EVENTS

Kinetic Continuum is a Rites of Spring Music Festival “New Music Under the Big Sky” performance that will take you on a journey—an immersive musical experience like nothing you have experienced before. Featuring Light Painting Artist, Alina Wilczynski, and Rites of Spring Founder Paolo Bartolani on piano, this unique and experimental multi-media collaboration presents a very exciting evening of music, performance and stargazing.

Whether you're a classical lover or a lover of extraordinary experiences, Kinetic Continuum pushes the boundaries of a traditional music event. Wilczynski will prompt you to explore the idea that every action, thought and imagining—in the form of energy and sound, light and color—leaves a trail of its existence, its expansion over time and its intertwining with every other action, thought and imagining.

With an inward vision, if we allow ourselves to observe what these light and color paths might look like in the space around our bodies and our thoughts, as well as around our planet as one small speck in an ever-expanding cosmos, the process of creating and sharing our dreams, our passions and wonderings would take on an entirely new form—as brilliantly beautiful light art in perpetual outward motion!

The event will begin with a fascinating, informative and illuminating talk about the camera technique known as Light Painting. And following the performance, Observatory staff will provide guided tours of the night sky (weather permitting) through the many telescopes on site, including the apochromatic Zerochromat telescope in our historic observation dome.

$45 Adult, $30 Custer Observatory Members and Friends of R o S, Children Under 16 FREE. Attendance to this in-person performance will be limited - reserve your seats early!

This presentation will be held indoors.