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SUSTAINING THE DREAM
Through Community and Service
The 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration
January 17, 2011
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California
The 2011 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Celebration entitled, "Sustaining the Dream:
Through Community and Service", will be held on January 17, 2011, at
San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Yerba Buena Gardens.
There will be numerous activities as well as free admission to the
Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Museum of the African Diaspora, with
special programs for children and teens, and discounts and free
activities at area retailers and shops.
The commemorative march will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the
march on Selma, Alabama, to be led by clerics and faith leaders under
the direction of the San Francisco Interfaith Council. A short
interfaith service will follow at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Waterfall, where the Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown, a former student of Dr.
King and national board member and president of the San Francisco
Chapter of the NAACP, will be honored for a lifetime of service to the
civil rights movement.
A special production presentation, "King in Five Vignettes", will be
held in the Novellus Theater, featuring the Marcus Shelby Orchestra
playing compositions from the new "Soul of the Movement" suite and a
host of noted performers and inspirational speakers and leaders.
All-day activities include the Mind, Body and Soul Festival, with free
health, preparedness, and sustainability services and activities for
all ages, including a blood drive in partnership with the American Red
Cross of the Bay Area. In addition, 2011 inaugurates the San Francisco
Literary and Children's Reading Festival in partnership with Marcus
Books, the nation's oldest African American book store. Special
discussions and talks with leaders in literature, service, and politics
will also be held throughout the day in the Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts Screening Room.
Free and deep discounted transportation on BART (limited to 5,000 commemorative passes), SF MUNI, Golden Gate Transit and Ferries, the Capitol Corridor service, Central Valley AMTRAK service, and the Peninsula Caltrain Service (through the Dr. Martin Luther King Association of Santa Clara Valley, Inc.) are available.
ACTIVITY SCHEDULE:
Mind, Body and Soul Festival
9:00am - 4:30 pm
The Forum at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco Literary and Children's Reading Festival
9:00am - 4:30pm
The Grand Lobby at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Contemporary Jewish Museum & Museum of the African Diaspora
10:00am - 5:00pm
2011 March and Parade
Begins at 11:00am (arrive early)
Begins at 4th St. & Townsend Ave. (Caltrain Depot) and proceeds to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
"King in Five Vignettes" special presentation
12:15pm - 2:00pm, Limited Seating, doors open at 11:50am
Novellus Theater at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts