Next week the University of Salford’s groundbreaking Institute for Dementia will host the BBC Philharmonic for their second anniversary concert.
The event will look at the powerful relationship that exists between poetry and music and how it can impact on the lives of dementia patients.
Central to this will be a specially-performed reading of Di Sherlock’s moving cycle of poems ‘Come into the Garden’, inspired by her mother’s own diagnosis of vascular dementia on her 80th birthday.
At the same time Di’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins Lymphoma, and the works explore her own journey as a new full-time carer at a time of anger and confusion, tears and loss, but also some darkly funny moments.
The poems will be read by professional actors from the world of radio and television and accompanied by BBC Philharmonic cellist Elinor Gow, who will play music specially composed for this cycle by the young American composer, Lucas Garner.
The concerts run on Wednesday 9 December at 2pm at The Old Fire Station on the Crescent and 6.30pm at Peel Hall, also on the Crescent.
For tickets register either here or here.
The performance will be followed by a Q&A session chaired by the University of Salford’s Chancellor, the acclaimed author Professor Jackie Kay MBE, and is scheduled for broadcast later this month on BBC Radio Manchester.
