Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed:

Bob Dylan’s lyrics and music have been a part of my life since 1972 when a copy of his More Greatest Hits appeared in my 9-year old line of vision. I didn’t know then that simply listening to Just Like Tom Thumb Blues was going to be the gateway into a rich kaleidoscopic five decade - and counting - cultural journey through everything from American civil rights to French symbolism and beat poetry, Blind Willie McTell to Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and the films of D.A.Pennebaker.

And that is just basecamp in the Dylan foothills!

Initially hailed as the ‘Voice of a Generation’ Dylan has well and truly grown out from under that burdensome status to become a chronicler of the human experience, of living and ageing in the second half of the 20th and early 21st century and, as described by the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature committee, "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Mark's illustrated talk will reflect on the creative influence and influences of the mercurial, elusive and enigmatic song-and-dance man.

• Book a ticket for Tangled Up in Bob and I'm Not There (screening after the talk at 15:00) and take £1.00 off your ticket. Discount will be applied at the checkout.

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