MLK TRIBUTES KICKING OFF EVENTS TODAY, MONDAY TO HONOR SLAIN LEADER.Byline: Daily News LANCASTER Lancaster, city, England Lancaster (lăng`kəstər), city (1991 pop. 43,902) and district, county seat of Lancashire, NW England, on the Lune River. - Civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored hon·or n. 1. High respect, as that shown for special merit; esteem: the honor shown to a Nobel laureate. 2. a. Good name; reputation. b. with a number of events in Palmdale and Lancaster. Lancaster's 17th annual King celebration is 4 p.m. today at the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , 750 W. Lancaster Blvd. Admission is free. The event will feature civil rights writer, activist and filmmaker Constance Curry, local gospel music group LNE LNE Laboratoire National d’Essais (Paris, France) LNE Lincoln Northeast High School (Lincoln, Nebraska) LNE Late Net Entry LNE Local Notes Extractor (C.P. Bourg, Inc. and opera singer James Sterrett-Bryant. Also featured will be readings by elementary, middle and high school students of the winning entries in the annual essay contest on King's life and philosophy. In Palmdale, the Los Angeles-based Lula Washington Youth Dance Ensemble A group of dancers preforming under a common name: the dance equivalent of a band. Examples would be Riverdance and Shuvani. will perform a Martin Luther King Jr. Day program at 5 p.m. Monday at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th St. E. Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets can be picked up beginning at 3 p.m. Monday at the Playhouse. Youth Dance Ensemble members are students of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre, which was founded in 1980 and has become one of the largest African-American dance companies in the western U.S. Twenty dancers aged 10 to 17 will be performing a program of gospel, African and modern dance at the Palmdale event. African-drum players will provide live music. The show features the world premiere Noun 1. world premiere - (music) the first public performance (as of a dramatic or musical work) anywhere in the world performance, public presentation - a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 of a dance set to one of King's speeches as well as a work by Lula Washington titled ``Free,'' a tribute to the civil rights movement. |
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