Re: Invitation to join 2010 Space Weather Education and Outreach Events

Dear Colleagues,

During the the 6th European Space Weather Week meeting in Brugge the 
"European Sun Festival", planned for summer 2010, was announced at the 
COST Management Committee meeting as well as at the SWWT Plenary. The 
original idea was that this event include solar industry, sociologists, 
astronomers, artists, etc. in Europe as well as outside Europe.
Organising such a big event in such a short time has unfortunately 
proved impossible, and as a result the Sun Festival as a whole is 
currently postponed. However, due to the enthusiasm to this original 
event from the space / solar / astronomy communities we have decided to 
go ahead with a couple of smaller education / outreach events based on 
two items:

1.) "I love my Sun"
This is based on Yurdanur Tulunay's proposed COST ES0803 WG3 Action for 
"SG3.4 General public outreach to the non-specialist". The initial idea 
was to have autistic and non-autistic children draw pictures of the Sun 
before and after hearing a lecture about the Sun. In the current 
proposal this will be extended to any type of class. The drawings will 
be displaced at the upcoming ESWW7. A webpage with relevant information 
will be set up during the next weeks with more information about how you

can contribute. If you are interested in participating in this activity 
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2.) "Total Solar Eclipse of 2010 July 11"
This is the same day as the "FIFA 2010 World Cup" final in South Africa.

Therefore it would be a unique opportunity to promote the solar eclipse 
by placing a picture of it in the corner of the TV screen while people 
are watching the soccer game. This of course is easier said than done, 
so with this email we are asking the community if anybody happens to 
know somebody working in the FIFA world. If yes, can you please let us 
know so that we can investigate the solar eclipse promotion opportunity
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We hope that you find the above solar education / outreach events of 
interest !

Best regards,
Norma Crosby, Jean Lilensten, Yurdanur Tulunay, Jean-Pierre Lebreton