The Oak Project announces a new partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the University of Derby
Can art save us from extinction? Photo: Jonty Wilde.
WAKEFIELD
.- The Oak Project has today announced a pioneering partnership with Yorkshire Sculpture Park and the University of Derby. The Oak Project is a programme that explores our relationship with the natural world and builds connection to nature through arts, culture and creativity. This initiative aims to inspire and motivate public action for nature and climate in up to almost half a million people through its first year of programming. The Oak Project will launch its first artist commission, to be hosted at YSP, in late Spring 2021.
In âLand,â Simon Winchester looks at what the hunger for land ownership has wrought
By Eric Liebetrau Globe Correspondent,Updated January 14, 2021, 4:35 p.m.
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Few authors of narrative nonfiction have ranged across the global landscape more widely than Simon Winchester, whether exploring the oceans (âAtlanticâ and âPacificâ), earthquakes (âA Crack in the Edge of the Worldâ), the Yangtze River (âThe River at the Center of the Worldâ), the Balkans (âThe Fracture Zoneâ), or âKrakatoa.â In his latest engrossing voyage, the author turns to the land itself, covering a sizable portion of the 37 billion acres that compose the Earth.
There is something missing from the bucolic upland scene of shaggy, bracken-coloured cattle grazing between young trees on the Cumbrian hillside: fencing. When the Highland-cross cows reach a certain point, the blue plastic medallion dangling from their necks plays a melody like a mobile phone ringtone. The cow turns around, and the invisible GPS fence has done its job. Fenceless grazing is being hailed as revolutionary by conservationists and.
The Purnell Steen Quintet is comprised of some of the top musicians of this region. Purnell, a Denver native, started classical piano studies at age 4, and switched to Jazz Piano more than 40 years ago, due in large part to the urging of his legendary cousin, Charlie Burrell.
Bassist Ron Bland is a First Call internationally known bassist, as are guitarists Ed Stephen and Vohn Regensburger,along with drummer Bill Larson. This quintet is committed to preserving Hard-Swing jazz that made 5 Points famous. They have performed with 5- Time Grammy Award winner Dianne Reeves; Earth, Wind, and Fire, Bill Frizell, Ron Miles and countless other top notch artists. The swingin’ style of the immortal Oscar Peterson Quartet and King Cole Trio have greatly influenced this hot group.