{"id":55299,"date":"2020-04-21T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55299"},"modified":"2020-04-21T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T13:18:09","slug":"hays-arts-council-tmn-team-up-to-air-a-quiet-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=55299","title":{"rendered":"Hays Arts Council, TMN team up to air ‘A Quiet America’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By the HAYS ARTS COUNCIL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may remember that in the fall of 2017, the Hays Arts Council acquired the licensing rights to present <\/strong>\u201cA Quiet America,\u201d <\/strong>the 1976 Swiss documentary on Hays, Kansas. The HAC presented the film in honor of our 50th<\/sup> anniversary and Hays\u2019 150th<\/sup> anniversary. Of course, not everyone who was interested was able to attend our screening in Beach\/Schmidt and, even now, we continue to receive questions and inquiries about the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, in light of current circumstances, the HAC wanted to find a special and unique cultural event during what was to have been the Spring Art Walk weekend when, under normal circumstances, we would have all gathered and connected to celebrate the arts in all its wonderful forms. Well, though we won\u2019t be able to connect physically, we can connect through a shared history and nostalgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After seeing the enthusiasm for\nHays\u2019 recent \u201cdragging Main\u201d event and seeing how much everyone enjoyed the\nnostalgia it generated, we were reminded of the \u201cdragging Main\u201d scenes in that\n\u201976 documentary. . . and how much seeing those scenes delighted our\nBeach\/Schmidt audience. So, the Hays Arts Council has again acquired the rights\nfrom Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse (RTS), the producers of the film, and will again\nshare it with you. . . this time through a television broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HAC reached out to FHSU\u2019s Tiger Media Network who has a broadcast channel on each of the cable television companies that serve Ellis County \u2013 Nex-Tech (on channel 102) and Eagle Communications (on channel 17). Working with them, we will again be sharing the 1976 \u201cA Quiet America\u201d and the 2015 sequel produced by a member of the original Swiss production team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The television times for the 2-hour broadcast are:
Saturday, April 25 at 7 p.m.
and Sunday, April 26 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are hoping that sharing this film will serve as a pleasant distraction from our collective isolation and disconcerting \u201ccurrent events\u201d — while providing this fascinating look into how our community has changed in 45 years, how we have grown and adapted to those changes, and reminding us how we will find a way to again adapt to whatever changes are to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please share this broadcast information with those you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We hope you\u2019ll be watching with us. And, if you can\u2019t access these television broadcasts, be patient. The HAC has also been granted the rights to stream the films, and we hope to be set up to do so in the week following the broadcast, making it available online for at least several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

* * *<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re interested a little backstory on the film, read on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1976, at the height of the international interest in the bicentennial of the United States, countries around the world demonstrated a fascination for cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. But a Swiss television company wanted to show another image of America, one of a small town, like thousands of others across the country at that time, and where 1\/3 of Americans lived. They explored a number of locations, ultimately selecting Hays, Kansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For several weeks in the spring\nof 1976, a Swiss production team led by Jean-Jacques Legrange and Marc\nSchindler traveled the streets of Hays, discovered its history, met its people,\nand visited churches, businesses, bingo halls, VFW dinners, livestock auctions,\nnewspaper, radio and television stations, and even spent a little time with the\nlocals \u201cdragging Main.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The production team was impressed\nby the welcome of kindness and hospitality they received. As the community\ncontinued to open its doors to the production team, they attended a traditional\nVolga German wedding dance, a Rotary club meeting, and spent time with local\nlaw enforcement. They filmed the average, everyday life of our community nearly\n45 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their 83-minute film was\nbroadcast in Switzerland in September of 1976. Until the Hays Arts Council\nscreening in 2017, the film had not been publicly shown outside of Switzerland,\nGermany and France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August of 2015, nearly 40\nyears later, Marc Schindler, a member of the original production team, returned\nto Hays to revisit the city and see if it was still \u201cA Quiet America.\u201d Thanks\nto the internet, he was able to connect with some of the people he had met in\n1976. For three days, he rediscovered Hays, what changed, and what had not. He\ninterviewed some of the witnesses to the past and citizens of the present. The\nresult of that visit, Back to Hays, provided a new time-capsule treasure for\nour community and an addendum to \u201cA Quiet America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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