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Training on how to increase entertainment value of presentations

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Workshops to train planetarium staff in media production activities (e.g., video editing, 3D animation basics, etc., which is of course available commercially, but maybe more useful as an activity by planetarians for planetarians?)

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Initiate an exchange program for planetarium presenters to allow them to see and learn from performances in other domes – much like IPS’s already existing exchange programs (“a week in the USA”), but on a much broader scaler; albeit perhaps more regional/national to keep it doable. The vision: Every presenter in every planetarium should get to see some presentations in at least one or two other planetariums.

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Create archive of webinars (maybe some in 360°)
Perhaps we have a content expert paired with dome expert

Perhaps styled on U Chicago workshops on specific topics (e.g., climate change, planetary geology, marine science/oceanography, art, cultural astronomy, etc.)

Keep these data-driven, informative, documented

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Training that focuses on use cases, technical requirements, and best practises

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Initiate an exchange between planetariums and vendors about show evaluation

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Training of STEM teachers under the dome
Create materials for this, which can be transferred and re-used in all planetariums (partially universal, partially depending on region/nation)

Find ways to “break into” formal STEM teacher training, find a way to get all STEM-teachers-to-be into a dome and train them there, make them aware of the possibilities, for at least a day in their mandatory training curriculum (from a German perspective, this would be an especially useful approach as not all STEM teachers actually get to experience the value of teaching under the dome, or any presentation in the dome, unless they are actively interested)

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How do we get more women and other under-represented groups into our profession?

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Further increase cooperation in creation of shared content (e.g., short clips about current events, ongoing space missions, space news, etc.)
Build a pool of freely available material

This is already happening in many regards, but how can we make it better, easier, and even more accessible?

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“Remember that Zeiss book from the 80s?”
Something that charts the history of planetarium from “traditional > fulldome > future”

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Online resource, perhaps leveraging something like plafinder.net, which has timeline features built in

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Ideas for content can be added as comments below…

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Both history and today
Possibly separate episodes
Could have themed weeks with large national broadcasters

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Create a planetarium show about “100 years in astronomy,” which focuses on advances in science and technology

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Show an interactive globe “whats up” right now, maybe with “blinking” planetariums on the globe that are doing something special right now

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Blog about cultural relevance of planetariums

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Blog about cultural relevance of planetariums

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Shared among many members of the community, around the world?

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Perhaps use Twitch?

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Calendar (e.g., weekly or monthly sheets) with planetarium pictures (e.g., of the buildings or projectors) and events

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Track down the original projectors - where were they installed, are they still in use.

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Track down the original projectors - where were they installed, are they still in use.

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For Spitz, for example, I stumbled across http://www.wwu.edu/planetarium/history.shtml
and https://argusplanetarium.weebly.com/history.html
(I plan to contact argus for a story for a future issue.)

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Owen Pharis needs to be involved with this!! Who wants to contact him? 

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Owen Pharis needs to be involved with this!! Who wants to contact him? 

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http://www.planetariummuseum.org/
ophairis[at]hotmail.com

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Become involved in the Planetarium Museum that is currently for sale either by outright purchase and operation or by working with affiliates to assist

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Produce greeting cards with traditional projectors on the front

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Produce shirts, scarves, ties, blouses, skirts, etc with traditional projectors on them. I saw a shirt many years ago with a Zeiss Projector design.

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Create an "exhibition" of allsky or panoramic images on the dome (a "virtual vernissage")

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Create an "exhibition" of allsky or panoramic images on the dome (a "virtual vernissage")

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Find partners in mainstream media to promote arts in the dome

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Find partners in mainstream media to promote arts in the dome

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create an concert event modeled after the "band aid" concert, with many domes connected

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create an concert event modeled after the "band aid" concert, with many domes connected

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(like for the Olympics, ...)

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invite "top-level / mainstream" artists (singers, bands, ...) to the dome

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invite "top-level / mainstream" artists (singers, bands, ...) to the dome

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... with the aim of increasing the visibility of the planetariums. Perhaps enabled through a common effort of many large institutions/domes

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promote and initiate exchange about theater plays performed in the dome - with the possibility of worldwide exchange of such plays

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astronomy (constellations...) as the "oldest form of art"

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astronomy (constellations...) as the "oldest form of art"

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promote watching the sky as a cultural activity!

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collect images and related stories; work with artists to create top-quality visual representations, where necessary

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Sharon Shanks proposed to hold a design contest for a planetarium Centennial logo, and publish this in the next Planetarian. Such a logo would be used on purely "marketing" items such as shirts, mugs, ..., but also on items like books, workshop materials, ..., to demonstrate they are related to the Centennial. The contest itself would require a set of rules (tbd by the Centennial committee?) and a jury (the Centennial committee?)

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just an "every-year" festival that is merely rebranded as "Centennial festival" in 2023? or something more closely related to the Centennial, e.g., "the best of the last 100 years"? maybe a format in which only winners of earlier festivals are accepted as entries?

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maybe in the form of a freely available festival roll of a fulldome festival?

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a prize awarded for planetarium-themed poetry or short stories

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explore / exploit cultural creative connections to astronomy

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explore / exploit cultural creative connections to astronomy

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employ them to raise planetarium awareness? e.g. in literature (in the works of Shakespeare, ...), in paintings (by Van Gogh, Caspar David Friedrich, ...),in classical music (e.g. Matthias Claudius "Abendlied" - an example from Germany, certainly there are more pieces from many regions)

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"your planetarium is your hometown gateway to the universe!"

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to reach as many people as possible who are not normally likely to visit a planetarium. maybe using a large mobile dome? (could vendors help with this, e.g. Zeiss?)

