MLK Day update: Spike Lee at Dartmouth, Jan. 18

Posted 01/15/99

With an address by filmmaker Spike Lee coming up Monday, Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. in Spaulding Auditorium (Hopkins Center), all tickets for seating in Spaulding -- which were free -- have long been taken. However, there are still the following ways to see the address:

-- As a result of "no-shows" at Spaulding Auditorum. Ticketed guests must be seated by 6:45 p.m. on Monday. If at that time there are "no-shows" for ticketed seating in Spaulding Auditorium, ushers at the event will begin to fill those seats with non-ticketed arrivals.

-- Via closed-circuit TV in The Moore Theater (Hopkins Center), Loew Auditorium (below the Hood Museum), 105 Dartmouth Hall and 28 Silsby Hall. Free and non-ticketed, seating in these locations will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

-- Dartmouth students may also view the address Channels 11 and 13 on the College's new on-campus cable TV system.

Lee -- director of critical and box-office hit films including "Do the Right Thing," "Jungle Fever," "She's Gotta Have It," "Malcolm X" and, most recently, his first feature-length documentary, "4 Little Girls" -- is this year's keynote speaker for Dartmouth's annual celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. His address will be followed by a reception at the Top of the Hop. His address will also be preceded and followed that day by showings of "4 Little Girls" in Loew Theater at noon, 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. The film documents the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama on a Sunday morning that that killed four young African-American girls. The story is told through the eyes of survivors, witnesses, defenders and prosecutors. Admission to the film screenings is free and non-ticketed.

Lee's address is part of a series of special events, intended to help foster appreciation of the importance of King's legacy. [See detailed schedule of remaining events below.]

Spike Lee: Keynote Address

• 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18
• Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center
• Reception following, Top of the Hop
• Overflow viewing:
• The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center; Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum;
• 105 Dartmouth Hall; 28 Silsby Hall

Film: "4 Little Girls"

• 12 p.m., 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18
• Loew Theater
• Free, non-ticketed

Lecture and Community Dinner: Charles Baquet

• Deputy Director, Peace Corps
• "Community Building and the Meaning of King's Legacy"
• 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1999
• Roth Center For Jewish Life

Lecture: Rebecca Adamson

• Founder and President, First Nations Development Institute
• "Building Community: Nationally and Internationally"
• 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22
• Collis Common Ground

Sermon: Rev. Dr. Charles Booth

• Pastor, Mt. Olivet Baptist Church (Columbus, Ohio)
• 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 24
• Rollins Chapel

Lecture: Helen Zia

• Former Editor, currently Contributing Editor, Ms. Magazine.
• "Combating Anti-Asian Violence"
• 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 28, 1999
• Rockefeller 3