Event Schedule

Sunday, January 18, 2009

11:00 pm – University of Kentucky, MLK Student Vigil, entitled "Seeing the Dream Through". (Download flyer)

The vigil begins at the University of Kentucky, Memorial Hall located at 610 South Limestone Street, Lexington Kentucky. (See campus map)

The group will march across campus toward the Student Center, pausing along the way to watch skits enacting various events of the Civil Rights era. At midnight, a program will begin in the Student Center's Worsham Theatre, followed by a breakfast served at the Martin Luther King Jr. Cultural Center in 133 Student Center. The skits include:

  • First Skit – Location: Funkhouser. Scene: Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. (2/23/65)
  • Second Skit – Location: Parking lot behind Chemistry/Physics Building. Scene: Birmingham, Ala., Letter from Birmingham Jail (4/16/63)
  • Third Skit – Location: Between Pence Hall and Grehan Building. Scene: Washington, D.C., "I Have a Dream" speech (8/28/63)
  • Fourth Skit – Location: Between King Library South and King Library North. Scene: Memphis, Tenn., Martin Luther King Jr. assassination (4/4/68)
  • Final Skit – Location: Student Center Addition Patio. Scene: Chicago, Ill., Campaign and Election of Barack Obama (11/4/08)

Monday, January 19, 2009

9:00-10:00 a.m. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom March, Line -Up in the corridor of downtown Lexington Center, Heritage Hall

10:00 a.m. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Freedom March, Departure from downtown Lexington Center Heritage Hall on West Main Street.

11:00 a.m. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration, Commemorative Program – Lexington
Center, Heritage Halls East and Center.

2009 Featured Guest: The American Spiritual Ensemble
The American Spiritual Ensemble was founded by Everett McCorvey in 1995. Its members have sung in theaters and opera houses around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, and abroad in Italy, Germany, Britain, Scotland, Spain and Japan. The repertoire ranges from opera to spirituals to Broadway.

2:00 p.m. – The Ballou Senior High School, Marching Band Documentary - Kentucky Theater, 214 E. Main Street, Lexington Kentucky. (Free parking is available in the Park Plaza Garage, adjacent to the Lexington Public Library, in the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government building garage, or on the street.) Download pdf flyer here.

Ballou Sr. High School Marching Band – Ballou is a documentary film about the Ballou Senior High School Marching Band from South East Washington DC.  Ballou High School is a struggling inner city school where only 5% of its students go on after high school and graduate college. The breadth of the documentary follows the band on a journey from band camp, to the National High Stepping Marching Band Competition in Birmingham, AL. It is a very personal story about the lives of the band members, the director Mr. Watson, and his hard working staff who are all striving to be an award winning marching band.