HEC wishes you a happy holiday season

This newsletter is designed to show you how HEC is strengthening and promoting education, arts, and culture in our Metro area. Have a story you want to share? Contact us! Email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Partnerships) .
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HEC steps up for our St. Louis communities during COVID

It’s safe to say our reality has shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Where we once gathered in crowds to celebrate art, conversation, and stories, we now solely communicate through our computer screens or mobile devices in an effort to keep the ones we love, and ones we don’t even know, secure and healthy.

Though these times have been difficult, confusing, and sometimes lonely as we miss the hugs, laughter, and non-COVID related face-to-face conversation, St. Louis has persevered, as we always do, as a city with grit, for the higher good.

Just like our dogged city, HEC Media has stepped up and stepped in. Where there were threats of cancelations and postponements, we saw another way.

HEC has been honored to provide the technology, professionalism, and support to St. Louis organizations to keep the show going — to keep the conversation, the entertainment, and the education going, in a time we so desperately need it.

“We couldn’t do this without you,” is something we’ve heard from multiple organizations whom we’ve provided support for. Organizations like the Saint Louis County Library, Saint Louis Art Fair, The Sheldon, and so many more. We’re happy to help. It’s in our mission: “To strengthen and promote the education, arts, and cultural communities in the St. Louis Metropolitan area.” And we also know the people of St. Louis couldn’t do it without them. We’re all in this together. And when it’s over, we’ll be stronger than ever.

As we come to a close on what seems like the longest year, we want to look back at how much we’ve learned and accomplished working with St. Louis to make virtual and interactive performances and events possible in the face of the pandemic.
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"Spotlight" sheds the best light on St. Louis and wins its first Emmy

"As HEC Media’s Spotlight program approaches it’s one year anniversary, we have a lot to be proud of. Not only do we showcase St. Louis’ arts, education, science and culture with more breath and depth than typical media outlets, we are pleased to announce we have been awarded with a 2020 Mid-America Emmy Award honoring an episode created three months into our young program. Our mission for 2021 is to continue to take you behind the scenes of local organizations and highlight individuals making a positive impact on the city of St. Louis and beyond. Watch Spotlight weekly on Sunday mornings at 9:30 am on KPLR 11 or on demand on our website." - Jayne Ballew, Executive Producer, Spotlight
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A note from our President
"Some could say this has been the toughest year we've experienced in quite some time. As a nation, we have had to make sacrifices and adjust our reality due to the COVID pandemic, and as an organization, we have had to pivot like we've never pivoted before. As a nation we have grown and we have learned. As an organization, we have stepped up when St. Louis needed us the most, and for that, I am beyond proud. Our team looked at this situation as if it was a puzzle needing to be figured out, and figure it out we did. We have provided creative and technological support to countless organizations that just wouldn't have been able to survive without us. Every production, every consult, every learning experience we have provided during this pandemic has made St. Louis stronger and HEC stronger as a non profit whose very mission is 'to help support and strengthen our arts, cultural, and educational communities.' We want to thank you for allowing us into your homes every Sunday morning with our
Spotlight program. We want to thank you for tuning in to our virtual author conversations twice a week on Facebook. We want to thank you for utilizing our educational videos and curriculum on Educate.Today. And we want to thank you for your support and the faith you have put in us to 'keep the show going.' We never doubted ourselves, and you never doubted us. We look forward to a 2021 that is full of growth and a 2021 that already has so much potential. We are going to do big things, and we think you'll be just as proud of us as we are of St. Louis." - Dennis Riggs, President, HEC Media
Watch our 2020 Emmy Award-winning productions
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Props to Alaina

Alaina Lewis crafts beautiful airplane propellers out of maple, birch, cherry, mahogany and other (sometimes exotic) woods.

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The Layers of the Onion House

There’s a house in St. Louis that is getting a lot of attention lately. It’s called “The Onion House” and it’s located in Tower Grove South.

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"Pinch Me" Moments

Marvel Universe enthusiast or not, you will be entertained by this authentic interview with New York Times bestselling author Mackenzi Lee.

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Changing the World Through Science

Lan Yang, PhD, is a leader among women at Washington University in St. Louis, and uses her talents to help others.

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100-Year-Old WWII Veteran

Adolphus Thaddeus Watson is 100-year-old WWII Veteran who served in the U.S. Army's all-black 351st artillery unit.

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Spotlight: Local Women Artists

In this episode of Spotlight, we feature local female artists who shine in both the performing arts and visual arts.

Don't forget to tune in to Live From The Sheldon: Winter Wonderland, Saturday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. on HEC Media or The Sheldon's Facebook and YouTube pages!
Winter Wonderland will also be airing on Spectrum Channel 989, AT&T U-verse channel 99, and on hecmedia.org.
St. Louis musical theatre favorites Zoe Vonder Haar, John Flack, Ben Nordstrom, Emily Kuhn and Steve Neale celebrate the holidays with the festive sounds of the season! Join some of St. Louis’ finest singers for this fun-filled, fast-paced program of winter and holiday favorites, old and new, including “Let it Snow,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” “Let it Go,” “Little Drummer Boy,” “I’ve Got My Love to Keep Me Warm,” “The Christmas Song” and many more!
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About HEC Media

St. Louis’ four time winner of the Station Excellence Emmy Award and the world's foremost creator of interactive distance learning, HEC Media is the metropolitan area's leading producer of education, arts, and cultural programming. HEC can be seen on Spectrum 989, AT&T U-verse channel 99, over-the-air digital channel 2.2, and anytime on ** www.hec ([link removed])
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HEC Media's mission is to "Strengthen and promote the education, arts, and cultural communities in theSt. Louis metropolitan area."

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