin streaming live on YouTube every weekday from noon to 2 p.m. starting tomorrow (1/13).

Watch live: youtube.com/
Listen live: WXXI-FM 105.9 (Rochester) + WEOS 89.3/90.3 FM (Finger Lakes), WXXInews.org + weos.org

01/11/2025

Season 5 is nearly here! To celebrate, the cast is sharing 5 things you'll love about the upcoming season of All Creatures Great and Small, premiering January 12 at 9 pm on WXXI-TV.

01/09/2025

Today from noon to 1 p.m. on "Connections with Evan Dawson," heard on WXXI News (FM 105.9 and WXXInews.org), Evan invites you to share your thoughts on the former president's life and legacy.

What did you think of former President Jimmy Carter? Carter will be laid to rest today. He was 100 years old. During Connections 12-1pm, you can share your thoughts on the former president's life and legacy by calling 844-295-TALK (8255) or 585-263-9994 or by emailing [email protected].