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Looking to primetime Wisconsin the Arts and Entertainment Magazine presented by public television stations of Wisconsin. Too. Hello and welcome to PRIME TIME Wisconsin. I'm Carlos guy. It's nice to have you with us on tonight's program a guide to better everyday life and pop music while Dad said organic garden. Will also look into a big improvement in the nightlife of Madison senior citizens the city's theater boss provides a valuable service for the elderly and disabled at a local theater. We'll also check in on the latest fitness craze water aerobics now competing for space with lap swimmers at a pool near you. Those stories and more on deck on tonight's primetime Wisconsin.

Our first story tonight profiles one example of a primetime lifestyle. It's a chance to meet one of those people who waves hello and manages a smile on even the dreariest of days. I met such a person years ago while walking past his garden on my way to work and I still marvel at how he keeps his sunny disposition. So one day I stopped and asked when he began to describe his lifestyle as a creative art form. I thought this might be something to share with our prime time viewers. See Jesus is the only hope you all are Tomales Philippe Felipe Aikido spearheads considers the UW Madison campus center for growth while not officially a student. He has lived in its shadow for over 21 years and this is my Nations nation's dies within me just like.

In the neighborhood. People simply call him Philippe his garden at the busy corner of Park and Dayton Street in downtown Madison. There's a well-known spot to passers by. It's colorful flowers and even more colorful caretaker have made many friends over the years. I mean you can. See my son is here and. There are no doubt those who think of him as just another of Madison's many eccentrics. But for those who look closer there is much more at play. Philippe has a different way of looking at things. Take the lay out of his gardening for example please. Yeah you write because you're gonna see another world with the lions you know. They are not always very sort of like the gardeners do. I like to call this a little bit of a country patch transplanted into the city on a little Brunt's to grow through the valley. They want to be I kept tomatoes

I have beans I have my reasons later her car which I helped Bosley. Jock This is where you. I'm getting ready man. Get your foods. That has to be natural. You grow. I have no obligation any insecticides. It's all natural biological control. See cause the animals eat the natural foods. Natural is your production of natural tax and natural activity mental or physical. They've been doing this for me. And so yes Congressman you've got to be good. Ideas on personal and intellectual growth. Go beyond his garden. He has many good friends that can attest to his wide range of interests. Do.

You get a chance to meet Mr. Segovia not too long ago when he came to Madison I knew about it when he came to my house I met him. And then we became very good friends. He signed many of his works. He Strunsky feels. The same for me. And I have a tremendous respect for his. We see Cresco influence is pretty out of his fame. I like everything what. Godlings thing what it does and what doesn't work. I haven't ruled anything out. It's a beautiful art communication. We must touch or we must come together. That is a beautiful thing to us is. To build up friendships to build up a whole world. It isn't my. First composition. I'm a CICA that's. From Peru. Boom boom. Boom boom. Boom. Boom.

But he. Pays interest in the arts and sciences bird his own continuing education. More books from students and university libraries. He's a well-read man. A man who inspires others with his zest for learning and everyday life. If you are. On campus from lecture halls to dance halls he's what some might call an activist. I don't pretend to know much much about dancing. I'm not a choreographer. I knew when I move I am just obeying the universal. Order. So I say come with it back on us. I think every molecule has a motion. But.

I can't. For. This. Time. Or more senior citizens enjoying Dane county's night. Nowadays in a program developed to enhance independent lifestyles for the elderly a group of volunteers has organized a special transit service the city's theater bus program started out as an experiment to provide more access to the arts. Well tonight we're happy to report the experimental stage is over. The theater bus program is here for a long run and it's getting rave reviews.

Going to the theater is an enjoyable experience. But getting there at night can present problems for the elderly. I definitely see. I guess some people call at night blindness. So I didn't particularly like to drive. And this was. Great. Well first of all it gives me something to do. I'm retired now. I don't have too much to do. Howard Gustavsson and Shirley Watson live in the Methodist retirement center. Tonight they're going to see the Madison seven yards performance of The Pirates of Penzance. They're also getting picked up at their own front door a convenience provided by the theater bus a theatregoing organization for medicine senior citizens. I like theater us. Because we don't have a park. We can go to the civic center or down union and not worry about where we could park. How far are we going to have to walk. Here right

there and they bring you right back. It's all theater bus is an exclusive organization. They only accept members over the age of 60. The participants pay a single low fee per show which covers the cost of admission and the bus ride. Their goal is to make it easy for the elderly to get out at night and enjoy the theater. Julie Wellborn theater best director that is that is our purpose really. That's our goal to try to make it as convenient for people as possible. We also provide. Escorts of the program and a hostess on the bus. So that you know there is always someone watching out for them. They don't have to feel stranded in a crowded. Theater bus celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. The key to its long life is the devotion of its over 100 elderly volunteers with only one paid staff member the theater bus is truly run by the senior citizens.

Virginia's Ziggy walks the two blocks from her East Side apartment to the theater bus office once a week to lend a hand. I moved to Madison almost four years ago. My husband had died last year and as. A woman. Alone. In our. City I just. Had to talk comfortable. Now. It's hard to explain but. I just get a good feeling of strong. Feeling that I'm. Helping. Volunteering is also a good way to meet people and develop friendships. Theater bus was the brainchild of a theater manager who wanted to build a house for young performers series. Since then they have increased the number of theaters they attend as

well as the variety of shows they see the bus now lists over 40 events a year ranging from body musicals to sophisticated symphony and both sales of over 3000 tickets a year. Even with this tremendous growth they managed to maintain their focus on service for the elderly something that sets them apart from every other bus service. It's the only one. In Boone County. The only one in the state. And I don't know of any other single in the country who provide this whole network of services in one place. After the performance the bus takes everyone to their own front door and if necessary the driver offers an arm up the walk. It's just another example of how far the theatre bus will go to make a night out an enjoyable experience. Over the past decade we've seen a staggering growth in fitness programs across the country.

