MLK Chautauqua performance tonight

Posted on May 08 2008

The NMI Council for the Humanities invites the public to attend “An Evening with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” this evening at the Fiesta Hall, Hafadai Hotel at 6pm.

The program will feature a Chautauqua performance by Bill Grimmette, who will portray the late civil rights leader.

Chautauqua is a popular living history program in which historical figures are brought to life by scholars who speak the character’s own words and recount stories from their life and times.

Grimmette is a veteran Chautauqua performer and past president of the National Association of Black Story Tellers. He is a perennial performer with the Kennedy Center and at the Smithsonian Institution.

He has performed as Dr. King at a wide variety of venues in the United States for the past nine years.

At the conclusion of his monologue, Grimmette will field questions from the audience, both “in character” as Dr. King and as a Chautauqua scholar.

The event is open to the public and free of charge. [B][I](PR)[/I][/B]

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