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Martin Luther King Day Celebration at Peabody Museum
Sunday, January 15, Noon to 4:00 pm
World Stage Performances (Great Hall of Dinosaurs)
12:30 Community Poetry Open Mic
1:15 The Rahsaan Langley Project — Motown: Earth Wind & Fire
2:15 Tia Russell Dance Studio — Lyrical dance & Jazz
3:00 Kouffin Kanecke Company — Traditional West African dance and drumming performance
David Friend Hall (3rd Floor)
12:00–4:00 8th Annual Teen Summit
Monday, January 16, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
World Stage Performances (Great Hall of Dinosaurs)
10:30 DJ KP with Elm Cityz Finest presents Hip Hop Dance Battle
11:00 Community Poetry Open Mic
12:00 Red Supreme Productions Hip Hop Dance Entertainment
12:30 Kenyatta Harris Jr. — Jazz and R&B
1:00 Red Supreme Productions Hip Hop Dance Entertainment
1:30 African Arawak Connection
2:30 Michael Mills — Drumming performance and drum circle finale
David Friend Hall (3rd Floor)
10:30–11:30 Martin Luther King “I Have a Dream” – Video Approx. 60 mins
11:30–12:00 Been to The Mountain Top – Video Approx. 30 mins
12:30–3:30 Annual Invitational Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Poetry Slam
Invited Poetry Slam Participants: Mind Evolution, Malcolm Wicks, M.I.D.N.I.G.H.T, Paragraph,
Crystal Valentine, Sky Raven-The Vegan Poet,
Jasmine Eaton, Aaron Jafferis, Brad Waldron, Jaime Lewis,
Steven Willis, Gabriel Ramirez, Lynnette Johnson, Safi
Monday, January 16
Storytelling & Amistad Exhibit at the New Haven Museum, 114 Whitney Avenue
Free Admission to the New Haven Museum from 11:00 am to 4:00pm
11:30 Joy Donaldson — “Martin Luther King Word and Song”
1:00 Waltrina Kirkland Mullins — “We’ve Come a Long Way! Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. King”
Volunteers are needed to run the Affinity Group table. Email Marinda Brown to sign up!