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About Connect

An exciting multimedia initiative designed to give Southwest Floridians a dynamic place to explore ways to connect within the region’s diverse and ever-evolving communities. The project spotlights the following ways to connect:

  • through the arts
  • by volunteering
  • by living green
  • through wellness
  • by exploring our region
  • through grassroots activism
  • through continual learning

WGCU-TV

  • features a half-hour television show the first three weekends of every month
  • spotlights inspiring examples of Southwest Florida’s unique people, places, organizations and opportunities

WGCU/WMKO-FM

  • features a relevant topic from the week’s television show and welcomes audience input on its award-winning, live, call-in talk show, Gulf Coast Live! at noon the first three Mondays of every month

wgcu.org

  • serves as an archive for all of the television and radio segments and as a place for further online discussions
  • invites the public to submit ideas for future program topics and to share the ways they personally Connect!
  • features a repository of video, audio, and web-based information that will be accessible twenty-four hours a day…by anyone throughout the world.

Communities Served:

ALVA, ARCADIA, BOCA GRANDE, BOKEELIA, BONITA SPRINGS, BUCKINGHAM, CABBAGE KEY, CAPE CORAL, CAPE HAZE, CAPTIVA, CAYO COSTA, CHOKOLOSKEE, CLEWISTON, ENGLEWOOD, ESTERO, EVERGLADES CITY, FORT MYERS, FORT MYERS BEACH, GASPARILLA ISLAND, GOLDEN GATE, GOODLAND, IMMOKALEE, LABELLE, LEHIGH ACRES, LONGBOAT KEY, MARCO ISLAND, MATLACHA, MOORE HAVEN, NAPLES, NORTH CAPTIVA, NORTHPORT, PINE ISLAND, PLACIDA, PORT CHARLOTTE, PUNTA GORDA, ROTONDA WEST, SAN CARLOS PARK, SANIBEL ISLAND, SARASOTA, SEBRING, ST. JAMES CITY, USEPPA ISLAND, VENICE:

Recently on the Blog

Orchids of Fakahatchee Strand

Writer/Producer: Chelle Koster Walton Delicate and sensual, orchids intrigue to such a degree that they drive mere mortals to conniving and thievery. Out in the Everglades near Naples, Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park has dealt with its share of...


Master Gardener

Producer: Janina Birtolo Southwest Florida seems made for growing things. Just a cursory look around shows the wide variety of plants that are happy to make homes here. So it’s hardly surprising that human transplants to the region often are inspired...


Chickee Huts

Producer: Shawn Holiday Pursued relentlessly by the U.S. Army two centuries ago, Florida’s Indian tribes developed a new form of housing to provide them refuge and shelter from both weather and bullets. Today, chickees, distinctive in their thatched palmetto...


Nature-Deficit Disorder

Writer/Producer: Chelle Koster Walton Go outside and play! How many times as children did we hear that from our parents if we so much as raised our voices or threw a ball in the house? Now that kids sit quietly in front of the TV, computer or video game...


Bob Macomber Book Signing

Producer: Rod Clarke Picture the tortured word artist: alone and isolated in his lonely garrett, carefully insulated from his readers and an obtrusive world. Meticulously pecking away at his masterpiece. Then when it's published, legions of loyal...


Jeanne Bochette

Writer/Producer: Janina Birtolo An artist with a passion may well create a lasting work. But when an artist chooses to share her passion with generations, she serves as an enduring inspiration for her art. The latter is certainly the case with Jeanne...


Naples City Improv

Writer/Producer: Janina Birtolo “Hi, my name is Judith, and I love peanut butter and jelly!” “Hi, my name is Steve, and do you know what the secret to comedy is?” “Anyway, so I –“ “Timing!” Meet the players of Naples City Improv, a homegrown improvisational...


Cannas

News Press Essayist Amy Bennett Williams has often shared with us her keen appreciation of the region’s flora and fauna. But she’s also gained a small appreciation for a certain faux flora...here’s the story.


Offshore Drilling

Florida lawmakers heard another point of view Tuesday in the debate over off-shore oil drilling in state waters. WGCU’s Luis Hernandez Reports.


Cape Power Lines

Lee County Electric Cooperative officials say they’re willing to work with the city of Cape Coral on the placement of new high voltage power lines. City residents don’t want them. WGCU’s Valerie Alker reports.


Habitat Rehabbing

Habitat for Humanity in Sarasota is shifting focus from new construction efforts to rehabilitating existing homes to provide affordable housing for people in need. WGCU’s John Davis reports.


Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

The Jewish Federation of Collier County welcomes Bob Simon as the guest speaker for the 2010 ‘People of the Book Event’ beginning at 7:30 p.m. at Temple Shalom in Naples. (239- 263-4205 FederationStar@comcast.net ) The Gulf Coast Garden Club holds a Flower...


4th Annual Market Pulse / Drug House Odyssey

Southwest Florida leaders and business owners will hear from experts on the current real estate news and the latest economic forecasts for the region at next week’s 4th Annual Market Pulse event. We’re joined by one of its keynote speakers. Also on the...


H2A Rules Revised

Bush Administration rules that made it easier for growers to hire temporary foreign workers have been revised. The new regulations went into effect Monday. WGCU’s Valerie Alker Reports.


Romance Novels

Southwest Florida Romance Writers are holding book signing Saturday at the Alliance for the Arts in Ft. Myers. A number of well known published fiction writers will be there – including Linda Bilodeau, Jamie Rush and Lynnette Hallberg. Hallberg, whose...




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