Photographs
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.
Artwork
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.
MLK Storytime at the D.O.C. House
Aekta Shah ’05 tells stories geared toward children ages 2–8 and their families in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Skating, cross-country skiing, and sledding offered outdoors.
12 noon–2 p.m., Dartmouth Outing Club House
DFS Hopkins Center Film: Moolaadé
Sembene’s newest film takes on the ancient but increasingly contested African practice of female circumcision. His critique is also a celebration of the warmth and dynamism of African village life.
7 & 9:30 p.m., Spaulding Auditorium
$7, $5 w/Dartmouth ID
5th Annual Stonewall Lecture in GLBTS by Jewelle Gomez: "Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll, and Revolution"
Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist Jewelle Gomez, a founding member of Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), is as well-known for her media activism as she is for her literary work.
3:30 p.m., 13 Carpenter
A Lifetime of Service, A Life Committed to Social Justice
A lunchtime discussion with Trudell Guerue Jr. '74, recipient of the 2005 Granger Social Justice Award.
A dedicated advocate for equal justice under the law, Trudell Guerue Jr. has been called by colleagues a "guiding light." An attorney in Minnesota and a member of the Sicangu Lakota, Burnt Thigh Sioux, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, Guerue is responsible for the legal representation of clients at the Legal Rights Center (LRC), a nonprofit, poverty and criminal defense law firm in Hennepin County, Minn.
12 noon, Tucker Foundation Livnig Room
AREA Student Art Gallery Exhibition Opening: "Between the Lines"
Featuring student photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, animations, music, and more.
8–11 p.m., Top of the Hop, Hopkins Center
Fourth Annual MLK Social Justice Awards
Honoring William Sloane Coffin, David Shipler ’64; Trudell Guerue, Jr. ’74; Jeffrey Swartz TU’84; Thomas Clark ’92, DMS’01; and Jennifer Rottmann ’02.
5 p.m., Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center
Reception to follow at the Top of the Hop
A Forum on Interracial Dating
Dialogue with students and community on interracial dating issues in today's society.
6 p.m., Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center
Art and Words: A Writing and Bookmaking Workshop for Teens
Writing teacher Mary Otto will lead participants in writing activities as a way to explore works of art in the exhibition Transcending Time. In the studio, participants will use a variety of beautiful papers to create a writing journal. For grades 10–12.
1–4 p.m., Hood Museum of Art
Enrollment is limited to fifteen and costs $5 per person. Register by Jan. 24 by calling (603) 646-1469.
