Free Community Event: 2nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Beloved Community Festival
January 20 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Join us for our second annual free Martin Luther King Jr. Day festival! FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Youth Workshops with Writopia begin at 10:30am!
Deeds, Performances, and Beloved Community Cafe 1:00-5:00pm!
Featuring
- 10:30AM – Morning social justice writing workshops with Writopia Lab (See Details Below)
- 1:00pm – Performance of Youth Writings
- 1:00-5:00pm – GOOD DEEDS to participate in for all ages, as well as arts and crafts to create a community peace mural
- 2:00pm – Play reading with Author and Playwright Calvin Alexander Ramsey: Belle, The Last Mule at Gee’s Bend
- 3:00pm – Songs of liberation sing-a-long with DuPree and Barry Kornhauser
- 4:00pm – Dance performance with Simba Yangala and Kamutshima Dance Troupe
- International foods, snacks, and refreshments!
RSVP
FREE! Click Here to RSVP for Workshops and Performances
Morning Youth Workshops (10:30am) – Ethical Writing Workshops & Staged Readings with Writopia Lab (RSVP Required)
Teen Journalism ~ Intergenerational Activist Dialogues:
On MLK Day, High-school students are invited to interview life-long activists about their lives, deeds and hopes. Intergenerational dialogue will lay the ground for youth to write about an ethical activist and be ignite their own social justice aspirations. They will be sharing the gems of this experience with an audience on the stage of Adler Hall at 1pm.
Tween Social Justice Litanies
On MLK Day, Middle schoolers will use Dr. King’s inspirations to write their own speeches and litanies of social justice. They will have a chance to amplify their work, if they choose to, in a public reading at 1pm in Adler Hall.
These free workshops begin at 10:30-12:30, followed by a reading at 1pm and an invitation to spend the MLK afternoon at ETHICAL NYC with wonderful performances and deeds (and food!) throughout the afternoon.
Our Partners
National Ethical Service • Amnesty USA Groups 9 & 280 • Climate Families NYC • Writopia Lab • NAACP Mid-Manhattan Branch • YVote • Harmony Program • Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence • Project Peace Lights
