early bird tickets until 31 January only €35. From Feb 1 tickets are €50. 4 days of festivities with astro-concerts, talks; walks, hikes, workshops, speakers on the folklore of astronomy from Ireland and far afield - the theme for this year's festival is 'Under One Sky'
Willie Duggan, lighting engineer, gave a great talk during the festival on 'light and how it affects our health' - soft lighting in the evenings from now on! Thank you to all our supporters including Wille Duggan, Kerry Co Co, Údárás na Gaeltachta, Brí UR
Launched at our Irish Astronomy Week event today - explore the digital online map of Dark Sky Places in the Kerry International Dark Sky Reserve https://t.co/Lt8HVpL22j
a great line-up of events at the festival - a special talk on light pollution by lighting engineer @willie_duggan is one of our talks that places emphasis on the natural enviromment. Another highlight: Space Junk by Jessica McKenna, Orbital Dynamics Specialist
@saolodheas@RTERnaG Mar eolas: Féile Spéire Dorcha i gCiarraí Theas 4-7 Aibreáin. Ocáidí as Gaelinn agus as Béarla. Beidh Seán Mac an tSithigh agus go leor daoine eile linn!
@Erika_McGann We're big fans of It's too Dark Puffling and would love to slide into your DMs and discuss a collaboration of sorts. Could you send us a message with a way to contact you? Thanks a mil.
To help our planning we would really appreciate your honest feedback about this years festival, negative or positive it all helps us to improve future offerings. We have put together a feedback form here which we invite you to fill out: https://t.co/hDK2EiaxRM 2/2
Now we have caught our breath we can reflect on the 2023 Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival. Despite the weather working against us at some points we were delighted with how the festival turned out and are already thinking about how we can manage a festival in 2024! 1/2
And finally, to the organisations who supported us, without whom this festival could not have happened; @udarasnag, @heritageirelandopw, @uccBEES , @ecomuseumslive, @cairdeuibhrathaigh, @BriUibh, @countykerry, and @IrelandWales /5
After a fantastic 2nd edition of the Skellig Coast Dark Sky Festival, we want to take this opportunity to say thank you. Firstly, thank you to all of you who came to the festival, shared our content, and generally supported us over the last few weeks.
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To our local businesses who got involved with the festival and hosted events; @skelligsix18, @skelligsauna, @kerry_aqua_terra and @seasynergyireland /4