| Name of Venue | |
| The Broad Theater | |
| Featured Artist or Artists: | |
| Peter Sillen | |
| Artist Website: | |
| https://www.petesillen.com/about.php | |
| Venue Website: | |
| www.thebroadtheater.com | |
| Exhibition Link | |
| https://www.thebroadtheater.com/whats-on | |
| Venue address: | |
| 636 N Broad St. New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 United States Map It |
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| Venue Phone Number: | |
| (504) 266-2366 | |
| Venue Operating Hours: | |
| Thursday, 6:30p-9:00p | |
| Exhibition Start Date | |
| 12/11/2025 | |
| Exhibition End Date | |
| 12/11/2025 | |
| Will you host a public opening? | |
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| Opening Event Date & Time | |
| Dec. 11th 6:30p |
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Special Screening for Benjamin Smoke, featuring Q&A with filmmakers and musical performance by former members of “Smoke”.
About film: Jem Cohen and co-director Peter Sillen, both visually involved in Athens’ independent music scene, were introduced to Benjamin—née Robert Dickerson—through Michael Stipe, a longtime fan. Over a decade, Cohen and Stillen craft a compassionate portrait of Benjamin, whose marginality—unclassifiable musician, openly gay, HIV-positive, addict, drag queen—is as spectacular as his unedited authenticity, passionate vitality and sensitive vulnerability. In Atlanta’s eccentric—and gradually gentrifying—area known as Cabbagetown, the filmmakers document Benjamin’s public and private performances, wild musings, Southern left-field surroundings, and his band’s opening for Patti Smith, another fan. Amid the rough grains of film and notes of Benjamin’s bewitching music, Cohen and Sillen capture the essence of this secret, decadent Southern star.
