When the sun sets Friday (December 20) in the western Canadian city of Edmonton, it will be the start of the longest night of the year. A group of professors and students hope to “shed some light ” on what it means to live that experience, so they’re asking people to share tweets, narratives, pictures, videos and posts on line.
The group that’s coordinating the crowdsourcing, Edmonton Pipelines, describes itself as “a collection of digital maps and literary provocations by five professors (Daniel Laforest, Heather Zwicker, Maureen Engel and Russell Cobb) and student researchers (Erika Luckert, Joyce Yu, Samia Pedraca, Luciano Frizzera, Anna Sajecki, Katherine Krohn)”
On its website, Edmonton Pipeline, calls for people to share what it feels like to live a long night: “On Dec 20th, the sun will set at 4:16 pm and will not rise again until 8:48 am — over 16 and half hours of darkness — leading into Edmonton’s shortest day: 7h 27m 38s of daylight. What does the city look and feel like under such darkness? How do we squeeze as much light as we can out of our shortest day?”
The hashtag for the event is #YEGlongnight (YEG is the IATA airport code for Edmonton)
More information:
Edmonton Pipelines website – edmontonpipelines.org
Edmonton long night – yeglongnight.edmontonpipelines.org
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