Gr8LakesCamper: Weekly events at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

Monday, January 10, 2011

Weekly events at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

30 Days To Lose It! workout (recurring weekly - $)
Tuesday 1/11 @ 7:30 pm in the Multi-Purpose Room
Featuring FluidMotion stretching exercises by Ariss Seals at 7:30. Free for members, $5 for non-members. Purchase 8 sessions and receive a complimentary museum membership, making your next 12 months FREE! Whether you want to lose weight, get fit, compete, or just stay in shape, come dressed to sweat (with an exercise mat or beach towel) and join this safe, fun fitness program for women. For more information please call (313) 494-5817 or email 30days@chwmuseum.org.

Hustle for History
Sunday 1/16 @ 5 pm in the Ford Freedom Rotunda
Get your groove on with our weekly hustle lessons, taught by instructors "Two Left Feet" and "Shorti Smoove." Free for Members, $7 for non-members. Purchase 5 lessons and receive a complimentary museum membership, making your next 12 months of hustle lessons FREE! For more information, please call (313) 494-5800.

MLK Day Commemorative Breakfast Celebration ($)
Monday 1/17 @ 8 am in the Ford Freedom Rotunda
Join us as we celebrate the 25th National Holiday Observance of Martin Luther King Day, with the theme, Remembering the legacy of Dr. King and Detroit's historic 1963 Walk to Freedom. Doors open at 7 am; valet parking is available and seating is on a first come, first served basis. Breakfast is from 8 - 9 am in the Ford Freedom Rotunda followed by speakers & performers at 9 am in the GM Theater. Keynote Speaker: Rev. Dr. Byron C. Moore, Historic Ebenezer A.M.E. Church of Detroit. Performances by Armond with Chris Jones, and the Plymouth Revelation Dancers. Tickets are $35 and are available at the museum and by clicking here.

25th National Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Monday 1/17 from 9 am - 7 pm
Welcome to the 25th National Martin Luther King, Jr. Day — join us for an exciting day of celebration, service, activities, screenings, workshops & performances! The day's schedule includes:

11 am & 3 pm: Free To Be Me children's workshops
12 pm: Film screening of The Long Walk Home starring Whoopi Goldberg
1 & 5 pm: Theatrical production of The Meeting based on a fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, performed by the Rochester College Theater Department
2 pm: Martin Luther King, Our Hero children's storytelling
3 pm: Songs of Freedom concert

ALL DAY: meet characters of the Civil Rights Movement
NEW EXHIBIT: the opening of Gale Fulton Ross's Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise: An Artist's Journey

ATTENTION HUNGRY MEMBERS: Show your museum membership card and get 20% off dine-in meals and carryout orders (mention this offer when ordering over the phone), and 15% off all box lunch orders, from Union Street, located at 4145 Woodward Avenue in Detroit's midtown. Please call (313) 831-3965 or visit www.unionstreetdetroit.com for more information. It's just another great reason to be a member!

1 comment:

Buffalo Soldier 9 said...: Keep telling that history:

Now you can read the greatest fictionalized 'historical novel', Rescue at Pine Ridge, the first generation of Buffalo Soldiers. The website is; http://www.rescueatpineridge.com This is the greatest story of Black Military History...5 stars Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Youtube commercials are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD66NUKmZPs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVslyHmDy9A&feature=related

Rescue at Pine Ridge is the story of the rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers. The 7th Cavalry got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn't for the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. This story is about, brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism and gallantry.

I know you’ll enjoy the novel. I wrote the story that embodied the Native Americans, Outlaws and African-American/Black soldiers, from the south to the north, in the days of the Native American Wars with the approaching United States of America.

The novel was taken from my mini-series movie with the same title, “RaPR” to keep the story alive. Hollywood has had a lot of strikes and doesn’t like telling our stories…its been “his-story” of history all along…until now. The movie so far has attached, Bill Duke directing, Hill Harper, Glynn Turman, James Whitmore Jr. and a host of other major actors in which we are in talks with.

When you get a chance, also please visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at; http://www.alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for the US Postal System in Montana, in the 1890's, “spread the word”.

Peace.; January 14, 2011 at 3:12 AM

Hannah's Christmas Carol

"Hannah's Christmas Carol" is an ebook I wrote that tells the story of 10-year-old Hannah who, at the prodding of the school bully, is forced to say she doesn’t believe in Santa Claus. Hannah regrets saying it, but deep down she is also wondering whether obnoxious Amanda Crumple is right and Santa is “just a big fat lie.” To help her sort through her emotions, two elves from the Elvish Intervention & Indoctrination Order (E.I.E.I.O.) come alive from her family’s Christmas Village display. Like "A Christmas Carol," which Hannah’s class just so happens to be performing at her school’s Winter Pageant, the two take her on a magical journey through Christmases Past, Present and Future. Will Hannah come to believe in Santa? Poignant, funny and delightfully descriptive, "Hannah’s Christmas Carol" is a holiday treat for anyone who believes in Santa. Click on the cover image for purchase information (just $2.99) for your Kindle, Nook or computer.

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