How it Works
Celestia is composed of 7 interactive modules divided into 2 levels of interaction: contemplative and participatory.
Celestia adapts its sound and light environment according to your interaction.
You are invited to rotate the mobile modules and inhabit the fixed modules.
When inactivated, Celestia’s luminous bulbs flicker, and the installation emits continuous ambient music.
As you approach, explore, turn and inhabit the modules, they will reveal poetic narratives through audio.
The more people interact at the same time, the more the light and sound components are reinforced. Watch the lights evolve to take the color of their module, and the music and narration increase in intensity.
discovery activities
The Star Sisters
In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Unable to recover from the death of their sisters, the Hyades, they take their own lives and are turned into stars.
According to another version of the legend, Zeus saved them from the giant Orion, a god known for his hunting skills, by transforming them into doves and placing them among the constellations.
Even today, the constellation of the Pleiades can be observed in the sky after dark, particularly clearly in winter skies.
In the Ancient Greek myth of the Pleiades, each star represents a sister.
diD YOU KNOW?
each Celestia module represents one of the Pleiades sisters.
Try your hand at identifying each one.
Step 1
Walk from module to module and interact with each of them to listen carefully to Carolanne Foucher’s poems and Yolande Okia Picard’s tale.
Step 2
While you are listening, try to identify the character traits personified by each module through the recited text.
RELY ON THE FOLLOWING LIST to help you link the modules to the right Pleiades sister:
SISTER MAIA
is associated with EXPERIENCE
Which module is Maia?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER MEROPE
is associated with PRIDE
Which module is Merope?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER TAYGETOS
is associated with CREATIVITY
Which module is Taygetos?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER CELEANO
is associated with FREEDOM
Which module is Celeano?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ELECTRA
is associated with BALANCE
Which module is Electra?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ALCYONE
is associated with COMPASSION
Which module is Alcyone?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ASTEROPE
is associated with GENTLENESS
Which module is Asterope?
Click here to verify your guess.
discovery activities
The Star Sisters
In Greek mythology, the Pleiades are the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione. Unable to recover from the death of their sisters, the Hyades, they take their own lives and are turned into stars.
According to another version of the legend, Zeus saved them from the giant Orion, a god known for his hunting skills, by transforming them into doves and placing them among the constellations.
Even today, the constellation of the Pleiades can be observed in the sky after dark, particularly clearly in winter skies.
In the Ancient Greek myth of the Pleiades, each star represents a sister.
diD YOU KNOW?
each Celestia module represents one of the Pleiades sisters.
Try your hand at identifying each one.
Step 1
Walk from module to module and interact with each of them to listen carefully to Carolanne Foucher’s poems and Yolande Okia Picard’s tale.
Step 2
While you are listening, try to identify the character traits personified by each module through the recited text.
RELY ON THE FOLLOWING LIST to help you link the modules to the right Pleiades sister:
SISTER MAIA
is associated with EXPERIENCE
Which module is Maia?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER MEROPE
is associated with PRIDE
Which module is Merope?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER TAYGETOS
is associated with CREATIVITY
Which module is Taygetos?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER CELEANO
is associated with FREEDOM
Which module is Celeano?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ELECTRA
is associated with BALANCE
Which module is Electra?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ALCYONE
is associated with COMPASSION
Which module is Alcyone?
Click here to verify your guess.
SISTER ASTEROPE
is associated with GENTLENESS
Which module is Asterope?
Click here to verify your guess.
Solution
Solution
the Wendat legend
The Huron-Wendat version of the myth of the Pleiades has been integrated into one of Celestia's modules !
Indeed, the blue module tells the Wendat legend of the Pleiades through the voice of Yolande Okia Picard, a storyteller from Wendake and member of the wolf clan of the Wendat community.
The Huron-Wendat community is one of the First Nations of Canada. It has long occupied the St. Lawrence Estuary and Valley and occupies an important part of our Quebec and Canadian history..
Jacques Cartier rencontre les Indiens à Stadaconé,
1535, a painting by French-Canadian painter Marc-Aurèle de Foy
Suzor-Côté from 1907.
© Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)
diD YOU KNOW?
It was with this community that the explorer jacques Cartier first made contact during his voyage in search of the Indies in the 1530s. Huron-Wendat Grand Chief Donnacona welcomed Cartier to Stadacona, marking a historic meeting.
Today, Wendake remains a traditional site inhabited by the Huron-Wendat Nation north of Quebec City, where you can discover its art, crafts and universal values.
Step 1
Go find Celestia's blue module and interact with it to listen to the Wendat legend of the Pleiades narrated by Yolande Okia Picard.
Step 2
As you listen, think about the moral of this story.
For Yolande Okia Picard, tales and legends are "keys to opening the doors of the soul." In other words, tools that serve to share and teach values "that help to better understand the meaning of life" and allow you to "grow emotionally."
What is the moral of the legend in your opinion?
the Wendat legend
The Huron-Wendat version of the myth of the Pleiades has been integrated into one of Celestia's modules !
Indeed, the blue module tells the Wendat legend of the Pleiades through the voice of Yolande Okia Picard, a storyteller from Wendake and member of the wolf clan of the Wendat community.
The Huron-Wendat community is one of the First Nations of Canada. It has long occupied the St. Lawrence Estuary and Valley and occupies an important part of our Quebec and Canadian history..
Jacques Cartier rencontre les Indiens à Stadaconé,
1535, a painting by French-Canadian painter Marc-Aurèle de Foy
Suzor-Côté from 1907.
© Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)
diD YOU KNOW?
It was with this community that the explorer jacques Cartier first made contact during his voyage in search of the Indies in the 1530s. Huron-Wendat Grand Chief Donnacona welcomed Cartier to Stadacona, marking a historic meeting.
Today, Wendake remains a traditional site inhabited by the Huron-Wendat Nation north of Quebec City, where you can discover its art, crafts and universal values.
Step 1
Go find Celestia's blue module and interact with it to listen to the Wendat legend of the Pleiades narrated by Yolande Okia Picard.
Step 2
As you listen, think about the moral of this story.
For Yolande Okia Picard, tales and legends are "keys to opening the doors of the soul." In other words, tools that serve to share and teach values "that help to better understand the meaning of life" and allow you to "grow emotionally."
What is the moral of the legend in your opinion?
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