MLK Day 2015 Presented By Food Lion®

About This Program

"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Gantt Center invites you to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King with a dynamic day of looking forward, and remembering our past. Join us for a series of films, hands on workshops, and performances that will encourage audiences of all ages to remember the past, commit to positively impacting our communities, and celebrate creativity as a force for change.

Participating partners include Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, Kinetic Works, On Q Productions, The Possibility Project and The Start Something Experience.

Time	Event/Activity
Ongoing Throughout The Day
9:00 AM	Hands On Workshops (classroom) Peace t-shirts: Bring a blank t-shirt and create your own wearable testament to peace.
Featured
All day	MLK Day City Arts contest participants featured on Gantt Center digital screens throughout the museum
9:00 AM	Film: The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (96 minutes)
9:30 AM	Guided Tour Of Current Exhibits
10:00 AM	Tweet Chat: Communities and Activism: How can we make change in 2015
11:00 AM	Mountaintop: Excerpt and Conversation – Martin Wilkins, National New Play Network Producer in Residence, Actor’s Theater of Charlotte Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life has been dramatized on television and in film, including the recent release of the critically acclaimed film, Selma. In the fall of 2011, Katori Hall's Olivier Award winning play, The Moutaintop, premiered on Broadway. Charlotte native, Martin Damien Wilkins, who will direct Actor's Theatre of Charlotte's upcoming production of Lydia R. Diamond's Stick Fly, worked with Ms. Hall to develop early drafts of the script. Join him in a conversation about taking a play like The Mountaintop from the page to the stage, as well as, reflecting on Dr. King's legacy as depicted in these dramatic works.
11:30 AM	Authors sign children's books in Museum Shop Guided Tour Of Current Exhibits
12:00 Noon	Moving Stories Project – Revitalizing Community Through Dance Choreographer Martha Connerton and the Kinetic Works Dancers invite you to contribute to the Moving Stories Project – an on-going community engagement program that uses dance to creatively engage formerly incarcerated women. Meet the key participants in the project, hear their stories, and participate in a movement workshop that may inform the choreography for the final piece.
12:30 PM	Freedom Songs: A Kids Workshop Love to sing? Participate in this interactive kid-friendly workshop that teaches children freedom songs, and the role that music played in the Civil Rights Movement.
1:30 PM	#FreedomDay Quentin Talley presents a 30 minute live-one-act-protest-musical-performance based off of his latest solo album #FreedomDay. Featuring Troy Conn - guitar, Tim Scott Jr. - drums, Tim Singh - bass. #FreedomDay: A Musicial Reparations Mixtape By The Talented Tenth of Mr. Talley #FreedomDay is an operatic-like movement; a fusion of the souls of black folk, hip-hop with a touch of Broadway and a dash of the blues. This “mixtape” is dedicated to the continued struggle. And we all know what struggle is. It’s a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) sociopolitical album about freedom and what that term really means, especially when you’re black in America. On a societal level, the struggle to “just be”, on a personal level, the struggle for individuality and on a spiritual level, the struggle to “find our way”. Cultural viewpoint is a backdrop to the bigger picture, yet an important detail in the story. Though at the end of the day, Freedom should be as universal as being human is.
2:00 PM	A Performance, Dialogue, and On-Air Conversation with The Possibility Project-Charlotte and Start Something Radio Show The Possibility Project-Charlotte will present Know Justice, Know Peace, a spoken word presentation based on the current events regarding race and affecting people across the nation. Following the performance, The Possibility Project and Start Something will lead a dialogue session where audience members will be able to discuss the impact of these current events and the response that Charlotte communities should have in addressing these issues locally. Audience members will also have the opportunity to be featured in 1) the live, on-air interview with the Start Something Radio Show after the dialogue and 2) a special guest appearance in The Possibility Project production taking place in May. Space is limited. Please RSVP for Know Justice, Know Peace here.
2:30 PM	Guided Tour Of Current Exhibits
3:45 PM	Film: Citizen King (115 minutes)
4:00 PM	Guided Tour Of Current Exhibits

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