Host a Sky Day!
Sky Days are an interdisciplinary celebration of our magnificent sky. A time to make art about it. Do science about it. Talk about how it functions, what it’s vulnerabilities are and why we should care. Try these Sky Day activities:
Take Part in Sky Day Project!
Use your vision and your creativity to show you care about our sky and want us to come together to protect it for the benefit of all. Its easy! Look up and reflect on how beautiful our sky is and how much we all rely on it. Think about how it supports all life, protects us from the harshness of space and how our sky connects us all as one global family living. Then document it’s dynamic changes and upload your sky photos to skydayproject.org. You just became a Sky Day citizen artist!
Sky Day Project is suitable for all ages. Viewable on any device you can create your own Sky Gallery within the mosaic (gallery sign up) and filter the way the project looks. Widely exhibited, we even installation Sky Day Project on the International Space Station!
Say it like you see it. Students respond to art about the environment.
This idea from high school science teacher John C. His students really enjoyed changing gears for a day and talking about art. Ask your students to search the web for art that deals with sky, climate change or the environment in some way. Then ask them to show a slide of it in class and talk about it for three minutes. How do you respond to it? No rules! And lots of appreciation for whatever they have to say.
This idea works just as well with old masters as it does with contemporary art.
A call to musicians and singers worldwide
‘Unclouded Day’. The New Trier Concert Choir directed by David S. Ladd. (2 min. 30s.)
Nothing moves us like music. So this Sky Day use your talents to celebrate our precious, dynamic sky and the way it connects us all as one global family.
Have a Sustainability Fair
Calling all community leaders! Sky Days and Sky Day weekends are excellent times to hold a beautiful event. So bring your community together to talk about the importance climate and sky. And be sure to invite your local artists to take part. They care too :)
Shoot for the Moon! How to take awesome night sky pictures using a DSLR camera!
Nick and Meredith of Chicago's great Adler Planetarium show you how to take awesome night sky photos using a DSLR camera! Upload YOURS to the Adler Planetarium Gallery in SkyDayProject! We can't wait to see them!
Express yourself
in a sky-ku
While a poem cannot scrub away the pollution in our atmosphere no-one should underestimate the power of ideas. Sky-ku are inspired by haiku and are a beautiful way to express your thoughts and feelings about our amazing shared sky. Do you Sky-ku? Find out! Learn more
Take a Sky Walk!
Sometimes the simplest things mean the most. So gather students, friends and family and go for a Sky Walk. Is there somewhere near you where you can share an awesome view of the sky? And while you walk notice together how every day is a unique symphony of light and atmosphere unfolding right above our heads. Maybe ask the group to share a memory of when they once noticed the sky in some special way. Take a moment to reflect on how much we rely on our thin atmosphere functioning naturally every day. Doesn’t it only stand to reason we should take care of it for each other?
What does the sky mean to you?
Share your thoughts. The world needs to hear from you. #SkyDay
