MIT After Dark: Trip into Deep Time
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### About The Event ###
Have you ever wished to hold the wisdom of an ancient forest, or longed to know the secrets of mountains forged in the age of the dinosaurs? Or maybe you daydream about a distant epoch of interstellar road trips and music festivals on Mars?
Join us for an evening of celebration and contemplation of our role as ancestors and descendants of generations past and future.
Start with a soundbath that transcends eras designed by DJ and musician Joseph Ntaimo. Then join the poetic geologist Marcia Bjornerud and the pioneering inventor Danny Hillis in conversation with guest curators Cristina Parreño Alonso and Bina Venkataraman in a lively exploration of the meaning people can find today by taking the long view – whether reading the rocks that tell Earth’s story or building a clock to last 10,000 years.
You’ll have a chance to create your own vision for people of the distant future–a letter or drawing to keep or contribute to a deep-time archive, or simply take a walk along the Museum’s “deep timeline,” from the Big Bang to today. You can also meet artist Janet Echelman beneath Remembering the Future, a luminous canopy that inspires reflection on the vast timescales of climate change.
Indulge like a time-traveling ancestor with wine, beer, mocktails and bites for purchase, by Tracy Chang of Pagu.
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