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Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.

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Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.

Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration 2009: Schedule of Events

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
* Denotes tickets or reservations required.

For additional information please call (603) 646-3749 or email mlkcelebration@dartmouth.edu.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18

Community Faith Celebration with the Reverend James Lawson
3 pm, Rollins Chapel

MONDAY, JANUARY 19

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Employee Celebration Breakfast
Conflict Management and Reconciliation in the Workplace

* 8-9:30 am, Daniel Webster Room, Hanover Inn

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dartmouth Speech: A Multimedia Presentation
Towards Freedom
9 am-3 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

Service Opportunity
Books and Blankets: Dartmouth Gives Back
11am-4 pm, Collis Center first floor atrium and FUEL

Community Lunch
Surprising Stories of Reconciliation
12 noon-1:30 pm, Collis Common Ground

Martin Luther King Jr. Play Group
3:30-5 pm, Cutter-Shabazz Hall

Martin Luther King Jr. Candlelight Vigil
5 pm, gather at Cutter-Shabazz Hall, first floor

Keynote Address by Sherman Alexie
* 7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20

Presidential Inauguration Viewing
10:30 am, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
12 noon, Collis Common Ground

DMS Lecture by Francis Lu, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCSF
Bringing Culture into the Clinical Encounter
5:30 pm, Vail Chilcott Auditorium

Women of Color Collective Discussion
Where is Our Truth and Reconciliation (Commission)?
* 6 pm, Center for Women and Gender

Dickey Center Selamta Exhibition Reception
6-8 pm, Russo Gallery, Haldeman Center

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21

Dickey Center Lecture by R. Nicholas Burns, Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
Foreign Policy Issues Facing the Obama Administration
4:30 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall

Film and Discussion
The Business of Fancydancing
6 pm, 3 Rockefeller Hall

Read/Reflect/React with Sweet Honey in the Rock®
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
6 pm, Mayer Room, Howe Library, downtown Hanover
Please download and read the excerpt at http://hop.dartmouth.edu/classdivide prior to attending.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Dinner Discussion and Multimedia Presentation
What Would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Say about the State of America Today?
7 pm, Occom Commons, McLaughlin Cluster

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

Vocal Workshop with Sweet Honey in the Rock®
The Power of Song: Singing in the African-American Tradition
5:30 pm, Rollins Chapel

Palaeopitus Film and Discussion
Do the Right Thing
7 pm, Fahey/McLane lounge, first floor

FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

Panel Discussion
Gay Rights as Civil Rights
4:30 pm, Brace Commons, East Wheelock Cluster

Hopkins Center Performance by
Sweet Honey in the Rock®
* 8 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24

Student Performance Showcase
Lifted: A Celebration of Unity and Song
6:30 pm, Collis Common Ground

MONDAY, JANUARY 26

The Rockefeller Center Presents
Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
How to Change the World with Your Bare Hands
4:30 pm, 3 Rockefeller Hall

TUESDAY, JANUARY 27

TAABA Lunch Discussion with Professor Ella L. Bell
Leadership in the King Era
12-1 pm, Rosenwald Classroom, Byrne Hall, Tuck School of Business

DMS Panel Discussion
Healing Others, Healing Ourselves: A Panel Discussion on the Stressors of Medical Culture
* 5:30-7:30 pm, Vail Chilcott Auditorium

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28

** THE SEEDS FILM AND PANEL HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, AT 5 PM IN 105 DARTMOUTH HALL. **


Dickey Center Film and Discussion

SEEDS

 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 29

Film and Discussion
The End of America with filmmaker Ricki Stern '87
7:30 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

FRIDAY, JANUARY 30

MLK Social Justice Awards and Panel Discussion
5 pm, Collis Common Ground

SATURDAY, JANUARY 31

Hopkins Center Film
Trouble the Water
* 7 pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2

The Dickey Center is pleased to join with the Tucker Foundation to present the
Rabbi Marshall Meyer Social Justice Lecture by
Kul Chandra Gautam '72, Former Assistant Secretary-General of the U.N.
4:30 pm, Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall, overflow in B03 Moore Hall

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3

** RESCHEDULED FROM LAST WEEK'S CANCELLED EVENT **


Dickey Center Film and Discussion

SEEDS
5 pm, 105 Dartmouth Hall

ONGOING

Hood Museum of Art Exhibition
Bearing Witness: The Abu Ghraib Project
by Daniel Heyman
Through February 1

RELATED AND UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Afro-American Society MLK events
Dartmouth Centers Forum events
Black History Month Preview
Rockefeller Center Lecture by Professor Sonu Bedi

Last Updated: 1/30/09