Martin Luther King Celebration and Instrument of Peace
Overview
Students from six Stockton Unified School District schools will present art, dance, and music to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. The event features the Instrument of Hope, a fully playable trumpet created from hundreds of spent bullet casings, and provided by Shine MSD, a nonprofit founded by survivors of the Margery Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, FL.
The Instrument of Hope transforms instruments of violence into an instrument of artistic expression, dialogue, and healing. Choir students will perform 'Shine,' a work commissioned specifically for The Instrument of Hope.
Stockton Symphony Conductor Peter Jaffe will ceremoniously pass the trumpet to a student musician from Cesar Chavez High School to symbolize the responsibility and hope carried forward by the next generation. The event is coordinated by Stockton Poet Laureate Emerita Tama Brisbane.
