With only a little under three weeks to go until Community Reads author Sherman Alexie visits Bowling Green, the author’s free event on April 6 at 7 p.m. in the Bowling Green City Schools Performing Arts Center is “sold” out. A limited number waiting list has been started for the event.
Community Reads is asking that current ticket holders whose circumstances change and find they are no longer able to attend the April 6 talk by Alexie, call Wood County District Public Library’s Information Desk at 419-352-5050, or stop by the Bowling Green library , so that tickets which are no longer needed may be cancelled and made available to those on the waiting list.
As tickets become available, people on the waiting list will be contacted in the order in which they joined the list.
“The Community Reads planners knew Mr. Alexie would be a big draw, but have been astounded at how quickly tickets for his talk were grabbed up,” said library spokesperson Mary Callahan Boone. “We were hopeful we’d match the number of people who came to see Community Reads authors like Homer Hickam (Rocket Boys) and John Grogan (Marley and Me). Roughly 650 were in attendance for each of those programs. To have exceeded those numbers –the PAC accommodates 740 –is wonderful. As problems go, having a “sold” out event for Sherman Alexie is a great one to have.”
Boone said half the free tickets for the Alexie event were snapped up within days of their becoming available on Feb. 14.
Because the Hickam and Grogan talks were held in the gymnasium which is a larger and more flexible space, those were not ticketed events.
For more information, contact the library at 419-352-5104.
