3 Days Celebration for Martin Luther King

3 Days Celebration for Martin Luther King reflecting and honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Now in its 17th year, Westport’s celebration has been extended to three days that will culminate in a keynote address by author, creative artist, filmmaker, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist Junauda Petrus.

Petrus’ work centers around Black wildness, laughter, futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle, and shimmer. Her debut novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, received the 2020 Coretta Scott King Book Award, and she is currently writing a screenplay adaptation of the book. Copies of Petrus book will be available for purchase on-site, with Petrus signing copies after her address.

Sunday’s program will also include a dance performance by students from Regional Center for the Arts, a part-time, public inter-district magnet high school for Fairfield County students interested in the performing arts. RCA promotes voluntary integration by encouraging collaboration and cooperation among socioeconomic and ethnically diverse school districts.