Beyond IYA2009 with SARM in Romania

19 January 2010

The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy (SARM) announces the launching of the last project of the project Astropoetry : an original photo-artistic-literary chronicle of 2009 and the largest-ever astronomical poetry tribute, with 200 participants from 6 continents, coordinated by Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Valentin Grigore and Florin Stancu.

More information:

-Autumn Symphonies (centred on SARM’s Astro 2009 Event, including the Closing Ceremony of 100 Hours of Astronomy and Galilean Nights in Romania)

http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/autumn.html

-Memories around Astropoetry Shows (about artistic attitudes of fascinating personalities in international astronomy) http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/memories.html

-A Unique TV Astro-Broadcast (about Valentin Grigore’s “Noi si Cerul” - Us and the Sky series on Columna TV-Targoviste, dedicated to the IYA along 2009) http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/auniqueastrobroadcast.html and www.sarm.ro/noisicerultv

-4^thQuarter 2009 (an international sky chronicle in words and images, plus a chapter dedicated to Johannes Kepler) http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/4th.html

All these pages at:

http://www.cosmopoetry.ro/astropoetrytoiya/

At the same time, SARM has launched a special page in English dedicated to the Romanian traditions about the Cosmos: Ion Ottescu’s 1907 masterpiece (translated by Alastair McBeath - Vice-President of the International Meteor Organization - and Andrei Dorian Gheorghe) “Romanian Peasants’ Beliefs in Stars and Sky” (which includes an amazing folkloric list of constellations and represents an invaluable contribution to world astromythology) and the series “Romanian Astrohumanism” at:

www.sarm.ro/credinte

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