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Honoring Dr. King
JCRC hosts IlluminArt presentation
focusing on tolerance and diversity.
(At 14 Mile Rd. in the Broadway Plaza)
IlluminArt student actors Karishma Kasad, Fatin Dubaybo, Hijab Ahmed and
Daniel Feenstra, all of West Bloomfield, Kirby Hairston of Franklin (at podi-
um) and Marci Welford of West Bloomfield
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hose who work at the Max M.
Fisher Federation Building in
Bloomfield Township enjoyed
a special presentation from the young
actors of IlluminArt Productions
Wednesday, Jan. 11, in commemora-
tion of Martin Luther King Jr:s birth-
day.
Bobbie Levine of }Mai B'rith Great
Lakes Region introduced IlluminArt
student actors from Lahser High
School, West Bloomfield High School,
Orchard Lake Middle School and
Wayne State University who per-
formed selected scenes from their
two main programs — "What Goes
Around" and "Peace Up!" — and then
engaged the audience in a discussion
about tolerance and diversity.
IlluminArt Productions, headed in
Detroit by Patty Ceresnie and in New
York by Arlene Sorkin, is a nonprofit
organization that enables individuals
to use theater to portray and develop
solutions for the complex challenges
that confront them. Students share
creations with audiences of their peers
and others to facilitate ongoing oppor-
tunities for dialogue and learning.
Robert Cohen of the Jewish
Community Relations Council, which
hosted the event, ended the program
with a quote from King: "Now is the
time to make real the promise of
democracy ... Now is the time to lift
our national policy from the quick-
sand of racial injustice to the solid
rock of human dignity." I I
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The audience was mostly made up of those who work at the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and other Jewish agencies.
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