Tickets for Angie Thomas Lecture at Walton Arts Center Are All Taken

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Tickets to the Angie Thomas lecture for this year’s One Book, One Community project have all been reserved – for the second time in two weeks.

Thomas will speak at the Walton Arts Center at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26. The lecture is free, but reserved tickets are required – and all available tickets have been reserved.

The lecture was orginially scheduled for the Faulkner Performing Arts Center at the University of Arkansas, but all the tickets were claimed within 48 hours.

The event was moved to the Walton Arts Center – nearly doubling the number of available seats – but all those tickets have also been reserved.

“We know there is a great deal of interest in this event, and we know that often with free reserved tickets there are a number of ‘no shows’ on the night of the event,” said Kevin Fitzpatrick, chaiman of the One Book, One Community committee. “The Walton Arts Center has been very helpful – not only in hosting this event at virtually the last minute – but also in agreeing to make a ‘stand by’ line available in case there are unclaimed tickets.”

All ticket holders have been informed that they need to arrive at least ten minutes before the lecture to guarantee their seats. After that time unclaimed tickets will be available to those on stand by on a first come, first served basis.

Angie Thomas is the author of The Hate U Give, this year’s One Book, One Community selection. The novel was made into a movie of the same name, that was released in October.

The film will be shown at the Faulkner Performing Arts Center at 6 p.m. Monday, March 25. Free tickets to the screening are still available and can be reserved at The Hate You Give Movie Ticket, or can be reserved in person at the Faulkner Center box office or by phone at 479-575-5387. The box office is open from 1:30-5 p.m. weekdays.

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