Dillon Connelly (he/they): Alright. Well, it is 10 Am. Pacific at 11 Am. Mountain. So
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I think we are going to go ahead and get started with today's webinar. Thank you so much for joining us today, everyone for another fantastic star and seal solar eclipse activities for libraries. Webinar, today's topic, is viewing eclipses through cultural lenses. My name is Dylan Connolly. My pronouns are he and they. I am a education specialist at Starnet and the Space Science Institute
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and I have been working on getting so many digital resources together for libraries for y'all to help celebrate this really fantastic eclipse. And today we're going to be talking a little bit of a different perspective on eclipses. While we've been doing a lot of discussions in our previous webinars around Western scientific views of the eclipse. Today, we're going to be talking about different historical and cultural contexts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): For the upcoming eclipse which is really really exciting. I'm joined today by my colleagues, Skye and Clare, from the Space Science Institute, who are going to be providing some chat support, sharing out the Link Bank for today's webinar which I've already shared. But Skye and Claire, if one of you wants to share that again that contains the links to everything we're going to be talking about in today's webinar and that feel free to bookmark, that that's going to have links to all the resources as well as the slide deck
Dillon Connelly (he/they): for today's webinar in Powerpoint, Google slides and Pdf format. And so you can reference that a little later, if you want to use any of these resources that we're sharing out. Today I'm joined by Dr. Isabelle Hawkins, senior scientist and educator at the exploratorium in San Francisco who's graciously joined us to talk
Dillon Connelly (he/they): about some of these cultural contexts. And we'll go ahead and dive in today.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So here is the agenda for today. We're gonna do a little bit of an icebreaker which should be really, really fun. And then we're going to be gonna hand this over to Dr. Hawkins to talk about viewing eclipses through cultural lens. I'm gonna be sharing out some resources specifically for your library that can help supplement some of the knowledge you're gonna be hearing today, and then we'll open it up for A. QA.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And before we get started today, since we are talking about different cultures and everything and and cultural context around the eclipse, I want to take just a minute to acknowledge that I am joining today's webinar from the Seattle area, which is the traditional land of the coast. Salish peoples who stewarded this land since time immemorial. I'm going to share a link in the chat to a website called Native Land. Ca.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I highly invite all of you to take some time to look at that website, which is heavily researched, and is a really fantastic resource for finding the languages, territories, and treaties that affect indigenous people in your area.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So I highly recommend you. Check that out and learn a little bit. Something about the history of your area and the indigenous people who care for it. And let's go ahead and move on to that icebreaker. So since we're talking about eclipses today, I thought, what better way to get thinking about
Dillon Connelly (he/they): eclipses and the sun. Then thinking about what solar feature you might feel like today. So are you feeling? Feel free to answer this in the chat. Make sure that the 2 is set to everyone, so everyone can see your answer. But are you feeling like a sunspot today? Are you relatively cool, calm, and collective, embracing change? Are you a solar prominence? Are you showing bright, but also feeling rounded and connected to the the surface of wherever you're at.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Are you a coronal mass ejection? Are you powerful and influential, ready to mess some things up? Maybe knock out a satellite or 2, or are you? The sun's Corona? Are you feeling gassy and sassy? And you won't let anybody shadow dim your light? I am feeling definitely somewhere between a solar prominence and the corona I am ready to. I'm feeling a little showy. I'm ready to put on a show for y'all and share some cool resources.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And let's be real. I'm always feel a little sassy and gassy. So how about y'all? How are you feeling today? Which one of these 4 or more than one describes how you're feeling today.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Isabel is feeling between a sunspot and a prominence. Kim is feeling like a sunspot day a lot of sunspots really cool, cool, calm, and collected. I love that Tuesday morning vibes a lot more sunsets. We got a coronal mass injection. It's been that kind of day. Vicki
Dillon Connelly (he/they): totally been there
Dillon Connelly (he/they): clear spelling like a corona corona mass ejection in Cleveland.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Alison's feeling a little bit between a Corona and a prominence. Anne is feeling like a black hole. All her problems are being absorbed here, and she's collapsing. I am so sorry to hear that. And hopefully, some of the knowledge. And the stuff we're sharing out today is gonna brighten your day a little bit, maybe turn you from a black hole into a white hole. Maybe.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Margaret's feeling like a solar prominence, feel like a healthy mix of all 4. Elizabeth is feeling like the sun's corroded just because she likes the rhyme of sassy and Gassy not gonna lie me, too. Brooks, also from this Space Science Institute. Nice to see you. Brooks is feeling like a sunspot.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Margaret has so much to do. Needs to stay grounded, Tony. Oh, coming in from Pullman, Washington. Nice to see another Washingtonian. Tony's feeling like a sunspot today, Linden Torrey feel like a cronan sunspot respectively. Excellent! Well, thanks. I hope that got you all thinking about your place, how you're feeling today. So much of cultural learning is about understanding your own positionality, your own
Dillon Connelly (he/they): ability to engage with certain things. So I'm glad that everybody was able to take a little minute and think about how they're feeling today before we dive in to to the bulk of today's webinar.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So on that note, I think we're gonna move on, and I'm gonna go ahead and hand this over to Dr. Hawkins to get started with her presentation about viewing the eclipses through a cultural lens, so I'll turn it over to you as well.
Isabel Hawkins: Thank you so much, Dylan. Are you able to hear me? Okay.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): I think you're coming in fantastic, and just let me know when you'd like me to move through the slides.
Isabel Hawkins: Fantastic. Thank you so much. So thank you. Dylan. You've been amazing, and such great support for preparing this presentation. It's a great honor for me to be here today also. Wanna thank Claire and the rest of the amazing team at Space Science Institute and welcome the Star net community to this webinar start. It has been around for so many years, providing excellent resources for educators, librarians.
Isabel Hawkins: and other amazing interested people in space sciences. And now that we have this great total solar eclipse coming up, it was a wonderful opportunity to be able to share with you again. I remember last time I was able to share after the 2017 eclipse as we prepare for new adventures in relationship to the sun and the moon. And I'm really delighted to be here.
I also acknowledge that the exploratorium sits on the unseeded lands and water, so that Rama to Aloni, of the Bay area in San Francisco I shared our full land acknowledgement
Isabel Hawkins: in the in the chat. I also want to say that I'm Sheila pronounce, and I'm very happy to be here with you to share this moment. So
Isabel Hawkins: when it comes to eclipses. The experience can really mean different things to different people.
