Calling All Artists!
Artists can help move culture forward. So don’t stand on the sidelines - use your talent, vision and creativity to engage the community on the crucial issues of climate and ecological citizenship. Then let us know what you are doing so we can amplify your project in our messaging. (Contact / Instagram). Meanwhile for inspiration, listen to Umesh Bajagain (Nepal), Celia Berrell (Australia) and Dan Simpson (England) share their work for Sky Day on WBEZ Chicago’s Worldview.
Hold a Sky Concert!
Unclouded Day, The New Trier Concert Choir
CO2, Jim and the Povolos
Nothing moves us like music. So use your voice and musicianship to reconnect us to our magnificent sky and celebrate the way it connects us all as one global family. Because we only protect the things we care about and we only care about the things we are connected to.
Create a Sky Show!
This idea from teachers Diane and Stephanie at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Their students saw the sky photos sent in to Airspace by a school in Puerto Rico just before they were hit by Hurricane Maria. They wanted to help their peers so they painted sky paintings, exhibited them and sold them to family and friends to raise money for that school. To which we say - Bravo!
Why not create your own sky exhibition? To express your love of our sky or to raise awareness about climate or even to raise funds for a worthy cause (like donating to a carbon offsetting charity?) The sky’s the limit to what you can do to help!
Lightning Critiques of
Environmentalist Art
This idea suggested by high school science teacher John C. His students really enjoyed changing gears for a day and talking about art. So ask your students to search the web for art that deals in some way with sky, climate change or the environment. Then ask them to show a slide of it in class and talk about it for three minutes. What is the art conveying? How do they respond to it?
No rules! Just lots of appreciation for whatever they have to say.
Shoot for the Moon
In this cool video Nick and Meredith of Chicago's Adler Planetarium show you how to take awesome night sky photos using a DSLR camera! Then upload yours to SkyDayProject! We can't wait to see them!
Write a Sky-ku
While a poem cannot scrub away the pollution in our atmosphere, no-one should underestimate the power of the written word. Sky-ku are inspired by haiku and are a beautiful way to express your thoughts and feelings about our amazing shared sky. Learn more
Tell Your Story
A friend was driving to her father’s funeral through a very heavy rain storm with a very heavy heart. She remembers the clouds and the eerie darkness. It felt to her as if the sky grieved with her. And then, all of a sudden, there was a break in the clouds and she saw a magnificent rainbow. The sight of it filled her heart with a new sense of inner peace. It hadn’t replaced her grief, of course, but something had changed within her and she has never forgotten that moment.
Is there a time in your life when the sky has impacted you in a personal and memorable way? Let us know @skydayproject (Instagram)
