Unity Ball dinner, dancing to conclude MLK week festivities

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For one night, the Bovee University Center Rotunda will turn into a New York City neighborhood.

Friday evening’s 17th Annual Unity Ball offers students from all ethnic backgrounds a chance to have an enjoyable evening while paying tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said Shira Duncan, a Minority Student Services graduate assistant.

This year’s theme is “A Night in Harlem: Revisiting the Renaissance.”

“We have the Mosaic Youth Theater performing this year,” Duncan said. “They are an award-winning theater group from Detroit, made up of mostly high school students.”

The ball will feature dinner, dancing, a theater presentation and Hustle lessons, given by Mr. and Mrs. Smooth, Duncan said. In addition to the dinner, dancing and theater presentation, a live jazz band, Modern Tribe, will supply the music.

“Modern Tribe has played in previous years, and we have had many requests to bring them back to the Unity Ball again and again,” said Jeanette Smith, an MSS administrative secretary. “Our dance floor is always packed with people.”

The ball begins at 6 p.m. Friday in the UC Rotunda Room. Tickets are $10 for general admission, which include the dinner and dance. They can be purchased at the MSS office in the UC Room 121. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

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