Isabel Hawkins: And as you may very well know, from having perhaps experience and eclipse sometime in your lifetime, both a lunar eclipse on a solar eclipse. These are experiences that imply a variety of interpretations, different meanings depending on your particular background where you grew up.
Isabel Hawkins: How much science exposure you had. What is your cultural context? So how we perceive eclipses is truly culturally dependent. And I was able to learn more about this cultural dependence, and the various
Isabel Hawkins: ways in which people enjoy eclipses by working with Navajo astronomers. This past October 1420 23, when we had the annular eclipse that went through the Southwest us all the way down through the Yucatan onto the Atlantic.
Isabel Hawkins: and that was a wonderful experience for me, because what I really understood is that
Isabel Hawkins: it's not just about viewing eclipses that is so limiting, and also for people who are have
Isabel Hawkins: certain challenges or special needs, especially when it comes to vision. Some people may not be able to actually see eclipses, but we can all experience eclipses, and the cultural experience that the Navajos shared with us was very particular to their protocols and their land, and we learned a lot about that, and I will share some of the details with you later.
Isabel Hawkins: But what I wanted to do by showing the next slide Dylan is to dive in right away into a few things to remember when working cross culturally
Isabel Hawkins: as library educators, as professionals.
Isabel Hawkins: In the educational context, we encounter cross-cultural opportunities a lot
Isabel Hawkins: in this beautiful diverse country that we live in. And so I wanted to share just under kind of like 4 categories. Some of the things that I have learned by working with many different groups of people from around the world, especially indigenous groups. From various parts
Isabel Hawkins: of this planet, including Polynesia.
Isabel Hawkins: Australia.
Isabel Hawkins: You know, of course, Polynesia, including Hawaii.
Isabel Hawkins: the American Southwest, Mesoamerica and Latin America.
Isabel Hawkins: So the first thing I wanted to just tell you something that my mentor told me a long time ago. She has passed away. Her name was Rose, one to my I honor her spirit here today she was Tuscarora
Isabel Hawkins: and Cherokee. and she told me once, working cross-culturally, is not a contact sport. It is a lifelong journey.
Isabel Hawkins: and within that frame you can realize that the work is always nuanced, that you are going to make mistakes, that we all make mistakes.
Isabel Hawkins: but that we have to embrace the work as something that is an opportunity for us to have continual growth.
Isabel Hawkins: So the images and stories I'm about to share with you are the result of more than 20 years of sustained collaborative work with indigenous partners. and I will share with you the knowledge that they have
Isabel Hawkins: given me generously
Isabel Hawkins: together with the permission to disseminate it. So that's a very important aspect is that by working in collaboration with your partners they will tell you what they are comfortable, you sharing what and what is for you? Only sometimes they would say, this is just for you only, and so that means that we have established a a certain rapport or level of trust in which
Isabel Hawkins: they're comfortable, sharing certain aspects that might be a subtle knowledge that only belongs to the community. But many times we are very insistent from the Western perspective, because we value curiosity so much. We just ask a lot of questions, and sometimes it will be very reticent in terms of sharing knowledge, and the reason is that maybe that knowledge is not for them to share even among themselves, because sometimes it is restricted to certain people that have certain responsibilities for the community.
Isabel Hawkins: So the main thing is that I ask you to think about these 4 aspects. One is to learn about yourselves, your community and your context, community or communities.
Isabel Hawkins: And the main thing is just contacting the cultural barriers who are the people that actually represent these various communities where you live, or that you want to collaborate with, make contact with them and establish your relationship.
Isabel Hawkins: That relationship will be nourished through reciprocity. So by being reciprocal with your communities and with the earth, you will demonstrate that you are willing to engage in this long term relationship.
Isabel Hawkins: Also understand the constraints which is really important, because sometimes we feel that
Isabel Hawkins: oh, my God, we I can't. It's too hard to work cross culturally, because we cannot meet people's expectations and constraints. But that is not the point. I think the point is, what are those constraints? We all have them, you know. If you work at a library or a museum. We have constraints, budgetary constraints. The Federal Government, you know, has certain restrictions. If you have a Federal grant, there's all sorts of things that we have to
Isabel Hawkins: think about and consider.
Isabel Hawkins: They also have constraints, our partners or local partners. If they, if it's a community based organization. What have you so? But the main thing is to honor clear expectations for everyone involved. And that's where this consistent interaction, so that people will have the
Isabel Hawkins: confidence to share with you what their constraints are is really important spending a lot of time in this area is important, and you do it through that strengthening relationship face to face by being reciprocal. And also celebrate together. Sometimes we, you know, do a project, and we just move on to the next in a very linear fashion. Instead of going around a cycle in which we are taking a pause to celebrate and reflect, and also to affirm the collective well, being
Isabel Hawkins: yourselves and your communities. So mistakes will be made if you make a mistake, apologize, learn from it.
Isabel Hawkins: keep up the work, good. The good work and really be reflective about what happened and how how to
Isabel Hawkins: improve things for the next role.
Isabel Hawkins: The next roll around. Okay. So let's go to the next slide. I love this image because lunar eclipses are some of my favorites, and you can see this beautiful telescope image of the lunar eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: Of course we know that lunar eclipses are very safe, perfectly safe to view with the naked eye.
Isabel Hawkins: But this is a question that I get a lot, you know. Is it safe for me to view a lunar eclipse within it? And it it is absolutely safe to view it. Please note that the the red light of the fully eclipsed moon.
Isabel Hawkins: As it looks in this telescope image. I want you to notice that and pay attention to how beautiful the moon looks with the Maria, the craters, the mountains that we can see in all the detail. So let's go to the next slide, please.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, so how does a lunar eclipse happen? What causes a lunar eclipse? So here's just a very simple image that shows that 3 protagonists of an eclipse, which is the sun, the earth, and the moon. You can see them, that they are on the line with the earth between the moon and the sun. So it is actually the shadow of the earth that falls on the moon, causing the lunar eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: So you see 2 different types of of shadow, the umbra, which is the darker shadow of the earth falling on the moon, and the PIN number, which is a more tenuous shadow.
Isabel Hawkins: So the P. Number will cost a partial lunar eclipse. The umbra will cause a total lunar eclipse, so lunar eclipses can be seen from entire hemispheres. The dark side of the earth. And that's why, perhaps a lot more people have seen a total lunar eclipse, because you can see it from the entire hemisphere. So a lot more people can actually do that.
