MLK Day 2015 Celebration Program

The Piedmont Appreciating Diversity Committee (PADC) will host the city’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration, free and open to the public, at the Piedmont Community Center from 1:00 to 4:00 pm on Monday, January 19.  The theme of this year’s celebration is Fairness for All, with a focus on recent events in Ferguson and elsewhere in the United States. 

This year’s event will feature performances by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir’s Ecco Choir, Oakland School for the Art's One Voice Choir, and the Oaktown Jazz Workshop.  The celebration will also include spoken word performances by students from Piedmont and Millennium High Schools and Piedmont Middle School.  Speakers representing state government, the Mayor’s office, and the Piedmont Police Department will discuss Dr. King and his legacy. Snacks and beverages will be for sale. See program below for a full schedule.

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration is sponsored by PADC and the City of Piedmont with support from the Piedmont Asian American Club. 

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• 12:45 Doors Open
  
• 1:00 Welcome Remarks, Margaret Huang and Yuriko Tada PADC Co-Presidents
• 1:05 Comments by Honorable Barbara Lee, Congresswoman, 13th District of California
• 1:20 Oaktown Jazz Workshop, Executive Director, Ravi Abcarian

• 1:45 Comments by Honorable Margaret Fujioka, Mayor of Piedmont 

• 2:00 Community Service Initiatives at Piedmont High School 

• 2:15 Oakland School for the Arts: One Voice Choir, Led by Solas Burke-Lalgee

• 2:45 Intermission
• 3:00 Comments by Piedmont Police Chief Rikki Goede  
• 3:15 Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir: Ecco Choir, Led by Clifton Massey 

• 3:45 Closing Song: We Shall Overcome (Ecco Choir and Everyone)

Spoken word performances by PMS, PHS and MHS students will be interspersed throughout the program.