BABEL: Aminatta Forna
Join Just Buffalo Literary Center for an evening with award-winning author Aminatta Forna.
Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author of the four novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love, and Ancestor Stones, and the critically acclaimed memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her fiction has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award and the PEN Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and has been short-listed for the Neustadt Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the IMPAC Award, the Warwick Prize, and nominated for the European Prize for Fiction. Her memoir was serialized on BBC Radio and in The Sunday Times newspaper. Forna is currently a Lannan Visiting Chair at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Featured Book: The Window Seat
Aminatta Forna’s most recent book, The Window Seat, is a stunning new collection of essays crossing both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves. In this wide-ranging collection, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. The Window Seat is, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta, “a journey . . . These essay are altogether a sharp, elegant meditation . . . on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”
Get Tickets
Season Subscriptions are on sale through October 14, 2021.
Season Subscription tickets are good for all four of the BABEL events at Kleinhans for the 2021–2022 season. VIP Patron Subscriptions & Tickets include preferred seating and access to a catered pre-event reception at Kleinhans, attended by the featured author. After each VIP Patron reception, all subscription and ticket holders enjoy an author lecture and an interview-style Q&A moderated by Artistic Director Barbara Cole, and may have their books signed by the author. Season Subscription holders will also have access to simulcast videos of all four BABEL events, allowing flexibility for ticket holders unable to attend in person for any reason.
- VIP Patron Season Subscriptions: $290 (limit 4) | Save $15 each when purchasing 2 or more (limit 4)
- General Admission Season Subscriptions: $120 (limit 4) | Save $7.50 each when purchasing 2 or more (limit 4)
- Student Season Subscriptions: $36 (limit 1 with valid “.edu” email address)
Individual tickets for each event will go on sale October 1 at 8:00 a.m.
- General Admission Tickets: $40 each | Save $5 with library card discount
- Patron Tickets: $100 each
- Student Tickets: $10 each (with valid “.edu” email address)
Tickets for AMINATTA FORNA (and BABEL season subscriptions) will be available at Kleinhans Music Hall when the doors open at 7:00 p.m. on OCTOBER 14, 2021 (proof of vaccination and masks required).
COVID Safety Protocols
In order to protect the health, safety and enjoyment of all, we are implementing the following COVID safety protocols:
- Proof of COVID-19 vaccination (Excelsior pass or vaccination card) is required for admittance.
- A masking policy will be in effect for all staff, volunteers, and attendees at Kleinhans Music Hall.
- A simulcast recording of the event will be provided to all ticket holders to watch from home, if unable to attend in-person for any reason; the link will be sent in advance to the email address used when purchasing tickets.
- These policies are subject to revision as health and safety guidelines change, including a pivot to virtual-only. You will receive emails prior to each BABEL event to confirm our most up-to-date policies.
- Please note that we are unable to provide refunds for tickets; if unable to attend in-person for any reason, ticket holders have the ability to access the event via simulcast recording.
- Our COVID-19 vaccination and masking policies are aligned with those of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, with the additional steps of requiring proof of vaccination & social distancing. More policy details can be found here.
Date
- Thursday, October 14, 2021
- Expired!
Time
Doors & VIP Patron Reception at 7:00 p.m. | Event at 8:00 p.m.- 8:00 pm
Location
- 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY 14201 (Free Parking)
Featured Artist
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Aminatta FornaAuthorAminatta Forna is the award-winning author of the four novels Happiness, The Hired Man, The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones, and the critically acclaimed memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. Her most recent, The Window Seat, is a stunning new collection of essays crossing both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves. Her fiction has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award and the PEN Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, as has been short-listed for the Neustadt Prize, the Orange Prize for Fiction, the IMPAC Award, the Warwick Prize, and nominated for the European Prize for Fiction. Her memoir was serialized on BBC Radio and in The Sunday Times newspaper. Forna is currently a Lannan Visiting Chair at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Aminatta Forna’s most recent book, The Window Seat, is a stunning new collection of essays crossing both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves. In this wide-ranging collection, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world. The Window Seat is, in the words of acclaimed author Chinelo Okparanta, “a journey . . . These essay are altogether a sharp, elegant meditation . . . on everything from politics and insomnia to food insecurity and biodiversity.”
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