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Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Twenty-four hour period

FREE online performances and activities!

• Dates:

  January 18, 9:00am - 5:00pm

• Ages:

  All ages

• Where:

  Online

• Tickets:

  Free!

• Accessibility:

  Accessible online.

• Welcome to the community slideshow! These participants in our MLK celebration have shared their artwork and poetry with you.

  

• Twins Nala and Noah created "RESIST" posters guided by Valencia Fine Arts video and worksheet.

  

• "My ix year one-time twins and I so enjoyed making our Resist watercolor posters. We had a great discussion most what things nosotros resist as a family, in our community, and our planet. And how those things are aligned with our family values. We also discussed the meaning of the words we chose, the opposites of each, examples in history and in nowadays times of those words. This was a dandy way to not only commemorate the great leader, Martin Luther King Jr, but all those who stood up, and even so stand up today, for what'south right." – Jena

  

• Thanks for sharing, Noah, Nala, and Jena!

  Make your own RESIST poster and share with us. Roll down the folio to detect the video and instructions.

  

• Sadie, 12 years quondam and from Seattle, shared this poem inspired by Write253's poetry prompts. Thank you Sadie!

  Scroll down the folio to find three poetry writing prompts and create your own.

  

• Sister and brother Sasha (age 7) and Micah (historic period 5) made a pocket volume of Dr. King's 6 Principles of Nonviolence.

  

• "I loved doing this with my kids. Both of them loved the arts and crafts. I loved the reminder of my MLK history lessons. It was an amazing way and format to stimulate relaxed simply profound chat…"

  

• "Nosotros got to talk about race, privilege, peaceful protests, and justice. It was likewise inspiring and thought provoking for me every bit an developed equally I consider the social justice issues we face equally a country today." – Webster

  

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• This RESIST poster was created by Santoshi, historic period 14, from Snoqualmie. Thank you Santoshi for sharing your piece of work!

  

We hope y'all joined us to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'south legacy with our partners at Tacoma Arts Alive, Write253, and creative person Valencia Carroll – just if you couldn't make information technology, don't worry! All of the activities are still available via this webpage, merely scroll downwardly!

Explore how history connects the states all. Send your verse and photos of your artwork to share in our virtual community gallery.

Beneath y'all'll find:

• Poetry writing prompts with Write253, inspired by Civil Rights era poetry, with links to related resources.
• Artmaking guided past arts educator Valencia Carroll through videos and worksheets.
• Links to theater performances from Tacoma Arts Live including Q&A with the performers and director.
• Downloadable exhibits about Dr. Rex'south visit to Washington and the Tacoma Civil Rights Motion from Washington State Historical Guild.

Share your work in our customs gallery! Click below to detect out how.

How to share your art and poetry

Want to share your creations for our community gallery? Great!

• Text images of your work to 253-343-7004. Include your kickoff name, historic period, and the name of your town.
• Email your poems or images of your artwork to molly.wilmoth@wshs.wa.gov. Include your first proper noun, age, and the proper noun of your town.
• Another way to share – post your poems or artwork photos on Instagram or Facebook using #waMLKday and tag us @washingtonhistory, @valenciafinearts, @Write253, and @TacomaArtsLive.

Verse Writing with Write253

When the globe tells you lot, you tin can't heal – to embark on the journey of healing is creating a beautiful resistance that the world can't stop. To declare one'southward own "emancipation annunciation," as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would say – is to step into one's own ability of cultivating resilience for i's life. To celebrate and preserve all that is adept well-nigh who you are and who your community is, is to resist internalized and externalized oppression.

These three prompts are crafted in the themes bolded above, these prompts are ones to appoint your senses, cultivate self-reflection, and to accept action for the world you desire to see. Share your poetry in our community gallery past emailing to molly.wilmoth@wshs.wa.gov or texting to 253-343-7004.

healing // release // let go

Listen & watch Eryn Allen Kane's video, Fragile, and search the lyrics if you then choose.