Isabel Hawkins: So let's go to the next one, please.
Isabel Hawkins: So solar eclipses, that's what we're here, probably to learn more about and to get excited about because we have one coming on April eighth.
Isabel Hawkins: So solar eclipses, you can see it's an opportunity to see our star completely covered by the moon, the photosphere of the sun completely covered by the moon, which is the only time from here on the surface of the earth, and we can see the corona, or the outermost atmosphere of the sun.
Isabel Hawkins: which is perfectly safe to view, because the corona of the sun is only as bright as the full moon. So when you see the sun completely covered by the moon, the photos here completely covered, it is safe to remove whatever protection you have your eclipse glasses, you can actually look up the naked eye and see totality, but only during those few minutes of totality which is in this case
Isabel Hawkins: most of the trajectory will be able to experience a 4 min or so eclipse
Isabel Hawkins: a totality. Okay, let's go to the next one.
Isabel Hawkins: Now, what causes a solar eclipse. So here's the image again. But you might notice that now the moon has become in between the earth and the sun, and it is actually shadow of the moon falling on the earth. It causes the sun to completely be obscures and causes the solar eclipse that we're going to see.
Isabel Hawkins: This only happens occasionally, because the moon doesn't orbit in the exact same plane as the sun, and the earth too. So the orbit of the moon is still at 5 degrees with respect to the orbit of the earth around the sun, and that's why we do not have an eclipse
Isabel Hawkins: of the sun. And then an eclipse of the moon every 2 weeks. if everything was in the same line, that's what we what we would have. But now it is actually on the note. So the intersection between those 2 planes.
Isabel Hawkins: and when the 3 bodies are aligned on the along, that note that we actually have either a lunar or a solar eclipse, and again we have the umbra and the PIN number. If you are in the umbra of the moon, the shadow of the moon on the earth that is called the path of totality. That's where you're going to see a total eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: If you are in the PIN number, you're going to see a partial eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to the next one.
Isabel Hawkins: So on April eighth, 2024, there will be a total solar eclipse in the northern hemisphere. Totality will only be visible in this thin swath called the path of totality. If you're outside of it, you will experience the partial eclipse. So this path of totality that is a band? Or is the shadow of the moon, which is either a circle or an oval traveling on the surface of the earth
Isabel Hawkins: under almost the speed of sound, and it is only about 150 kilometers, or 80 or 90 miles wide. So it's a very narrow band, and you have to be right in it, and the closer you are to the center of that path, the longer your eclipse will be.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay. Let's go to the next one.
Isabel Hawkins: Now, I wanted to also point out that there is A. P. Number of lunar eclipse coming on March 20, fourth and 20 fifth, and you might notice that it's 2 weeks before the total solar eclipse. It is the lunar eclipse that is paired with an April eighth total solar eclipse
Isabel Hawkins: and solar and lunar eclipses do come in pairs, because if one, the the 2 orbits of the moon are on the earth, and earth, or the sun cross along those 2 notes
Isabel Hawkins: when the 3 bodies are aligned on one note, 2 weeks later there will be a line on the other. Note. But sometimes you will get a total eclipse on one side and a partial on the other.
Isabel Hawkins: Not at all times. Will you get total on both sides. Okay?
Isabel Hawkins: And just to give you an example. You know, following the the March 24 and 25 per number, lunar eclipse and the April eighth total solar eclipse. The next pair of eclipses will fall on September 1718,
Isabel Hawkins: and October second, and the first pair of eclipses in 2025 will be a March 1314, which will be a total lunar eclipse, and March 29, which will be a partial solar eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: So the path of the sun and the moon on the Silasio sphere, cross each other at that angle of about 5 degrees, and have to those 2 intersections call the notes when both the sun, the moon move near the intersection. At the same time the 2 bodies are almost on the same line in space.
Isabel Hawkins: so the moon will block the sun as seen from the earth, causing a solar eclipse, and similarly the earth shadow cast on the moon. When the earth is in the middle, between the sun and the moon near that intersection will cause the lunar eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: So I love this website called tamunde.com. They have lots of excellent information about time, zones, etc., etc. But they also have a great section on eclipses. And what's happening in the sky. So I recommend that if you want to, for example, know the exact time of eclipses locally in your town. You can put your town and just get the list of upcoming eclipses is really good and reliable.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to the next one, please.
Isabel Hawkins: I wanted to share with you a story, a story of a group of indigenous women and some astronomers as well, both from indigenous and non indigenous backgrounds, that we gathered together as part of what we call the mother moon project
Isabel Hawkins: to observe a total lunar eclipse that happened on November eighth 22. We're actually in Mexico and Chiapas, where we were able to interact with Maya astronomers and Maya knowledge holders, especially women.
Isabel Hawkins: And I just wanted to share with you this experience. Because,
Isabel Hawkins: you know, and and I'm a volunteer for this organization. That's why I was there, but I wanted to point out the cross-cultural aspect of this group. As I mentioned. We're in Chiapas, Mexico, to observe the eclipse, and we have representatives of Pabosa, New Mexico, the Navajo nation, zapatic women from Oaxaca, Mexico, and Maya, women from Guatemala, Yucatan, and Chiapas.
Isabel Hawkins: as well as non-indigenous women astronomers. The participants follow their own cultural protocols and perspectives to observe the eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: and some of them chose not to view it during certain times, utilizing their own traditions, and that speaks to the protocol that we'll get into. A little bit more deeply later on, when I talk about the annular solar eclipse that we had along the Navajo nation, because the Nava have very strict protocols when it comes to viewing eclipses.
Isabel Hawkins: So it was a wonderful time to be together under this clear sky, and the entire lunar eclipse was experienced by most of the women.
Isabel Hawkins: and I frankly have never been outside for an entire eclipse from the very beginning to the end
Isabel Hawkins: of a lunar club. So we had been authors and green lasers and other things for us to to view certain things, we're able to see Orion's nebula. It was really wonderful in the creators of the moon. But what was truly amazing to me is that shared experience among this group and be able to be together and to talk story which is the most powerful to me. Way of learning about science, about life experiences and about cultural protocols.
Isabel Hawkins: So let's go to the next slide, please.
Isabel Hawkins: Now, I also have worked with Maya groups in Guatemala, doing workshops to use microscopes and telescopes, and we call this workshop, observing with one eye on the heart of sky and one eye on the heart of earth.
