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“BOB DYLAN’s short films” – An ArtSPEAK@FSW screening + Q. & A. with Steven JENKINS, Director of the Bob Dylan Center/Tulsa, OK
Sponsored by the Richard & Julia Rush Endowment
Wednesday, November 20th at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm)
Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW
This event is open to the public, FREE of charge
(Fort Myers, FL): Florida Southwestern State College is delighted to announce “BOB DYLAN’s short films” – An ArtSPEAK@FSW screening + Q. & A. with Steven JENKINS, Director of the Bob Dylan Center/Tulsa, OK at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery on Wednesday, November 20th, 2024 at 6:30pm (doors open at 6pm). Screening of a dozen rare short film and video clips featuring Bob Dylan on stage and in the studio, this special ArtSPEAK@FSW event will be followed by a Q. & A. about the presentation (and conversation about Bob Dylan’s relationship with William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and The Beats) with Bob Dylan Center Director and special guest Steven Jenkins.
Spanning decades and musical styles, this far-ranging program of short films and videos culled from the Bob Dylan Archive features rare and previously unreleased clips of Dylan on stage and in the studio. Selections include Dylan’s first film soundtrack for 1961’s “Autopsy on Operation Abolition;” a devastating solo rendition of “Ballad of Hollis Brown” from the 1963 TV special “Folk Songs and More Folk Songs;” a rollicking 1976 take on “I Pity the Poor Immigrant” with Joan Baez; a gospel-infused “Blowin’ in the Wind;” an apocalyptically rocking “When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky” with Dylan backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers; loving tributes to Johnny Cash and Tony Bennett; a glimpse into the Archive’s film restoration project with never-before-seen footage of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” from 1966; and many more treasures from the Archive.
Steven Jenkins serves as director of the Bob Dylan Center, which opened in Tulsa, OK in May 2022 as the permanent home of the Bob Dylan Archive. The Center’s mission is to inspire and celebrate fearless creativity by exploring the music and artistry of the Nobel Prize–winning singer-songwriter as a catalyst for personal expression and cultural change.
Sponsored by The Richard & Julia Rush Endowment in celebration of our on-going “William S. BURROUGHS & Laurie ANDERSON: Language is a Virus” exhibition, this special, one-time-only ArtSPEAK@FSW event is FREE and Open to the Public. Seating is limited and first-come, so doors will open at 6pm for the 6:30pm event.
More about us: The Bob Rauschenberg Gallery was founded as The Gallery of Fine Art in 1979 on the Lee County campus of Florida Southwestern State College/FSW (then Edison Community College). On June 4th 2004, the Gallery of Fine Art was renamed the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery to honor and commemorate our longtime association and friendship with the artist. Over more than three decades until his death, the Gallery worked closely with Rauschenberg to present world premiere exhibitions including multiple installations of the “¼ Mile or Two Furlong Piece”. The artist insisted on naming the space the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery (versus the “Robert Rauschenberg Gallery”) as it was consistent with the intimate, informal relationship he maintained with both our local Southwest Florida community and FSW.
For additional information: Tel: (239) 489-9313 <www.rauschenberggallery.com> or find us on Facebook!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Florida SouthWestern State College / 8099 College Pkwy SW, Fort Myers, FL, United States, Florida 33919, 13100 FSW Pkwy, Fort Myers, FL 33919, United States,Pine Manor, Florida
