A pair of events at Bowdoin College will serve as the Mid-coast region’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrations.
On Monday, Jan. 19, the college will offer up a children’s event in the morning, with a concert featuring a member of Sweet Honey In The Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon, and her daughter, Toshi Reagon.
The concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. in Pickard Theater, located in Memorial Hall on the Bowdoin campus.
For more than 40 years, Johnson Reagon, from the acclaimed African American women’s a cappela ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock, has been a major cultural voice for freedom and justice; singing, teaching speaking out against racism and organized inequities of all kinds. Few individuals today better illustrate the transformative power and instruction of traditional African American music and cultural history than Johnson Reagon, who has excelled equally in the realms of scholarship, composition, and performance.
Her daughter, Toshi Reagon, is a singer, songwriter, producer and activist living in Brooklyn, N.Y. For the past year, she has traveled nationally and internationally celebrating the release of her latest collection of music, “Have You Heard,” on Righteous Babe Records. She tours as a solo performer and with her band BIGLovely.
Tickets are required for the concert and are available at the David Saul Smith Union Information desk. Bowdoin students, faculty and staff can get tickets for free with a valid college ID; tickets for Bowdoin Friends are $10 and the general public may purchase tickets for $25. For more information or to purchase tickets, call (207) 725-3375.
On Monday morning, a children’s celebration will take place from 10:30 a.m. to noon Monday, in Daggett Lounge at Thorne Dining Hall. Aimed at children age 5 and older, storyteller Al Miller and songwriter Josephine Cameron will present a program of storytelling, music and crafts in remembrance of Martin Luther King Jr.
Refreshments will be served at the free event presented by the Bowdoin College Library, which also will have copies of selected titles by both presenters available for purchase.
Elsewhere in the Midcoast on MLK Day, the Brunswick Democrats will host a community pasta supper to support the Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program from 5-7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at Pilgrim House, located at 9 Cleaveland St.
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