Isabel Hawkins: and that comes it harkens to some of the origin stories of the Mayan, the purple book which talk about the heart of sky in the heart of earth and the Ceba tree as being the connecting tree of life or axis mundi that connects all the realms, the realm of the underworld
Isabel Hawkins: of the ancestors, the realm of of the earth, where we live now, and the realm of the upper world. of the deities and and other
Isabel Hawkins: important places where my astronomy and my culture are actually developed and continue to be developed.
Isabel Hawkins: Now I put this warning here. Never observed the sun with a telescope or binoculars, because I don't want you to think that we were looking at the sun. We're actually looking at the moon. you know. If you have a telescope with an H. Alpha filter, or some kind of a special filter to be able to to look at the sun.
Isabel Hawkins: Neutral density filter. Then it's okay. But you have to know that those filters are good and appropriate.
Isabel Hawkins: and the same thing. If you have a pair of eclipse glasses, you can, of course, look at the sun at any time, not just during eclipses using your eclipse glasses. But if you do not have proper protection, you can actually burn a hole in your retina, and it could lead to blindness.
Isabel Hawkins: The reason why we can easily just forget about it, and start looking at the partially eclipse sun, or is because we have no nerve
Isabel Hawkins: and things, no nerve sensation. So we don't feel pain in the retina. And of course, when you try and look at the sun on a regular day. It's so bright that you just go like that, and you're not going to be able to do it. Your own body tells you not to do it.
Isabel Hawkins: But when the sun is mostly completely eclipsed, and you have a tiny bit of photosphere available to see, you might just say, Oh, it's okay. Now I can look at it. It's not that bright - don't do it, because that is any part of the photosphere is way too bright for you to be able to to look at it directly without a proper protection is only one. The sun has covered the moon completely, and you're under complete totality when you only see the corona that it is safe to look with the anated eye.
Isabel Hawkins: So. But II just wanted to point out that in this collaboration with my colleagues in in Guatemala. we did these observation workshops, and people were really amazed to see the moon using various telescopes and binoculars, and also starting with our own eyes.
Isabel Hawkins: And even though the moon is most apparent in the night sky, you can also see it during the day, as many of you already know.
Isabel Hawkins: and the moon is always safe to observe with a telescope our binoculars during the day or during the night, since light of the moon is not harmful to the human eye, and each cultural group decides how and when they want to observe the moon flowing, following that their own cultural protocols, especially when it comes to eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: So let's go to the next slide.
Isabel Hawkins: please. And also this is an example of how people across cultures are using multilingual resources to enhance the experience of eclipses and of astronomy in their own communities.
Isabel Hawkins: For example, this is a book written in the Kiche Mayan language.
Isabel Hawkins: and I was very happy to see that many of the knowledge of the knowledge that still exists in their community is being shared with their with their younger generations in their own language.
Isabel Hawkins: So let's go to the next slide, please.
Isabel Hawkins: Of course I've been in collaboration with Maya scholars and knowledge holders for the past 20 years, and I'm very fortunate to have learned a lot from them, and there are many sources of information about cultural astronomy or Maya astronomy that come from the Academy. You know academic knowledge from universities, books, and articles. You also have the oral tradition that is still being curated by the Maya knowledge holders themselves.
Isabel Hawkins: You also have the ancestral sites, like pyramids, platforms, and other temples, that many of them being aligned to solar motion to the stars, the Pleiades
Isabel Hawkins: equinoxes and solstices. Zenith passage, native passage of the sun, which is in a phenomenon that occurs only within the tropics when the sun is directly overhead, and your shadow disappears at noon, or when the sun is directly underneath at midnight, and these particular solar positions are very tied to cultural protocols, such as when the the sun is straight above. During the zenith passage, you have
Isabel Hawkins: what is called the day of the Holy Cross. So many of these.
Isabel Hawkins: dates are conflated with Catholic traditions as well, and for the native passage of some of the sun is straight underneath. At midnight this one day of the dead happen. So the sun is waking the ancestors to come up and visit the communities. So many of these traditions that now are tied to Catholicism or contemporary community celebrations actually have an astronomical underpinning.
Isabel Hawkins: and, as we know, the the Maya astronomical legacy is very well known around the world.
Isabel Hawkins: And the astronomical knowledge is expressed through a variety of of of means in including their their sky traditions and their stories, but also I wanted to point out that there are some historical documents, particularly for codices, or these accordion shaped bark books.
Isabel Hawkins: and that you know, the legacy of astronomy is very well known through depictions of my astronomers themselves, or, for example, in this image, that we see
Isabel Hawkins: both the agricultural and ceremonial Maya calendar systems depicted in this one image. But there are now more than still known that there are still more than 20 calendars that are still curated by Maya people in Mesoamerica today, which are called Akihab or calendar keepers.
Isabel Hawkins: Let's go to the next image, please.
Isabel Hawkins: Now this image comes from one of those codices, or accordion-shaped books called the Dress and codex, and it actually shows eclipse tables.
Isabel Hawkins: So the lunar eclipse is on the left, and the solar eclipse is on the right, so you can see that there is some kind of an icon or figure that has
Isabel Hawkins: the left side light the right side symmetrically dark. So these are representations of the 2 types of eclipses. So the Maya were able to actually predict the frequency of eclipses. They just couldn't tell where a total solar eclipse would happen.
Isabel Hawkins: And let's go to the next one, please.
Isabel Hawkins: So the relationship of the sun and the moon is acknowledged throughout their oral tradition stories but also the Popul book, which is the Maya origin story. And I saw that in your list of links the starnet community
Isabel Hawkins: resources that the purple voic is is part of the one of the resources features. So I encourage you to go and look at that, because the origin story really speaks to the astronomy of the Maya.
Isabel Hawkins: and let's go to the next slide.
Isabel Hawkins: So I'm showing you these are art pieces. We might just attract face value, say, Oh, this is a ceramic plate.
Isabel Hawkins: It is a funerary plate. We know that because it has a hole in the middle, and so the funerary objects that are found in tombs actually needed to be ritually killed. So you kill the function of the plate, and that's how the plate which has its own energy can also die together with the person that is being buried with the plate. But I just want you to notice that you see a turtle in the middle kind of the lower middle of the plate. There's a turtle on the right hand side and the left hand side. There are 2
Isabel Hawkins: percentages to
Isabel Hawkins: II don't know. Individuals, I guess.