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collect interviews about "my first planetarium visit", through the decades

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collect interviews about "my first planetarium visit", through the decades

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... as far back as possible! how did it change?
Planetarium vienna proposed they might be able to find people visited it in its opening year as small children and would now be

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like Neil Tyson in the US, Harald Lesch in Germany, or like Patrick Moore was in the UK... there probably are people in each language / region who could serve as "Centennial ambassadors"?

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ask for snaphots of the night sky (e.g. by mobile phone - but that would have a hard time capturing any constellations, wouldn't it?) from all over the world, then combine them in the dome into a mosaic picture of the entire sky...
this could happen on a key date, or during a special celestial event (maybe the perseids?). Could it be stitched by standard software for display in the dome, or would we need to create a software solution?

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ensure that all Centennial activities are reported in the media

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ensure that all Centennial activities are reported in the media

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local, national, and global. IPS should help with this, especially when adressing national / "global" media. EPO departments of large astronomical institutions could help here, as well

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besides a logo, the Centennial should also have a slogan. Should there be a contest for that, as well? Along with the logo design contest?

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well, someone suggested this and it was duly noted. Not sure if this is viable, though...

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... besides Logo and slogan, would we like to have a mascot for the Centennial? Maybe a funny-faced star projector? ... this could be a third design contest.

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the general ideai: connect to all kins of influencers to help us promote the idea.
The youtuber contest: create a piece on the planetarium in your city, on your planetarium visit, ..., and publish it on your youtube channel. let us know and win a prize.

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... that's what was proposed and what was duly noted, but I'm not sure what exactly this would mean. Can the proposer step up and clarify

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sidewalk astronomy with a planetarium connection

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sidewalk astronomy with a planetarium connection

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e.g. next to city-center planetariums, or away from the planetarium but promoting it

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... which would drive to fairs, festivals, even those who are not at all related to planetariums and science; and present information on planetariums in the region

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work with publishing companies to create planetarium-themed issues of established / well-known comic strips, published around the Centennial date or year

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coverage in feuilletons, arts magazines...

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coverage in feuilletons, arts magazines...

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... by presenting arts projects in the dome

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Huge, global, Centennial starting or closing event

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Huge, global, Centennial starting or closing event

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simultaneously in many domes, or "wandering around the globe" with the timeszone
transmitted on TV, streamed on the we, domecast.
Celebrities in the domes, famous science speakers, live connections to ISS and to other famous "science places", ... everything streamed/webcast/domecast to all domes in the world

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... there were a lot of suggestions to planetarium-theme almost anything:
a planetarium dance
a planetarium cocktail
a planetarium song
a planetarium Makeup and Hairdo (?!)
... etc.

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Planetarium snapchat function or Facebook Face filter

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Planetarium snapchat function or Facebook Face filter

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Special pokemons found near planetariums

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Pokemon-like "virtual search for aliens"

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Pokemon-like "virtual search for aliens"

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idea: pokemons want to go home and learn how to in a planetarium...
... proposed and duly noted, but not ra Centennial-specific idea...

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Panel discussions in the dome on controversial topics

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Panel discussions in the dome on controversial topics

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... but unclear how this would be Centennial-specific...

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perhaps in the form of a kind of "Coupon book" across planetariums: visitors can collect stamps or official marks (or similar) at each planetarium they visit (... getting certain benefits after a number of visits? what could those be?)

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A long path stretching through many regions/ countries, meant to be walked by "pilgrims", possibly with activities or meaningful "stations" along the way... leading to Jena? Or from Jena to Munich?

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create flight miles (lightyears) from your planetarium show visits

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related to planetarium histroy

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e.g. people lay down in the park in daytime and "watch the stars"? ... or different

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Create a fulldome version of Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"

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Create a fulldome version of Monty Python's "Galaxy Song"

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live connection to the ISS from many domes in parallel

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live connection to the ISS from many domes in parallel

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perhaps as part of a larger event

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live connection to the ISS from many domes in parallel

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live connection to the ISS from many domes in parallel

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live connection to the ISS from many domes 

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live connection to the ISS from many domes 

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(... what? how? ...)

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Planetarium-themed "Panini" (or similar) sticker collectors album

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Planetarium-themed "Panini" (or similar) sticker collectors album

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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to be planned on a national level

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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to be

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planetarium

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planbetarium

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commemorative coins celebrating 100 years of the planbetarium

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to be proposed on a national level

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work with "Star"-chefs (those that were awarded Michelin stars) 

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work with "Star"-chefs (those that were awarded Michelin stars) 

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from our channels, e.g. famous persons, astronauts, posting from planetarium channels

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Planetarium features in widely circulated print media

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Planetarium features in widely circulated print media

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we need this, if only for its name! but what is it? a  tabletop game? a video game?

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trading cards game, or other planetarium-themed game

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trading cards game, or other planetarium-themed game

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collect miles (or lightyears) from your planetarium show visits

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collect miles (or lightyears) from your planetarium show visits

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collect miles (or lightyears) from your planetar

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on a national level

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GPS-based,  augmented reality?
... to provide feedback or make suggestions about individual shows or to a planetarium

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In WPD (worldwide planetariums database), there are already around 3,000 planetariums (fixed and open), but, now, I re-created the former planetariums. Of course, the first ones in Germany (Centennial) and Europe, but also, everywhere in the world.
That means: find places, photos at this time, buildings, materials, people, etc. You can send me your pictures of these old planetariums and all the information you remember.
The centennial will be an opportunity to highlight all the stories of all planetariums. It's accessible via the "Query" of the homepage
It's already started!