Saving Men’s Lives on NJN’s Images/Imagenes
Thursdays at 6:30 pm and Sundays at 8:00 am

Trenton, NJ – The award-winning series Images/Imagenes on NJN Public Television examines the issues, trends, and concerns important to the Latino community and celebrates Latino culture with features on music, dance, and art. This month Images/Imagenes explores the impact of prostate cancer on Latino men and talks with a Latino doctor in Camden working to save men’s lives. Also a look at wedding traditions from around the world, break dancing on our nation’s urban streets, and the best in Latino entertainment. Tune in to NJN each week for Images/Imagenes, Thursdays at 6:30 pm and Sundays at 8:00 am.

Images/Imagenes: Urban Battles in Dance
Thursday, June 7 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, June 10 at 8:00 am
In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, a young generation of dancers took to the streets, masters of an art form that survives today and has established roots in Japan, Germany, France, Korea and Hungry. They are “Breakers” – better known as B-boys, and recently, B-girls – the innovators of break dancing. Dancers like Michael Jackson and music of James Brown brought the beat to a wide audience, while movies like Flashdance, Wild Style, Beat Street and Breakin’ drew the nation’s attention to the urban streets of New York, Chicago and California where young men and women tried to out perform each other in dance wars. Join Images/Imagenes for a look at the stars of the urban battles in dance.

Images/Imagenes: The Best in Latino Entertainment
Thursday, June 14 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, June 17 at 8:00 am
This program offers entertainment for everyone. The story of tennis star Pancho Gonzalez will interest the sports fan, while a trip to the Newark Museum for Mi Puerto Rico – the first major exhibit in the continental United States devoted to Puerto Rico’s three greatest painters, Jose Campeche, Francisco Oller and Miguel Pou, will please art lovers. For theater enthusiasts, it’s the award winning Latinologues – a highly acclaimed touring show created by Rick Najera (In Living Color), rocking audiences across the country with its irreverent look at Latino American culture and the eccentric characters who populate it. Comedian Eugenio Derbez leads the cast. And to wrap it all up, dance fans won’t want to miss Sounds in the City – a look at a Salsa extravaganza at NJPAC.

Images/Imagenes: A Warning to Men
Thursday, June 21 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, June 24 at 8:00 am
A silent killer among men, prostate cancer is having a devastating impact on Latinos, and yet prevention and medical treatment is available. This edition of Images/Imagenes examines the issues around prostate cancer and introduces viewers to a leading expert on the disease – a Latino doctor who is saving lives in Camden.

Images/Imagenes: The Tradition of Weddings
Thursday, June 28 at 6:30 pm and Sunday, July 1 at 8:00 am
What does it mean to be a “June bride?” Where do wedding soups come from, and why are they made? What’s the real reason a bride wears a veil? What makes gold coins so important in European and Puerto Rican weddings? This romantic Images/Imagenes special answers those questions and others as it looks at wedding traditions around the world, beginning with the colonial era and ending with today’s not-so-traditional practices.

Images/Imagenes airs on NJN Thursdays at 6:30 pm and Sundays at 8:00 am. The half-hour program is web cast at njn.net and can be seen on NJN’s JerseyVision and on Time Warner Cable on channel 750 in New York. Closed captioning is provided.

NJN is available on all New Jersey cable systems, satellite systems, and Time Warner Cable channel 750 in NYC.
Images/Imagenes is also available via video streaming at njn.net after the original broadcast.
Additionally, the program is repeated on NJN’s JerseyVision available on Comcast Digital Cable in New Jersey.
(Check http://www.njn.net/digital/schedule.html for detailed listings.)
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