For Global Astronomy Month 2020 (282): Inertia of Inertia (128)

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Valentin Grigore, Dan Mitrut and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

Published: Tuesday, September 29 2020 22:56

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A 20-YEAR CELEBRATION

In September 2020 we celebrated 20 years since Valentin Grigore and SARM were local organizers (at Pucioasa’s Culture House) for the 19th International Meteor Conference, in which Andrei Dorian Gheorghe directed the 4th Astropoetry Show (including a few poetic, musical and humorous sketches - based especially on personifications of heavenly bodies -, moments of astro-folk music with Dan Mitrut, electronic music and a meteor poetry reading given by 12 Romanian sky lovers). That Astropoetry Show included also a foreign astropoet for the first time - the famous British astronomer David Asher -, who joined the Romanian traditional group.

The images below (from the SARM archive) captured sequences from the Astropoetry Show atmosphere.

After 11 years (September 2011), Valentin Grigore and SARM were local organizers (in Sibiu) for the 30th International Meteor Conference.  This time Andrei Dorian Gheorghe directed the largest international astropoetry show (at the ASTRA Theatre - the cultural headquarters of the Transylvanian Romanians during the imperial times), which included an international astropoetry poster (works by astropoets from Romania, USA, Italy, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Turkey and Spain) and a live show of 2 hours and 23 minutes with participants from Romania, France, Belgium, UK, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Moldova, Venezuela, Belarus, Sri Lanka and Greece) - total: 21 countries (representing 5 continents). 

The images below (from the SARM archive) include Andrei Dorian Gheorghe, Gelu Claudiu Radu (actor, poet and director’s assistant for 8 of the 15 IMC astropoetry shows that SARM coordinated between 1997 and 2011), Dan Mutrut (in a new recital of astro-folk music) and Valentin Grigore. 

In memory of those wonderful times, SARM did the collective work below:

LOVING THE METEOR WORLD: FROM A PERSEID TO A SPORADIC
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (poem), Dan Mitrut (photo 1: At SARM’s Perseid event 2020, Runcu Stone) and Valentin Grigore (photo 2: At SARM’s “Astro & Photo 2020”, Runcu Stone)

It is great to see
a Perseid meteor among the stars,
but it’s just as great to see
a Sporadic meteor
watched by Castor and Pollux
and going to Venus
for a fiery praise.