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The Strand is a daily 18 minute programme highlighting the best of what's going in the arts. Wide-ranging and with eclectic interests, The Strand reflects the artistic response to the BBC's news agenda. Presented by Harriett Gilbert and friends, it features discussions, reviews, big-name interviews and location reports as well as live studio performances and Hollywood, Bollywood gossip.

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The Strand Archive: FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close

Fespaco Film Festival

04/03/2013

FESPACO: The 23rd African film festival comes to a close

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The 23rd FESPACO pan-African film festival, held in Burkina Faso, has just ended.

FESPACO film festival ends; Yinka Shonibare exhibitions; Gilad Atzmon music choices.

The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.  

The 23rd FESPACO festival, held in Burkino Faso, has just ended.  It's the largest film festival in Africa, and the winner of this year's top prize has just been announced. FABRIC-ATION, at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, is the most extensive exhibition of the British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare's work to date. It features over 30 vibrant works and includes the premiere of Shonibare's Wind Sculptures, six metre high sculptures which look like giant pieces of batik fluttering in the wind.  Art critic Louisa Buck assesses Yinka's work; and Tel Aviv-born writer and jazz saxophonist Gilad Atzmon selects his choice of music which, for him, sum up the country of his birth Israel.

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