Marcus Center for the Performing Arts Steering Committee Plans 26th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration

The MLK Steering Committee will host the 26th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Birthday Celebration at the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, January 17, 2010. Milwaukee and Atlanta, Georgia are the only cities to have celebrated Dr. King's Birthday annually since 1984.

The Celebration will commence at 1:00 PM in Uihleiin Hall, which will include multi-cultural performing arts salute to Dr. King. Representation from community organizations will include the Milwaukee Chinese Orchestra, Discovering Our Destiny, Latino Arts Mariachi Juvenil and much more. This event has played to capacity crowds for the past several years.

Another highlight of our programming will include honoring those students who have interpreted Dr. King's words through art, speech, and writing. The theme this year is "People Must Work Together." This year's theme was selected from many of Dr. King's speeches and writing, but most notably from Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom. In addition, the United States Postal Service will be unveiling another stamp as part of the Black Heritage Stamp Series.

The event concludes with a public reception at 4 pm in honor of Paulette Copeland, featuring a performance by the Riverside University Gospel Choir.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information please visit www.marcuscenter.org.