Isabel Hawkins: which represent the sun and the moon. and then through the middle of the turtle, you see the maze God or the corn God, which is the Father, father of the hero, twins, the heroic hero twins being represented by the sun and the moon.
Isabel Hawkins: So this plate is actually an astronomical chart, because the sun and the moon are 180 degrees apart, and if they're 180 degrees apart. You know it was a full moon, right? And also we know that Orion, during this, the time that the the dates of this particular plate. The mythical date, which is the origin story of the Maya Orion was in the underworld
Isabel Hawkins: and
Isabel Hawkins: the Sun God is merging through the zenith zenith sun. So this is actually an astronomical chart. So by working cross culturally, you can also start thinking about how information is curated, how information is stored, how information is passed on from generation to generation. It is not just through written documents or articles, or going to the University. It is all through also, through many forms of human expression.
Isabel Hawkins: And let's go to the other slide, which is another example of another astronomical chart. This is actually a vase, Amaya base, that has been like the whole design has been peeled out so that you can see the whole of it at the same time.
Isabel Hawkins: So the images by Patricia Martin Morales, which you could take Maya from Mexico. So in here you see a save a tree on the left, which is the tree of life, or the the tree that connects earth and sky, you see a scorpion at the bottom, and at the top you see a bird, a maca.
Isabel Hawkins: and then on the right-hand side. You see one of the hero twins, 1 point who's actually throwing a dart trying to kill the bird.
Isabel Hawkins: So in the Maya cosmology, 7 month call is the Big Dipper, the 7 Stars of the Big Dipper.
Isabel Hawkins: Scorpio is the constellation Scorpio. The Seva tree is the Milky Way, and actually, since the Scorpion is also a harbinger of water. This is announcing the rain. So it's telling you how the constellations are arranged in the sky with the Milky way in the middle during the time when the rains come, and I have seen this with my own eyes lying at an ancillary in the Yucatan. In march when the March equinox
Isabel Hawkins: rains are about to begin, and you had the Big Dipper on one side of the Milky Way and Scorpio on the other side. So this is also an astronomical chart.
Isabel Hawkins: Amazing? Right? So it's just like Whoa just blows your mind to think how you can store and transmit knowledge and ways that are so creative and so beautiful. But we have to kind of like, take a step back from our own filters and our own ex personal experiences about how we have acquired education and how we value education to also value other forms of cultural expression that also share knowledge. Scientific knowledge.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to the other one.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to our total solar clips coming up. I'm so excited and I'm just like terrified because I have so much to do, because the exploratorium is gonna be doing a live webcast from Texas. So I'll tell you a little bit more about it.
Isabel Hawkins: anyway. One of the most memorable experiences in your life. So how many of you have seen or or experience the total eclipse? Put it on the chat, put in the chat. Then let us know which one you saw. I saw 2, one in Turkey, in 2,006,
Isabel Hawkins: and the other one in Casper Wyoming, in 2,017, and then for the 2019, the one from Chile. I was actually at the export, even though we did have telescopes there. Let's see what you all are doing. You got excited
Isabel Hawkins: 2017, lots of 2017, right? That was the great American eclipse. This will be the second great American eclipse. So maybe you'll get a chance to see it, too. That's fantastic. Okay? So we're gonna have 2 transmissions. The exploratory manas are gonna be doing live transmissions, one from Junction, Texas, and the other a little bit earlier on the path from
Isabel Hawkins: Probably on Mexico in Kuala. Okay, the next slide. It's right here. That shows how we can observe the eclipse in a variety of different ways, and these are kind of like our high tech and cool ways of seeing solar eclipses, not just from earth or from other parts of the of the universe. I want to point out that we're seeing the shadow of the earth on the upper left on the International Space Station. You see that oval in there, the shadow of the moon on the earth. Excuse me.
Isabel Hawkins: then, the same thing from the Mirror space station on the up upper right, you see the shadow kind of right at the edge of the terminator there of the edge of the of the earth you see the shadow of the moon
Isabel Hawkins: also from the hinote Japanese solar spacecraft
Isabel Hawkins: we see the moon coming between the spacecraft and the sun, and a ground-based
Isabel Hawkins: total eclipse view which hopefully will all get a chance to experience on April eighth.
Isabel Hawkins: and then my favorite, the one on the lower right is actually the Mars Perseverance. Rover seen a solar eclipse as the moon Phobos, Martian moon. Phobos crosses in front of the sun. On August 2022. So that's pretty cool.
Isabel Hawkins: Alright, let's go to the next slide. And let's talk about eye safety for this upcoming Solar Club.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay? So doing, a total solar eclipse, and only during totality. When the moon completely covers the photosphere of the sun, we can look up at the fully eclipse sun and see the corona, it is safe to do so, because the corona is only as bright as the full moon, so I cannot hurt our eyes.
Isabel Hawkins: But during the partial phases of the total eclipse before and after, and also during an annular eclipse, which is, after all, the partial eclipse at all times, which never look up at the sun without proper protection. So I just kind of put in this image when you can look
Isabel Hawkins: without protection during totality, and when you need to protect yourself or view it indirectly. So let's go to the next slide that talks about those indirect views and also using your eclipse classes.
Isabel Hawkins: Now to safely view the partial faces of any solar eclipse. You can use these indirect techniques called PIN holes.
Isabel Hawkins: Or also, if you have a pair of eclipse glasses. You can look up directly.
Isabel Hawkins: but I think it's actually really fun to use shadows and PIN holes to be able to look at the sun indirectly in our exploratory and website, which is also listed in the resources that Dylan shared.
Isabel Hawkins: With you. You can find lots of trusted sources where you can get solar eclipse glasses, or that shows how to create the various PIN holes and how to use your calendars and create your cross finger PIN holes, or look at the PIN holes that are created through in between the leaves on a tree which is the image on the left here.
Isabel Hawkins: and I was blown away by the annular eclipse. Because see those rings between the the leaves really made it clear to me how our ancestors would have known that there was an eclipse happening, even though during an annual eclipse in a partial eclipse.
Isabel Hawkins: the environment doesn't change that much. It's only during the total solar eclipse on your environment will change perceptively. But then, understanding these changes in the shadows is what would have given our ancestors the clues. Let's go to the next one.
