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Overflow seating for 'Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison' now available

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BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 27, 2012 – Free tickets for seating in Burruss Hall Auditorium for “Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison” on Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. sold out in 28 hours. Due to high demand, overflow seating is now available in the Graduate Life Center Auditorium, where a live video stream of the evening’s program will be broadcast.

Presented by the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Morrison will be present as her friends, colleagues, and admirers gather on the Virginia Tech campus to celebrate the American icon’s accomplishments and contributions. A novelist, editor and professor, 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.

Admission to the overflow venue is free, but tickets are required and limited to two per person. Tickets are currently available at the Squires Student Center Ticket Office, online, and by phone at 540-231-5615. Tickets bought online and by phone include a service fee.

Through a comprehensive arts initiative, Virginia Tech has made a strong commitment to the arts on campus and in the surrounding communities. The cornerstone of the initiative is the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech. Opening in late 2013, the Center for the Arts will include a 1,260-seat, state-of-the-art performance hall for music, theatre, and dance performance and visual arts galleries for traditional, digital, and new media exhibitions. Center programs will bring national and international artists to campus and celebrate the region’s culture through performances, exhibitions, outreach, and learning opportunities. The center is uniquely partnered with the Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology, an applied research environment housed in the center wherein researchers from multiple disciplines partner to prepare students in kindergarten through 12th grade and higher education environments to succeed in a world that demands teamwork and collaboration, and to promote new research domains that transcend institutionalized boundaries.