New Haven Museum MLK celebration to include storytelling, more

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NEW HAVEN –The New Haven Museum will hold storytelling and other activities as part of the Yale Peabody Museum’s 21st Annual “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Environmental and Social Justice,” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 16, according to a release.

 Located at , The New Haven Museum is at 114 Whitney Ave. (as the release noted:  steps away from the Peabody Museum, at 170 Whitney Ave.)

 Admission is free.

 

"Groups featured at the New Haven Museum this year include The Amistad Committee, Discovering Amistad, and Girl Scouts of Central Connecticut, which will also host an activity demonstrating how waste can be recycled and reused to build new homes. The New Haven Story Project will be collecting oral histories from New Haven residents," the release said.

 

The storytelling sessions by two professional storytellers are:
 

11:30 p.m.: Joy W. Donaldson - “Martin Luther King: In Word and Song”
 

1:00 p.m.: Waltrina Kirkland Mullins - "We've Come a Long Way! - Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. King"
 

"Visitors can also enjoy the New Haven Museum’s permanent exhibit, 'Cinque Lives Here: The Amistad Story,' which features the most significant collection of material from the Amistad incident (1839-1841)."
 

 

 

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