An Evening of Storytelling with Henry Rollins
Friday, November 4, 2011
5:00 - 8:00 PM
Big Arts
Sanibel, Florida

Tickets will be available on a first-come-first-served basis for advance reservation on the following dates:

FGCU Students only: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:00 AM - Monday, October 17, 2011, 11:55 PM.

Regular (faculty, students from other universities, general public, etc.): Tuesday, October 18, 2011, at 12:00 AM to Monday, November 1, 11:55 PM.

All tickets are will-call, and can be picked up at Big Arts between noon and 4:00 on Friday, November 4. Each student ticket will require an individual, current FGCU ID for pick-up. Any unclaimed tickets will be released at 4:00 PM—also on a first-come-first-served basis.

By "purchasing" or reserving your free ticket, you are committing to attend the performance. Please arrive to the venue between noon and 4:00. If you do not claim your ticket by 4:00 PM in person on the night of the performance, your reservation will be given away.

Doors open at 4:30. Show begins at 5:00.

Please note: If you are a registered Sanibel Island Writers Conference attendee, you do not have to reserve a ticket. One ticket will be reserved in your name.

For directions to Big Arts, visit www.bigarts.org

About Henry Rollins:

In describing Henry Rollins, the tendency is to try to squeeze as many labels as possible into a single sentence. “Rollins is many things,” says the Washington Post, “diatribist, confessor, provocateur, humorist, even motivational speaker…his is an enthusiastic and engaging chatter.” Entertainment Weekly’s list includes “Punk-rock icon. Spoken word poet. Actor. Author. DJ. Is there anything this guy can’t do?” TV Guide has more concisely called him a “Renaissance Man”—but if Henry Rollins could be reduced to a single word, that word would undoubtedly be “workaholic.”

For better than a quarter century, Rollins has toured the world as a spoken word artist, as frontman for both Rollins Band and Black Flag and—without a microphone—as a solitary traveler with insatiable curiosity bypassing the resorts in favor of places like Siberia and Senegal, or Burma and Bangladesh.

When he’s not living out of a suitcase, Rollins is constantly at work as an actor, radio DJ, author of more than 20 books, and running his publishing company and record label 2.13.61. Henry currently hosts a weekly radio show on L.A.’s renowned NPR affiliate KCRW, is a regular contributor toVanityFair.com with his “Straight Talk Espresso” blog, and recently joined forces with National Geographic for a pair of television specials.

For more informaiton on this event: http://www.fgcu.edu/SIWC/a-night-of-spoken-word.html

For more information on the Sanibel Island Writer's Conference: http://www.fgcu.edu/SIWC

For additional questions or to cancel your reservation, please contact Sanibel Island Writer's Conference Director Tom DeMarchi, tdemarch@fgcu.edu.

We would like to thank the sponsorship of FGCU Student Government,  Project DIY, FGCU Amnesty International, FGCU Creative Writing Club and Philosophy Club.