Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

The 31st annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will take place on Sunday in the Carrier Dome. Syracuse University’s event is the largest university-sponsored celebration of King’s life in the country.

Marc Lamont Hill will be the keynote speaker. He serves as a host of HuffPost Live and BET News and has won numerous awards for his journalism. On Saturday, there will be a slew of recreational activities and educational workshops at SU and in the city.

Tickets are available at the Schine Box Office for $30, or $15 for students. They can also be purchased through a meal plan swipe at campus dining halls.

 

Bid Day

On Sunday, hundreds of new sorority pledges will run through the snow and cold to their prospective houses for Bid Day, the last day of the spring recruitment process. The day will represent the culmination of two weekends of house tours, countless conversations and high-energy chants.

For the last two years, Bid Day has fallen on a Monday, but extending the two recruitment weekends to include Friday afternoon changed the schedule. Students participating in recruitment have the chance to receive a bid from one of the 12 Panhellenic sororities.

 

State of the City

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner’s seventh State of the City address will take place on Thursday. She will speak at the Southwest Community Center, where Miner and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) recently held a gun violence roundtable. At the 2015 address, Miner discussed the tumultuous public education system and the growth of downtown Syracuse. Her address will start at 7 p.m.

 

“Mass and Obstruction” opening weekend

A new exhibit at Light Work will be open for its first weekend after a grand opening Wednesday night. Artist Mary Mattingly will be displaying photography that focuses on climate change and the effort to endure ecological decline, according to the Light Work website.

Mattingly is simultaneously showing an exhibit called “Human and Object” at the Everson Museum of Art. It is part of the Urban Video Project and can be seen from dusk to 11 p.m.

Published on January 27, 2016 at 8:59 pm

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