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MLK Learning Center - MLK Day Celebration
HC Black Music and Arts Association welcomes you to the 2nd MLK Learning Center at the Arcata Community Center.
This special Dr Martin Luther King event, with a theme of Bringing Ujamaa (brotherhood/Sistahood) in the Humboldt Community, will take place on Jan 16, at 9:00-4:30. The community is invited to March from the Arcata Plaza at 8:15 am to the Arcata Community Center.
AS a community, there are opportunities to join in community restorative healing… at 9:00 am for African Kemetic Yoga, Storytelling by Benjamin Mertz at 11:00am, bring your drums… at 4:00pm for a community drumming and African Dance circle. There will be food vendors, cultural art creations, reggae and Gospel bands, and the Humboldt Lao Dancers. The cost is $10 dollars at the door. All funds for the MLK Learning Center will be donated to the Glen Edward Kuumba foundation to improve literacy awareness and Black excellence.
Schedule of Events:
8:15 - March from Arcata Plaza to the Community Center
8:30 - 9:30 African Kemetic Yoga Open Community Healing Circle
9:30-10:10 Opening Ceremony
10:15 - 12:00 Music, Community Gospel Choir, Keynote Speaker
12:00- 1:30 Speakers
1:30-2:00 Alpha Fitness Boxing Demo
2:00 - 2:30 Humboldt Rockers Break Dancing
2:35-2:55 Humboldt Lao Dancers
3:00- 3:25 Reggae Soul - Madi and Lorenza Simmons
3:25- 4:00 Afro-Reggae Nigerian Band - Seed N Soil
4:00-4:30 African Dance and drum circle Open Community healing circle (Bring your hand drums)
4:35 Closing Ceremony
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PRICE
- $10
CONTACT INFO
- Email: info@hcblackmusicnarts.org
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