The documentary, “5 Seasons - The Gardens of Piet Oudolf,” will be shown in Andover next month.
The film details how Piet Oudolf, a revolutionary landscape designer, upsets the conventional ideas around public space, nature, and beauty as he installs a new garden in southwest England and redefines what a garden can be. Mark Cullen of the Toronto Star compares his influence on gardens to how Frank Lloyd Wright redefined architecture and Mick Jagger did the same for rock and roll.
Discussions in the film take place in his own gardens and at his signature works in the Netherlands, Chicago, and New York, as well as at locations which served as his inspiration, including post-industrial forests in Pennsylvania and desert wildflowers in West Texas.
The Andover Senior Community Friends are presenting the film to benefit the Robb Center Capital Campaign. The Robb Center is the name of the newly renovated senior center in Andover. Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door. Poster printing can be used to inform the community of such special films and their fundraising efforts for a worthy cause.
The screening of the film will take place at the Wood Hill Middle School in Andover at 3:00 pm on Wednesday, April 22, with a second screening at 7:00 pm.
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