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The theme of this year’s week of celebration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is “Dream Color.” The committee planning UGA’s commemoration has developed a variety of events to remind the community of King’s dream and provide an opportunity to carry it forward.
Following the national holiday on Jan. 17, the celebration opens with the annual Gospelfest at 7 p.m. Jan. 18 in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center. Artists will include Teresa Haynes, the Athens Voices of Truth, UGA’s Afro-American Choral Ensemble and several choirs from the area. Master of ceremonies will be Reggie Gay of KISS-104.7 FM.
The annual King Week exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art will this year present works by Benny Andrews, nationally known African-American artist and former head of the visual arts program at the National Endowment for the Arts. Andrews will give an illustrated lecture about his work and its social context at 5:30 p.m. Jan. 19 in the museum. The exhibition will be open through Feb. 13.
The tradition of community service during King Week will this year take volunteers to several local elementary, middle and high schools and community centers to work with young people. Volunteers are also helping with voter registration and with the building of a house for Habitat for Humanity.
Chana Kai Lee, of UGA’s history department, will present the week’s Women’s Studies Program noon lecture at 12:10 p.m. Jan. 21 in the African-American Cultural Center in 407 Memorial Hall. She will speak about “African-American Women in the Black Freedom Struggle.”
A cinema roundtable at 4 p.m. Jan. 21 in 265 Park Hall will take a look at African Americans in Hollywood--writers, directors and actors. Panelists will be Freda Scott Giles (drama), Robert Pratt (history) and Kevin Young (English); Richard Neupert (drama) will moderate.
King Week will conclude with the annual march from the Tate Student Center to the Chapel, beginning at 2 p.m. Jan. 26. The march will conclude with a rally at the Chapel and will be followed at 3:30 p.m. with the annual ecumenical service in the Chapel.
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