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Post by sheena on Dec 5, 2020 13:10:14 GMT 1
A dancer in Germany, Angelika Schmidkonz, has created a virtual advent calendar with each window containing a short video relating to some aspect of Scottish dance/Scottish culture ... the spurtle illustration is of the kitchen rather than dance floor variety, while other windows have shown dancing.
Why not open a window each day, or every few days, and see what she has put together for fellow dancers' enjoyment
Do you have a favourite window (so far)?, or are there other virtual advent calendars on other topics that you have been following ?
Today's window is a two minute canter through the history of Scottish dance, narrated by Robbie Shepherd
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Post by sheena on Dec 5, 2020 13:14:30 GMT 1
The Atlantic is featuring the Hubble Space Telescope advent calendar, with a different image from the telescope being viewable each day.
(NB It runs on USA time so each day may not be available until the day starts in USA)
The Outer Reaches of NGC 3432. This long, luminous streak, speckled with bright blisters and pockets of material, is a view of a distant spiral galaxy, seen directly edge-on. The galaxy’s spiral arms and bright core are hidden, and we instead see the thin strip of its very outer reaches. Dark bands of cosmic dust, patches of varying brightness, and pink regions of star formation help with making out the true shape of NGC 3432
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Post by sheena on Dec 5, 2020 13:38:06 GMT 1
The Ashmolean museum of art and archaeology in Oxford also shows one of their treasures each day in December
Day 1 this year featured an 1840s Japanese landscape woodblock print
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Post by sheena on Dec 5, 2020 13:51:49 GMT 1
The Doing History In Public collaborative initiative also has an advent calendar with a new image appearing daily
with the image for 3rd Dec being the ship the Salamander, a gift from the French King François I to his new son-in-law James V, King of Scots, representing the renewal of the Franco-Scots ‘Auld Alliance’.
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