{"id":530,"date":"2017-01-11T03:03:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/art-news\/caam-hosts-martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebration\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T03:03:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T03:03:43","slug":"caam-hosts-martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/news\/art-news\/caam-hosts-martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"CAAM hosts Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by surrounding yourself with art, culture, and community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>By Megan Reed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday is a day for celebration, and more importantly, it is a day of service.&nbsp; The California African American Museum (CAAM) in Exposition Park combines both of those elements and also provides art and culture for the community. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">CAAM hosts an MLK Day celebration on Monday, Jan. 16, that starts at 10 a.m., goes until 5 p.m., and has an array of vibrant programs and activities for all ages.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">&ldquo;MLK Day is a time to commemorate the legacy and make Dr. King relevant today,&rdquo; said Tyree Boyd Pate, history curator and program manager at CAAM.&nbsp; &ldquo;We hope that the afternoon will allow members of our community to coalesce around the idea that King&rsquo;s dream hasn&rsquo;t been fulfilled, but it&rsquo;s actively being fulfilled every single day when we interact with one another.&rdquo;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On the patio, people will be able to enjoy music and food from award-winning food trucks.&nbsp; There will be arts and crafts for children, where they will be able to design buttons and posters using words, pictures, and quotes from Dr. King.&nbsp; They will be able to create crowns to celebrate Dr. King&rsquo;s legacy.&nbsp; And they will be able to create maps with words about how they can change the world. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">There will also be a marathon reading of Dr. King&rsquo;s speeches. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To honor Dr. King&rsquo;s legacy of service, a number of community service organizations throughout Los Angeles will be on hand to pass out information and answer questions about supporting their efforts of year-round local community service. &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For more information, contact CAAM at (213) 744-2024, visit their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caamuseum.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.caamuseum.org<\/a>, and follow them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CAAMinLA\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CAAMinLa\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day by surrounding yourself with art, culture, and community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[298,295,296,75,297],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-news","tag-art","tag-caam","tag-california-african-american-museum","tag-los-angeles","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastandardnewspaper.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}