Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration 2025
Mon Jan 20, 2025 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Q Casino & Resort, 1855 Greyhound Park Road, Dubuque, IA, 52001
Description
Join faces&voices for this annual celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Breakfast served at 7; program begins at 7:30
*Please note the new location at Q Casino & Resort*
Children are encouraged to attend! Activities related to the day's topics will be available for youth attendees age 10 and younger.
Tickets (A 3% credit card processing fee will be charged to all online ticket purchases.)
- Age 3 and younger: Free
- Age 4 - 10: $20
- Age 11 and older: $30
- Table of 10: $300
* On the day of the event, age 11 and older tickets will be $35; age 4 - 10 tickets will be $25; age 3 and younger will remain free
** When purchasing a table or multiple tickets, you will be asked for names of individual guests. You do not need to know each person who is attending at this time. Simply enter the name of the organization making the purchase in each individual field. The person making the purchase will receive digital tickets to distribute to each guest.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. John Stewart
John is a retired university administrator and communication professor. He served on the faculty of the Department of Communication at the University of Washington from 1969 to 2001 when he moved to the University of Dubuque as Vice President for Academic Affairs. John was Special Assistant to the President of UD from 2010 until his retirement in 2016.
During his academic career, John taught, researched, and worked with executive personnel at accounting, medical, manufacturing, architectural, engineering, and legal organizations and with pastors, political candidates, and boards of directors. After moving to Dubuque, he focused his training and consulting efforts on diversity-equity-inclusion (DEI) projects for a variety of for profit, nonprofit, educational, health care, and religious organizations.
John has written or edited 25 books, including 11 editions of Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication. In 2017 he published Personal Communicating and Racial Equity, 2nd. ed., and his most recent book is Dismantling Racism One On One: Uniqueness Narrative Equity
(2023). He lives in Dubuque with his wife, Becky. www.johnstewart.org
Location
Q Casino & Resort, 1855 Greyhound Park Road, Dubuque, IA, 52001