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The 2007 King Holiday Festivities in San Francisco, California
FROM DESPAIR TO HOPE

Quotes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • "With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope."
  • "The time is always right to do what is right"
  • "Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral"
  • "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

January 13, 2007:
Location: Yerba Buena Gardens & Metreon
Time: 12:00 pm - 5:00pm
Activities include:

Pre-Program Book Reading
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Storytelling with Miranda Wilson,
Host of the Smooth Jazz Workday on 103.7 KKSF.
Gateway – 1st Floor Metreon

Program
All to take place in Action Theatre – 2nd Floor Metreon

  • 12:30 - 1:15pm
    Program in Metreon's Action Theatre including entertainment by S.R. Martin College Preparatory (SF) & Youth UpRising from Oakland 
  • 1:30 - 1:50pm
    Candlelight Vigil in Esplanade Garden -- Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Fountain/Waterfall in Yerba Buena Gardens
  • 2:00pm – 5pm
    Explore Yerba Buena Gardens & Metreon : Including MLK themed film screenings in Action Theatre, The California Academy of Sciences
  • 2:00pm - 2:30pm
    Film Screening in the Action Theatre: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm
    Film Screening in the Action Theatre: Our Friend Martin
  • 3:30 - 5:00pm
    Film Screening in the Action Theatre: TBD

MLK 2007 Community Service Group Project
"Bringing Hope To Your World" - "Being of Service to Others"
Full Details here

Waterfalls

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
at the Yerba Buena Gardens
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is situated behind a majestic waterfall fifty (50) feet high and twenty (20) feet wide which cascades over Sierra granite. The memorial includes back-lit photos from the civil rights movement and twelve shimmering glass panels set in granite and inscribed with Dr. King’s inspiring words. The poems are translated into the languages of San Francisco’s thirteen (13) international sister cities, as well as African and Arabic dialects.

The memorial is anchored at one end with a carved image of Dr. King and at the other with an image of San Francisco's community leaders during the 20th anniversary of the March in Golden Gate Park. The Memorial embraces Dr. King's vision of peace and international unity, and is the second largest Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in the United States next to the King Center in Atlanta, GA.

Artists: Sculptor Houston Conwill, Poet Estella Majoza and Architect Joseph De Pace. In the sculptures words: The Memorial is "a sacred space ... meant to be experienced as a cultural pilgrimage and a journey of transformation."

 

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