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The structure stood atop a hill overlooking Kalamazoo in the Fairmount Neighborhood at 1500 Blakeslee Avenue. In spite of being…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"Be You" by Becky Burgen (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Winter Wonderland" by Morgan King (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Portal" by Aaron Porter (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Rumor Has It" by Maureen Reed & Cassie Ward (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Our Dearly Corroded" by Esther Stoneburner (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Mission" by Kyle Misak (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Idle Hands" by Alec Rager (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Dawn of Decease" by Jonathan D'Ambrosio (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Artistic Flair" by Alysia Stozicki (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Mutual Slump" by Samuel Peters (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Monkey's Paw" by Matthew George (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Newspaper" by Mikhel Whaling (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Opportunities" by Hannah Mennega (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Tree of Life" by Lyons, Delgadillo, Krupianik, Martell (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Through the Mirror" by Griffin Snow (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Shadows" by Iris Tanja (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Matthew George (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Plugged In" by Anna Dodd (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"War Within" by Jonathan D'Ambrosio (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Sling" by Aaron Porter (2012 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
The 9th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival features the best teen-produced and directed films of 2012. Films must be produced by…
Kalamazoo Public Schools
Overcrowding at Roosevelt Elementary School on the east side of Kalamazoo led the School Board in the 1920s to search…
KPL TV: Entertainment
Watch a professional pumpkin sculptor play with his food! Lord of the Gourd, Pat Harrison, specializes in carving completely edible…
Houses
The John Gibbs House sits along the south side of Parkview Avenue, just east of Drake Road. The pre-Civil War-built…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"West Michigan Cancer Center Documentary" by Melanie Mott (2007)
"Witch Doctor Music Video" by Eric Frost (2007)
"The Blob" by Katie Valkner (2007)
"Jacked-Up" by Tony Boggiano and Joe Sugiyama (2007)
"The Great Belly Race" by Eric Hoard (2007)
"Trip to Colorado" by Kyle Kearns (2007)
"Get Some" by Perry Menken (2007)
"Memories" by Drew Marquardt (2007)
"The Fly" by Christopher Jarvis (2007)
"If It's For Real" by Klarissa L. Delos Angeles and Madyson Brown (2007)
"Revelation" by Ben Rupp (2007)
"Heros" by Jared Lanning and Kythan Adas (2007)
"Beauty is Not Plastic" by Chelsea Graham (2007)
"Card Me" by Jonathan Brandt (2007)
"Pieces" by Chad Slocum (2007)
"Paper Town" by Jake C. Down (2007)
"Mmmm ... Chunky Pineapple" by Zach Terry (2007)
"I Want it That Way" by Pat Lasher (2007)
"Slinky Commercial" by Gregory Krajewski (2007)
"Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" by Ayla Ludwig (2007)
"Who is Sadie Hawkins" by John Bastianelli (2007)
"Mow the Lawn" by Kristin Rocha (2007)
"Blister in the Sun" by Erin Lenczycki (2007)
Films from Kalamazoo Public Library’s 2007 Teen Filmmaker Festival. Juried films are shown at the Film Festival in February, where…
Alamo Township
Location: (District #4) – section 20, northeast of the junction of DE Avenue and 2nd Street. Kalamazoo County 1890, Published by Wm.…
Kalamazoo Public Library
In May of 1968 an anonymous gift of $10,000 was received by the Kalamazoo Board of Education for the purpose…
Houses
This home must rank as one of the oldest surviving houses in Kalamazoo. The lot had been listed under "Welch's…
Black History
There is a book waiting to be written about Kalamazoo’s Northside neighborhood, however no sketch of this length can do…
KPL TV: Archival Films & Video
A silent promotional film made in 1939 to promote Kalamazoo Public Library services. Included are views of downtown Kalamazoo, patrons…
KPL TV: Family
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark - Read Along! 10-03-2020
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Read Along! 10-10-2020
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark — Read Along! 10-17-2020
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark! Saturday, October 24
Read Along - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Halloween Edition
A special edition of KPL's Read Along!
KPL TV: Instructional
The Books and Bellies season finale is here! Bill and T share more informative read-aloud techniques for new mothers and…
Music
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (KSO) officially began in 1921 under the shrewd leadership of business manager and president Leta G.…
Policies
Print Version (PDF) All disbursements from library funds must be previously approved for expenditure within a budget approved by the…
KPL TV: Timely Topics
Critically acclaimed memoirist Wade Rouse reads and discusses his books, I’m Not The Biggest Bitch In This Relationship and It’s…
KPL TV: Instructional
Can a potato really power a lightbulb? Find out first-hand! Best for grades 3–5.
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"Don't Do Memes, Do Life" by Spencer Haydo (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Welcome Home" by Luke Broyles (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Upright" by Dominic Krupp (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Traveling" by Bianca Hobson, Frankie Murchek, Shadae Hillsman and Shayne Mitchell (2018 TFF)
"The Renegades" by Sebastian Cubillejo (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"The Interrogation" by Alexander Smith (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Sweater of Doom" by Dorian Murphy (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"See The Sun" by Adam Burns (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Recounting" by Sylvia Gabriel (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Pure Imagination" by Ella Thomas (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Pizza P.I." by Dorian Murphy (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Obsessed" by Malak Wazne (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Mrs. Potato Head" by Hannah Biddlecome (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Learning to Forget" by Hannah Powless (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Knights of Fantasy" by Carson Wilder (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Jason Brubaker's Story Ideas" by Zack Dumas (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Her" by Izak Schipper (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Ghost Ferreters" by Luke McGee (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Fortress" by Alex Hamilton (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Dry Oats" by Alex Hamilton (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"A Week in Michigan" by Micah Wagoner (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
"Alex and Spencer Find a Body" by Alexander Prater (2018 Teen Filmmaker Festival)
The 15th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival was held at the Judy K. Jolliffe Theatre in Kalamazoo, MI, on Saturday, March…
KPL TV: Teen Filmmaker Festival
"Defining David Dalton" by Zach Terry
"Shadows" by Colin Winchell
"Lego Man's Great Race" by Chris Tompkins
"If Shed Like Me" by Kevin Wolf
"Everything I'm Not" by Stacia Brundage
"Even When I'm Away" by Ruby Tanja
"Dimension" by Austin Peters
"Defining David Dalton" by Zach Terry
The winning films in all categories from the 7th Annual Teen Filmmaker Festival (8 videos)
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