“‘Take care of all your memories’ / Said my friend, Mick / ‘For you cannot relive them.’” So sings Dylan with aw-shucks bemusement in “Open the Door, Homer,” a honky-tonk hoedown from “The Basement Tapes.” Yet it is the peculiar magic of songs such as this one that bring the past so vividly into the […]
Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins will present the films and engage in a post-screening discussion and audience Q&A. Local singer-songwriter Dan Israel will round out the program with a brief solo-acoustic set of Dylan covers. Stepping Into the Unknown: Films from the Bob Dylan Center The Bob Dylan Center gratefully acknowledges the support of […]
Screening and Discussion with Director Steven Jenkins Moderated by JBFC Board President Janet Maslin Returning to the Jacob Burns Film Center for his fourth time around (“Blonde on Blonde” fans will recognize the song reference), Bob Dylan Center Senior Director Steven Jenkins will share an all-new collection of rare Dylan films. Spanning decades and musical […]
“13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” is a theatrical and cinematic concert experience featuring a baker’s dozen of Pop Art pioneer Andy Warhol’s “Screen Test” films — made in the mid-1960s to spotlight his self-made Superstars and the era’s cultural icons in larger-than-life close-ups — presented with live musical accompaniment by dream-pop duo […]
“People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.” — Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit” Join Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins for an online discussion with poet and scholar Robert Polito about his bold take on Dylan’s output since the early 1990s. A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of the 1960s counterculture, […]
The Bob Dylan Center’s bimonthly members-only series of listening sessions strikes a dramatic crescendo in this final installment of 2026, with featured artists such as Blur, Spiritualized, Elliott Smith and The Waterboys reaching impossible heights in their quests for grand statements of universal harmony and emotional rescue. Center director Steven Jenkins will host this rousing […]
The center will be closing at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12.
