2025 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Program
Art for a Change! A Celebration of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
Experience this important day through the lens of art!
Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 鈥� 1:30鈥�4:30 p.m. ET
, 1320 Benham Avenue, Elkhart, Indiana
Co-hosts: Tolson Center and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Art is a universal language, crossing lines of culture and identity. It can be used to uplift, inspire and spark imagination 鈥� and as an instrument of change for generations to come.
During the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, poets, writers, singers, actors, storytellers and other creators used art in all of these ways as they struggled against the brutality of Jim Crow and other forms of racism and asserted the dignity and humanity of African Americans in the face of great violence and oppression. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a master of words as he named the terrible realities facing his people and his vision for freedom and a new world to come.
In honor of this holiday, the Tolson Center and bg真人 invite you to explore the role of art in transforming society 鈥� in the past and present, and for the future.
Schedule
1:30鈥�3 p.m. Screening of the 80-minute documentary What Happened at Benham West: African American Stories of Community, Displacement and Hope
1:30 and 2:30 p.m. Youth art sessions; photography presentation by Daryck Barnett; and more!
3 p.m. Art for a Change program, including performances by the Tolson Choir and Tolson Dance Team
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Questions?
- Email: icurassistant@ambs.edu
- Phone: 574.295.7233