Project1VOICE Marks The MLK50th With #SIX01

This year marks a half-century since Dr. Martin Luther King's earthly journey ended and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was passed. To memorialize this occasion, The New School's Nth Degree Series and Project1VOICE present Words of Change-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the New School on April 4, 2018, at 6:01 p.m. in the Auditorium Room 106, 66 West 12th Street. Words of Change is a multidisciplinary event-featuring music, theater, dance, film, photography and visual art. This special staged reading event uses as its centerpiece excerpts from a recovered speech, The Summer of Our Discontent, delivered by Dr. King on February 6, 1964, at The New School. The hour-long speech, which details the reasons for civil activism in 1963, was part of a 15-part lecture series called American Race Crisis. The themes explored in Words of Change relate to modern-day events and memorialize Dr. King's message of hope and inspiration. Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at 6:01p.m. in Memphis, Tennessee.

Tickets are required for this free event and are available on Eventbrite: LINK HERE. The performance will be Livestreamed on Livestream.com/TheNewSchool and archived on The New School's YouTube Channel: YouTube.com/TheNewSchool.

The intersectionally diverse ensemble of Words of Change reflects the spirit of America and the world. The cast will include New School faculty, staff, alumni and students along with acting talents from stage, television and film. Among those scheduled to appear include: Camille A. Brown (NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live), Stephen McKinley Henderson (Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird), Norm Lewis (ABC's Scandal), Stanley Wayne Mathis (NBC's Rise), Ruben Santiago-Hudson (BET's The Quad), Tamara Tunie (NBC's Law and Order: SVU) and special guest the Honorable David Dinkins (former Mayor of New York City).

This event is part of Project1VOICE's global commemoration of Dr. King and his legacy called SIX:01. Each day during the week of April 2-8, 2018, Project1VOICE invites concerned citizens and artistic revolutionaries around the world to unite for sixty-one seconds of silence at 6:01 p.m. to consider ways we can all become more informed and engaged in our communities and the world. The goal of this call-to-action and community engagement event is to make 6:01 a.m. and p.m. daily reminders of Dr. King and the action we must all take to fulfill America's promise of a more just, equal and accepting world. The hashtag for all social media posts is #SIX01.

Additionally we invite the Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional, academic and local theater community to join us for SIX Words of Change. We ask that beginning April 2-8, 2018 producing organizations, schools, playwrights and musicians select a six word phrase from a currently running non-musical or a six lyric phrase from a currently running musical that engender hope and inspiration. Post the selected words or lyrics to social media using the show or organization's hashtag along with #SIX01. It is our hope to unify the artistic community in a collective stance for justice, equality and acceptance in honor of Dr. King and his legacy using creative expression and words of change.

For more information about Project1VOICE and SIX:01 visit: http://www.project1voice.org/.