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Cultivating Place: Bright Autumn Nights - GLEAM at Olbrich Botanical Gardens

All photos are courtesy of Olbrich Botanical Gardens; all rights are reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Olbrich Botanical Gardens; all rights are reserved. 

Hot August nights turn to bright August nights at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison, WI. 

The Garden's annual GLEAM light show is celebrating its 10th anniversary and opens August 30th, transforming the very bright-by-day gardens into equally bright in a different way by night.

The award-winning display runs through October 25th, and this year’s exhibit will center on the concept of reflection.

All photos are courtesy of Olbrich Botanical Gardens; all rights are reserved.
All photos are courtesy of Olbrich Botanical Gardens; all rights are reserved. 

Illuminated art installations by light artists from around the country will brighten the Gardens’ landscape, reflecting a language of love for the natural world. Concepts such as the intrigue of plants at night, photosynthesis, bioluminescence, and dynamic equilibrium have all been highlighted in past year’s displays.

Join CP host Ben Futa in conversation this week with Benjamin Smith, Show Curator and Missy Jeanne, Public Programs Manager at Olbrich to talk all things bright and beautiful at Olbrich for this GLEAM season. Listen in!

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Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of the national award-winning, weekly public radio program and podcast, Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History & the Human Impulse to Garden, Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Particularly interested in the intersections between gardens, the native plant environments around them, and human culture, she is the daughter of garden and floral designing mother and a wildlife biologist father.
Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.