LEWISTON – A multicultural festival on Saturday featuring food, dance and drama kicks off two weeks of diversity programs sponsored by the Many and One Coalition.

The programs are designed to commemorate the group’s Jan. 11, 2003, diversity rally, and to mark Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is Jan. 17.

The schedule includes:

• Multicultural festival, 5 to 10 p.m. Jan. 15, Multi-Purpose Center, 145 Birch St., Lewiston

• Interfaith devotional, 10 a.m. Jan. 16, 450 College St.

• Martin Luther King Jr. chapel service, 7 p.m. Jan. 16, Bates College Chapel, Lewiston

• Students from Morehouse, Spelman and Bates colleges debate the resolution “College Employees Should Unionize,” 9 a.m. Jan. 17, Bates College Chase Hall lounge, 56 Campus Ave.

• The Rev. John Mendez, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, N.C., 10:45 a.m. Jan. 17, keynote address, Bates College Chapel, Lewiston

• The Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17, Bates College’s Olin Arts Center concert hall, 75 Russell St.

• “Invisible,” a one-hour video about being native American in Maine, 5 p.m. Jan. 18, Trinity Episcopal Church, 247 Bates St., Lewiston

• “At the River I Stand,” a video about the civil rights movement, 7 p.m. Jan. 19, IBEW Union Hall, 238 Goddard Road, Lewiston

• “No Room in My Heart for Prejudice,” meditation, prayer and music interfaith devotional, 7 p.m. Jan. 20, 9 Amberly Way, Auburn

• “People Power and Justice,” an introduction to community organizing, 1 to 4 p.m. Jan. 22, Calvary United Methodist Church, 59 Sabattus St., Lewiston

• Guest speaker Howard Soloman, 5:30 p.m. Jan. 22, Unitarian Universalist Church, 169 Pleasant St., Auburn

• “Legal Protections for Immigrants” workshop, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 23, B Street Community Center, 57 Birch St., Lewiston

• The immigrant farming movement, presentation and discussion, 1:15 p.m. Jan. 23, B Street Community Center, 57 Birch St., Lewiston

• “Sanctus/Kedusha,” a discussion about the idea of holiness in the Jewish, Catholic, Protestant and Bahai traditions, 2 p.m. Jan. 23, Saints Peter and Paul Basilica, corner of Ash and Bartlett streets, Lewiston.

• “Invisible,” a one-hour video about being native American in Maine, 5 p.m. Jan. 25, in Auburn, location to be announced

• “Equality of Women and Men,” a Bahai interfaith devotional, 7 p.m. Jan. 27, 9 Amberly Way, Auburn