Tickets are now on sale for the public and campus community for the 35th annual MLK Ceremony on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m. in Tyler Hall’s Waterman Theatre. The event will feature a keynote on “From Myth To Man: A Martin Luther King Interpretation” by Ira Knight.
The event will include student readings and performances as well as additional remarks. Tickets are free, but are required for the ceremony and can be obtained at tickets.oswego.edu.
Knight is a playwright, producer, director, author and publisher with a commitment to maximizing his time, talents and skills. A veteran of the United States Marines Corps, Knight produces works to display and connect everybody’s common humanity, with the spirit and intent of making the world a better place than the one he entered.
In addition to being the author and publisher of five books and the playwright, director and producer of 10 staged plays, Knight created and taught a writing course, “Building Blocks Of The Writing Process,” at Duke University.
One of his most recent plays, “From Myth to Man: Martin Luther King, An Interpretation,” is a case study for the principles of this course and is currently touring universities and colleges throughout the United States.
The ceremony kicks off three days of related programs, including:
- A new MLK Celebration event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, in the Shineman Center’s Nucleus with student performances and an art exhibit hosted by Emmy-nominated poet Jillian Hanesworth.
- The returning Day Of Service on Saturday, Feb. 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Marano Campus Center food and activity court, as students and others in the campus community will have an opportunity to package meals for those in need as part of a partnership with Rise Against Hunger.
For more information about any of these events, or to request accommodations to attend, email student.engagement@oswego.edu.