Here are some of the lyrics:

My mother taught me the way to operate a crane
Carrying heavy loads with a smile through pouring pelting…
– Eryn Allen Kane, Fragile

Pre-write:
In Fragile, Eryn mentions "carrying heavy loads." Make a listing of "heavy loads" that y'all carry.

Prompt:
Exploring one of the "heavy loads" you listed in your list, what is a load that y'all'd like to set down? That you lot'd similar to release?

Demand help getting started? Hither's some sentence-starters to assist you highlight your experience:

I find…
I feel…
I hear…
I release…
I give thanks…

History:

There are many in history who have "carried heavy loads" and stood upward confronting injustice not but for themselves simply for their community. One such instance of this is Claudette Colvin. At the age of 15, Claudette refused to give up her seat for a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Larn more than well-nigh Claudette here.

Share:

You tin share your poetry with us for our community gallery (directions at the top of the webpage).

emancipation proclamation

Scout this video prune by Dr. Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr.

Here are some of his words:

"Believe in yourself and believe that you're somebody… Nobody else tin can do this for the states… If the Negro is to be gratis, he must move downwards into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation."

Pre-write:

Dr. Rex speaks of "inner resources." Inner resource can be strengths, character traits, skills, etc. Brand a list of your "inner resources."

Prompt:

Using your list of "inner resources," how would you define your "emancipation proclamation?" What does that letter of freedom look like for yourself? For your community?

Extend:

Grab some colored pencils and draw! Draw yourself at the top of a mount radiating these "inner resources."

History:

The Emancipation Proclamation released all African Americans in the South from slavery on January 1, 1863. It was signed by President Abraham Lincoln as the southern states refused to rejoin the Matrimony. Some people use the term "emancipation announcement" to draw setting someone or a community free from oppression, like Dr. King in the video y'all watched for this prompt. Learn more nigh the original Emancipation Proclamation through these resources.

Emancipation Announcement Commemorative Coloring Book past the National Athenaeum.

The Emancipation Proclamation Exhibit by the National Archives.

Glossary:

Believe: to have faith or confidence
Emancipation: a setting free
Freedom: power of self-conclusion, state of gratis will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance
Proclamation: human action of making public; that which is proclaimed; a calling out, crying out

Learn about the etymology (origin) of these words.

Share:

Y'all can share your verse with united states of america for our community gallery (directions at the top of the webpage).

cocky-love // self-preservation // celebration

Read the poem below past writer Mu Knowles:

my one wish
was that you loved me
merely every wish
seemed to fail
no wishes were e'er granted
considering i never idea
to wish
to love myself

Read and/or heed to won't you lot celebrate with me by Lucille Clifton:

won't you gloat with me
what i accept shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
built-in in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i run across to be except myself?
i made it upwardly
here on this span between
starshine and dirt,
my ane mitt holding tight
my other hand; come gloat
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.

Prompt Options:

i). Write a verse form in which y'all grant a wish to yourself. What is that wish? Write this statement in a form of a simile (comparison two things using the words "like" or "as" to compare). For instance: "dear self, my wish for you is to exist fearless like a panthera leo."

2). When you lot are oppressed, scrutinized, and dehumanized on a daily basis – to "celebrate" is an act of resilience that is necessary for survival and cultivating cocky-love. What is your recipe for celebration? More than broadly, what is your recipe for resilience? Detail what this looks like for you lot, footstep past pace, as though you were to requite a cooking recipe to a friend.

History:

The Million Human March took place October xvi, 1995 in Washington, D.C to acknowledge the 400 years of slavery and oppression of Black Americans. Many recognize the Million Homo March as a day of atonement, reconciliation and responsibleness for Black people across the country and world. Learn more here.

