Community Connections

We are more than television. KLRU serves as a convener and catalyst for conversations on issues important to our community and region. On this site, you can learn about how KLRU programs and events, outreach activities, and related resources contribute to our community. You can also get information about the organizations with which we partner and how you can get involved.

Echoes of Color

Echoes of Color Film Series and Blog

In fall 2006, KLRU-TV, Austin PBS, launched a free three-part film series called Echoes of Color to provide a forum on issues of particular concern to the African American community. Participants watch films together and then examine issues, engage in dialogue with others who share these concerns, and explore opportunities for hands-on problem solving through “neighboring” and volunteer activities.

Each year KLRU conducts six to ten community engagement projects similar to Echoes of Color. As one of the largest non-profit organizations in Central Texas, KLRU forms long-term partnerships to bring diverse people and interests together to build a stronger community. The station’s community engagement efforts range from advance screenings of local and national programs with post-viewing discussion groups to creating a diabetes awareness campaign around a popular PBS program to convening forums on important community issues to coordinating statewide promotional efforts for caregiver support.

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Family Choice

Picture of marine life in Montery Bay

Each month, KLRU identifies a Family Choice program from our schedule that will interest and engage family members, ages 7 and up. Keep updated on the Family Choice program-of-the-month and ways your family can build and extend the program through discussion and activities by going to this month's Family Choice program.

Imagine standing on the bottom of the ocean and watching five-foot-long sharks and giant tuna whiz by at arm's length or being surrounded by elegant, lacy white jellyfish as they soar, pulsing, through the water. Visitors to the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Northern California can experience this... and more.

For more than 20 years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has entertained, educated, and fascinated its nearly 2 million annual visitors with pioneering displays of realistic undersea environments. Now NATURE gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's leading centers for marine research and conservation -- a marvel of engineering and biology.
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  Interested in Knowing More?

    Contact outreach@klru.org.