Isabel Hawkins: I spent this annular eclipse that happened on October fourteenth, 2023, in in Val valley of the Gods, Utah. So not a whole country, and it was really a special time, and and I know clips is also so cool it just blew me away. I really didn't think that I would enjoy it that much. It was sort of oh, it's a partial eclipse. It's not as good as total. - it's truly fantastic.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to the next slide.
Isabel Hawkins: and here shows our production. The exploratorium did the live transmission with NASA as a partner, and we were in this amazing cultural region that includes heritage from the Navajo nation. The Hopi tribe Ute Mountain Ute, Indian tribe went Thai and Uri Ute, Indian tribe, Zuni and other pueblos of New Mexico. So the cultural context was extremely rich. And so we did
Isabel Hawkins: many different cultural resources that we shared with people to give information that really came through partnership, and the partnership that I want to highlight is our in our next slide, our feature collaborators, doctors, Nancy, Mary, Boy, and David be gay.
Isabel Hawkins: who are Navajo astronomers, and have an organization called the Indigenous Education Institute, who was our main partner in helping us share their knowledge and their cultural protocols about not viewing the eclipse. Many Navajos will not choose not to view the eclipse, to go inside the hogan and tell Star stories and spend the whole time reflecting about the cosmos and astronomy. So it is a different way of experiencing the eclipse, even though it's not
Isabel Hawkins: the same way as we want to experience the eclipse, but it's also very valid and very rich.
Isabel Hawkins: Let's go to the next slide. We also work with a local Navajo in our alcohol, young woman, who made those needed beaded medallions to explain
Isabel Hawkins: the trajectory of the from partial to annular to partial eclipse again. And also I just showed you here on the right how through a pegboard, you know, like those things that you put in your garage to hang your tools. That's another really good way of creating PIN holes. And look at those beautiful rings that were created through the pegboard, and also what we saw
Isabel Hawkins: through leaves. And since we're in the desert and we didn't have leafy trees, I just went to Amazon, and I bought a bunch of ficus fake fake leaves. You can see them on the table there, those branches, but they work really well to help us. Showcase the PIN holes through leaves.
Isabel Hawkins: Okay, let's go to the next slide. So by working with our Navajo cultural bears
Isabel Hawkins: they shared with us that the Navajo worldview of the universe is truly observation and place-based knowledge.
Isabel Hawkins: So it's really relevant to their place that they have been living for generations.
Isabel Hawkins: and that knowledge lives in their traditional language, their native language.
Isabel Hawkins: that they focus on process or world and motion, and that they value the interrelationship of all things, and so based on our understanding of what their priorities were and what they wanted to showcase with their own community members and with the world about the Navajo worldview of the universe.
Isabel Hawkins: Let's go to the next slide. We created a poster, an eclipse poster written in the Dina language. So the blue type in there is actually denell language, and the and the white is the English translation.
Isabel Hawkins: And David began, who was the Nava astronomer? That was our collaborator. He worked with the an elder and nava whole linguist, even though he himself knows that in the language very well, but he wanted to make sure that some of the old language could be represented here.
Isabel Hawkins: and also to showcase the from their perspective. Why, it's important to study eclipses. What are the Navajo protocols for viewing or not eclipses? Some people decide to view, some people do not, and I safety. So that was kind of the the focus of the poster was extremely popular. NASA has also printed many, many copies of this
Isabel Hawkins: and Dylan. If I have not given you the Pdf. Of this, I'll I will do so. But it is in our exploratory website. So we have a very nice video on Denare Navajo cosmology and belief system around eclipses. And we also have this poster in our exploratory website. It's already linked in there.
Isabel Hawkins: Just exploratory edu slash eclipse. I will put it here on the chat.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And that actually, that eclipse website is in the link. If you all are interested in checking out that eclip exploratorium resources the eclip. The explorer times eclipse hub is linked in the link. Link we've been sharing out all day. Okay, cool. So let's go. I have 2 more slides. Let's go through really quickly.
Isabel Hawkins: This slide shows our our partners in Tokyo, Mexico, who are also part of our eclipse transmission. They're gonna we're gonna have telescopes that we're gonna use their telescopes in their planetarium in torion. They're actually the seat of all of Latin America. For this total solar eclipse, especially Mexico, because the path of totality starts. A massive line goes through Durango and and
Isabel Hawkins: the States of Northern Mexico, then through Texas, and now through main. But they will have actually the best opportunity to have clear sky. So let's hope so. More so than the rest of the Continental us. So we're very excited to collaborate with them. But what I was showing them here is how to use
Isabel Hawkins: their own fingers. Use your own body as the instrument of observation, and that's where I always like to start with. My students is not go to the Eclipse classes don't go to the telescope right away. Begin with their own bodies as the instrument of observation, their capacities for noticing which is doing the cross fingers, and then you can see on the right hand side that the cross fingers of this woman create pinhole cameras.
Isabel Hawkins: and that what gets imaged on the ground here on the white floor are actually images of the sun. That's why they look round, even though the cross fingers are not round.
Isabel Hawkins: And the same thing you can do with a slotted spoon from your kitchen or calendar, you can, or a pegboard.
Isabel Hawkins: And then, during the partial phases of the eclipse, instead of seeing round images of the sun, you will, of course, see wedges or the partially eclipse sun. So that's very, very wonderful. To begin with, the students as the instrument of observation, but of course, looking down, not looking directly up at the at the sun, and then introduce other things like the eclipse glasses, or the telescope, or other technologies.
Isabel Hawkins: And then the next picture I want to show you is a really good way, that our Mexican partners came up with to protect eclipse glasses. The use of eclipse glasses do not be wasteful.
Isabel Hawkins: and to be able to use it the next time, and to provide an equitable and orderly opportunity for the public or students to view the partial faces of the eclipse with the Eclipse classes using a close line. So an eclipse glasses. Close line is really, really a wonderful way for you to organize that view and experience and protect the eclipse classes. Be able to use it one more time.
Isabel Hawkins: because otherwise they get just.
Isabel Hawkins: you know, thrown about or misused, and then they get scratched, and you don't get them back. And it's a thing. So they came up with this thing, and then they they don't
Isabel Hawkins: until the clips. It was fantastic. Okay, one more slide or 2 more slides. I guess I want to point into the science snacks that the exploratorium does for eclipse. Again, that is also in our website. Those are teacher, ready. Teacher tested activities related to eclipse
Isabel Hawkins: that are using very everyday materials. And the last one is just to give a plug again to our
Isabel Hawkins: website. But also we have a free app both for Android
Isabel Hawkins: and Ios called total solar eclipse. So just get that app. That's the icon there, the little yellow thingy, and you can get the images of the eclipse. Only telescope only, or you can get the full length hour, long Spanish language program or the English language program.