Mu Knowles Bio:

Mu Knowles (they/them) is a Black trans nonbinary queer person and Afro-Ethnic futurist artist. Built-in and raised in the historically Black neighborhood of Hilltop in Puyallup Tribal territory, they intentionally express and explore their artistry, apotheosis, community, world and existence through the holding of space, and weaving of the practices of poetry, writing, song writing, music, speech, spoken discussion, photography and videography.

Facebook: MuKnowles
Instagram: @mu.mu.mu.mu.mu.mu.mu
Electronic mail: knowles.mu@gmail.com

Share:

You tin share your poetry with u.s. for our customs gallery (directions at the acme of the webpage).

Nearly Write253 and prompt composer Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad

Gloria Joy Kazuko Muhammad is a writer, didactics artist, and educator. Currently a paraeducator, she has worked with immature people and adult learners in various educational settings. Equally a writer, Gloria is inspired by spirituality, everyday life, nature, music, and cinematography. She is a graduate of Washington State Teaching Artist Training Lab and hosts virtual writing workshops rooted in healing and personal development. Send her your poems and tag her on Instagram!

Email: gloriajoymuhammad@gmail.com
Instagram: @whoisgloriajoy

Write253 is a literary arts organization who mission is to provide creative and transformative writing opportunities that create community and cross boundaries among youth in greater Tacoma. For more information, please visit www.write253.com.

Artmaking Activities with Valencia Carroll

Endeavor the three artmaking activities below to explore the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. These projects were designed and created by arts educator Valencia Carroll. Each activity includes a downloadable PDF and instructional video.

Six Principles of Nonviolence

Make a book!

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. promoted nonviolent ways to fight bigotry, racism and injustice. Download and print this worksheet and follow the video to create your own booklet of Dr. King'south Six Principles of Nonviolence. You can too create a booklet to write your own ideas about how to fight injustice. You can share your finished projects with usa for our community gallery (directions above).

Civil Rights Advocacy

Brand a RESIST poster

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other Civil Rights Movement proponents lived their lives advocating for equal rights, justice and peace. Dr. King in item resisted detest, injustice, and violence. Follow this worksheet and video to create a poster to visualize what you lot need to resist and to advocate for justice. You lot can share your finished projects with us for our customs gallery (directions higher up).

Celebrate Your Work

Make a Frame!

Celebrating your work is a mode to build resilience. Salute the beautiful RESIST poster you created (see preceding artmaking activity), a poem y'all wrote with Write253's prompts (linked on this webpage), or your own creation by crafting your own unique frame. The video and this worksheet will guide you through the project. You can share your finished projects with u.s. for our customs gallery (directions higher up).

Tacoma Arts Live Theater Performances with Q & A

We shared two theater performances followed by real-fourth dimension questions and answers with the performers and director as part of our MLK Mean solar day celebration. You can still see those performances and the recorded conversations by clicking the buttons below! Both performances laurels civil rights leaders and encourage civic responsibility in learners of all ages.

Theater Performance with live Q & A

Become On The Jitney

Encounter how the Freedom Rides of the 1960s impacted the Ceremonious Rights Movement and continue to inspire social activists today.

A live conversation with the director and actors took place on Jan. 18, and you can come across both the theater performance and the following conversation on the History Museum's  recorded Facebook Live events. Click the push button below!

Watch Become On The Motorbus

Theater Functioning with live Q & A

Ruby Bridges

Just one person can aid change the world. The uncomplicated schoolhouse pupil Red Bridges fought injustice by attending a in one case segregated public school.

A live chat with the manager and actors took place on Jan. eighteen, and you tin can see both the theater operation and the following conversation on the History Museum's  recorded Facebook Alive events. Click the button below!

Watch Ruby Bridges

Downloadable Exhibits from Washington State Historical Society

Learn more well-nigh the struggle for civil rights in Tacoma and virtually Dr. Martin Luther Male monarch, Jr.'s visit to Washington Country through these downloadable exhibitions created past the Washington Country Historical Club.

"Washington Stay Dwelling house Society" programs are generously supported past Columbia Depository financial institution.

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