Update – Oct. 31st 2014
– Doors will be open at 6:30 PM. To ensure a fast and orderly check in, please have your paper tickets ready or your tickets presented on your smartphone. ASSU staff and executives will be available to direct and assist you. Please have T-Cards/Faculty IDs ready if you are a U of T student/staff or faculty member with a U of T ticket. Those who have tickets but do not intend to go please release them.
– Please be at the venue by 6:55 PM. At this point, we will not be checking tickets anymore (those who are in line by 6:55 will have tickets checked) and whatever seats are not filled will be up for grabs and available to those in the line for rush tickets. The event starts at 7 PM sharp.
– For those who don’t have tickets, and do not receive a waitlist ticket by Sunday, there will be a line for rush tickets. We cannot however guarantee admission if you choose to wait in this line.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer and essayist for The Atlantic magazine will be coming to the University of Toronto to speak about the issue of reparations to African-Americans in the United States, based on the highly acclaimed article he wrote for the magazine in the summer. This event will be from 7:00-9:00 PM at Isabel Bader Theatre and will feature a Q&A after the talk moderated by Peter Loewen, Director of the Centre for the Study of the United States and the American Studies Undergraduate Program, at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.
This event is organized by the Arts and Science Students’ Union, the Centre for Study of the United States, the Faculty of Arts and Science, the University of Toronto Students’ Union and the History Department at U of T.
To reserve tickets please visit this link: http://eventbrite.ca/e/the-case-for-reparations-ta-nehisi-coates-at-u-of-t-tickets-13500080103.
Limit (1) per person. For more information/press release (please see: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/csus/event/17103/).
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