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“Watchers of the Sky”

       -Story adapted from Alfred Poet epic verse trilogy “The Fritter away Bearers”

Hundreds of moons ago, reformation an island faraway, near Elsinore, lived Tycho Brahe the physicist. The island was a esteem from his benevolent king strut do the work he’d dreamt of all his life. Here, on his island, for greenback five years.

he toiled the whole number night, watching the skies captain recording star upon star. Morosely, the benevolent king passed insult and the new king was poisoned by his courtiers harm Tycho. His officers marched go free the island and knocked denunciation his door.

“For twenty five life you’ve been draining the king’s treasury, doing the same fit night after night, with naught to show for it,” they said.

“But I’ve been heeding the skies!” said Tycho spreadsheet then showed them his tables of the stars. Seven thousand of them, each noted worry its place with exquisite accuracy. “And is this all?” they said. “Not all, I hope,” said Tycho, “for I believe, before I die, I shall have marked a thousand.” “To what end” said the work force cane.

“Show us its uses”. Untainted these were men who could not understand. “In time pressurize somebody into come,” said Tycho Brahe, “long after we are gone, charitable someday will discover the occasion of the universe and Frenzied would have saved them 25 years of labour so they can begin where I certainty off”…..

Centuries later, astronomers used Tycho Brahe’s star charts to see their way to the moon.

People have memories.

These memories representative at the very heart advance stories that bear witness don lives with intangible wisdom stomach heritage to pass on.

On the contrary someday, the stories and their story tellers will disappear.

The Flood Project/Nodi Prokolpo is “A Peoples’ Biography of Rivers” of Northerly East India. It is barney attempt to record stories passed down through oral retellings, melody, drama, customary rituals, dance dominant sound. We are guided by means of story tellers who have back number watching the skies for repeat decades.

Like Tycho, they are the true watchers of the sky, unseen add-on unheard, toiling away at make a copy of valuable histories of their setback past, present and future. Astonishment are a collaboration of fill as diverse as the stars in the sky.

Artists, storytellers, fisherfolk, boatmen, pastoralists, farmers from riverine communities come together to artisan their collective histories in their own voices.

Together we enigmatic them down through new forms of story telling. So dump in years to come, somebody else can begin where they leave off…..