Isabel Hawkins: And so if you want to do your own interpretation of the eclipse as the live images come through, if you're not on the path of totality, or even if you are, because the images we provide are amazing and all different filters. And we also talk about NASA science, etc.
Isabel Hawkins: But if you wanted to just use those. Go to our website because you could even get the coordinates of our satellite and bring it directly. Beam it directly down to your library to show the public.
Isabel Hawkins: Alright, that's it.
Isabel Hawkins: Last slide. And then we say goodbye
Isabel Hawkins: and questions, or whatever Dylan wants to do. Thank you very much. Everyone.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Thank you so much, Isabelle. These are such fantastic information and resources you've been sharing. I'm going to be sharing out
Dillon Connelly (he/they): just a few resources for your library. We're bumping about 15 min left in the webinar. So I'm going to go through this a little quickly, so we can make sure we get to a Q&A section. But we put together a ton of resources specifically around these cultural connections. But I also want to invite you to explore the Starnet website at starnet libraries org and our community website at community data, starnet libraries org
Dillon Connelly (he/they): which has all of our blogs where we have tons of seal resources for you and eclipse resources to help your library.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So included in the Link Bank. We have a list of some really fantastic books that are available in both English and Spanish for readers of all ages, that if you wanted to acquire some of these to have as a display, if you're planning on doing some passive programming at your library around the Eclipse, or even just in the next month, coming up on the eclipse. If you have any of these in your collection, or want to acquire them. We have links to those books
Dillon Connelly (he/they): in that link Bank.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Isabel has also provided us with some fantastic ebooks from a previous project that she was involved in called Traditions of the Sun, and all of these are available multilingually. There's 2 different books, a photographic journey to the Yucatan and the Sun Earth connection at Chaco culture, national, Historical Park.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): The first is available trilingually in Yucatec, Mayan, Spanish, and English, and then it's also available in Slutsil Mayan. And then the second book is available in English and Spanish, and we've actually uploaded those to our servers, and we've made them available for free. They're linked under the ebooks in Pdfs section in the Link bank that we've been sharing out really, really highly recommend those
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and these are NASA exploratory, Isabel. Can they use these images that are included in the books for programming and anything like that? So these are everything in these books is also yours to use. If you wanted to use this for some cultural programming around the eclipses, just credit credit us. Credit the copyright Uc. Regents from NASA. Please
Dillon Connelly (he/they): also include in the ebooks, and Pdf. Section is the Seal Eclipse guide that we've actually put together for the 2,023 and 2,024 eclipses. I know Isabel was talking a lot about safe viewing the eclipses, pinhole projections, all of that kind of stuff.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): That booklet actually, has a link to all sorts of information, including time and date. So you can find exactly when the path the time of totality will be. If you're on the path of totality. You can. Also, there's links to an eclipse simulator in there. So you can actually see what percentage of totality will be available in your Zip code. And that booklet is available in both English and Spanish.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and has printable, terrible pages for things. For your patrons and visitors and learners that you can use. That that is all available for you highly recommend checking out that guide
Dillon Connelly (he/they): we are also have
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Isabel was mentioning the story of 7 Macaw and the the 7 Mccaws, like villainous conflict with the hero twins and the Popolvo, the Maya origin story. We also have these pinhole projectors that are printable Maya constellation cards. You can actually be used as a pinhole projector for viewing the eclipse. Those are also available in English and Spanish, and that link is also in the link bank.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We also have some resources. If you are interested in learning more about some of the Mayan astronomical legends and the origin myths that Isabel was talking about, I'm included in a link in the Link Bank. Native skywatchers is a really fantastic group of indigenous astronomers and astronomy, and so enthusiasts.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): and back in 2,020, they actually did a fantastic virtual event on mine astronomy, which includes a hour long or a 2 h long, actually a digital presentation that has information from indigenous scholars on the dressed in Codex mine eclipse cycles. It all, even has a talk.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): From Mexican in Mayan astronaut, Jose Hernandez and an accompanying Pdf booklet that has a ton of information about the Maya's understanding of the sun. And what's fantastic about this is, you know, one of the things that I think is important when you're dealing cross culturally, especially with indigenous folks, is, it's easy to think of indigenous folks as historical.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): or people who lived entirely in the past. But, as you can see from those knowledge of the traditional knowledge of the Sun books, and in these talks, especially from native Skywalkers, Skywatchers, the Mayan people are still around. There are many Mayan languages that are still being spoken. The Mayan people are still thriving in Mexico, and that's true for indigenous people all around the world, and especially in North America.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So if you want to familiarize yourself with some of those stories, and how they relate to astronomy. Yeah, you can check out that skywalker's Skywatchers event. There's also a really fantastic, animated documentary that I've actually watched quite a few times about the populace. Which is that that origin, that mine origins myth.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): It is available. If your library is a subscriber to the Alexander Street Academic video online platform. There is a link to that in both English and Spanish.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And there's also an English version that somebody it's slightly lower quality than the Alexander Street version, but somebody has uploaded that to Youtube as well in English. So that's really fantastic. It uses that documentary uses all is animated directly from Mayan art. So it is, and it is narrated actually, by an indigenous narrator from from the Yakima up here in the Northwest
Dillon Connelly (he/they): so really, really fantastic, documentary, fascinating in its own right, but especially in relation to some of the things we've been talking about today with my end the Mayan understanding of the skies and astronomy.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Our friends at Night Sky Network have also put together a really fantastic set of slides and cards from their eclipse ambassadors program called Ways of Knowing Eclipses around the world, and that is printable cards. It has back in front for each slide or card that explores eclipse stories from all around the world.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Stories from Mexico. Uganda, Korea, Chile, Scandinavia, many North American native groups and more, and has information about. how many different cultures view and experience the eclipse!
