Shoot For The Moon!
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!
More Exciting Art Activities!
Let the World Know You Are Here!
A citizen artists uses their vision and talents to raise awareness about an issue they care about. Like creating a gallery in SkyDay Project for your community to inspire everyone to get outside, look up and reflect on what sky and climate means to them. Invite people to post cool sky pictures and environmental artworks to your gallery and explain to them that its a way of showing that we all want to come together to achieve positive outcomes with climate. (SkyDay Project Gallery Sign Up). How does the sky look right now where you live? Check out the cool galleries displaying how the sky looks in London, Zimbabwe - the world. What do you notice? What are you curious about?
Calling All Artists!
The job of the artist is to move culture forward and the job of the citizen artist is to serve community by engaging people on the issues that matter the most. So use your talent, your vision, your creativity to engage your community on the crucial issues of climate change and ecological citizenship. 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.
Jelena’s Sky Scavenger Hunt!
This great idea for Pre-K through Second Grade from Jelena, one of our fab Sky Day volunteers. Give your kiddos a couple days to hunt down each of the sky experiences shown. Then ask them to find these very sky photos hidden somewhere in the Sky Galleries of Sky Day Project! Download and print this pdf. Can you find them all?!!
Hold a Sky Concert
Unclouded Day, The New Trier Concert Choir
CO2, Jim and the Povolos
Nothing moves us like music. Use your talents - your voice - to reconnect us to our magnificent sky and celebrate the way it connects us all as one global family. You will have done your community a great service for we only protect the things we care about and only care about the things we are connected to.
Exhibit a Sky Show and Help With Climate
This idea from teachers Diane and Stephanie. Their students saw the sky photos sent in to Sky Day Project by a school in Puerto Rico just before they were hit by Hurricane Maria. They wanted to help so they painted sky paintings, exhibited them and then sold them to family and friends to raise money for that school. To which we say - Bravo! Why not do something similar yourself and donate the funds you raise to a worthy climate helping 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.
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
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?
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)
