Marieke McKenna

Central Library, The Hague

Winter Solstice

A winter solstice performance: a musical journey and sonic collage through the history of astronomy and global winter mythology.

The Nebra sky disc, c. 1800–1600 BCE. State Museum of Prehistory, Halle. Photo: Frank Vincentz, CC BY-SA 3.0
Hipparchus in the observatory of Alexandria, engraving from Ridpath’s History of the World, 1894