Sky and Earth Sunday
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• NEW Star Show: Habitat Earth 12:30 & 3:30 pm From colonies of tiny microbes to massive whales to humans, Habitat Earth shows what it means to live in a world connected by vastly different forms of life. All ages
• Performance: Sky-inspired Music 2 pm
The Cassatt Quartet previews excerpts from Voyagers, new music by composer Gerald Cohen, and performs sky-inspired music by Haydn, Peter Schickele, Ernest Bloch, Margaret Brower, and Dan Visconti. Gerald Cohen wrote Voyagers because the 1970s Voyager spacecraft launched with a Golden Record of music from our planet.
It is thrilling for me, as a musician, to know those who created the Golden Record, led by Carl Sagan, felt music could be a powerful communication to beings on other worlds, said Cohen, whose new work is a blending of music from the Golden Record.
• Multi-media Talk:
Neil Maher —
Think Globally, Act Locally
4 pm
How NASA’s Apollo Program Launched the Environmental Movement on Earth
Thanks to NASA’s earth-orbiting satellites we know about the ozone hole above the Antarctic, Amazon deforestation, and increasingly warm temperatures on earth. In film and video, Neil Maher, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers, shows NASA photographs sparking today’s environmental movement.
This program is sponsored by the New York State Council on the Humanities.
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