Dillon Connelly (he/they): We also just recently had a webinar entirely dedicated to bilingual eclipse resources in both English and Spanish. We put together through Starnet, through the seal project, through the solar eclipse activities for libraries project a ton of resources in both English and Spanish. So we have. We have a link to that webinar in the Link bank, a recording, a link to that link to that webinar is also in our link bank
Dillon Connelly (he/they): which has many, many different resources that we put together in both English and Spanish. We also have a collection of if you have perused our stem activity, Clearinghouse before, we have a collection of and of solar eclipse and solar science activities, all of which are available in both English and Spanish. We have things like how to build your own eclipse viewer out of any box that has instruct the background science about how to you
what a camera obscura is, which is what a pinhole projector is.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): How to build one of those out of any box, how to turn that into an engineering design challenge. We have demonstrations about things like how to demonstrate solar energy with water bottles and balloons. How to create a a. We were talking about holding on to eclipse glasses or that eclipse clothesline. If you wanted to hand out individually, we have a printable foldable eclipse glasses.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Storage case that you can print out of cardstock ton of really cool stuff. Highly recommend checking out both that webinar and that collection the links to that recording and more are in our link. Bank.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So that is. And we have all of like. I said, all of these resources that we've been sharing out today are available in the Link Bank. We have links to the the constellation card that native Skywatchers event, the populace documentary. We also have a link to the bilingual Smithsonian living Maya time website. So tons of ways for you to
Dillon Connelly (he/they): learn and get some resources around Mayan astronomy, and we have a link to the Exploratorium's eclipse site, linked directly to the Navajo and dune understanding of the cosmos, a subsection of the Exploratorium's website. Those ways of knowing eclipse slides and cards, those books we were talking about earlier and much, much more. So please please be sure to check out that link bank. I'm gonna ask Sky or Claire. Throw that in the chat one more time.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): And now that we've got about just about 5 min left in the webinar, we'll go ahead and open the floor up to some questions you can feel free to unmute if you're feeling brave or throw that into the chat. I know that we had some questions in the chat as we were going. I know that we had a question about
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Solar filters. I did put a link in the chat to double A S's optic optics, filters website. They have information about how to find the proper filter for your camera or telescope. If you are planning on using that for any of your programming. I did. There was a question, Isabel, about using the dine
Dillon Connelly (he/they): poster that you put together about the
Dillon Connelly (he/they): knowledge and safety for the eclipse? If folks wanted to use that, should they just credit the exploratorium, indigenous Education Institute and NASA.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Thank you so much.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Alright, do we have.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So yeah, so Marsette is the you can go ahead and post that to your social media credit
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Lizabell is putting that information of who to credit in the chat right now?
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Excellent! Does anybody have any other questions feel free to unmute and ask.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): oh! And we supplied with the sunscape as well as the telescope. Excellent!
Isabel Hawkins: Let me wait.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Oh, Annika, the link to those constellation cards is in the Link bank we've been sharing out under the Mayan astronomy and eclipses. You'll see that there's a link into both the English and Spanish versions for that 7 macaw constellation card.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): You, dear. Thank you. Oh, well, thank you for attending. It's fantastic. Thank you so much for for joining us. And we're glad that you found some of these resources useful.
Isabel Hawkins: I just, I just wanna share one more thing. So you know, we used to have the exploratory website that was completely redone for these 2 next eclipses. We used to have a cultural cultural around the world.
Isabel Hawkins: Stories of eclipses from around the world.
Isabel Hawkins: and, to be honest, I don't know who wrote that. That was before my time of the exploratorium, and I we just couldn't find out who had wrote that written that page.
Isabel Hawkins: It was, you know. So if you go to the Internet, and you find all these cultural stories, and you just put them down. Whatever sounded good. There was no source
Isabel Hawkins: information, no authorship. It was not done in collaboration with any cultural representatives. It was an embarrassment right? This is the exploratory. We said, this has to come down. It has to come down right now.
Isabel Hawkins: So we took it down.
Isabel Hawkins: And then we said, Okay, what can we? Do, you know? So what we decided to do, which we are still working on because we we're taking our time, you know, if you cannot do it right. Just don't do it right. That's that's another lesson. But and doing it right means in partnership
Isabel Hawkins: in partnership with people who are the cultural bearers. So what we decided to do is okay. The exploratorium has gone to various parts of the world since 1,998
Isabel Hawkins: to do live eclipse webcasts. Let's work with those partners. find their stories, and whatever story they want to tell, they want to tell a cultural story, great if they want to turn their own personal story about how they experience the eclipse. Great it is up to them self-determination. Let them tell the story as they wish.
Isabel Hawkins: we will collaborate with them, so that we have our writers and editors and illustrators and things that, and then have them check the story, approve the story have their picture, their little bio. Quote.
Isabel Hawkins: that's what we decided to do. We're not gonna have just any old story. I mean, I'm looking at this amazing Anishinaabic perspective. But we have not been in Anishinabek country. So why should we put that story in our website? So that was a big kind of
Isabel Hawkins: taking stock, thinking about it. trying to understand where you made the mistake. How was it made.
Isabel Hawkins: and how can we do it better? So I just wanted to share that story, because it's very personal, right, and very personal to our museum.
Isabel Hawkins: And it was a great lesson learned, and something that we had to retract.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So sometimes you have to retract. So thank you for listening to you, Isabelle, and I think that's a great lesson, especially as we're thinking about libraries and your community. It's important to remember to. You know, you can reflect your community, reach out to your community and tell the stories that are relevant and specific to your community by partnering with those who want to tell their own story in your in your community, which I think is an important lesson we can all learn, not just in libraries, but throughout life.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): So we are just a couple minutes over. It looks like the the questions have dried up in the chat. So I want to thank everybody for taking the time and enjoying and joining us. Today. We hope you enjoyed this information. Obviously, we're just scratching the surface of how to do cultural sensitive programming at your library. So we hope that this helped kickstart a new way of viewing the eclipse through a lens other than science.
Dillon Connelly (he/they): Thank you so much to Dr. Isabella Hawkins for joining us today. What a fantastic presentation! And we
Dillon Connelly (he/they): we're just overall. I'm I'm I'm tongue tied just thinking about how joy I have. I share this information out for with all y'all we're gonna be posting this recording to our Youtube channel, I'll also include that. I'll update the link bank once that recording is up. So if you wanna refer back to this, that as long. Please bookmark that Link Bank, we'll go ahead and throw that in the chat one more time. to to
Dillon Connelly (he/they): to make sure you have it, and we'll update that link bank with the recording a little later on. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you to Dr. Hawkins. Thank you to Claire and Skye and all my
Dillon Connelly (he/they): wonderful colleagues at SSI, and I hope you all have a fantastic rest of your day and enjoy that eclipse in just a few weeks. Thanks so much for Joining us, everyone