Wartburg College students, faculty and staff will participate in 22 service projects during Martin Luther King Jr. Week activities Jan. 20-24.

During a “Day On” Monday, Jan. 21, to observe the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, members of the Wartburg community will travel to 19 off-campus sites to assist nonprofit agencies, while three projects will be on campus.

Students will clean barns for the ASPIRE therapeutic riding program; recruit walkers for the American Heart Association; help the Waterloo Hospitality House move to a new location; and volunteer at the Waverly Senior Center, Grout Museum, North Star Community Services, the Catholic Worker House, Waverly Health Center, Junior Achievement, Allen Hospital and Self-Help International.

The football team will work with Habitat for Humanity in Waterloo; the softball team will assist the Northeast Iowa Food Bank; the Wartburg Choir will sing and play games with residents at the Bartels Lutheran Retirement Home in Waverly; the Castle Singers jazz ensemble will help at the Waverly Child Care and Preschool, and Festeberg, an a cappella group, will volunteer at the Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center in Waterloo.

On-campus endeavors include a poverty simulation with role-playing, Red Cross disaster shelter training and making fleece blankets for the Bremwood Lutheran Children’s Home.

Other activities during the week include a showing of the documentary, “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes,” based on Riceville teacher Jane Elliott’s classes on racism using a hierarchy of eye colors.

The movie begins at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 20, in Whitehouse Business Center 214. A panel will discuss the documentary at 11:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in McCaskey Lyceum with panelists Dr. Jennifer McBride, assistant professor religion; the Rev. Abraham Funchess, director, Waterloo Commission on Human Rights; Dr. Ruth A. Chananie-Hill, University of Northern Iowa assistant professor of sociology; and Jim Day, Cedar Falls, community activist.

An MLK Diversity Dialogue, “Renewing the American Dream,” will be at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 22, in McCaskey Lyceum. The Dynamic Duo, “poetry’s greatest crime fighters,” will offer its take on racism, relationships and politics 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, in McCaskey Lyceum, while Wartburg student music and art talent will be showcased in “The Outlet,” 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan, 24, in McCaskey Lyceum.