IYA: Cultural Astronomy and Storytelling
The cultural astronomy and storytelling working group, we will explore ideas and concepts of presenting the different oral traditions among those who would pass down such teachings of the night sky, what the cosmos meant to the ancient observer and how it relates to the current observer and allow those who participate to come to a fuller understanding of their own cosmology or, at least, become aware of other frames of reference to which to look at the universe.
The next part would be to develop those ideas and concepts into public events, with the above motivation, and then implement them.
Please join us in this effort to reach out to the local communities, underserved audiences, Native American peoples and to the public at large where we hope to start with a grassroots approach and that will lead to an increased understanding between those communities by keeping these traditions alive and what they might mean to you or your children.
Please post any ideas you might have in the forum page of this website or email to dlamenti(at)astro.indiana.edu.
