Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison - Overflow Seating
Venue: Burruss Auditorium, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
Event Types: Miscellaneous, Arts & Theatre, Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
Note: Due to the popularity of the event and the fact the event sold out in 28 hours, an overflow location has been established at the Graduate Life Center Auditorium where a live video stream of the evening’s program will be broadcast.

Toni Morrison, American novelist, editor and professor, will be celebrated by guests from such expansive fields as literature, music, government and more on Tuesday, October 16th in Burruss Auditorium.

Hosts for the evening are Maya Angelou, author and poet; Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Tech University Distinguished Professor, poet, writer, commentator, and activist; and JoAnne Gabbin, professor of English and executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University.

Some of Morrison’s best-known novels are “The Bluest Eye,” “Sula,” “Song of Solomon,” and “Beloved.” She won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1993 and the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988 for “Beloved,” which was adapted into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998. In 2006, a survey of writers and literary critics by The New York Times ranked “Beloved” as the best work of American fiction for the past 25 years.

The event is free but tickets are required and limited to 2 per person. Tickets will be available beginning September 10. For more information about tickets, visit http://www.studentcenters.vt.edu/tickets/events.php

Doors open at 6 pm. The celebration begins at 7 pm.

This event is presented by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech and sponsored by the Office of the President, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, and University Development at Virginia Tech.

For more information, visit: http://www.artscenter.vt.edu/2012-2013season/sheer_good_fortune/index.html

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