Whispering in the Leaves
Kew Gardens
29 May - 5 September

Chris Watson's sound installation at the Palm House in Kew Gardens, Whispering in the Leaves, immerses visitors in a rainforest soundscape of primate calls and birdsong, backed with a shimmering wall of insect sounds.

Whispering in the Leaves can be experienced at hourly intervals in the Palm House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

At dawn in the rainforest, the spectacular chorus of primates and birds heralds the waking of an evocative, colourful world, while at dusk the familiar calls die away and are replaced by a night-time soundscape of reptiles and insects that is alien and wondrous to human ears.

Chris Watson is a sound recordist and musician specialising in natural history, renowned for his award-winning wildlife work with David Attenborough on productions such as The Life of Birds and The Life of Mammals.

Whispering in the Leaves features two sound pieces, Dawn and Dusk, composed by Watson from his archive of on-location recordings in Central and South American rainforests.

Diffused through 80 speakers, the two compositions will be transmitted at hourly intervals throughout the day - Dawn in the morning and Dusk in the afternoon. Each lasts for 15-20 minute durations – the approximate time it takes for the transitions between darkness and daylight in the dense tropical vegetation.

On 28 and 29 August, Watson will perform live, creating a 20-minute sound composition each day in the Palm House.

www.whisperingintheleaves.org
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OIKOS
Jellyfish Theatre, London
26 August – 18 September

Simon Wu's play, Oikos will be the opening production for Jellyfish Theatre, a temporary theatre space built of reclaimed materials.

Salil, a highly-successful businessman, has it all worked out: career, family, river-view des-res in Chiswick and a beautiful mistress. So why is he increasingly haunted by ghosts from the Old Country? When the Thames bursts its banks and his family scramble to keep their heads above water, the very foundations of his perfect life are threatened and Salil is forced to look to both his future and his past for redemption.

Jellyfish Theatre
11 - 25 Union Street
London SE1 1LB

www.oikosproject.com/the-jellyfish-theatre

Jack Scout
Sap Dance and Louise Ann Wilson Company
Morecambe Bay
18 - 26 September

Jack Scout is a walking performance in which music, dance, voice and art reveal a hidden part of Morecambe Bay. The audience will be lead by a Guide through the heath and shoreline, as the performance evokes the land, sands, skies and sea.

Jack Scout is performed by dancers Natasha Fewings and Nigel Stewart (co-director, choreographr), vocalist Steve Lewis, instrumentalist Matt Robinson, and Louise Ann Wilson (Guide, co-director, scenographer).

www.nuffieldtheatre.com

Great Glen Artists Airshow
HICA, Dalcrombie, Loch Ruthven, Inverness-shire, Scotland
UK 18 & 19 September

The third Arts Catalyst Artists Airshow is a 2-day event taking place in rural Inverness-shire. This event is being created in partnership with the Highland Institute of Contemporary Art (HICA) and Outlandia, an artists' treehouse project in Glen Nevis.

The Great Glen Artists Airshow focuses on an abstract meaning of air: the notion of air as information, matter and space. Taking inspiration from its location, it features a series of new commissioned artists' projects unfolding across the landscape of Loch Ruthven, an evening talks programme, and a bus tour along the spectacular Great Glen.

Artists participating include: Esther Polak, Camila Sposati, Adam Dant, London Fieldworks, Alec Findlay, and Suzanne Norregard Neilson.

www.artscatalyst.org

PROTOZOA
Jellyfish Theatre, London
23 September - 9 October

Kay Adshead's play, PROTOZOA, is the second of the new plays commissioned for the Jellyfish Theatre, a temporary theatre space built of reclaimed materials.

In a world fractured by near-disaster the government asserts a new oppressive police state based on segregation and control. Cordelia, a successful property developer, and Sheann, a single mother, are poles apart, but now they form an unlikely alliance. Surviving in the debris, one tries to rebuild her former life, the other searches for her missing daughter. Can they find enough strength to build an alternative society and does the mysterious and secretive colony of river women on the other bank hold the key?

www.oikosproject.com