GREAT SAND DUNES NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE— Join the park service on Aug. 3 at Great Sand Dunes in celebrating the dark sky. This year the special presenter is Kozmic Kyle. The presentation will start at 8:45 p.m.
Until modern times, every culture has looked to the skies to find their direction, set their calendar, record their stories, and contemplate their place in this amazing cosmos. Rather than retelling the stories from the ancient Greek perspective, we will create new connections with the stars based on your experiences. You will learn to use a monthly star map to find your new stories in the real night sky. This program is interactive and best for ages 7-adult (but all are welcome). If you can, bring a red light and a pencil or pen for drawing on your skymap.
Kozmic Kyle has been a planetarium educator for 25 years and helped set up planetarium education programs in the UK, Poland, Ghana, Kenya, and many places in the US. He is especially interested in helping empower Indigenous cultures around the world to use modern planetarium tools to record, preserve and teach their own cultural knowledge in a good way. He looks forward to moving from cloudy, light polluted Seattle into the San Luis Valley's dark skies.
Call the park at 719-378-6395, for exact location and other details.
