Until the advent of artificial lighting 200 years ago, darkness and night had been the universal human experience and the one for which we and all life on earth evolved. Recent excavations at some prehistoric sites in the UK have revealed evidence that megalithic stone monuments thousands of years old may have been visited at night or in low light. Recent studies have shown that the effects of rapidly increasing light pollution have deleterious effects on human, plant, and animal life.

Please join us on Wednesday, October 4th at 7:00pm (doors open at 6:30pm) for an artist talk by MJ Sharp presenting on her Fulbright year in Cornwall, Our Disappearing Darkness and Recreating True Night, an installation of which is appearing on October 12th from noon to 10pm at The Fruit as part of the Click! Photography Festival.

7:00 – 8:30pm (doors open at 6:30) / Lecture is free but seating is limited. Register here.

Shadowbox Studios, 2200-D Dominion Street, Durham, NC 27704