A Conversation with Alice Walker at the Morton Theatre

Thursday,
October 15th
The University of Georgia’s Willson Center presents:

A Conversation with Alice Walker
Time: 6:30pm
Admission: Free; Ticket required

Author Alice Walker is a native of Eatonton and a member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for her 1982 novel “The Color Purple,” which also earned a National Book Award. She has written six other novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books and volumes of essays and poetry. Her first collection of poetry, “Once,” was published in 1968, followed by her first novel, “The Third Life of Grange Copeland,” in 1970. Throughout her public life, she has been an international activist for civil and human rights and a forceful advocate for women and girls.

Alice Walker visits Athens and the University of Georgia as the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, presented by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts in partnership with the Institute for African American Studies. She will join Valerie Boyd, Associate Professor in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, for a public conversation in this Delta Chair community event. Dr. Boyd is currently editing Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: the Journals of Alice Walker.

Free tickets for “A Conversation with Alice Walker” will be available beginning at 10 a.m. Monday, September 28. The Morton Theatre box office is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. – 6 p.m.

Tickets will be limited to two per patron. All attendees must have a ticket, including small children. Please send any requests for group ticket blocks to davemarr@uga.edu by Wednesday, September 23. You will receive a response by Friday, September 25 to let you know if your request can be accommodated.

You are strongly encouraged to obtain tickets at the box office, but for those who cannot claim them in person, tickets may be reserved by phone at (706) 613-3771 during box office hours.

Tickets reserved by phone may be picked up during box office hours until the day of the event. Any reserved tickets left unclaimed at 6:10 the day of the event will be released to the public. Ticket-holders who arrive after the beginning of the event are not guaranteed a seat.

For more information on Walker’s visit, please see www.willson.uga.edu. To learn more about the Delta Chair for Global Understanding, please see www.deltachair.uga.edu.

The Morton Theatre, located at 195 West Washington Street, is a unit of the Arts & Nature Division of Athens-Clarke County Unified Government’s Leisure Services Department. The Division is supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts. The Morton is supported in part by the Morton Theatre Corporation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.