Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium
Join us for the Live Interactive Planetarium Symposium
The Live, Interactive Planetarium Symposium is an annual gathering of professional planetarium presenters to share best practices for delivering live, audience-driven planetarium presentations, emphasizing active engagement with audience members.
We're excited to be able to offer these two special planetarium presentations at Fiske.
Experience Alien Safari by stepping into the role of an astrobiologist on a daring mission to discover alien life! Begin the safari on Earth and meet animals living in the most extreme environments our planet has to offer. Then, blast off to explore where aliens could exist in the universe, from planets and moons in our own Solar System to mysterious exoplanets orbiting around distant stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Presented by Erin, Planetarium Education Coordinator at the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport, New York.
Then, travel through the nighttime celestial scape with Shapes in the Sky. We'll look for familiar shapes among the stars in the sky and imagine our own personal star patterns. (Great for kids of all ages, best for the younger ones.) Presented by Shira, the Planetarium Manager at the Davis Planetarium of the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
Program runs 1 hour.
Directed by Rachel Katz Carey, “Starball” combines live theater, improvisation, original music, and cosmological inquiry into an entertaining, engaging performance. Taking inspiration from audience members’ actual dreams, the performers facilitate the creation of new constellations and mythologies in the night sky. Presented by John Kaufmann, a theater professor at Evergreen Valley College in San Jose, California and Dr. Dan Dennis, an Associate Professor of Instruction and Head of the BA Theater program at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.
Program runs 1 hour and 15 minutes.