"WASHINGTON WEEK" WILL BRING ITS ROAD SHOW TO UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
“Washington Week” with Gwen Ifill and National Journal, the longest-running public affairs program on PBS, will visit Minneapolis as part of a 10-city tour during the 2008 campaign season, sponsored  nationally by AARP. All are invited to attend a special taping of “Washington Week” from 3:15 to 5:15 p.m. on Friday, August 29, at Ted Mann Concert Hall on the University of Minnesota’s West Bank campus, 2106 4th St. S. in Minneapolis.
Host and moderator Gwen Ifill will be joined in discussion by Michele Norris, co-host of National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered;” Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles Times; John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine; and Michael Duffy, assistant managing editor of TIME Magazine. Following a live taping of its classic program to air nationwide on PBS, an additional special half-hour program, “Washington Week EXTRA: Minnesota Edition,” will be taped with Ifill and her panel that will include questions from the audience.
For tickets to this free event, visit http://www1.umn.edu/umato/calendar.html#wWeek or call (612) 624-2345. The program is co-presented by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.
 
August 14, 2008
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