Update: Altria Theater seating for Michelle Obama at The Richmond Forum has sold-out. Seating at $30 for simulcast tickets at the Carpenter Center at Dominion Energy Center is still available.
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Previous from Dec. 2:
Former first lady Michelle Obama is headed to Richmond in March as part of The Richmond Forum speaker series.
Obama’s appearance is kind of a bonus event for the Forum’s 2019-2020 season, whose five speakers were announced in April.
“A Conversation with Former First Lady Michelle Obama” was announced at the end of the Forum’s first 2019-20 event on Nov. 9, which featured sports commentator Bob Costas.
Tickets to the Obama event were first opened to Richmond Forum season subscribers through Dec. 1. A limited number of tickets will be available to the general public on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Prospective attendees must be signed up for The Richmond Forum’s email list to receive the purchase link. Sign up at richmondforum.org/email.
There are different levels available: $30 for seating in the simulcast room, which is in the Altria Theater ballroom with four big screens (not the actual theater). And $55 to $225 for seating in the theater, which accommodates 3,600. The $30 simulcast tickets will also be available for the Dominion Energy Center.
The Michelle Obama special event benefits speech and debate programs in public middle and high schools in the Richmond area.
Now in its 34th season, The Richmond Forum is a speaker series organized by a local nonprofit of the same name.
The rest of its 34th season features Dave Isay of StoryCorps, Catherine Burns of The Moth and Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York; Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of “Just Mercy”; Peggy Noonan, former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan and a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist; and Vijay Gupta, founder of Street Symphony.
Tickets to “A Conversation with Former First Lady Michelle Obama” are in addition to the sold-out 34th season. The event takes place March 24 at 7 p.m. at the Altria Theater at 6 N. Laurel St.
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I'm glad the usual rightwing nuts on this thread know a powerful woman like Michelle when they see one.
I suppose 30 or 60 conversations w/ Michelle pays many times the the income vs. telecasting nationally. Does the writer have an idea what the childrens take may be?
Breaking News …. Shifty Claus is holding impeachment hearings on Rudolph.
It seems that Comet overheard Vixen talking to Donner who spoke to Dasher and Prancer behind a Christmas tree that Cupid says the Blitzen said that Rudolph bribed a reindeer in Ukraine for his red nose.
The Committee said all of this can be affirmed by a secret whistle blower they suspect might be the Elf On The Shelf.
Mrs. Wiggins backed Shifty Claus up. Hallelujah, and period.
Karri Peifer ……. if you have a chance to ask the lovely lady a question …. ask her these question for us, the ones she meant had to sacrifice:
Remember when she said, "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation to provide the kind of future we all want desperately for our children."?
Well ….. ask her what conversation, and history was it she and Obama were we going to have to change, and more importantly, what traditions was it she, and her hubby, planned to change?
Tell her we hope she wasn't talking Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day, Veterans Dad, and Christmas. Hallelujah, and period.
Well, it wouldn't be April Fools Day, because then there's be no reason for you to exist, Peters.
RJuvenile … with each post, your self-imposed brilliance becomes a little less.
If not for your invading other people’s lives with your self-interest opinions, you wouldn't exist at all.
But …. you are a perfect fit for that dying party you belong too. Hallelujah, Checkmate, and Period.
"If not for your invading other people’s lives with your self-interest opinions, you wouldn't exist at all."
If you don't see the irony in your saying that, you're even dumber than previously thought.
RJuvenile …. dumb folks can't see dumb beyond their own ugly noses.
You do know you could qualify for some Govment program for being blind, don't you. Hallelujah, Checkmate, and period.
Pity the government doesn't have a program for being a maroon, Peters. You'd be at the head of the class. And you must have missed the election results in Virginia in 2017, Virginia and Kentucky and Louisiana in 2019 and the entire nation in 2018, Peters. The only party in peril of dying is the GOP.
I wouldn’t go to her speech if she was giving it on my front porch.
I'm sure she'll be heartbroken.
John … join other thinking Americans …. with RJuvenile not being one of them. Hallelujah, and period.
If there were a club called Thinking Americans, you would be blackballed, Peters.
RJuvenile … with each post, your self-imposed brilliance becomes a little less brilliant.
But …. you are a perfect fit for that dying party you belong too ….. They don't deserve you, but they got's you. Hallelujah, Checkmate, and Period.
Running for president of the Deplorables Club, Mark?
So glad I'm missing it!
So are decent people everywhere.
Dribble DB fish and chips will be drooling all over himself.
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