SUNDAY
January 16

PLEASE NOTE: Due to current Covid challenges, all 2022 events were held online — Together, “virtually” gathering to bring the Joy!

2022 DKCW - Recorded Events Playlist

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Sunday afternoon at caffe lena (full playlist)

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM

COMMUNITY PEACE MEDITATION

Connecting over zoom, Rev. Kathy Johnson begins each morning session by lighting a candle, reading from Dr. King, and then guiding participants through a 5-minute meditation, followed with a brief, gentle body movement, and closing with a song about peace. (Please note that only Rev. Kathy will be visible onscreen.) Rev. Kathy’s bio and info about her Monday workshop session, “Creating Peace in a Spiritual Way: Putting Research into Practice,” available HERE.

UPDATE:
Reverend Kathy is continuing the daily PEACE meditations from 9:00 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. Join when you can — ALL are welcome. Use link below.

ENTER ZOOM MEDITATION ROOM HERE (Meeting ID = 912 1266 2022; PW 011140)

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

HISTORICAL THEATER
[live-streamed from Caffe Lena]

“O, Jerusalem”

Presented by The Labor of Love Connection
Donald Hyman with Sister Amelia Paul and Kim Wafer

After "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama March of 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. sent out a call to clergy to rally to help him. Reverend James Reeb, a Boston Unitarian Universalist minister traveled to Selma to answer Martin Luther King’s call for clergy to support the nonviolent protest movement for voting rights there.

Rev. Reeb became nationally known as a martyr to the civil rights cause when he died on 11 March 1965, in Selma, Alabama, after he and two other ministers were attacked by a group of white supremacists, after leaving from a black restaurant where they had dinner. He was 38 and left behind a wife and four children.

On March 15, 1965, Dr. King delivered the eulogy at Reverend Reeb’s memorial in Selma, Alabama. His speech, "A Witness to the Truth," was not published until 2001.

Donald Hyman is Brooklynite who now calls Albany home. He has a BS from the St. Francis College, an MA in Urban Studies, and MS in Secondary Education from Long Island University. He is currently Vice-Chairman for CHANNEL ALBANY and has produced "ALBANY TEMPO SPECTRUM" for 8 seasons and "Capitol Region Portraits" for Proctors Open Stage Media. He currently works at Montessori Magnet School in Albany. He was professor in the American Studies Department at the College of St. Rose for 6 years. Hyman has performed in venues throughout the capital region, including MLK Saratoga’s annual Dr. King Celebration Weekend, Proctors, The Palace, The Eden Café’s Juneteenth, Schuyler Mansion, SLOC, Albany Civic Theater, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Siena College’s Opalka Gallery. He has acted with Black Theater Troupe of Upstate NY, Soul Rebel Performance Troupe, Ira Aldridge Theater Ensemble, Essence of Acting and First Israel Male Choir. Hyman has performed in “FENCES," “LESSON BEFORE DYING,” “CAMP LOGAN,” “THE EXONERATED,” “OF MICE AND MEN,” “THE FULL MONTY,” and can be seen in the History Channel series,"THE REVOLUTION."

*Donald Hyman, Sister Amelia Paul, and Kim Wafer*

Recording of Session @ Caffe Lena here

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

CONVERSATION & READING
[live-streamed from Caffe Lena]

A Conversation with Jean-Remy Monnay, Founder & Artistic director of BTTUNY

Join us for this wonderful hour as Remy shares the journey of the Black Theatre Troupe of Upstate NY against the backdrop of the Capital Region Arts landscape and how creating space and place for stories for, with, and about People of Color can change and heal us all!

In closing, Remy will share his reading of Langston Hughes' powerful "Let America Be America Again" ... a call to renewed dreaming and our collective ability to "make America"!

Hope you can be with us!

Jean-Remy Monnay (Remy) was born in Haiti and raised in a small town called, Ville Bonheur also known as Saut-D'eau. Remy, as a little boy, was very active in theatre, doing Shakespeare and reading poetry on stage in his native tongue, French. In 1982 at the age of 18, he moved to New York, where he found the English language barrier difficult as a stage performer. He joined a Haitian Theater Troupe and performed in French and Creole, traveling to Montreal and other French and Creole speaking communities.

In 1997, he decided to move from Brooklyn to the Capital Region. He took a break from theatre for about two years, but in early 1999 he decided not to let language or anything else get in his way of becoming an English speaking stage actor. He enrolled in Schenectady Community College to study performing arts in English.

In late 1999, Remy auditioned for the Hubbard Hall Theatre Company in Cambridge, NY, where he met Kevin McGuire, the resident Artistic Director. Kevin offered Remy a part in his first major production at the theatre, “Saint Joan."

From February of 2000 to the present time, Jean-Remy has appeared in over 100 plays, films, commercials and a documentary for the History Channel. He has directed Fences, The Exonerated, Slow Dance On The Killing Ground, Meridian Mississippi, Intimate Apparel, Wedding Band, A Lesson Before Dying, Camp Logan, Reunion In Bartersville, Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist, Medal Of Honor Rag, Eclipsed etc…

Recording of Session @ Caffe Lena here

“Music is the best consolation for a despaired man.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION #3
[live-streamed from Caffe Lena]

Hour of Love

Pre-recorded interviews of local organizations doing great things right here at home — with LIVE interlude music by classical guitarist Julio Rodriguez! Selections to include “Romance Antiguo,” “Recuerdos de la Alhambra,” “Flamenco Rumba,” and “Malaguena,” among others.