Have a Dream Weekend, With These MLK Activities

IMAGINE!

All ages

Saturday, January 15

7 p.m.

Join The Restoration Dance Theatre Company on a journey of choreographic imaginings inspired by hope, determination and vision as the company performs new works for their signature concert in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spotlighted that evening will be outstanding choreographers/ mentors from Restoration’ s Center for Arts and Culture’s ChoreoQuest project including Obediah Wright, Karen Thornton-Daniels, Ronald K. Brown, Nathan Trice, James Atkinson, Germaul Barnes, Lindia Dugue, and Chris White aka “Sweat”, to name a few

Location: 1 University Plz, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (The Kumble Theater)

Made in America: King’s Dream in Today’s Economy

For adults

Sunday, January 16

3 – 5 p.m.

Join WNYC’s Brian Lehrer, WQXR's Terrence McKnight and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Perry for an afternoon of conversation and music exploring the contemporary lessons of King’s work for economic and labor justice.

Location: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway

The Brooklyn Children’s Museum

For Kids

Sunday, January 16

12:30 p.m., ages 6 and up

Spotlight: Coretta Scott King

An activist and iconic figure of civil rights in the United States, Coretta Scott King was a Civil Rights Movement leader. Use your mind’s eye to design a creative craft about the King family as we see how she carried on the legacy of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr.

Location: Brooklyn Children's Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave.

“A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Salute to Haiti”

For Adults

Sunday, January 16

9 p.m., FREE

Join us to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We are truly living his dream. We are also commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake. Keep Haiti in your prayers

Music by DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry (playin the bet hip hop, R&B, Raggae, Haitian Kompas, Afrobeat, House and more)

Location: Rustik Tavern, 471 Dekalb Ave. at Kent Avenue

25th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

All ages

Monday, January 17

10:30 a.m.,

Part of the 25th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

BAM, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, and Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York present New York City’s largest public celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This year, BAM welcomes keynote speaker Walter Mosley, novelist and social commentator. In his acclaimed fiction, Mosley has explored the black experience in America over the past seven decades, beginning with the migration of African-Americans from the Deep South to his native Los Angeles in the post-World War II era and through post-Obama election-era New York City. His honors include an O’Henry Award, a Grammy, The Sundance Risktaker Award, and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and he twice has been awarded the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.

Musical performances by the Persuasions and The Reverend Timothy Wright
Memorial Choir of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center C.O.G.I.C., round out the program.

Following the event in the Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas will present a free screening of Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, an award winning documentary about a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice, 40 years after the murders of three civil rights workers.