All ages - General Admission - Doors open at 6pm - Show starts at 6:30 - Fully seated listening room style performance
A FREE ticket is required for entry.
Building Bridges with Music sponsors Traverse City’s Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Monday, January 19, 2026, featuring a FREE performance at The Alluvion by Jessica Care Moore, multiple award winning poet, activist, and Michigan’s Poet Laureate.
With traditions that echo Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring message of Love over Fear. This principle closely aligns with Building Bridges with Music’s mission to bring people together across differences through shared creative experiences.
This year’s poetry theme highlights Building Bridges with Music’s recent program development that includes free poetry workshops for Northern Michigan students.
JESSICA CARE MOORE
Jessica Care Moore is one of the leading voices of her generation. An award-winning poet, recording artist, book publisher, activist, cultural arts curator, and filmmaker. She is the Executive Producer and Founder of the 20-year-old rock & roll concert and empowerment weekend, Daughters of Betty - Powered by Black WOMEN Rock!, and the founder of The Moore Art House dedicated to elevating literacy through the arts in neighborhoods and schools.
The founder of Moore Black Press, she published poets Saul Williams, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, asha bandele, Danny Simmons and more. Her publishing house secured an imprint deal with HarperCollins in 2024 and released NYC poet Brad Walrond's extraordinary collection "Every Where Alien. She has mentored youth all over the country, and has lent her voice and time inside juvenile detention centers, prisons, universities and art institutions around the country her entire career.
The FREE ticketed evening program will feature Jessica Care Moore, multi award-winning poet, activist, and Michigan’s Poet Laureate. Rooted in the deep history of African American spoken word traditions, Moore’s work carries forward an oral legacy that invites listeners to reflect on the past, remain active in the present, and practice intention about the future.
Through language shaped by rhythm, story, and lived experience, Moore offers a powerful closing to a day centered on shared humanity, collective voice, and community connection to commemorate Dr. King’s lifework.
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