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ᐸᐦᑭᓯᒧᐣ pahkisimon

There is no better way to welcome the dark sky than to celebrate pahkisimon, Cree for sunset. This FREE celebration will be held on the shores of Lake Annette, starting just before sunset with a ceremonial tipi raising followed by teachings, hand-drumming and song by Warrior Women, community pow wow drumming open for anyone to participate in. As the sun sets, illuminated indigenous hoop, traditional and shawl dancers will help us welcome in the starry night. Once the celebration has wrapped up, feel free to stay at Lake Annette to enjoy some of the best star-gazing in the area or head back into the Jasper townsite to take in the evening programs around town.

Attendance is limited to the parking available on site.

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Lunacy, presented by Beakerhead
It’s 2041. Jay ingram and the Beakerhead Band are back in Jasper with “Lunacy”, their updated history of our obsession with the Moon. But there’s one big difference: people are now living on the moon and Jay is one of them.

Join Jay broadcasting from the Moon and The Band live onstage in Jasper on October 23rd – a must for anyone who thinks they’d like to make their home on Earth’s satellite

Drone Light Show
Art, science, wonder and culture mix together in the Jasper Dark Sky Festival’s newest signature event. Watch as the sky fills with moving lights (controlled by hundreds of drones) that smoothly tell an Indigenous origin story about the skies. Narrated by local Indigenous Knowledge Keeper Matricia Bauer, this spectacle will be a must-see and an enchanting option for the whole family.

*The show has been programmed for optimal viewing from Commemoration Park. People who might gather on the south side of Centennial Park, or west side will be able to see “something”, but it won’t be optimal.

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To Mars … and Beyond?
What does the future of humanity and the space program have in common? Well for a few billionaire visionaries an awful lot. Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO and Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO and owner of Blue Origin, both believe that the future of humanity lies off of this planet.

Can we colonize the Moon or Mars, and what will we learn from the lasted Mars Rover Perseverance mission? Can we travel to other planets circling other stars and find another home there? Are our efforts to leave earth ultimately constrained by the laws of physics? Can we, as a species, ever escape our worst impulses, or are we doomed to always repeat the mistakes we have made here on Earth? Do our attempts to explore make us better stewards of our home planet and what does the future hold for space exploration?

Join Rob Meyerson – CEO of Delalune Space, thought-leader and former President of Blue Origin – and Adam Steltzner, Spacecraft designer, author, innovator, and Chief Engineer of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance Mission for a discussion of these big questions … and more.

Cost: $20

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The Space Rainbow
Our world is a colorful place – with green trees, blue skies and red flowers – but in space? That’s a whole other story. Space is not just colorful, it is informative with that color. Space is bursting with information in the rainbows emitting from stars and planets. Telescopes have peered into the vast expanse of space and found red shifts and blue shifts, green planets and, sometimes more informatively, ultraviolet and infrared space objects that tell us what an object is made of, how fast it is going and what makes up the incredible array of things we call the Universe. The breakfast talk – The Space Rainbow – by CBC Science Columnist Torah Kachur will explore what color means to an astronomer (hint: colors are numbers) and how color helps us understand the great beyond.