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| Date |
Time |
Event |
| multiple dates |
4 p.m. (tentative) |
MLK Celebration Community Choir rehearsals |
| Saturday, January 8th |
6 p.m. |
Charlottesville Area Rhythm & Dance presents a drum circle tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Sunday, January 16th |
5 p.m. |
Twenty-Sixth Annual Martin Luther King Community Celebration, featuring speaker Maurice Jones, Charlottesville City Manager |
| Monday, January 17th |
(assigned to participants) |
Shadow-a-Health-Professional Day |
| Monday, January 17th |
1:20 p.m. |
King's Vision of Globalization, lecture by Clayborne Carson |
| Monday, January 17th |
4 p.m. |
Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., lecture by Clayborne Carson |
| Monday, January 17th |
4:30-6 p.m. |
Panel discussion on health disparities (Vivian Pinn, M.D. and the Hon. Louis W. Sullivan, M.D.) |
| Tuesday, January 18th |
9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. |
Plenary session sponsored by the Teaching Resource Center of U.Va.: Teaching in a Multicultural Context |
| Tuesday, January 18th |
7 p.m. |
Documentary screening: Locked Out: The Fall of Massive Resistance |
| Wednesday, January 19th |
11 a.m. |
Miller Center Forum: King in His Own Words |
| Wednesday, January 19th |
7 - 8:30- p.m. |
Panel discussion: School Boards: Are They for You? |
| Wednesday, January 19th |
7 p.m. |
Oratory competition for Charlottesville High School students |
| Thursday, January 20th |
4 p.m. |
Keynote Lecture, by Donna Brazile: Reflections on King's Legacy: Women in Leadership |
| Thursday, January 20th |
5 - 6:15 p.m. |
Panel discussion: I Have a Dream: Visions of Engineering in the Twenty-First Century |
| Friday, January 21st |
12:30 p.m. |
Lecture and brown-bag lunch: Architecture, Vision, and Civic Leadership: In Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King |
| Saturday, January 22nd |
7:30 p.m. |
Concert: Larnell Starkey and the Spiritual Seven |
| Sunday, January 23rd |
2 p.m. |
Interfaith Worship Service |
| Sunday, January 23rd |
4 p.m. |
Overcoming a Legacy of Distrust: Reflections on "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks", panel discussion with Jim Childress,
University Professor and John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the University of Virginia. |
| Monday, January 24th |
4 p.m. |
Presentation on nonviolence training and education with Arthur Romano,
certified nonviolence trainer and accomplished international educator. |
| Monday, January 24th |
7:30 p.m. |
Papers documentary screening and discussion. |
| Tuesday, January 25th |
12:00 p.m. |
When King Came to U.Va.: Panel discussion with Professor Paul Gaston and Wesley Harris, on Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1963 visit to the University |
| Tuesday, January 25th |
6 p.m. |
Freedom Riders documentary screening and pre-show introduction with Larry Sabato and Julian Bond , followed by free live streaming of the State of the Union address |
| Wednesday, January 26th |
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. |
Safe Space training |
| Thursday, January 27th |
7 p.m. |
Presentation and reading by poet and activist Amiri Baraka
|
| Thursday, February 10th |
7:30 p.m. |
Screening and discussion of Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond's Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian |
| Tuesday, February 22nd |
5:30-7 p.m. |
Presentation: The Role of Journalism and the Journalist in the Civil Rights Movement, with Julian Bond and Arlie Schardt, retired magazine reporter and public activist |