It seems that every few months there's a new fitness craze that makes the routine you're working with and struggling with now a bit passe and almost obsolete. It's almost a matter of fashion. While producer Art Hackett is not someone you'd call a fan of trendiness but he does recognize a new wave as it builds. It may be the most solitary form of exercise jogger's can focus on their pain or the surrounding scenery in the water. There is no pain no heat no cold. You see only the bodies in the lane next to you. PS by fog goggles. It is quiet. To. Keep going lap after lap. Keep warm the rhythmic bubbles splash bubbles away into a self-made montra. I personally find myself silently humming Broadway show tunes. Exercise experts say swimming may be the single most perfect. Fitness. Taken alone and in anonymity there is no swim no

crazy legs laughs. The only way you can earn a showoff T-shirt by swimming is to combine it with jogging and biking in a triathlon. If you want to take to the water to achieve physical well-being. You have to do it. Alone. It least. You used to. Be called the symbol of the latest fitness fad. The jog. Paraphernalia in an environment where swimsuit and goggles were here to for the only necessities. Yes they are from the Golden Guernsey and Chlorox designer collections but few if this catches on in Cheryle key signature models are far behind. This morning a University of Wisconsin Madison English major from Green Bay got started in water aerobics as a participant and got swept into the instructor

ranks by the way of water aerobics popularity. I think it started out at two classes a week at about 20 people and now we're going to offer it in fall three times a day with 50 people at each class and it usually ends up turning about half a ways 50 more away since it's so crowded. I guess people like to work out in the water where a lot of their weight is absorbed by the water it provides a cushion for them so it's a little less injury prone than doing the floor aerobics. Indeed many of the people in the classes are recovering from injuries. Wrecked my knee and I used to lapse one so I thought I'd take a change of pace. I knew it was a good workout. You still could keep cool in the water. And I had a back injury so I figured it was better for. My back. In shape. But what is it you like about. Well. Like the milk cartons. It just works. I do. I like the milk cartons and the fact that you can do a lot of upper body work and it doesn't

really stress many. Instructor abortion herself. She doesn't know where the use of milk jugs originated. The. Textbooks she uses in preparing the workouts don't mention them. She started using jugs doing water aerobics at a local health club. But the johns do help complete the routines from an exercise standpoint. It turns your arms as you do the aerobics part which gives your heart condition too. So it really works on your whole body at the same time. Water aerobics also solve one of the major troubles of lap swimmers. It's kind of boring isn't it. Yeah. I wish I told somebody a long time ago I wish they'd make the Sony Walkman that you can play while you're alive something and this is an X-box best thing. Real wow wow wow wow wow wow wow this. Is. It gives you

something different to do while you're in the water that you can still get a good workout with. And it takes away some of the board I'm exercising to music and with your friends. Which makes water aerobics very much the opposite of the lonely experience of lap swimming. One wonders what's going through the minds of the folks with goggles on the other side of the bulkhead is the fear across. Maybe they're just looking at women in bathing suits. Maybe they fear their domain being taken over by hordes of waterborne Jane Fonda wannabes. Or maybe they're just trying to figure out what's going on with all those milk jugs. Are you aware of how strange the milk jugs. I noticed it today with all the different colored swimsuits and the those jugs bobbing up and down it does look strange. This. Feels like time to take a little breather and catch up on things a little less exhausting. Here's a

look at some highlighted arts events around the state that may be of interest to you on. Go on go on go on go. Our music feature this week spotlights the talents of a Green Bay performer named Bill Thomas. It's not often you run across someone who can play as well as he sings. Here's Bill Thomas's interpretation of an old Hoagy Carmichael tune you may recall.

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Mean. Bill Thomas with Hoagy Carmichael is moonlight in Vermont. The song conjures up some scenic images of Vermont which is indeed a beautiful state but so is Wisconsin in this photo essay by Louis revised we find a quiet example of what we mean. It focuses on a scene you could find if you traveled way up north to copper Falls State Park near melon. The.

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They. Are. Just one of the many scenic views you can find while exploring the great outdoors here in Wisconsin. To get to copper falls you take Highway 13 as I mentioned way up there towards Ashland to Copperfield's State Park four miles north of Mellon. If you have some picture postcard scenes you'd like to share with our prime time Wisconsin viewers. Drop us a line in care of prime time Wisconsin a University Avenue in Madison Wisconsin. The zip code is 5 3 7 0 6. Coming up on the next prime time in Wisconsin you'll meet Peter Dickey Sweetback who develops portraits from his subjects personality as much as from their facial features all of which makes for an unusual art opening and character study. Then visit

the most colorful of Menominee Indian ceremonials the ancient powwow was returning to its traditional roots in Wisconsin and the art collector Helen Mary Hart has left us with an assemblage of world class art. We'll look at some of her most cherished works. Those stories and more coming your way next time on prime time in Wisconsin. And that's this week's review of some of the prime times we share here in Wisconsin. Thanks for joining us. I'm Carlos begon. We'll see you next week. As the