BPA Beyond the Script ~ “The Artist as Gardener”

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News from Bainbridge Performing Arts
For Immediate Release:
Date: April 8, 2008
Contact: Sally Jo Martine, Public Relations Director
Phone: 206.842.8578
Fax: 206.842.0195
Web: www.BainbridgePerformingArts.org
Email: smartine@BainbridgePerformingArts.org

Bainbridge Performing Arts (BPA) presents
BPA Beyond the Script ~ “The Artist as Gardener”
Sunday, May 18 @ 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. @ BPA
Terry Moyemont from Mesogeo Gardens leads “The Artist as Gardener,” BPA’s Beyond the Script segment for The Secret Garden on May 18 at BPA. In The Secret Garden, as the previously neglected garden begins to flourish and thrive, so do Mary Lennox and those who surround her. In real life, Terry says, “Gardens are what come to be when the inner lives of people spill out onto the landscape in which they live. We venture out in spirit into the nature that made us, and there we encounter the genius loci, the spirit of the place in which we reside. The ensuing dialog is what creates a garden, what renews the bonds with the world around us, and what frees us to dream.”
Terry likens gardening to what we do with sounds in music or colors and form in painting. As a photographer, he has gained appreciation for the ways that gardening and the other arts have intertwined, particularly in the last five centuries in Europe. In “The Artist as Gardener,” Terry recounts his experiences visiting and photographing gardens in five countries as a personal introduction. He then reviews three outstanding gardens here on Bainbridge Island ‑ those of Linda Cochran, Carol Johanson, and of David Lewis and George Little. He reveals how these gardens were created using techniques “borrowed from other arts such as architecture, painting, and sculpture, and used in ways that fit the genius of the particular place, while allowing the gardeners to give free and glowing rein to their own spirits.”
BPA’s free Beyond the Script series concludes this season with “The Artist as Gardener” from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. at Bainbridge Performing Arts, 200 Madison Avenue North, Bainbridge Island. The discussion precedes the May 18 performance of The Secret Garden, which features set designs inspired by Island artists Little and Lewis. BPA’s Beyond the Script discussion is funded in part with a grant from Humanities Washington.
Bainbridge Performing Arts extends special thanks to its sponsors: 2007 - 2008 Season Media Sponsor Bainbridge Island Review; Mainstage Season Presenting Sponsor U. S. Bank; Corporate Sponsor Ace Hardware; and Production Sponsor Town & Country Markets, Inc. BPA is supported, in part, by the Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council, the City of Bainbridge Island, and by a two-year Organizational Support Program grant from the Washington State Arts Commission.
For more information, visit online or join BPA’s mailing list at www.BainbridgePerformingArts.org.
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