metro A scene from Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, which marks its 50th anniversary this year I r• A day of community service at Temple Shir Shalom on Sunday, Jan. 20. T Major event marks anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech A group of community leaders and organizations have planned a major concert and awards cer- emony marking 2013 as the 50th anniver- sary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, at Detroit's Gem Theater. The celebration is being organized and coordinated by the Spilling the Honey Project, a philanthropic initiative of Building Relationships Inc., founded in 2012 by Shari Rogers of Franklin to advance public knowl- edge of the Holocaust and promote the preven- tion of genocide. In August 1963, King delivered his famous "I Have A Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to more than 200,000 supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to advocate for civil rights. King gave an earlier version of the speech in June 1963 in Detroit. The Jan. 22 celebration in Detroit will feature a speech by Dr. Clarence B. Jones, a scholar-in-residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Research & Education Institute at Stanford University in California, who col- laborated with Rev. King on many of his speeches, including the "I Have A Dream" speech. Jones will receive the Architects of Peace Award at the event in honor of his life- long commitment to social change. Other speakers will include Charles Asher Small, director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy and Koret Distinguished Scholar at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and entrepreneur and author Robert Levin, CEO and founder of Transclick Inc., who is the first biographer of President Bill Clinton. Brenda Rosenberg of Bloomfield Hills will speak about the American Jewish Committee's role in the Civil Rights movement. Three regional leaders who have worked to find common ground among different ethnic, racial and religious groups in Metropolitan Detroit — Arthur Horwitz, president of Renaissance Media and publisher of the Detroit Jewish News; Martin Manna, presi- dent of the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce and co-publisher of the Chaldean News; and Bankole Thompson, senior editor of the Michigan Chronicle — will be presented with the first Detroit Innovation & Renewal Awards. 12 January 17 • 2013 JN In addition, UAW vice president General Holiefield will receive the 2013 Citizen for Change Award. Broadway actress and singer Simone, daughter of the legendary Nina Arthur Simone, will perform, Horwitz as will Grammy award- winner Miri Ben-Ari, a classically trained violin- ist who has created her own pioneering sound and recorded with a wide variety of artists including Kanye West, Jay Z, Wyclef Jean, Alicia Keys and Martin Manna Wynton Marsalis. Other performers include KidzBop lead sing- ri er Elijah J, who performed in Disney's Lion King, Detroit pop/rock group See Jane Rock; and poet/actor/ playwright activist Jessica Bankole Care Moore. Thompson The host committee chairs are U.S. Rep. Gary and Colleen Peters. Dennis Archer Jr. is chair; Daniel and Amie Stern are the co-chairs. Shari Kaufman is the chair for a related event earlier in the day at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus for 300 stu- dents from Detroit and Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills. Community partners include Defeat the Label, a local anti-bullying campaign; the Holocaust Memorial Center; Wayne State University's Damon Keith Center for Civil Rights; and NAACP Detroit Branch. Proceeds from the inaugural Voices of the Dream Concert and Awards Ceremony will be donated to the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute and Defeat the Label. Tickets are $50. VIP tickets, which include a pre-reception at 6:30 p.m., are $125 and can be purchased online at 2013voicesofthedream.eventbrite.com. ❑ See related stories on pages 25 and 36. ikkun Olam" are the Hebrew words that mean "repair the world:' The Tikkun Olam-a-thon is a day of community service when more than 200 Temple Shir Shalom members (children and adults) and friends come together to help repair the world while celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It is an opportunity for parents and children to work together on a variety of community service projects. The event begins at 9:15 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, with a light break- fast and a brief service to celebrate Dr. King's vision and teach about the importance of unity, diversity and the worth of every person. Following this service, volunteers go to their sites to engage in a variety of community ser- vice projects to help make the world a better place. Volunteering on this day will take place at off-campus partner organiza- tions and in stations set up around the social hall at Temple Shir Shalom. Volunteers who want to stay on the Temple Shir Shalom campus can assist caterer Zack Sklar of Cutting Edge Cuisine in preparing a meal in the temple kitchen for the residents of Ronald McDonald House. More vol- unteers are needed to make small care packages for the house's residents. Other projects include putting together study kits of school supplies for needy children at the Baldwin Center in Pontiac, as well as helping the National Council of Jewish Women tie no-sew fleece blankets for children in need and making cards for Meals on Wheels recipients. Volunteers are also needed to decorate small dishes for seniors at Fleischman Residence to keep on their dressers for change, keys, jewelry, etc.; to make kitty forts out of cardboard boxes and fabric that will be donated to local animal shelters; to create labels for seed packets that will be distrib- uted to Detroit residents in the spring to plant in the 1,300 community gar- dens the Greening of Detroit supports throughout the city; and to make cards for U.S. soldiers or draw pictures to help decorate the children's area of Henry Ford Hospital. Volunteers who want to perform community service off campus can choose from the following: Yad Ezra Kosher Food Bank 10:30 a.m.-noon: Volunteers will work in the food warehouse (2850 11 Mile Road in Berkley) to sort and organize food. Children must be age 6 or older. Detroit Rescue Mission Oasis Soup Kitchen 10:45 a.m.-1 p.m.: Volunteers will assist the kitchen staff in preparing, serving and cleaning up from lunch. 13220 Woodward Ave. in Highland Park. Children must be age 12 or older. Fleischman Residence Nursing Home 10:45 a.m.-noon: Volunteers will play Bingo with residents. Additionally, one volunteer will be needed to select and call the Bingo numbers while another volunteer helps check winning cards and hands out prizes. 6710 W. Maple Road in West Bloomfield. Ronald McDonald House 5:15 p. m. -7p. m.: Volunteers will be taking the food prepared earlier in the day at temple (by other volun- teers) down to the Ronald McDonald House in Detroit. Volunteers will bring the food with them, warm, set out and serve the food, then put away leftovers for residents to snack on later. Volunteers will also clean the serving and kitchen area before leav- ing. 3911 Beaubien in Detroit. Detroit Bus Tour 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.: Led by Ben Falik, Repair the World manager of Detroit service initiatives and Summer in the City co-founder, who will show fasci- nating sites in the city of Detroit while talking about the social action and community service projects that are currently under way there. Attendees will meet at the temple. ❑ Temple Shir Shalom is located at 3999 Walnut Lake Road in West Bloomfield. For more information, email info@ shirshalom.org, or call (248) 737-8700.