Wildlife in the spotlight
AWARD-winning wildlife photographer Ben Osborne will take the audience behind the scenes of BBC wildlife programmes at the Spotlight Theatre on Sunday.
As part of East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s rural arts scheme, ArtERY, Ben promises to delight audiences with a “behind-the-scenes” view of two filming expeditions to northern Botswana with the BBC natural history series Planet Earth.
He starts in the Okavango Delta where the team spent weeks on the trail of one of Africa’s rarest large predators, the African Hunting Dog.
As well as photographing the dogs, Ben joined the camera crews as they filmed many other wildlife sequences, an experience which provided some wonderful opportunities for wildlife photography in the spectacular landscapes of this unique environment.
The second expedition was to Savuti, a dry savannah region where life gets extremely tough in the October dry season.
Many animals move out at this time of year but the elephants stay. So does a pride of 30 lions.
The crew joined this feline menace day and night for a month – with dramatic, and occasionally unpredictable, consequences.
Audio-visual sequences, featuring music by the Soweto String Quartet, celebrate the stunning wildlife and landscapes of the Okavango Delta and provide a close-up view of the animals which struggle to survive in the parched landscape of Savuti.
ArtERY Live presents eight shows in the East Riding with Ben Osborne, who won Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007.
The show is designed to appeal to a wide range of audiences including families with children aged 10 and over.
Tickets for the show at the Spotlight Theatre on February 7, at 7.30pm, cost 7.50 for adults, 4 children and are available from Bridlington Blinds and Curtains, top of Bridge Street.
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