The
Magic Hour
Sonic
adventures inspired by dusk in Oxford's beautiful
Botanic Garden
4th
- 6th September 2008
Botanic
Garden, Oxford 7-10pm
£5
advance / £5.50 Thurs / £6 Fri
/ £6.50 Sat
1 under
18 free per family
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Dusk
is a very special time of day, a time of transition,
a time when some go to sleep and others wake
up, when the light changes from one moment
to the next and the air is full of mysterious
sounds, a time aptly named by photographers
The Magic Hour.
For
three nights, the beautiful University
of Oxford Botanic Garden opens its gates
after hours and invites you in to immerse
yourself in a September sunset. Artists Rob
Kesseler, Rag and Bone, Max Eastley, David
Rothenberg, IOU and Robert Jarvis have been
commissioned by Oxford
Contemporary Music and the Botanic Garden
to create new works in response to the garden
and to dusk. Together they conjure up an evocative
sonic and visual world that examines and celebrates
nature.
The
artists have been exploring the garden and
its plant and animal life since March and
witnessing the changes over the summer. They
have also been working with community and
school groups and picnickers on Saturdays
through the summer to create other works of
art that will inhabit the garden.
Follow
the progress of The Magic Hour on
BBC Radio Oxford 95.2FM and online at www.bbc.co.uk/oxford
.
The
project is generously supported by Arts Council
England Lottery programme and by BMW
Group Plant Oxford through Oxford
Inspires.
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Visit Robert Jarvis's Magic Hour Blog
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