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5-day MLK Jr.’s Chautauqua program to begin next week
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Posted on Apr 29 2008
The NMI Council for the Humanities is sponsoring a five-day Chautauqua program featuring noted storyteller Bill Grimmette, who will portray the late civil rights champion, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
According to the Council’s executive director, Paz C. Younis, Grimmette will perform at junior high and high school classrooms throughout the Commonwealth beginning on Monday, May 5.
He will also give evening performances on Saipan and Rota, which will be open to the general public.
Chautauqua is a living history program in which historic characters are brought to life by scholars who appear in costume and perform dramatic dialogs.
Younis noted that Grimmette’s performances are a part of the Council’s “We the People” grant program on civil rights funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities. They follow on the heels of the recently commemorated 40th anniversary of Dr. King’s assassination.
Grimmette is past president of the National Association of Black Storytellers and is a perennial performer with the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institution.
Interested individuals are invited to contact Council staff at 235-4785 for more information about this upcoming program. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]
