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SUMMARY:The Richard and Ellen Sandor Annual Lecture on Art and Nature featuring Olivia Harrison
DESCRIPTION:Tickets to this event are sold out! If you would like to be added to the waitlist, please email specialevents@selby.org ( mailto:specialevents@selby.org ).\n\nJoin us for a luncheon and conversation with Olivia Harrison, film producer and widow of George Harrison, and Robin Lane Fox, renowned gardener, author, and historian, in celebration of our 2025 Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition, George Harrison: A Gardener’s Life.\n \nOlivia Harrison will be signing copies of her book, Came the Lightening, which will be available for sale at the luncheon.\n\nThe event will include a plated lunch.\n \nSpace is limited. Tickets $125\n\n\n \nAbout the Speakers\n \nOlivia Trinidad Harrison is a film producer, and the widow of musician George Harrison ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison ) of the Beatles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles ). She first worked in the music industry in Los Angeles, for A&M Records ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26M_Records ), where she met George and then helped run his Dark Horse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_Records ) record label.\n \nOlivia co-produced the Grammy award winning film of the 2002 Concert For George which she organised in memory of George. Olivia also received an Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction Special from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2012 for her role as producer on the Martin Scorsese directed documentary: George Harrison: Living in the Material World. Olivia is a producer on the multi award nominated The Beatles: Get Back, as well as the Beatles ’64 directed by David Tedeschi, executive producer Martin Scorsese, currently showing on Disney +.\n \nIn late 2005, coinciding with the reissue of the album and film from the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_for_Bangladesh ), Olivia established The George Harrison Fund for UNICEF with an initial focus on programs in Bangladesh. The fund had also assisted children affected by civil conflict, natural disasters or poverty in Afghanistan, Brazil, India, Angola, Romania, the Horn of Africa, Burma and Nepal and Mexico.\n \nOlivia is director of the Material World Foundation, a charity set up by George in 1973, overseeing the Foundation’s ongoing work in encouraging and promoting the exploration of alternate and diverse forms of artistic expression, and philosophies. The Foundation has lent its support to many established charities around the world. Olivia and the Foundation are also partners with Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation to ensure the preservation of film history from across the globe. Restoring such diverse works as Charlie Chaplin’s The Count to Luis Bunuels’ Los Olividados, to the British The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.\n \nOlivia wrote and published her first book of poetry in 2022, Came the Lightening, Twenty Poems for George, a book of twenty poems dedicated to George in the twentieth anniversary of his passing.\n \nRobin Lane Fox is a renowned gardener, author, and historian. He is currently a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and University Reader in Ancient History. He is the author of numerous award-winning books and was the historical advisor for Oliver Stone’s epic film Alexander. His weekly gardening correspondence column for the Financial Times is the longest-running in Britain and is the basis to his 2010 book, Thoughtful Gardening. Thoughtful Gardening is Robin Lane Fox’s first gardening book in 25 years and marks the 40th year of his weekly columns on gardening for the Financial Times. It is based on his own selection from these widely admired pieces, which he has rewritten and amplified with much new material and new chapters to take readers on a varied and highly enjoyable journey through each season of the gardening year.\n
URL:https://selby.org/events/keynote-lecture-olivia-harrison/
CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,Special Events
LOCATION:1534 Mound Street, Sarasota, FL 34236, USA
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