Northern Nights, Starry Skies PREMIERE: November 25, 2022 DESCRIPTION
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Reach (July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023)
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Northern Nights , Starry Skies is a visually stunning celebration of our spectacular starry skies above the world’s largest designated Dark Sky sanctuary. Ojibwe, Dakota cultural astronomers, and other experts share the wonders of the heavens. This hour-long documentary, which was co-produced with Hamline University’s Center for Global Environmental Education, illuminates ways we can reduce the negative impacts of light pollution. IMPACT Northern Nights , Starry Skies makes you really look at how light pollution affects the world around them.
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“I didn’t realize how LED lights affect the way birds migrate until I watched this documentary.” – Diana Fredrickson
While at the screening event at Grand Portage National Monument, one member of the Grand Portage band of Lake Superior Chippewa stated:
“Thank you so much for doing a viewing in Grand Portage, MN. It means so much for the community to see someone that looks like them on the big screen and talking about their region.”
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Reach (July 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023)
1 episode broadcast | 1 hour broadcast
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1 episode available | 1 hour available | 521 streams
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The Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra playing Tippett
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EVENTS & ENGAGEMENT Since the launch of the documentary in November 2022, we have had many screenings of the documentary. For the premiere screening we filled Fitger’s Spirit of the North Theatre and had people in our spillover room, making attendance around 150 people. Soon after the initial screening we had one at the Grand Portage National Monument, where we had three screenings back-to-back and each of them had 40 people in attendance. These were followed by screenings at Hamline University, St. John’s University, Madeline History Museum, Split Rock Lighthouse State Park, End of the Road Film Festival, and Fresh Coast Film Festival. EDUCATION In collaboration with the Hamline Center for Global Environmental Education (CGEE), a PBS LearningMedia collection of education resources was created based on the Northern Nights, Starry Skies documentary. The collection consists of 10 lesson resources about night skies, cultural astronomy, and efforts to reduce the harmful impacts of light pollution. This includes video clips, illustrated images, teaching
Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra performing with the Duluth Superior Symphony Chorus
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