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Front Row: The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

25/05/2022

The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, The Art of Burning Man, dementia on stage, dogs on screen at Cannes

Burning Man art - in Derbyshire; Frances Poet’s play about dementia; film award for dogs.

The Art of Burning Man – at Chatsworth House in Derbyshire; Frances Poet’s play about dementia, from Leeds Playhouse; and the Palm Dog – the Cannes award for dogs on screen.

Radical Horizons: The Art of Burning Man is an outdoor exhibition on the Chatsworth House estate - a series of monumental sculptures from the festival in the Nevada Desert. Geeta Pendse speaks to Chatsworth’s Senior Curator, Dr Alex Hodby, and to Burning Man artist Dana Albany from San Francisco, who has come to Chatsworth to make a Burning Man sculpture with local material and the help of local children. 

Sanctuary is another Burning Man inspired structure that can be seen at the Miners’ Welfare Park in Bedworth - a public memorial for the losses experienced in the Covid pandemic.  Geeta meets the woman who commissioned the memorial, Helen Marriage - the artistic director of Artichoke; David Best - the artist who designed the work; plus some of those visiting the memorial.

Plus, Geeta Pendse speaks to writer Frances Poet about her play exploring dementia, Maggie May – now moving from the Leeds Playhouse, to the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch and on to Leicester’s Curve, on a dementia friendly tour.

And the Palm Dog – the Cannes award for dogs on the big screen. Judges Anna Smith and Tim Robey discuss the dogs in the running.

Presenter: Geeta Pendse
Producer: Tim Prosser

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