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The Culture Café: 08/11/2011

08/11/2011

BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, 08/11/2011

We hear from Turner prize nominees Karla Black and Martin Boyce who both hail from Glasgow

Martin Boyce and Sarah Lowndes join Clare English to discuss the many Turner Prize nominees who come from Glasgow, plus she hears from Karla Black at the Venice Biennale.

How come so many Turner prize nominees have a connection to Glasgow? We want to look at what it is about Glasgow, and most often Glasgow School of Art, that's created so many winners and nominees of such a prestigious prize. This year we have Karla Black and Martin Boyce, and we'll hear from them both on this week's Culture Café. 

Martin Boyce and Sarah Lowndes join Clare to discuss the remarkable number of Turner Prize nominees who come from Glasgow. 

Alan Jones investigates the importance of Scotland having a presence at the Venice Biennale with interviews including Amanda Cato Creative Scotland, Fiona Bradley Director of the Fruit Market Gallery and Karla Black. 

Frances Wilkins has just gone off to Canada to do some research into how fiddle playing in James bay, Canada, is influenced and connected to fiddle playing in Orkney. We catch up with Frances in Canada to find out about the James Bay fiddlers and their strong historical connection with the Orkney Islands. 

Recent film Sket and programme Top Boy have gone to a lot of effort in making sure the 'yoof language' contained is authentic. We discuss the importance of the words young people use to communicate with each other, how this language changes and develops, and how it differs depending on region and background with leader of young people's project Volition and Pollok-based rapper, Loki.

Scotland's only festival dedicated to contemporary dance - DanceLive - takes place across Aberdeen between the 4th and 15th of November. Mary Brennan and director of DanceLive Andy Howitt tell us why we should treasure our only contemporary dance festival.

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