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Posted 01/03/01
How Large the Dream: (Dis)location and the Human Spirit
Dartmouth College's Annual Celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 12-25, 2001
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For more information please call 646-3749.
Friday, Jan. 12
10 p.m.-2 a.m. Three Kings Day/Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Dance. Celebrating the Latino and Latin American holiday Día De Los Tres Reyes (Three Kings Day and Epiphany); with salsero Héctor Cobeo, deejay. Poison Ivy, Collis Center.
Saturday, Jan. 13
7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Hopkins Center Film: Boesman & Lena. Danny Glover and Angela Bassett portray a couple's struggles under apartheid; discussion follows. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art. $6 -- $5 with Dartmouth ID.
Sunday, Jan. 14
2 p.m. Interfaith Service by the Reverend Eugene Burrell, U.S. Director of African American Ministries for the Navigators, Washington, D.C. Rollins Chapel.
7:30 p.m. Hopkins Center Film: Bamboozled. Spike Lee's newest film; discussion follows. Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center. $6 -- $5 with Dartmouth ID -- free with DFS pass.
Monday, Jan. 15
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Noon-1:30 p.m. Brown bag lunch lecture: "MLK 101: Civil Rights to Civil Unions." Associate Professor of History Annelise Orleck lectures on civil rights movements from past to present, including the recent civil unions battle in Vermont. Collis Common Ground.
3-5 p.m. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drop-In Play Group. Storytelling, arts and crafts, trivia games, a play and more, organized by the Dartmouth Alliance for Children of Color. Cutter/Shabazz Hall. Open to children of all ages.
5 p.m. Candlelight Vigil. Sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha. Meet at Cutter/Shabazz Hall and walk to the Top of the Hop.
7 p.m. Keynote Address. Author and playwright Ariel Dorfman delivers address, "To Be Completely, Absolutely, and Irreversibly Bilingual: A Curse or A Blessing?" Free tickets are available at the Hopkins Center Box Office beginning Jan. 8. The Moore Theater. Reception to follow at the Top of the Hop.
Tuesday, Jan. 16
6-7:30 p.m. Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts Festival. Steel drums, dance, and readings by D-Steel, Dartmouth StreetDance Society, Roots of Rhythm, and Susan Louise Darnell. Collis Common Ground.
8:30 p.m. Hopkins Center Films: Days of Waiting and Carved in Silence. Documentaries on the WWII Japanese internment camps and the "Chinese Ellis Island." Discussion follows. Loew Auditorium. All tickets $1.
Wednesday, Jan. 17
4 p.m. The Rockefeller Center presents "Pursuing the MLK Agenda: The Struggle for Voting Rights Continues." Lecture by Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania and Chairperson of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall. Reception to follow at Cutter/Shabazz Hall, hosted by the Afro-American Society.
6:30-8 p.m. A Celebration of African and Caribbean Musical Traditions. Performance, lecture, and drumming lesson presented by Professor Hafiz F. Shabazz and the World Music Percussion Ensemble. Brace Commons.
8:30 p.m. Hopkins Center Film: Sankofa. A mystical journey confronting slavery and self. Discussion follows. Loew Auditorium. All tickets $1.
Thursday, Jan. 18
Noon-1:30 p.m. Martin Luther King, Jr. Arts Festival. Dance, drama, and readings by Steppin' Out, Ujima, Dartmouth StreetDance Society, People's Theatre Network, Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance and Susan Louise Darnell. A Community Hour event. Common Ground and Poison Ivy, Collis Center.
4:30 p.m. The Daniel Webster Legal Society presents the Gordon Lecture: "Black Seminoles Seek Recognition and Rights: Davis v. United States, 1999." Jon Velie, partner at Velie & Velie, Norman, Okla., and attorney representing the Black Seminoles in Davis v. United States. 2 Rockefeller.
10 p.m. Student Poetry Slam. With Performance Poet Sekou Sundiata. Emceed by Anthony Luckett '01. Poison Ivy, Collis Center.
Friday, Jan. 19
6 p.m. Community Dinner with Samuel Cotton, author of Silent Terror: A Journey into Contemporary African Slavery. Brace Commons. Tickets $1, available at Collis Center beginning Jan. 10.
Saturday, Jan. 20
8 p.m. Udu. A music theater oratorio by Craig Harris and Sekou Sundiata. A powerful and provocative contemplation on past and contemporary slavery. Performed by 14 singers, actors and musicians. Spaulding Auditorium. Spotlight discussion to follow. $20 -- $5 with Dartmouth student ID.
Thursday, Jan. 25
7 p.m. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Lecture. Talk by the Reverend Eugene Rivers III, known for his inner-city ministries with at-risk youth. Collis Common Ground.
Ongoing Exhibitions: Martin Luther King Jr. Exhibitions. Visual art by Marissa Harris '02, Tai Antoine '01, Nikolaus Steinberg '02, and the Concerned Black Students Committee. Collis Center.
Cosponsored by the Advisor to Latino/Latina Students; Afro-American Society; Alpha Phi Alpha; Bigger, Better and Later; Career Services; Collis Center; Community Hour series; Daniel Webster Legal Society; Dartmouth Alliance for Children of Color; Dartmouth Medical School; Development and Alumni Relations; Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action; Facilities Operations and Management; Hanover Inn; Hopkins Center; Hopkins Center Film; Hopkins Center Outreach and Arts Education; Murdough Greenhouse; Nelson A. Rockefeller Center; Office of the Dean of the College; Office of the Dean of the Faculty; Office of the President; Office of Residential Life; Rothenberg '46 Fund for Latino Student Life; Shabazz African American Center; Thayer School of Engineering; Tuck School of Business; Tucker Foundation; Upper Valley Carpet Center; and Women's Resource Center.
Arts Festival
A new arts festival featuring performances and exhibitions by several student groups and individuals will highlight Dartmouth's 23rd annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., Jan. 12-25.
"The Arts Festival lets more students become involved in the MLK Celebration and provides a public forum where they can creatively express their commitment to issues of civil rights, human rights, and multiculturalism," said Christine Crabb, Assistant Director of Public Programs. "Through this event, we hope the student performers and artists will prompt the Dartmouth community to reflect further on these issues."
The festival will feature performing arts on Tuesday, Jan. 16, and Thursday, Jan. 18. Readings from Martin Luther King Jr. by graduate student Susan Louise Darnell MALS'01 will lead off events at 6 p.m. Jan. 16 in Collis Common Ground. The evening's program also includes a performance piece by the Dartmouth StreetDance Society, gumboot dance by the student group Roots of Rhythm, and a steel drum concert by Dartmouth's undergraduate group D-Steel.
Tap dancing by Steppin' Out will lead off arts festival events on Jan. 18 at noon in Collis Common Ground. A collaborative performance piece by The People's Theatre Network and the Dartmouth Rainbow Alliance will follow, as will the dance troupe Ujima.
Downstairs in the Poison Ivy Dance Club, the Dartmouth StreetDance Society will perform at 12:20 p.m. that same day. Darnell will repeat her Martin Luther King reading in Poison Ivy after the dance performance.
Also part of the festival are visual arts exhibitions in Collis by student artists Marissa Harris '02, Tai Antoine '01 and Nikolaus Steinberg '02. Beginning Jan. 14, a collaborative patchwork quilt with personalized patches created by Dartmouth students and sewn by members of the Concerned Black Students Committee will be displayed in Collis as well.
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