New Digital Efforts from PBS SoCal Include ‘ALL ARTS’ Collaboration With The WNET Group to Reduce Barriers to Experiencing the Arts Giving Local Audiences More Opportunities to Experience Arts & Culture Content

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Los Angeles, Calif. – Nov 8, 2024 – PBS SoCal, Southern California’s flagship PBS organization, announced today a collaboration with The WNET Group, the community-supported home of New York’s PBS stations, to provide local audiences with more opportunities to watch arts and culture programming through “ALL ARTS,” the multiplatform portal for the arts, accessible to everyone, everywhere for free. PBS SoCal has developed a localized experience for Southern California regional audiences for this Emmy^® award-winning arts and culture hub that was created in 2019 by The WNET Group. Offering a curated selection of arts and culture programming, the multiplatform initiative provides more ways for audiences to enjoy PBS SoCal’s original and acquired arts and culture content. The robust offerings on ALL ARTS are available for streaming on a 24/7 livestream channel and on the free ALL ARTS app. To access the full line-up of available programs and online resources, Southern Californians can visit AllArts.org or through the free ALL ARTS app on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and ROKU as well as @AllArtsTV on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok. For additional ways to watch, visit AllArts.org/Everywhere.

ALL ARTS is the premier destination for inspiration, creativity and art of all forms, offering additional ways for Southern Californian audiences to stream arts content from PBS SoCal’s locally produced programs like ARTBOUND (PBS SoCal’s original LA Emmy^® award-winning arts and culture series), FINE CUT (showcasing a collection of short films from student filmmakers across Southern California) VARIETY STUDIO: ACTORS ON ACTORS (featuring exclusive, one-on-one conversations with the biggest stars expected to contend for Emmys^® and Oscars^®) and the MEDIA ACCESS AWARDS (honoring artists and film/television projects that are inclusive of disabled talent in front of and behind the cameras) among others. The multiplatform initiative was created to bring together art, artists and art lovers, with a mission to enrich lives through the transformative power of art. ALL ARTS strives to be an essential part of people’s daily media consumption, supported and sustained by contributions from arts lovers everywhere -- from digital shorts and feature films to news and written interviews.

A full list of on-demand PBS SoCal content added thus far is as follows:

· Annenberg Space for Photography

· Artbound

· Bella

· Cara Romero

· Dear Ike: Lost Letters to a Teen Idol

· Design Museum Japan

· Eddy’s World

· Fashion Reimagined

· Fine Cut

· Hollywood's Architect

· Media Access Awards

· Pacific Chorale’s The Wayfaring Project

· Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Additional ALL ARTS Content Available for Audiences to Enjoy

Experience the entertainment business through the lens of representation and inclusion in the talk show series Famous Cast Words and get an exclusive backstage pass with House Seats, which features programs such as Women of Color on Broadway, a special performance honoring Tony Award^® winners Melba Moore and LaChanze. The Set List provides intimate, live musical performances and Dance Camera West Selects showcases an international look at the dynamism intrinsic to dance film. Enjoy a slate of exciting Afrofuturist films from the U.S., Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago, Nigeria, and more in Afrofuturism: Blackness Revisualized. Follow high school musicians as they embark on an immersive jazz education event in ALL ARTS Celebrates: Essentially Ellington and imagine Walt Disney’s final months of life in Teatro Real: Philip Glass – The Perfect American. Movies and dramas on Sundays include As You Like It (1936), Anna Karenina (1948), A Star is Born (1937) and An Afghan Love Story (2013).

For ALL ARTS: Anna Campbell and Jake King are Senior Multimedia Producers. Kristy Geslain is Executive Producer. James King is Senior Artistic Director. Diane Masciale and Neal Shapiro are Executives in Charge.

Leadership support for ALL ARTS is generously provided by Jody and John Arnhold and the Arnhold Foundation; The Jerome L. Greene Foundation; the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation; David and Susan Rockefeller; The Rosalind P. Walter Foundation; the Howard Gilman Foundation, The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation and the Estate of Roland Karlen. A full list of major ALL ARTS supporters can be found here.

Arts & Culture Community Events Calendar
To complement the new digital initiative, PBS SoCal is also connecting people to the arts with a new community calendar featuring free and low-cost arts and culture events in Southern California. The calendar highlights public events across the region that range from live performances and museum exhibits to local cultural festivals. For more details and to submit your own community events for consideration, visit pbssocal.org/ArtsCalendar.

Interactive Digital Content
Also new to the PBS SoCal digital experience is an interactive visual novel that accompanies the most recent season of PBS SoCal’s award-winning, locally-produced environmental series EARTH FOCUS. Inspired by the episode "The Tortoise, the Raven and Us," the Desert Biology Internship Simulator has digital audiences step into the shoes of a summer intern for the Mojave Desert. With mini games and hand drawn art, the story has players join a team of California desert stewards to discover why the Ravens are invading the fictional town of Raya Verde. Players will explore how biologists are rethinking solutions to a decades-long problem and learn actions to help humans and wildlife live together. Serving as a valuable learning tool, the game has players tackle real challenges facing desert communities and emphasizes how young learners can contribute to local conservation efforts and be an environmental steward. The new game suitable for ages 10 and up can be accessed at pbssocal.org/shows/earth-focus/games/desert-biology.

For younger audiences, PBS SoCal continues to provide a diverse range of educational resources designed to engage Southern California families with fun-filled digital learning activities. As a part of the FAMILY MATH initiative, these resources aim to help families and caregivers prepare children ages 2-5 years old for kindergarten and beyond through meaningful math experiences. Six bilingual digital games from the creators at Makefully Studios are now available at pbssocal.org/familymath. Titles include “Pattern Parade,” “Hungry Papa,” “Measure and Toss,” “House Hunt,” “Shape Puzzles” and “Build a Picture” to coincide with each of FAMILY MATH’s core foundations: counting, sorting, patterns, measurement, shapes and spatial sense. The games are aimed to foster a co-playing format for families with customization features that allow parents to tailor the games to their child. Having launched earlier this year, the games have thus far received nearly 3,500 views.

ABOUT PBS SoCal

PBS SoCal uses the power of public media for good, strengthening the civic fabric of Southern California and providing our community with an essential connection to a wider world. As a local, donor/member-supported non-profit organization, PBS SoCal manages 7 channels — including 2 primary broadcast channels, PBS SoCal and PBS SoCal Plus as well as 5 digital subchannels. With a commitment to make content available anytime and anywhere for free, PBS SoCal is reaches nearly 19M viewers in the region with programming that reflects the diversity of Southern California and showcases the full schedule of beloved and trusted PBS content spanning Education, News, Environment and Arts & Culture.  PBS SoCal programming is available to viewers over-the-air, on all key streaming platforms via the free PBS App and PBS KIDS App. PBS SoCal also sparks the sharing of ideas at in-person cultural events and community conversations as well as prepares children for kindergarten and beyond by bringing bilingual, hands-on learning experiences to the community for free.