Florida SouthWestern State College

This week, six shows open, four close and seven continue their runs at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.

The Florida SouthWestern State College theater department is performing seven 10-minute plays this weekend and next. The program is headlined by the world premiere of an homage to legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday October 22.

This week, three shows open, eight close, seven continue their runs and there are two limited engagements at Southwest Florida equity and community theaters.

Florida SouthWestern State College has been granted initial accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, effective Thursday, Nov. 6.

Today is the 100th anniversary of artist Bob Rauschenberg’s birth and, by proclamation, it’s Bob Rauschenberg Day in the city of Fort Myers.

Florida Southwestern State College will launch the region's first teacher apprenticeship program this fall semester. The program allows local paraprofessionals to gain paid, hands-on experience in a classroom over a two-year period.

Directed by Stuart Brown, FSW's production of “Twelfth Night” possesses a number of characteristics that audiences are sure to appreciate. At the top of the list is the rare opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare up close and personal. The audience in the FSW Black Box Theatre is a mere matter of feet from the edge of set, which is ground-level.

Co-founder and original band member of the new wave band DEVO, Bob Lewis, is in Fort Myers to deliver a lecture, reading and Q&A event, Nov. 9, in conjunction with an exhibition now at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band. Lewis joins us in studio ahead of the event along with Rauschenberg Gallery Director Jade Dellinger. Dellinger is co-author of “The Beginning Was the End: Devo in Ohio,” which serves as a definitive account of DEVO’s early history.

Five new appointments have been made to the Florida Southwestern State College District Board of Trustees: of Kristina Heuser, Eviana Martin, Lisa Metcalfe Swinto, Denise Murphy, and Tyler Patak.

Workforce development is a hot topic all over the country and certainly in Southwest Florida. Publisher of Southwest Florida Business Today, Karen Moore, recently sat down with Florida Southwestern State College Executive Director for Workforce and Continuing Education, Adrian Kerr, to talk about his role and how the programs his department is involved with are helping to shape our future local workforce.